Links:
Radical Freedom Blog

Ecovillage.org

World Peace Diet

Permaculture Design

Species Specific Diet

www.cohousing.org

Sustainable Cities

Phinny Urban Ecovillage

The Eco Village and New Tribal Living

The eco village concept has been around for over 100 years and is akin to cohousing and intentional communities. People who cherish, ecology, renewable energy systems and sustainability have been creating intentional communities with many different focuses all over the world with varying degrees of success.

Though the term Ecovillages was coined in Denmark in 1996. Various Utopian back-to-nature communities have flourished ever since the industrial revolution began to destroy small comminute living. From the Israeli Kibbutz, Amish, the Quakers, the Mormons, Walden and Walden Two And Rudolf Steiner communities, people have been trying to find the optimum environment for human beings to flourish.

A resurgence in interest began in the 1960's and has been going strong ever since. Findhorn Ecovillage in the UK has been in existence since 1962.

As the name suggests Ecovillages try to combine natural living with community in small groups of 50 to 100 people and are often in the country; but some are formed in urban areas as well. The idea of small groups is to form more natural human communities that are healthier and more sustainable for the people involved as well as the planet itself.

Organic farming, permaculture and sustainability are major themes of the Ecovillages community. These communities often embrace a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle and may share a common spiritual outlook.

Sharing of gardening, and transportation as well as income generating projects is common. Most eco villages have private homes owned by individual families within the community along with communal spaces for activities as well. Often spirituality, political goals, and lifestyle goals or creative goals play a major part in the forming of Ecovillages communities.

Daniel Quinn describes Tribal living, and other communities in his books: Beyond Civilization, Ishmael and My Ishmael, and the Story of B. Will Tuttle Describes a different sensibility that ruled people before profitization and commodification of living beings began.