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Meltemi

  • Region: GEN Europe
  • Languages: Greek, English

We are an ecovillage located just outside the coastal town of Rafina, in Attica, Greece on a plot of 150 stremma, with more than 200 resident families. We are a fully fledged non-profit NGO for sustainable development and ecological sensitivity, governed by a combination of direct participatory democracy and representative democracy. Meltemi was established in 1946, in the midst of the Greek civil war, as a back-to-nature, getaway from the city by a group of Petroleum Company employees. … Read more

Hickory Nut Forest Eco-Community

  • Region: GENNA
  • Language: English

Hickory Nut Forest is an eco community near Asheville in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Located on over 100 acres in beautiful Hickory Nut Gorge, we are a sustainable community where adults and children live and work among caring neighbors, sharing their inspiration and enthusiasm with each other. As well as protecting the land’s biodiversity, we are growing vegetables and fruits, designing green homes, and using renewable energy from water and sun. We have kept the special … Read more

Peace Factory

  • Region: GEN Europe
  • Languages: English, French

Please note that during our building phase, whilst we are extremely grateful for volunteers who help us for between two to eight weeks, we are unable to accept casual visitors because we get behind with our building work. We are developing (recycling!) a 1950's industrial building of 2000 square metres into loft apartments in South-West France. Each loft is sold individually as part of an ecological and sustainable co-housing development with shared facilities like swimming pool, well-being … Read more

TerraVie

  • Region: GENNA
  • Languages: French, English

TerraVie has built a Nature Interpretation Center, a building entirely self-sufficient in energy. Trails are developed. We are currently looking for individuals or a group to hold a part of the forest shelter project. We are also developing a rustic campsite. Part of the land is also dedicated to mini-houses. … Read more

ASB Valley Panpoli

  • Region: GENOA
  • Languages: English, Tamil

Presently the land is with Coconut, Mango, Cashew orchard and we would like to include cattle, fish farm and intence crop under organic cultivation. Presently only two family is settled we plan to increase it another 5 famililies. … Read more

Gaijan Luomukylä

  • Region: GEN Europe
  • Languages: Finnish, English

Gaijan Luomukylä is located in Ähtäri on the shores of Lake Oulujärvi, where we strive to live communally and without much stress. Our ten acres of land are home to a large rocky main building, several log homes, gardens and fields for cultivation, as well as plenty of pastures for our animals. Located at the end of the land and next to the beach, is a campfire site and a sauna. The community is currently home to 15 people, including children. Our daily work consits primarily of maintaining … Read more

Comuna de Rhiannon

  • Region: CASA
  • Languages: English, French, Spanish

We live in Malchingi, 1 1/2 hours from Quito. We have 15 hectares of land and moved into what was an abandoned half built 8 roomed house. We have composting dry toilets and solar heated showers (when there is sunshine!). At present we do not have electricity but we plan to use wind and solar power in the near future. Our aim is to be as sustainable as we can regarding food, all cultivation will be purely organic. We are currently planting trees and have just harvested our first vegetables. The … Read more

HawaiiSPACE

  • Region: GENNA
  • Language: English

We are an artistic eco village We purchased our 12 acre kipuka “island of trees” in 1987. There are 35 founding members (mostly jugglers and performing artists) from 8 different countries, who met at one of the 19 Hawaiian Juggling festivals. We loved the Big Island of Hawaii enough to decide to live or visit here regularly and organized ourselves to establish a permanent home and performing arts center. We bought an abandoned jungle homestead that was overrun by vines and weed trees. Since … Read more

Earthsong Eco-Neighbourhood

  • Region: GENOA
  • Languages: English, German, Japanese

Earthsong Eco-Neighbourhood was founded in 1995 with the following vision statement: Our vision is to establish a cohousing neighbourhood based on the principles of permaculture, that will serve as a model of a socially and environmentally sustainable community. We continue to implement the aims included in our vision statement: Design and construct a cohesive neighbourhood whose layout, buildings and services demonstrate the highest practical standards of sustainable human settlement … Read more

Nashira un canto de Amor

  • Region: CASA
  • Languages: Spanish, English

En el Bolo Palmira Colombia 88 mujeres cabeza de hogar en un predio de 33.000 metros cuadrados sembrado de frutales y hortalizas han construido una eco aldea productiva y sostenible con viviendas gratuitas y con el propósito de generar un futuro de bienestar y seguridad ambiental y alimentaria para ellas y las futuras generaciones … Read more