Description
A beautiful, full-color book showcasing 20 best practice designs from ecovillages around the world. Includes more than 300 photographs, maps and diagrams.
* Features well-established ecovillages such as Findhorn in Scotland or Auroville in India and newer initiatives such as Hua Tao in China
* Highlights the unique features of each project and their solutions to the global social and environmental challenges that confront us
* Includes more than 300 full-color photographs, maps, and diagrams
Offering a visual tribute to the work ecovillages do to alleviate climate change, social conflict, and environmental damage, including more than 300 full-color photographs, maps, and diagrams, this beautiful book highlights 20 best practice designs from ecovillages around the world to show how we can live lightly on the planet no matter where on earth we live, in all climate zones and cultures. It demonstrates how ecovillages have already achieved the climate goals all of us are now striving toward through practical lifestyle changes that promote peaceful and joyful coexistence both among people and between people and nature. Far from being only aesthetic choices, these changes give an increased quality of life, healthy homes, delicious organic food, playful interdependence, a new spiritual connection to our living planet, and much more. Through their regenerative, sustainable, and peace-promoting practices, ecovillages continue the culture of traditional village living in a modern way that addresses the critical challenges of our time.
The book features the following 20 ecovillage projects: Hurdal Ecovillage and Hurdal Sustainable Valley, Norway; Svanholm, Denmark; Permatopia, Denmark; Solheimar, Iceland; Lilleoru, Tallin, Estonia; Findhorn, Scotland; Sieben Linden, Germany; Tamera, Portugal; Damanhur, Italy; Torri Superiore, Italy; Kibbutz Lotan, Israel; Sekem, Egypt; Chololo, Tanzania; Tasman Ecovillage, Australia; Narara, Australia; Hua Tao Ecovillage, China; Auroville, India; Ecovillage at Ithaca, New York, USA; Huehuecoyotl, Mexico; Ceo do Mapia, Brazil.
About the Author
English-Norwegian Frederica Miller is a qualified architect from the architectural school in Oslo (AHO) as well as a permaculture designer. With more than 30 years' experience in ecologically-sound building and planning, she is a popular lecturer on these subjects and regularly holds courses. The author of Levende Hus [Living buildings] and the 10 Ecovillages in 10 years in Norway report, she was awarded Oslo's Environmental Prize for her work in 2010. She lives in Norway.
Reviews
"These ecovillages are not your grandmother's hippie communes. The common denominator for these 20 ecovillages, selected by Hildur Jackson, cofounder of The Global Ecovillage Network, is responsibility: to live with social awareness of the needs of others, to remain alert to the needs of the environment, and to live as part of a larger global picture." * Anna Jedrziewski, Retailing Insight *
Book Information
ISBN 9781844097432
Author Frederica Miller
Format Paperback
Page Count 176
Imprint Findhorn Press
Publisher Inner Traditions Bear and Company
Weight(grams) 619g
Dimensions(mm) 270mm * 200mm * 15mm
* Features well-established ecovillages such as Findhorn in Scotland or Auroville in India and newer initiatives such as Hua Tao in China
* Highlights the unique features of each project and their solutions to the global social and environmental challenges that confront us
* Includes more than 300 full-color photographs, maps, and diagrams
Offering a visual tribute to the work ecovillages do to alleviate climate change, social conflict, and environmental damage, including more than 300 full-color photographs, maps, and diagrams, this beautiful book highlights 20 best practice designs from ecovillages around the world to show how we can live lightly on the planet no matter where on earth we live, in all climate zones and cultures. It demonstrates how ecovillages have already achieved the climate goals all of us are now striving toward through practical lifestyle changes that promote peaceful and joyful coexistence both among people and between people and nature. Far from being only aesthetic choices, these changes give an increased quality of life, healthy homes, delicious organic food, playful interdependence, a new spiritual connection to our living planet, and much more. Through their regenerative, sustainable, and peace-promoting practices, ecovillages continue the culture of traditional village living in a modern way that addresses the critical challenges of our time.
The book features the following 20 ecovillage projects: Hurdal Ecovillage and Hurdal Sustainable Valley, Norway; Svanholm, Denmark; Permatopia, Denmark; Solheimar, Iceland; Lilleoru, Tallin, Estonia; Findhorn, Scotland; Sieben Linden, Germany; Tamera, Portugal; Damanhur, Italy; Torri Superiore, Italy; Kibbutz Lotan, Israel; Sekem, Egypt; Chololo, Tanzania; Tasman Ecovillage, Australia; Narara, Australia; Hua Tao Ecovillage, China; Auroville, India; Ecovillage at Ithaca, New York, USA; Huehuecoyotl, Mexico; Ceo do Mapia, Brazil.
About the Author
English-Norwegian Frederica Miller is a qualified architect from the architectural school in Oslo (AHO) as well as a permaculture designer. With more than 30 years' experience in ecologically-sound building and planning, she is a popular lecturer on these subjects and regularly holds courses. The author of Levende Hus [Living buildings] and the 10 Ecovillages in 10 years in Norway report, she was awarded Oslo's Environmental Prize for her work in 2010. She lives in Norway.
Reviews
"These ecovillages are not your grandmother's hippie communes. The common denominator for these 20 ecovillages, selected by Hildur Jackson, cofounder of The Global Ecovillage Network, is responsibility: to live with social awareness of the needs of others, to remain alert to the needs of the environment, and to live as part of a larger global picture." * Anna Jedrziewski, Retailing Insight *
Book Information
ISBN 9781844097432
Author Frederica Miller
Format Paperback
Page Count 176
Imprint Findhorn Press
Publisher Inner Traditions Bear and Company
Weight(grams) 619g
Dimensions(mm) 270mm * 200mm * 15mm
