The Arkbound Foundation (www.arkfound.org) seeks to support the sharing of knowledge and experience from ecological communities across the world. Ensuring this knowledge is widely accessible within literature and the media is key to enabling society to adapt in the face of worsening climate change. We must act now to prepare for the future. Our project in Glasgow aims to support existing eco-centres and inspire new ones, in both rural and urban settings. To begin this process we aim to create … Read more
Firestone Sanctuary
Firestone Sanctuary is a 77 hectare property and intended ecovillage in Laceys Creek, Queensland, Australia. It will be a sanctuary for native biodiversity, a beautiful retreat for healing, an eco-centre to educate the public, an intentional living community for passionate environmentalists, and a template for the creation of other similar communities. The focus is on proving a more ethical and egalitarian socioeconomic model. It aims to bring mutualism and sustainable innovation to the … Read more
Bringing Ideas Together
Our objectives are multi-faceted and include:- 1. Bringing people together from diverse backgrounds to share ideas around creating an ecocentre. 2. Collating accounts from existing practitioners – those who have lived in, and set up, ecocentres – to produce a book that can be read by a wide audience. 3. Gathering the resources and finance to make the project happen. … Read more
Hågaby
Hågaby is an ecovillage with around 250 people in a rural area next to the city of Uppsala. There are a lot of self-employed people living here and a Steiner school, three preschools, and a center for holistic medicine. There is a mix of owning and renting apartments and some houses. Not everyone that lives in the area is engaged in the village, but the village has a lot of values in the structures. This allows people to both live and work in the village, and it has good opportunities for social … Read more
Innovative center for sustainable agriculture and rural development of Serbia
Primary goal of ARHUB (agro-rural hub) is on sustainable agriculture and rural development of Serbia through the improvement of living standards and the quality of life of the local population, especially vulnerable categories such as young, unemployed women; encouraging economic and social activities (domestic work, rural development, ethno tourism) as well as initiating and gathering the local population. … Read more
Cedar Moon
The seven-acre farm houses two intentional communitites, Cedar Moon and the Sacred Land Alliance and the nonprofit Tryon Life Community Farm. The land is a community event center that support social change, equity, regenerative culture, and spiritual expression. … Read more
Mount of Oaks – Monte dos Carvalhos
Off-grid Permaculture monastic farm since 2006. We are now a couple that welcomes many people each year to experience and be part of a family. That’s our view of community, whether it´s an intern, a guest, a pilgrim in need of rest, our elderly neighbours, our prayer/singing circle, the “new local” who comes to settle and needs advice, a retreat we host… we believe in meaningful relationships. … Read more
Rural ICT Project
Give formal and informal education and reproductive health information. Mentor adolescent girls and boys to provide the skills and knowledge needed to become confident, assertive, and self-reliant. Provide coaching to help tackle the harmful cultural norms that limit the aspirations of girls … Read more
Garaldea Inclusiva
Garaldea Inclusiva convivimos generando un espacio libre de drogas y alcohol donde personas en situación de exclusión o con historias vitales atravesadas por la drogodependencia, junto con otras de trayectorias muy diversas, podamos participar en diversos proyectos a través del empoderamiento, del apoyo mutuo, la vida compartida en autogestión y la relación con el entorno viviendo en la naturaleza … Read more
Oasis du Coq à l’Âme
The 20 families of our ecovillage will be situated in Gironde (Bordeaux), France. We follow the principles of the Oasis program, initiated by the Colibri Movement: food autonomy, energetic simplicity and green building, shared governance, mutualization of resources, and openness to the world. … Read more
