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Architecture, landscape and interior design Including Feng Shui or intuitive energy balancing. Designing a comprehensive renewable energy system - exploring the nuances of creating net-low or zero energy homes. Detailed green specifications for all components, insuring healthy homes and reused/renewable/local…
ECO provides the full range of development services needed to complete a successful co-housing project. Using the co-housing model of consensus building, we work closely with the residents to develop a design program and budget.
Birds are our business! Come with us in a small group and we will show you the secrets of New Zealand's unique birds, bats and marine mammals. Our tours are an opportunity to learn about our native fauna, especially for…
Set in quiet woodland, we offer a peaceful, smoke-free base for your visit.
Build healthy, just, and sustainable communities through education, training and multi-media communication tools.
Un unofficial peek into Dancing Rabbit ecovillage.
Small-town ecovillage on 7.5 acres in Port Townsend: permaculture, NVC, consensus, sustainability unite us. Five lots for sale: join our vibrant community and build your eco-home.
Offers sustainable development education by developing curricula on sustainable design, working within and drawing from ecovillages and creating online courses.
Bellbunya Community is an ecological and consciously evolving community, established to model ways to create a relocalised and sustainable future.
In the magical Andes mountains near Cuenca, Ecuador, Gaia Sagrada offers affordable housing rentals, retreats, and a place to enjoy the REAL Ecuador countryside. Gaia Sagrada is an organic farm producing Quinoa and many vegetables. Having enchanted forests, sunny pastures,…
An ecotourism organization based in Northeast India which promotes responsible tours and adventures to exotic places.
Sieben Linden Ecovillage is a trend-setting intentional community project. Since 1997 we are implementing sustainable lifestyles, taking into account ecological, cultural, economic and social issues. We share our experiences and knowledge with the public through a diverse range of educational…
Nubanusit Neighborhood and Farm consists of 29 quality built, environmentally-designed homes (passive), a Common House, office/studio space, a working farm, and woodlands with walking trails.
Is an organization whose purpose is to promote and encourage the co housing concept, support both individuals and groups in creating communities, provide assistance to completed groups for improving their systems for living together in community, and provide networking opportunities…
A network of communal groups spread across North America. We range in size and emphasis from small agricultural homesteads to village-like communities similar to the Israeli kibbutzim.
To coordinate the exchange of information and resources between NW intentional Communities and others.
The book Communities Directory: A Guide to Intentional Communities and Cooperative Living is the essential reference tool for those interested in finding or creating community. Compiled once every 4 to 5 years by the nonprofit organization the Fellowship for Intentional…
This site will help you understand: What exactly cohousing is and how it differs from other forms of intentional community. Developing your own cohousing community is a big challenge: it's been compared to getting married or having a baby! So…
The main source of information on communal living in Britain - intentional communities, cohousing projects, housing co-operatives, eco-villages and utopian lifestyles.
Promotes the creation of cohousing communities as a model for sustainable development by raising public awareness about cohousing and by bringing people together to form communities.
A whole systems immersion experience of ecovillage living, together with classes of instruction, access to information, tools and resources, and on-site and off-site consulting and outreach experiences.
For EcoVillages development, EcoSystems, Inc. provides master planning, capital formation, properties acquisition, ecological/economic technologies, approvals, project management, construction and marketing services.
An architecture and development consulting firm that creates communities that cluster private homes around extensive common facilities.
The training is based at the Findhorn Foundation's demonstration ecovillage is in 8 separate modules, which may be attended as a whole or separately. It is a capacity building programme, designed to make optimum use of the information available from…
A nonprofit research and educational organization that provides technical assistance and information on environmentally sound economic development strategies. Since 1974, ILSR has worked with citizen groups, governments and private businesses in developing policies that extract the maximum value from local…
Worker and housing co-op registration and support.
EcoLogical Solutions consultancy and education. We provide design consultancy and education in the disciplines of sustainable living.
A project dedicated to building a rural clustered housing development to the best standards of social, environmental, and economic sustainability. We have identified a site for this innovative development. Members of the company have selected this site through a process…
The project at present is only in an embryonic stage. We have started by purchasing a beautiful one hectare (3 acre) piece of land 8km from Coin in the south of Spain. There are ten resident voluntary project workers living…
Spiritual eco-village with emphasis on meditation.
