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Ecovillage

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Ecovillages are traditional or intentional communities whose goal is to become more socially, culturally, economically and ecologically sustainable. [1]

50 relations: Biodiversity, Bioenergy village, Bioneers, Cohousing, Collective action, Communities Directory, Consensus decision-making, Consumerism, Deep ecology, Den Selvforsynende Landsby, Diana Leafe Christian, Diane Gilman, Diggers and Dreamers, Eco-communalism, Eco-municipality, Ecodistrict, Ecofeminism, Ecology, Ecoregion, Ecosystem, Ecotourism, Fair trade, Findhorn Ecovillage, Garden city movement, Global Ecovillage Network, Green development, Human scale, Intensive animal farming, Intentional community, Leopold Kohr, Living Villages, Low-impact development (UK), Organic farming, Permaculture, Principles of intelligent urbanism, Retreat (survivalism), Robert Gilman, Rural area, Simple living, Sociocracy, Spiritual ecology, Sustainability, Sustainable city, Sustainable habitat, Ted Trainer, Ten Thousand Villages, The Cultural Creatives, Triple bottom line, Urban area, Urban sprawl.

Biodiversity

Biodiversity, a portmanteau of biological (life) and diversity, generally refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth.

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Bioenergy village

A bio-energy village is a regionally oriented concept for the use of renewable energy sources in rural areas.

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Bioneers

Bioneers, under its parent foundation, Collective Heritage Institute, is a nonprofit organization based in New Mexico and California that promotes practical and innovative solutions to global environmental and bio-cultural challenges.

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Cohousing

Cohousing is an intentional community of private homes clustered around shared space.

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Collective action

Collective action refers to action taken together by a group of people whose goal is to enhance their status and achieve a common objective.

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Communities Directory

The Communities Directory, A Comprehensive Guide to Intentional Community provides listing of intentional communities primarily from North America but also from around the world.

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Consensus decision-making

Consensus decision-making is a group decision-making process in which group members develop, and agree to support a decision in the best interest of the whole.

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Consumerism

Consumerism is a social and economic order and ideology that encourages the acquisition of goods and services in ever-increasing amounts.

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Deep ecology

Deep ecology is an ecological and environmental philosophy promoting the inherent worth of living beings regardless of their instrumental utility to human needs, plus a radical restructuring of modern human societies in accordance with such ideas.

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Den Selvforsynende Landsby

Den Selvforsynende Landsby (The Self-sufficient Village) is a Danish ecovillage situated on the island Fyn (Funen).

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Diana Leafe Christian

Diana Leafe Christian is an author, former editor of Communities magazine, and nationwide speaker and workshop presenter on starting new ecovillages, on building communities, and on sustainability.

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Diane Gilman

Diane Gilman (1945–1998), was a painter, potter, writer and co-founder of the Context Institute.

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Diggers and Dreamers

Diggers and Dreamers: The Guide to Communal Living is a primary resource for information, issues, and ideas about intentional communities in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland – from urban co-ops to cohousing groups to rural communes and low impact developments.

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Eco-communalism

Eco-communalism (shorthand for "ecological communalism") is an environmental philosophy based on ideals of simple living, self-sufficiency, sustainability, and local economies.

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Eco-municipality

An eco-municipality or eco-town is a local government area that has adopted ecological and social justice values in its charter.

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Ecodistrict

An ecodistrict or eco-district is a neologism associating the terms "district" and "eco" as an abbreviation of ecological.

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Ecofeminism

The term Ecofeminism is used to describe a feminist approach to understanding ecology.

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Ecology

Ecology (from οἶκος, "house", or "environment"; -λογία, "study of") is the branch of biology which studies the interactions among organisms and their environment.

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Ecoregion

An ecoregion (ecological region) is an ecologically and geographically defined area that is smaller than a bioregion, which in turn is smaller than an ecozone.

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Ecosystem

An ecosystem is a community made up of living organisms and nonliving components such as air, water, and mineral soil.

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Ecotourism

Ecotourism is a form of tourism involving visiting fragile, pristine, and relatively undisturbed natural areas, intended as a low-impact and often small scale alternative to standard commercial mass tourism.

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Fair trade

Fair trade is a social movement whose stated goal is to help producers in developing countries achieve better trading conditions.

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Findhorn Ecovillage

Findhorn Ecovillage is an experimental architectural community project based at The Park, in Moray, Scotland, near the village of Findhorn.

