Polestar is an intentional, spiritual community on the Big Island of Hawaii. We offer year-round, hands-on experience in cooperative living based on the universal teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda, author of the spiritual classic, 'Autobiography of a Yogi'. We also offer opportunities for personal retreat and vacation, as well as many dynamic programs for families and youths. Our core values are spirit, community and life-long learning. As we often say, we try to 'eat, pray, work and … Read more
Ganas Community
Ganas- Staten Island, New York, United States Ganas is a Spanish word meaning … Read more
The Emerald Village Organization
The Emerald Village Organization is a chosen family of healers, educators, and creators building sacred space for heart centered community. EVO is committed to living harmoniously with nature, and supporting individual and collective growth through innovation, celebration, and service. … Read more
Hummingbird Community
Our Vision Hummingbird Community is a family of pioneering souls whose vision is to cultivate a joyful, vibrant, co-creative culture in service to the evolution of consciousness. Our Essence At our core we are cultivating a resonant field of safety, trust, playfulness, appreciation and love that nurtures our spiritual growth and empowers the fulfillment of our soul’s purpose. All of our activities emerge from this foundation. Our Mission As a living laboratory of co-creation, our … Read more
Belfast Cohousing and Ecovillage
We're a diverse group of individuals and families who have been meeting together since early 2007 to build a cohousing community with clustered housing and shared infrastructure in Belfast, Maine. We're working to create a community model which combines affordability, sustainability, and healthy community processes. We seek a close-knit, cooperative, and ecologically conscious way of life, open to people of all ages, lifestyles, beliefs, and backgrounds. We want to maintain the land … Read more
Claytor Nature Study Center
The CNSC is a former farm in rural Bedford County, VA, USA. It was given to Lynchburg College in 1998 for use as an environmental education and research center. Our mission is to 1) enrich the learning experience about nature through education and research, 2) to demonstrate and promote sustainable human-environment interactions, and 3) to preserve and enhance the diversity and function of ecosystems. We serve approximately 1000 Lynchburg College students faculty and staff, 1000 adult lifelong … Read more
One Island
One Island is an organic farm-based education center that embraces core eco-village principles and our facility serves as a community commons for other like-minded eco-farms in our immediate area. Since Hawaii does not allow multi-residential dwellings on agricultural land, we are developing a distributed eco-village model in Honaunau, at the heart of the Kona coffee belt, on the West coast of the big island of Hawaii. We grow a diversity of organic fruits and vegetables, breed butterflies … Read more
Aurora Dwelling Circle
The Aurora Dwelling Circle is the pilot project of New Earth Living in Ithaca, New York. Dwelling Circles are similar to co-housing and small lot cottage development, except smaller in scale and cooperatively owned. The small scale allows for uncomplicated resident management and makes Dwelling Circles easier to place on small urban lots within existing established neighborhoods, preserving and incorporating existing buildings. Buildings are constructed to inherently conserve energy, … Read more
White Hawk Ecovillage
As of December 2024, White Hawk Ecovillage is on a pause from accepting new households to our membership process. You may join our waitlist here. Our community is growing through a 'lot development' model, which means that as each family is ready to begin, their home can be built and they can move in. The design of the homes may be chosen by the individual families, within certain green building parameters -- we are not limited to a small number of pre-existing designs supplied by a … Read more
Bodhi Farms
Bodhi Farms is a sustainable permaculture farm outside Las Vegas NM. We are located in rural northern New Mexico where the plains met the mountains. This area is noted for it's views, mountains and trails. Nearby there are numerous National Forests and hiking opportunities. We are in our fourth year of operation. We typically plant heirloom vegetables, root crops and sell at a variety of local farmers markets. … Read more