"Tamera is a cooperative of people who work for the future with the intention to build a model for a nonviolent culture. Our goal is to build a research settlement where the most important themes of a new, sustainable culture…
Der Verein hat 70 aktive Mitglieder und etliche Fördermitglieder. Grundlage unseres Zusammenlebens an diesem Ort ist der Wunsch, ein harmonisches Zusammenleben miteinander und mit der umgebenden Natur zu entwickeln.
Initial members came together in 1999 with a common vision of creating Ireland's first ecological village. Since then membership has grown to almost 40 households which vary from single people to families with both young children and teenagers.
A lot of information in the website of this spiritual community with strong environmental commitment which planted more than 1 million trees to reforest their once-arid land. They also produce eco-friendly products.
A development of co-ownership of surrounding lands and application of permaculture.
Whyalla is South Australia’s second largest city and is now diversifying into exciting new industries such as aquaculture, sustainable development and renewable energy technologies. Project includes: clean energy, storm water retention, water recycling, ...
Illabunda is a unique residential housing project which brings ecologically sustainable living into urban Sydney.
Construction is well advanced on New Zealand’s first sustainable Eco-Neighborhood project, incorporating the principles of Co housing and Permaculture. Located in Waitakere City Auckland New Zealand, this innovative non-profit development combines beautiful Rammed Earth walls, eco-technologies, healthy non-toxic materials and…
A non-profit community group that aims to use and promote environmentally friendly technology. We are interested in renewable energy sources such as the sun, wind and water; building with natural materials and conserving energy. The ATA has around two thousand…
"Founded in 1994 to: support the development of sustainable human settlements, facilitate the exchange of information amongst the settlements, make information available about eco-village concepts and demonstration sites. 'Gen Resource Database' is an extensive collection (> 500 records) of relevant…
A pilot model demonstration of how to live in a real New World consciousness of sharing on all levels: spiritually, mentally, emotionally and physically. Features: A few growing climates for agriculture, you name it we are growing it organically, two…
Directory of intentional communities in the USA.
Welcome to one of America’s most unique residential communities, dedicated to quality residential living and the land preservation. Broomgrass features 16 one acre home sites.
An urban community that fosters mutual support and cooperation while respecting privacy. We welcome diversity, encourage ecologically responsible living, and value active participation in the larger world. Located in Takoma, a neighborhood in the northwest area of Washington, DC. A…
A Project to develop a Bioregional Intentional Community, a Rural Cohousing Development...
We are dedicated to researching and modeling sustainable ways of living which are rooted in social, economic, cultural and ecological well being. O.U.R. Eco Village offers a healthy and supportive learning environment for people of all walks of life wishing…
Huehuecoyotl Eco-village A.C. is the project of a group of people of various nationalities dedicated to the modeling and research of lifestyles based on ecology, the arts, true democracy and the practice of holistic health methods which address the well…
We are a community striving to live sustainably. We host eco-friendly retreats and visitors interested in eco-tourism. Photos and info on website.
"This is why these Eco-Villages will not be either places to run away from society or set up small Edens. They will be places that will function as living laboratories (lavore et ore). Eco-Villages do not intend to be a…
For three decades, Gaviotans - peasants, scientists, artists, and former street kids - have struggled to build an oasis of imagination and sustainability in the remote, barren savannas of eastern Colombia, an area ravaged by political terror. They have planted…
"We are an educational charity striving to achieve the best cooperation between the natural, technological and human worlds. We test, live with and display strategies and tools for doing this. CAT has a holistic approach to its work, integrating ideas…
Spiritual community with strong environmental commitment. Lots of workshops, hosts an an annual ecovillage education program.
Combines the traditional smallholding model with the latest innovations in environmental design, green technology and permaculture.
A community of people fostering a sustainable urban neighborhood that promotes social, economic, and fun-filled lives contributing to preserving the planet.
Camphill Village Kimberton Hills is a vibrant farming and handcrafting community that includes adults with developmental disabilities living and working side by side, to create a dynamic and caring community for people of all ages and varied abilities.