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Garden city movement

The garden city movement is a method of urban planning in which self-contained communities are surrounded by "greenbelts", containing proportionate areas of residences, industry, and agriculture.

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Global Ecovillage Network

The Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) is a global association of people and communities (ecovillages) dedicated to living "sustainable plus" lives by restoring the land and adding more to the environment than is taken.

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Green development

Green development is a real estate development concept that carefully considers social and environmental impacts of development.

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Human scale

Human scale is the set of physical qualities, and quantities of information, characterizing the human body, its motor, sensory, or mental capabilities, and human social institutions.

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Intensive animal farming

Intensive animal farming or industrial livestock production, also known as factory farming, is a production approach towards farm animals in order to maximize production output, while minimizing production costs.

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Intentional community

An intentional community is a planned residential community designed from the start to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork.

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Leopold Kohr

Leopold Kohr (5 October 1909 in Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria – 26 February 1994 in Gloucester, England) was an economist, jurist and political scientist known both for his opposition to the "cult of bigness" in social organization and as one of those who inspired the small is beautiful movement.

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Living Villages

Living Villages is an organisation in the United Kingdom established in 1993 as part of The Athena Foundation UK (now dissolved) and as The in 1997 by Carole Salmon and Bob Tomlinson.

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Low-impact development (UK)

Low-impact development (LID) has been defined as "development which through its low negative environmental impact either enhances or does not significantly diminish environmental quality".

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Organic farming

Organic farming is an alternative agricultural system which originated early in the 20th century in reaction to rapidly changing farming practices.

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Permaculture

Permaculture is a system of agricultural and social design principles centered around simulating or directly utilizing the patterns and features observed in natural ecosystems.

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Principles of intelligent urbanism

Principles of intelligent urbanism (PIU) is a theory of urban planning composed of a set of ten axioms intended to guide the formulation of city plans and urban designs.

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Retreat (survivalism)

A retreat is a place of refuge for those in the survivalist subculture or movement.

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Robert Gilman

Robert C. Gilman is a thinker on sustainability who, along with his late wife Diane Gilman, has researched and written about ecovillages.

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Rural area

In general, a rural area or countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities.

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Simple living

Simple living encompasses a number of different voluntary practices to simplify one's lifestyle.

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Sociocracy

Sociocracy, also known as dynamic governance, is a system of governance which seeks to achieve solutions that create harmonious social environments as well as productive organizations and businesses.

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Spiritual ecology

Spiritual ecology is an emerging field in religion, conservation, and academia recognizing that there is a spiritual facet to all issues related to conservation, environmentalism, and earth stewardship.

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Sustainability

Sustainability is the process of change, in which the exploitation of resources, the direction of investments, the orientation of technological development and institutional change are all in harmony and enhance both current and future potential to meet human needs and aspirations.

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Sustainable city

Sustainable cities, urban sustainability, or eco-city (also "ecocity") is a city designed with consideration for social, economic, environmental impact, and resilient habitat for existing populations, without compromising the ability of future generations to experience the same.

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Sustainable habitat

A sustainable habitat is an ecosystem that produces food and shelter for people and other organisms, without resource depletion and in such a way that no external waste is produced.

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Ted Trainer

Ted (F.E.) Trainer (born 1941) is an Australian academic, author, and an advocate of economic degrowth, simple living, and 'conserver' lifestyles.

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Ten Thousand Villages

Ten Thousand Villages is a nonprofit fair trade organization that markets handcrafted products made by disadvantaged artisans from more than 120 artisan groups in more than 35 countries.

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The Cultural Creatives

The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World is a nonfiction social sciences and sociology book by sociologist Paul H. Ray and psychologist Sherry Ruth Anderson (born 1942), The authors introduced the term "Cultural Creatives" to describe a large segment in Western society who since about 1985 have developed beyond the standard paradigm of modernists or progressives versus traditionalists or conservatives.

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Triple bottom line

Triple bottom line (or otherwise noted as TBL or 3BL) is an accounting framework with three parts: social, environmental (or ecological) and financial.

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Urban area

An urban area is a human settlement with high population density and infrastructure of built environment.

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Urban sprawl

Urban sprawl or suburban sprawl describes the expansion of human populations away from central urban areas into low-density, monofunctional and usually car-dependent communities, in a process called suburbanization.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecovillage

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