Laughter and song echo in the evenings, intertwined with the rushing waters of Falls Creek pouring through the deep gully on the western side of the pristine 23 acres of forest that is home to Chuckleberry Community Farm. Every day, the Selkirk mountains of the West Kootenays offer a breathtaking, ever-changing Awesome View. You will find us taking in the view from the earthship rooftop deck, waking from a night under the stars. You will find us doing morning practices in the orchard, or … Read more
Ecovillages
Edgewood Ecovillage
This community is in the "FORMING" stage. We are currently applying for funding to help us get our people and our partners ready and able to dive into the long journey we have ahead. THE OVERALL CONCEPT 20-30 residential units A shared Members Activity Centre ("The MAC") A number of trials through a variety of natural habitats (bog, beach, protected salt marsh, forests, and wetlands) The residents will all be ages 50+ (with some lee way to allow members as young as … Read more
Culture Caravan
Culture Caravan is a Nomadic Family committed to healing & creating a regenerative culture. Culture Caravan is a Gaian Gameworld that creates, inhabits and navigates bridges that create paths of healing from a capitalist patriarchal exploitative culture, to a regenerative culture that works in harmony with Gaia. … Read more
Highgrove Farm & Commons
Highgrove is an experiment of regeneration at the person, place, and community level. We use adaptive design and evidence based decision making to effectively speed learning and responsiveness; primarily to address pressing social and environmental concerns that effect us all. We adhere to mixed-used regenerative practices with an integrated blend of pastures, food forests and gardens growing a variety of healthy food while increasing the vitality of the environment. We congregate over … Read more
Blueberry Creek Village
Blueberry Creek Village is a non-profit cooperative located on a beautiful 90 acres property, in the Blaeberry, 20 min away from Golden B.C near the Canadian Rockies. The land is surrounded by mountains, has its own creeks and a waterfall! We want to co-create with the environment an eco-village with a human dimension; sustainable houses that work in harmony with their environment! Our main goals are: create an alternative school Produce sustainable food Defend community … Read more
Kootenays Smart Village
Kootenay Lake Innovation Centre is a Creative Coworking Space for Open Source Innovation now creating a Smart Village that will be located in Kaslo, British Columbia, Canada. Our aim is to use regenerative design and create scalable communities for affordable living that solve environmental, economic and social problems. … Read more
Cape Breton Eco Village
Theme Independence, self-sufficiency, healthy living, permaculture, self-sufficiency and personal responsibility, … Read more
RareBirds Housing Co-operative
We are currently a group of adults - singles and couples. We completed construction of our new co-op home in February 2014, after three years of community building, design and construction. We have six equal shares in the value of our property and house. Beyond this initial investment, we share equally the other costs of living together. We describe our project as an ‘intentional community’. We share expenses and live co-dependently with a common kitchen, shared evening meal, dining and living … Read more
Terre de la Reunion
Our ecovillage is a non-profit housing development that brings together people with similar interests and ecological awareness to create a village in harmony with the surrounding nature. It is a community of people driven by the same ideology who come together according to the principle of equity among all, in an organized system of good neighbourliness. Located in a mountain maple grove in the province of Quebec, Canada, the ecovillage includes 12 private residences and a common pavilion (to … Read more
OUR Ecovillage – Shawnigan Lake, British Columbia, Canada
OUR Ecovillage – is located on an extraordinary 25 acres near Shawnigan Lake. OUR Ecovillage began operations in 1999 with a vision to create a model “Sustainable Living Demonstration Site and Education Centre” rooted in social, ecological, and economic well being. As a multi-stakeholder organizational structure, there are a number of organizations, industry partners, government/regulatory authorities, researchers and local to global community members participating in OUR Learning Community. … Read more
