Eco-Villages
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David Holmgren on Retrofitting the Suburbs for the Energy Descent Future
Introduction by Samuel Alexander of the Simplicity Institute: I’m pleased to announce that David Holmgren, co-originator of the permaculture concept,…
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What is a Transition Town?
The ‘Transition Town’ movement burst onto the scene merely six years ago in Ireland, and yet already there are almost…
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It’s Time to Re-Ruralise
We’ve mentioned the re-ruralisation movement happening in debt-ridden Greece before, and here’s a video by German TV on the topic.…
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The Promised Land
This is the fate of young people today: excluded, but forbidden to opt out. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic…
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Letters from New Zealand – Koanga Sows Seeds of Change
Current evidence indicates that New Zealand may well be "the youngest country on earth". Possible fellow competitors for this claim…
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Rio+20: What Ecovillages Offer
It is the start of Rio+20, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, and the Global Ecovillage Network has a strong…
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Letters from New Zealand: Villages for the Future — a Look at Bob Corker and the Kotare Ecovillage
Kotare Village surrounds, west of Wairoa, in the Hawkes Bay region of New Zealand’s North Island All photographs © PRI…
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Pietro Zucchetti Interviews Rob Hopkins
This is an interview with Rob Hopkins, the founder of the Transition Town movement founded in Totnes, United Kingdom. The…
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Integrating Garbage in the Landscape
Filling tyres with trash bricks We recently spent a month volunteering in Indonesia, on the beautiful and luxurious island of…
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Surveying Commons Activism on the International Stage
The following is an adaptation of my notes for my talk at the Occupy Wall Street “Making Worlds” conference on…
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ReOccupy Portugal
I have seen a possibility and a lot of factors that are working in favor of this possibility, so it…
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