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Ecological &
Global Organisations
Global Ecovillage Network
(GEN)
Sustainable Development
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Alternative
Economics
Alternative economics think-tanks
and research centres
Worldwatch
Institute
International
Forum on Globalisation
New
Economics Foundation
E.F
Schumacher Society
Institute
for Community Economics
Microenterprise development and
micro-credit
Sarvodaya
(Sri Lanka)
Grameen
Bank (Bangladesh)
Responsible business
Social Venture
Network
Sustainable consumption
YouthXchange
- Training kit on sustainable consumption for youth
Communities
Resources
Ecovillagers
Home - this homepage is a platform for people sharing
the ecovillage vision, created by participants of the Ecovillage
Training 2000 at Findhorn.
Ecovillage
Resources Directory - directory of resources (websites,
books, mailing lists, etc.) of all issues relevant to building
and living in eco-villages.
Context
Institute - a journal on humane sustainable culture.
Global
Global
Ecovillage Network - everything you want to know about
Ecovillages worldwide.
Africa
Berg
en Dal - permaculture ecovillage in South Africa.
Asia
Auroville
- "City of Dawn." Auroville Universal Township
in Tamil Nadu, South India.
Australia
Blue
Star - ecovillage in Nimbim, Lismore
Chrystal
Waters - a socially and environmentally responsible,
economically viable rural subdivision north of Brisbane
Brazil
ENA-Brazil - Brazilian network of ecovillages
Europe
Damanhur
- founded in 1977, Damanhur is an internationally renowned
ecovillage
Ecologia
- Ecologia Trust has been the link for the Findhorn Foundation
with Russian communities and groups since 1988 and supports
Kitezh, a Russian community of foster families who adopt
and educate orphan children.
Ecovillage
in Devon in the UK
The
isle of Erraid - a small sustainable community living
lightly, close to the earth on a beautiful tiny Hebridean
island off the west coast of Scotland, open to guests throughout
the year.
Kibbutz
Lotan - is a young, fifteen-year-old intentional community
in Israel's southern Arava desert, part of the beautiful
Syrian-African Rift
Kientalerhof
- courses for Selfdiscovery, Contemplation, Cooking, Music,
Movement and Dance.
Lebensgarten
- Ecovillage in Germany
Scoraig
- various creative and commercial activities associated
with the community on Scoraig peninsula.
Tamera
- is a cooperative of people who work for the future with
the intention to build a model for a nonviolent culture.
Zentrum
Waldegg - international course and community centre
- Switzerland
North America
Alpha
Farm Community - Alpha Farm is an intentional community
of people who have chosen to live and work together to share
a more harmonious way of living.
Arcosanti
Breitenbush
Retreat - Hot Springs Retreat and Conference Center
in Oregon, USA
Earthaven
Ecovillage - Learning, Living and Demonstrating Sustainable
Culture
EcoVillage
at Ithaca - (EVI) is a budding intentional community
dedicated to exploring and modeling innovative approaches
to ecological and social sustainability.
Farm
- Founded in 1971 with a spiritual commitment to simple
living and self-reliance.
Lost
Valley Education Center - is an emerging Ecovillage
and education center. Teaching environmental skills such
as permaculture and deep ecology as well as personal growth
programs.
Narrow
Ridge - Earth literacy Centre - community in Tennessee
with interests in Environmental programmes, retreats, community,
sustainablity and spirituality
Twin
Oaks Community - is an intentional community in rural
Virginia that is income-sharing, holds the values of non-violence,
egalitarianism, and environmentalism and manufactures leisure
furniture, makes soy products like tofu and tempeh, and
indexes books.
Cohousing
The
co-housing network - cohousing communities balance the
traditional advantages of home ownership with the benefits
of shared common facilities and ongoing connections with
your neighbors.
Cornerstone
Village Cohousing - is one of very few urban cohousing
communities. Located in Cambridge, MA, Cornerstone is dedicated
to supporting diversity
Ecological Organisations
Centre
for Alternative Technology - a research and demonstration
centre.
Earth
Transitions - inner & outer 'technologies' which
exist to assit the Earth.
Ecodorp
- Sustainable Development in The Netherlands
Greenpeace
Living
Soil - creating living soil and redirecting food waste
away from the landfill and back into the ecosystem
Lovearth
- a concerned environmental/humanitarian organization.
Naturesave
Policies Ltd - ethical insurance which protects you
and your environment
The
UK Earth Centre Network- a project which aims to support
the development of all places across the UK where the principles
and practice of sustainable living are being shared with
people in the wider community.
GEN
Worldwide
The Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) is a grassroots non-profit
organization that links together a highly diverse worldwide
movement of autonomous ecovillages and related projects.
Over the years GEN has developed many activities, as well
as supported creation of sub-regional ecovillage network
nodes
More information: www.ecovillage.org
gen.ecovillage.org
GEN (Global Ecovillage Network)
ena.ecovillage.org
ENA (Ecovillage Network of the Americas)
genoa.ecovillage.org
GENOA (GEN Oceania and Asia)
Sustainable
Development
Resources
Aberdeenshire
Sustainability Research Trust - steering group responsible
for a practical demonstration project on environment friendly
housing layouts.
EcoABC.com
- is a directory of eco professionals and links to information
for the sustainable development, eco-village, eco building,
healthy home and environmental health communities.
Greenfase
- UK Environmental Directory
Holon Network
- connects ecology, sociology, creativity and spirituality
in different languages.
Intermediate
Technology Development Group
The
Rural Resettlement Handbook Second Edition
Sustainable
Scotland - an interactive site where you can learn about
sustainable development & the environment in Scotland
on a national and local level.
Sustainable
Resources
Agriculture
Organic
Food
Permaculture
Activist site
Soil
Association
Via
Campesina
Architecture and Building
Archipelo
- professional architects specialising in ecological
design and consultancy
BSHF -
Building and Social Housing Foundation
Gale
& Snowdon Ecodesign
The
Joy of Our Dwellings: Spiritual and Sustainable Habitats.
Biological Waste Systems
Ameco
ltd - Ecological design and engineering for wastewater
treatment and bacterial augmentation.
Living Technologies
Ltd - in UK
Ocean
Arks International - Ecological Engineering research
and design:
Building
Construction
Resources - Britain's ecological building centre distributing
materials & systems for sustainable building.
Green
Building Store - supplying safe sustainable building
products.
EcoCasa
- Brazil's ecological building centre supplying sustainable
building materials & systems
Education
Centre
for Human Ecology - Scotland's alternative University
for Ecology and Community.
Footprint
Education - a training and education consultancy based
in the Highlands of Scotland.
Findhorn
Foundation College - holistic education, academic and
experiential learning.
Otley
College - offers further, higher and vocational education.
Energy
Masonry
Heating
Global justice campaign organisations
World Development
Movement
Third
World Network
International
Society for Ecology and Culture
Others
The
Fairtrade Foundation
Natural-Earth
- Australian based natural therapies, alternative health
and lifestyles directory.
World
Social Forum 2003 Report - in Portuguese and Spanish.
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