The Love Plan is currently re-evaluating its location, among other things. If our lifestyle interests (see below) call to you, you're welcome to email us to establish a connection. Where ever we are, we're excited about living our values. :-) We are a pair of homesteaders, living within (about) a 15 min. walk of the downtown of Mount Dora, Florida. We've been here since 2014, working to establish a more off-grid residence and self-sufficient food forest. In 2020, we joyfully went car-free. We … Read more
Earthen Heart 2015 Spring Gathering
- Date: 28 February – 19 March 2015
- Languages:
- EnglishSpanish
- Location: United States
This is an end of Winter transitioning into beginning of Spring event. It is not reliant on specific Gregorian Calendar and Mechanical Clock time coordinates but will mostly occur between the Chinese New Year and the Spring Equinox. One idea is to create tonics and fermented beverages with the sap that is running from the trees: sugar and silver maple, birch, etc. Making different batches that combine the sap with apple and blueberry fruit juices, extracts made from roots and herbs, etc. … Read more
Earth Deeds
Earth Deeds offers innovative online tools for users to “onset” the social cost of their carbon footprints and support sustainability projects of their choice. We help ecologically-minded groups and individuals give back to the Earth and become “carbon conscious” by 1) measuring the carbon footprints of their activities and events, 2) raising funds to acknowledge their impacts, 3) efficiently distributing these funds to small, local sustainability projects of their choosing, and 4) receiving a … Read more
Catalyst Ecovillage
NOTE: We are closing on the purchase of 75 acres by March 15th and need a few more people to contribute to the downpayment and help us with loan repayments to the local Farm Credit Bureau! Come join us now! We are doing this! Email: teaganblackburn@gmail.com immediately with any questions! Mission Statement Catalyst Community is a forming ecovillage and green business-incubator education center in Warwick, NY. Our energy-positive residential and agricultural buildings will be … Read more
Quaker Intentional Village – Canaan
QIVC, established in 2000, is a community of about 30 people. We strive to live spirit-focused lives that are simple, sustainable, and joyful, benefitting from and enjoying our close connections with each other and the land. … Read more
Monthly forming meeting
- Date: 28 December 2014
- Language:
- English
- Location: United States
Please join us for our monthly forming meeting! We are moving forward by gaining clarity on our finances, community vision, and analysis of locations to establish our community. Seth Mansur: centralmassvillagers1@gmail.com … Read more
National Cohousing Conference 2015
- Date: 28 – 30 May 2015
- Language:
- English
- Location: Durham Convention Center - Durham, NC, United States
This Year's Conference promises an amazing lineup of offerings, from innovative approaches to developing new and affordable communities, to potent ways to enhance our vibrant communities. We will cover cohousing basics as well as hot topics in sustainability, community building, and the evolving definition of cohousing. Our “next generation theme” will explore the new wave of urban, senior and agricultural communities, check-in with our now-adult children of cohousing, and celebrate … Read more
Ashevillage Eco-Urban Program
- Date: 23 March – 23 October 2015
- Language:
- English
- Location: Asheville, NC, United States
Work Site: Ashevillage Sanctuary, Asheville, NC Dates: March 23 – October 23, 2015 (with roughly 40 hours of preliminary online permaculture homework) Schedule: Monday-Thursday (full days) + special workshops two weeks in the season — details below. Room & board: Apprentices will live off site and make their own living arrangements. Leads on affordable housing will be provided. Fee: Includes Permaculture certification, water retention landscape & natural building workshops, primitive skills … Read more
Water Retention Landscape Course
- Date: 1 – 4 June 2015
- Language:
- English
- Location: Asheville, NC, United States
Water Retention Landscape Course: With Brock Dolman in Asheville, NC. June 2-6, 2015 Learn: • Basic principles and theory; observations of patterns in nature • Techniques for rainwater harvesting including dams, swales, terraces, and keyline • A water retention landscape tour • Design considerations for differing soil types, vegetation, watersheds, regions, and climates • Overview of aquaculture vs. aquaponics; and more. There are limited spots available in this course for … Read more
Communities Conference in VA
- Date: 3 – 6 September 2015
- Language:
- English
- Location: Twin Oaks Community - Louisa, VA, United States
If you live or want to live according to the values of cooperation, sustainability, and equality this conference is for you. You’ll get something out of this event whether you’re brand new to communities and cooperatives, or have been living and working in them for decades. The conference focuses on Intentional Communities, including models such as Ecovillages, Cohousing, and Housing Cooperatives, and the larger cooperative movement, including all kinds of cooperative and collective … Read more
