Exciting, urban and historic, the Cleveland EcoVillage, centered around the W.65th-Lorain-EcoVillage Rapid Station, has become one of Cleveland's most diverse neighbourhoods and continues to blossom as a community. New residents are moving in, businesses are setting up shop, theatres are opening, and the number of vistors is growing. The aim of this neighbourhood has always been to realise the full potential of urban life in the most ecologically sustainable way possible. The ecovillage is … Read more
Kaditah
Kaditah is an unrecognized, loosely organized village located in the Galilee of northern Israel. The residents are currently negotiating with the government concerning planned development of the village. Residents are all committed to living on the land and are involved with various ecological lifestyle practices. but there is little co-ordination. The Kaditah ecology center was founded to offer workshops, information and demonstration projects both to residents and to visitors and volunteers. … Read more
Port Townsend EcoVillage
Port Townsend EcoVillage is a community of people dedicated to living in harmony with each other and with the earth, exploring together ways to live more sustainably and joyfully. We are a small-town intergenerational urban ecovillage on 7.5 acres in Port Townsend, WA USA. As of March 2018, 28 adults and 10 children (ages 5-15) live in dwellings varying from "tiny houses," small homes and duplexes to rooms in a cooperative house, built using a variety of earth-friendly, energy-efficient … Read more
Eltham Ecovillage – dulaiwurrong vi
The three themes we have created for Dulaiwurrong Village are Respectfulness - we have consulted the Aboriginal Elders of the Wurrendjeri Tribe to basically find out "how we could honour them in our community". This has been a truly amazing process and has given the project a depth and relevance for revitalising this area with reference to the wisdom of the native people. We have also commissioned the creation of a land management plan to provide well thought out strategies to revitalise and … Read more
Tribe of Likatien
The Tribe of Füssen/Likatien The Tribe Füssen Eins is also known as Tribe of Likatien. Likatien means “residents at lik”, wich retrogrades to the last ancient celtic tribe, living at the river Lech. One of our central visions is to become a tribe – in a modern meaning. For us that means a special quality of admitting with each other and close to our emotional and spiritual reality. In the way people get involved with the the tribe and eachother the tribe becomes sustainable. In the … Read more
Kommune Niederkaufungen
Founded over 21 years ago, in December 1986, and situated in a complex of half-timbered farm buildings in the centre of the village of Niederkaufungen, just outside Kassel, we are Germany's largest non-religious, non-spiritual commune. Our main principles and focuses are on sustainability and the attempt to be as ecological as possible, consensus decision making, left-wing politics, reduction of patriarchal and hierarchical structures, a completely socialised internal communal economy, and … Read more
Forum-Vauban
In the South of Freiburg, on the former area of a French army barrack site, the new Vauban Residential Area (42 ha) is home to approxiamtely 5,000 inhabitants. The planning started in 1993 and in 2006, after three development sections, the district was completed. Vauban is a community that strives to meet ecological, social, economical and cultural sustainability. Since its foundationa, the project has achieved remarkable results in the fields of energy-saving, traffic reduction, social … Read more
Christiania
Christiania is a self-governed community in Copenhagen, Denmark, where every individual is free to express themselves whilst also bearing a certain responsibility to ensure sufficient uptake. As a community, Christiania tries to show that as a society we must take away some of the energy invested in economics and learn to release some of the mental and physcial stress that often dominates. During its more than 30-year history, the community has gone through many changes and it things haven’t … Read more
Windsong
The Windsong co-housing community is an innovative neighbourhood aiming to create a space for interaction, cooperation and friendship. It is a multigenerational community where neighbours are encouraged to trust and care for each other. This is done by respecting everyone's uniqueness, by taking responsibility for the environment we all share, and by celebrating the richness of diversity. Through co-housing, we ensure the prevalence of safe surroundings and foster sustainable lifestyles. Our … Read more
Los Angeles Eco-Village
Los Angeles Eco-Village is a place name for our transit rich two block neighborhood three miles west of Downtown Los Angeles. Three nonprofit organizations are working toward reinventing how we live in the City. Our 45 member intentional community does this by demonstrating higher quality living patterns at much lower environmental impacts, engaging with one another, our neighbors and the City at large in a variety of hands-on and educational activities. We try to maximize the beneficial … Read more
