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- noun Plural form of
ecovillage .
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Examples
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"ecovillages" and that I'm misunderstanding Greer's point.
Energy Bulletin - 2008
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Proyectos ecológicos y sustentables como: Permacultura, centros de salud, retiros, ecovillages.
Ecological land available to undertaking projects / Terreno ecol�gico disponible para desarrollar pr 2009
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In a great cultural turn-around, thousands of ecovillages have sprung up around the planet, pointed toward reversing the civilized cultural values and seeking adaptation to the planetary biology.
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As the culture of looting crashes in flames, our hope is that some of the thousands of ecovillages around the planet will survive the cataclysm to thrust a new pattern of cultural values, and
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But standing in that square in Scanno, I realized why I've never been drawn to the concept of "intentional community": ecovillages, co-housing units and housing communities comprised of people who share values and vision, and which by nature, tend to result in people who tend to agree with each other much of the time.
Marika Holmgren: Where is the American Piazza? A Search for Unintentional Community 2009
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All of these systems have been worked out in the thousands of ecovillages around the planet and in many other similar designs.
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Much talk of ecovillages and intentional communities abounds among collapse watchers.
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In wealthier countries, these insights manifest in various lifestyle movements (e.g., voluntary simplicity, slow foods, cooperatives, ecovillages) seeking to consume less and devote more time to family, community, and personal projects.
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These projects include promotion of ecovillages both in urban and rural areas; rural energisation, renewable energy technology such as biomass gasification and ethanol production; community based greening and waste recycling, low-tech energy solutions such as thermally efficient and renewable energy solutions in housing, clean transport systems; carbon sequestration and conservation, industrial energy efficiency.
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I don't think everyone in your town has to be like you, or that ecovillages are the only (or even the best) way to find community.
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