Lost Valley is a 35-year-old ecovillage, permaculture education center, and non-profit community land trust, providing access to land for ecological community living. Our core pillars are Sociocracy, Nonviolent Communication, and Permaculture, and we offer courses and internships that engage people in personal, social and ecological growth, for the co-creation of a regenerative future. … Read more
Port Townsend EcoVillage
Port Townsend EcoVillage is a community of people dedicated to living in harmony with each other and with the earth, exploring together ways to live more sustainably and joyfully. We are a small-town intergenerational urban ecovillage on 7.5 acres in Port Townsend, WA USA. As of March 2018, 28 adults and 10 children (ages 5-15) live in dwellings varying from "tiny houses," small homes and duplexes to rooms in a cooperative house, built using a variety of earth-friendly, energy-efficient … Read more
Abundance Ecovillage
Abundance EcoVillage is a sustainable community supplying its own wind and solar power, water and water treatment, and waste treatment, functioning in a well integrated system in harmony with nature. … Read more
Alpha Farm
Alpha Farm is an intentional community of people who have chosen to live and work together to share a more harmonious way of living. At our home in rural western Oregon, we live the largely self-reliant style of a close-knit expanded family; we average 5 to 20 people, including singles, couples and families, and have ranged in age from infants to elderly. Alpha Farm is located about 25 miles from the Pacific Ocean and about 55 miles by road northwest of Eugene, the nearest city. Dense, … Read more
Breitenbush Community
We are an intentional community and worker-owned cooperative that operates Breitenbush Hot Springs Retreat and Conference Center, hosting 25,000 guests annually. Sixty miles east of Salem, Oregon, Breitenbush sits on 155 acres in ancient forests of the Cascades. Our community ranges from 50 – 90 adults and children. We are off the grid, using hydro and geothermal, and practice low-impact Earth stewardship. The members of the worker-owned cooperative make major decisions about community and … Read more
EarthArt Village
EarthArt Village (EAV) is organized as a cooperative association for land and building ownership, membership structure, decision-making (consensus) and infrastructure development (power, water, waste management, shared facilities, etc.) EAV will include full and part-time residents, non-resident members, and guests, to achieve a healthy diversity of involvement, and a balance of the necessary skills and talents for cooperative activities. EAV owns 400 acres in the Northeast San Luis Valley. … Read more
East Wind Community
We are a 70-member collective located on 1,045 acres of rural Ozark Hills in southern Missouri. We are a member of the Federation of Egalitarian Communities, and as such, we put great value in cooperation, nonviolence, and sharing. We support ourselves through two industries: East Wind Nut Butters and Utopian Rope Sandals. Our membership is very diverse, we have no central leadership, and we practice democracy. Our work lives are busy and varied, but we always find time to relax and enjoy … Read more
Gesundheit! Institute
Gesundheit, through our world-work, seeks to restore people, communities, systems, and planet to wholeness and health through laughter and loving care. Our activism promotes and models humane values of generosity, justice, and compassion. We began traveling and clowning around the world in 1985 and has grown every year since. In 2006 we began the Gesundheit Global Outreach programming to help us organize all the individual trips taken throughout the year. Gesundheit Global Outreach Clowns … Read more
Heathcote Community
The adults and children of Heathcote Community strive to live in a healthy, loving, and sustainable manner. We are located on 42 acres of wooded valley which is part of the School of Living community land trust. We believe that we have a responsibility to care for the land and each other, treating both with dignity and respect. In community we support one another in living a life that we love. We don’t currently have community businesses, so each member earns income individually and makes … Read more
Los Angeles Eco-Village
Los Angeles Eco-Village is a place name for our transit rich two block neighborhood three miles west of Downtown Los Angeles. Three nonprofit organizations are working toward reinventing how we live in the City. Our 45 member intentional community does this by demonstrating higher quality living patterns at much lower environmental impacts, engaging with one another, our neighbors and the City at large in a variety of hands-on and educational activities. We try to maximize the beneficial … Read more
