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Amelia Pretorius

Lynedoch Eco-Village at the Sustainability Institute

The Sustainability Institute is an international living and learning centre located outside the South African university town of Stellenbosch. Surrounded by the breathtaking beauty of the Cape’s towering mountains and rooted in an agricultural community needing to break free from its’ racial past, the Sustainability Institute provides a space for people to explore an approach to creating a more equitable society that lives in a way that sustains rather than destroys the eco-system within which all society is embedded.

The Sustainability Institute forms part of the wider Lynedoch EcoVillage. The Lynedoch Eco-Village is pioneering approaches to creating socially diverse ecological communities. The Eco-Village is an ecologically designed, socially mixed community built around a learning precinct. It is a mixed community of 30 families from diverse racial and social economic groups built around a child-centred learning precinct, that is a financially and economically viable community requiring no external funding to sustain itself. It is also a working example of a livable ecologically designed urban system that challenges the notion that sustainable development and ecological building is too expensive. Various ecological design approaches have been integrated into the building of the Eco-Village. https://lynedochecovillage.wordpress.com/

Founded in 1999, the Sustainability Institute offers a unique African setting where creative work and learning can be inspired by the joys and challenges of sustainability in practice.

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