The Garden is an off-grid, alternative, leaderless (leaderfull) community on a 21.3 acres of earth in Lafayette, Tennessee; hosting a constantly evolving and fluctuating group of about 10-60 people throughout the year. Individuals on the land have practiced sustainable earth stewardship for over twelve years, creating multiple acres of active farm lands, highly functional off grid water and electric systems, a chicken coop that currently houses 38 chickens, 10 storage/living structures, and a … Read more
Renaissance Farms
We are a Catholic Worker community dedicated to the care of creation, care of the human person, and care of our community. We are situated on nearly 300 acres of land in central Massachusetts where we operate a permaculture farm. Our work includes permaculture and traditional skills education and advocating for the rights of marginalized peoples. We also are developing an ecovillage in Bulgaria. … Read more
Holistic Centers Network
The Holistic Centers Network (HCN) provides creative networking opportunities that strengthen communication, connection and collaboration, among holistic centers around the world, and hosts the annual Centers Gathering. HCN and Centers Gathering are the primary initiatives of the Breitenbush Eco Fund, a 501(c)(3) non-profit social benefit organization based in Oregon, USA. The Board of Directors are located in the USA and Canada. The International Holistic Centers Gathering serves as the … Read more
Alaska Resiliency Institute
The Alaska Resiliency Institute will consist of a series of buildings that forms a village campus of innovation. These facilities will be used to demonstrate technology at scale as needed to process local resources into the feedstock to support the construction and maintenance of local living economies, regardless of size. … Read more
Toward a New Way of Being with Plants
- Date: 17 – 18 June 2021
- Language:
- English
- Location: This is an online event, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota., United States
This free two-day online event will explore human/plant connections, including ethics in human treatment of plants, plant sentience and communication, and opportunities for developing more respectful and reciprocal relationships between humans and plants. The goals of this conference are to: inspire people to change the ways in which they think about, interact with, and utilize plants so that their actions will be more respectful toward and collaborative with plants advance the … Read more
Southwest Sufi Community
We are not a commune as such. Participants have individual housing and incomes. We work together on projects to benefit the retreat center we collectively Stewart. … Read more
Springhouse
Springhouse was founded in 2014 in the Blue Ridge mountains of Floyd County, Virginia and is one example of what can happen when this model is used to create regenerative culture. The Springhouse community envisions a world where all life thrives. We believe that taking care of Life, one person and community at a time, can eventually bring the larger culture we live in back to health. Springhouse is an intergenerational vitality-centered learning community in Southwest Virginia where we are … Read more
The Wild Cooperative
Our vision is to be surrounded by energy efficient homes, perennial food forest gardens, healthy soils and clean reliable water and healthy air. Just as we design this resilient system on the ground we nurture similarly supportive social, economic, cultural, and educational guilds. … Read more
Valley of Light
The Valley of Light is a sustainable, spiritual micro-community founded by members of The Oracle Institute, a 501(c)(3) educational charity and socio-spiritual think tank. VOL Members are aware of what is happening in the world and believe in the adoption of a new way of living based on an awareness of the interconnectedness of all life. … Read more
Southern Coastal Oregon Permaculture Ecovillage, SCOPE
To live the change we want to see. To be the example of living with Permaculture Design. … Read more
