Auroville (City of Dawn) is an experimental township in Viluppuram district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India, near Puducherry in India. Inspired by the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo, Auroville was founded in 1968 by the Mother (Mira Alfassa) in accordance with her dream of a universal township living in harmony with itself and the wider world. Receiving support from UNESCO and the government of India Auroville is today an endorsed ongoing experiment in human unity and transformation of … Read more
Hof Medewege
We are a community of diverse individuals organized in plenty of projects, intitiatives and businesses located close to Schwerin in northern Germany. In Medewege agriculture meets craft, arts, culture and education. Our whole project began in 1991 with the foundation of a Waldorf Kindergarten on an abandoned estate surrounded by agricultural areas. Gradually, we then started with farming and food processing, from milk to yoghurt, from grain to bread, from apple to juice. All of our farming and … Read more
Earth You
„EarthYou“ is a non-profit organization funded as an association in Portugal called „Associação Aldeia Ecológica EarthYou“. The name stands for the growth of a sustainable lifestyle in tune with nature, getting back to the roots, decreasing the velocity of todays’ life, for Earth, for You...Earth You! We are a sustainably thinking group with currently 10 members. Among the members we have qualifications within the hotel and restaurant industries, elderly and child care, art and culture, … Read more
Santa Barbara Eco-Village
The Santa Barbara Eco-Village vision is to create a place to gather and care for the Earth, ourselves and each other. A place to pull our resources and talents to live a healthier and more fulfilling life that can be sustained for generation as we help people of all ages and backgrounds. The Santa Barbara Eco-Village mission is to support and promote sustainable lifestyles. The project focuses on community living, land restauration, health and education. Resources will be directed towards … Read more
Ura Gora
Ura Gora means Hurray for the forest, a celebration of renewal and growth- an ever growing forest of trees and a forest of people who may inhabit together this beautiful place in South Bulgaria. Our Foundation is based in 'Rodovo Selishte', the first eco-village in Bulgaria, where we currently have eight families living together on their own plots of land. The 'Ura Gora' founders are two young families who have settled in the fields of a deforested and degraded territory in Strandja Sakar, … Read more
Windward Intentional Community
--What is Windward? Windward is an intentional community and sustainability research center located on the eastern edge of the Cascadian Wilderness in southern Washington State, about 80 miles east of Portland, Oregon. As a community of people and a research cooperative of farmers, scientists, historians, healers, engineers and artists, Windward is guided by the understanding that it is time for radical change and that there is nothing more radical than a working model of a better … Read more
Inuksuk Project
In September 2013, our project was authorized by the Municipality of Sainte-Beatrix (located an hour and a bit north of Montreal). This is an eco-tourism project eventually involving the existence of a functioning eco-hamlet consisting forge, workshops of all kinds, gardens, etc., doubled rental housing for people of outside. In fact, we want to become, in a few years, a kind of research university and developments in ecological solutions and fulfillment of human potential. --- En … Read more
Ndem
Ndem is a community in the ‘Bassin Arachidier’ of Senegal, the Peanut Growing basin of the Sahel region. The area suffered rapid desertification and soil loss due to the climatic changes combined with the extensive monoculture of peanut that was once introduced by the French for export to its other territories. The rapid exodus reached its peak with the drought conditions in the 1980s that hit most of West Africa. For 30 years Ndem has been led by the spiritual Sufi leader Serigne Babacar … Read more
Ecoaldea Tacotal
Bio construcción, hidroterapia, espacio de contemplación en la naturaleza. … Read more
Skala Ecovillage
Skala Ecovillage is an attempt to form and accomplish an ecological friendly and collective way of living. Currently, four adults and three children live permanently at Skala Ecovillage. Last year (2014) it has been created a core group of 8-10 people, which is working intensively on the implementation of the vision.At the same time, a wide network of friends and collectives, both in Greece and abroad, supports us in several ways. Ecovillage for us means connecting the political and social … Read more