"A whole systems immersion experience of ecovillage living, together with classes of instruction, access to information, tools and resources, and on-site and off-site consulting and outreach experiences."
Cobb Hill is an intentional community of people who want to explore the challenge of living in ways that are materially sufficient, socially and ecologically responsible, and satisfying to the soul. As a rural community, we try to practice sustainable…
Twin Oaks is an intentional community of around 85 adults and 15 children living on 465 acres of farm and forest land in rural Virginia, USA. Since the community's beginning in 1967, our way of life has reflected our values…
A co-housing community with geothermal heating and cooling and local organic farming resources.
A rural community of people living on the same plot of land and managing business together.
A residential community under development in the Northern Virginia countryside, 9 miles north of Leesburg and 5 miles from the Point of Rocks commuter rail station serving points in MD and Washington, D.C. We are sited on 180 organically certified…
The Quarries eco Village. Practicing the Principles of responsible Environmental Design, Building, and sustainable Community Development.
While Dancing Rabbit is still a small community in the pioneering stage, we call ourselves an ecovillage because our vision is of something much more than what we currently are. We intend to grow to be a small locally self-reliant…
A small, closely-knit, supportive family of friends who work and play together, Sandhill Farm was started in 1974. We highly value growing most of our own food through organic and biodynamic methods, and have developed a spiritual connection with the…
This community is 95% independent of the cost and global effects municipal utilities. They produce their own energy, harvest their own water, contain and treat their own sewage, manufacture their own bio-diesel fuel, grow much of their own food. Their…
Intentional community dedicated to exploring and modeling innovative approaches to ecological and social sustainability. We're creating a unique habitat which includes co housing, organic agriculture, cottage industries, an education center, and natural areas, preserving and restoring over 80% of the…
Cincinnati Ecovillage is a group of people who have come together because we have a strong desire to create a residential community based on the social principles of co housing and the environmental principles of sustainable living that characterize an…
Manzanita Village is a resident-developed, cooperative neighborhood, modeled after the Co housing communities of Denmark. Residents take an active part in planning and designing our village. We are united by mutual desires to know our neighbors, live an environmentally friendly lifestyle and enjoy a safe,…
Tierra - Nueva CoHousing is a 27 unit complex consisting of passive solar homes, clustered on five acres in Oceano, adjacent to Halcyon. Our project was finished February, 1999 and includes a shared Common House, gardens and organic avocado orchard.…
Intentional community/urban retrofit co-housing/mini-ecovillage.
The scope envisioned for EarthArt Village is that of a small scale homesteading project that embodies the principles and demonstrates the practices of sustainable "village" life to the benefit of its members and to others locally, bioregionally and beyond. 480…
This co housing project utilizes a very successful architectural model, with houses designed and built near the street with front porches and use of the interior area for common facilities. This project has been E-Star rated and is Green Built…
A group of people who are converting from nursery business into an ecofarm.
We aim for a continually evolving high quality of life for each resident, high quality of interaction with one another, and ecologically responsible, harmonious relation with our natural environment.
"In 1978 former members of the Findhorn Community in Scotland set out to start a new community in the U.S. - a "Center of Light" - a community of spiritual renewal grounded in ecological living."
We are a group of people dedicated to creating a place where resources are shared, lives are simplified, the Earth is respected, diversity is welcomed, children play together in safety, and living in community with neighbors comes naturally.
The Cheshire village of Ashton Hayes (pop. 1000 approx.) is aiming to become the first small community in England to achieve carbon neutral status.
Working towards a thriving, creative and resilient community based on energy efficient systems and abundant renewable resources. Their initial focus is on reducing our carbon emissions through improving energy efficiency and increasing the supply of renewable energy.
Ionia is a small scale multi-generational village environment located on 100 acres of spruce forest on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska. Ionia is a guide and model for fundamental and sustainable change in our approach to mental health, well-being, agriculture,…
Using co housing and ecological principles, the members of Milagro are committed to providing a people and earth-friendly neighborhood. The group has purchased a 43-acre undisturbed desert site located in the Tucson mountains - just twelve minutes west of downtown…