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EcoVillage
resources
The following groups can provide more information
on ecovillage thought and practice.
Local organizations
Urban Ecovillages
Organizations beyond Northeast Ohio
- Ananda
Village
- Aquarian
Concepts
- Austin
Green Building Program
- Barking Frogs Permaculture Center
- Birdsfoot Farm (call 315-386-4852)
- Camphill Special
School
- Center for Livable Communities
of the Local Government Commission
- Center for Maximum
Potential Building Systems
- Center for Neighborhood
Technology
- Center for Renewable
Energy and Sustainable Technology (CREST)
- Center For Resourceful
Building Technology
- Chacra Millalen
- Christine
Center
- Crystal
Waters Permaculture Village
- Cohousing Network
- Congress for the New
Urbanism
- Context Institute
- Dancing Rabbit,
a rural ecovillage in progress in northeast Missouri.
- Development
Center for Appropriate Technology
- Dolphin-Community
- Earthart
Village
- Earthaven
- Earth Connection, 370 Neeb Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45233, (513) 451-3932.
- East Wind Community (call 417-679-4682)
- Ecocity
Builders
- EcoDesign Resource
Society
- EcoHome Network
- Ecological
Design Institute
- EcoVillage
at Ithaca
- Ecovillage Network
of the Americas
- Ecovillage
Network of Canada
- Educating Architects
for a Sustainable Environment Project, Ball State University
- EG2 Center
- Energy Efficient Building
Association
- The Farm
- The Findhorn Foundation
- Ganas and Grow II (call 718-720-5378)
- Global EcoVillage Network
- Green Design
Network
- Heathcote
- The Hermitage
at Mahantongo Spirit Garden
- High Wind Association (call 920-528-8488)
- Humanity Rising (call 530-899-7719)
- Infinite StarLight Offering Visionary Ecovillages (call 831-425-3334)
- Institute for Local
Self-Reliance
- Intentional Communitites
- Inter-cooperative Council at University of Michigan (call 734-662-4415)
- International Council
for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI)
- Joint
Center for Sustainable Communities (National Association of Counties
and the United States Conference of Mayors).
- Kalani Community
- Lebensgarten
- Local
Sustainability, the European Good Practice Information Service
- Lofstedt Farm Community (call 250-353-7167)
- Lost Valley Educational
Center
- Magic
- Maison Emmanuel (call 819-322-7014)
- Moonshadow (call 423-949-5922)
- Mount Madonna
Center
- Ohio
Office of Energy Efficiency, Department of Development
- Ojai Foundation
- O.U.R. EcoVillage (call 250-743-3067)
- Pangaia
- Pennine Camphill
Community
- Planet Drum Foundation
Green City Program
- Rocky Mountain Institute
- Rowe Camp &
Conference Center
- Sacred
Mountain Ranch
- Shared Living
Resource Center
- Sirius Community
- Sivananda Ashram
Yoga Ranch
- Slippery Rock University
- Smart Growth
Network
- Southwest Sufi Community (call 530-478-5855)
- Surface Transportation
Policy Project
- Sustainable Communities
Network
- Sustainable
Sources Environmental Web site
- Tamera Centre
for Humane Ecology
- Transportation
for Livable Communities Network
- Trillium Community (call 541-899-1696)
- Trust for Sustainable
Development
- Twin Oaks Community
- United Nations
Centre for Human Settlements
- U.S. Department
of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, and
Center of Excellence
for Sustainable Development
- U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Office of Sustainable Ecosytems and Communities
- U.S. Green Building
Council
- Urban Ecology
- Urban Ecology
Australia
- Village of Harmony (contact: villageofharmony@juno.com)
- Wygelia (call 301-831-8280)
Additional reading
Blueprint for a Sustainable Bay Area by Urban
Ecology, 1996.
Community Energy Workbook by Alice Hubbard and
Clay Fong, Rocky Mountain Institute, 1995.
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by
Jane Jacobs, Vintage Press, 1961.
Eco-City Dimensions: Healthy Communities, Healthy
Planet edited by Mark Roseland, New Society Publishers, 1997.
Ecocity Berkeley by Richard Register, North Atlantic
Books, 1987.
Ecological Design by Sim Van Der Ryn and Stuart
Cowan, Island Press, 1996.
Eco-Villages and Sustainable Communities edited
by Diane Gilman and Richard Gilman, Context Institute, 1991.
Environmental Building News monthly newsletter,
28 Birge St., Brattleboro, VT 05301 (802-257-7300 or www.ebuild.com).
EBN also offers the E Build Library on searchable CD-ROM, which includes
comprehensive lists of green building products and resources, as well
as back issues of the Environmental Building News newsletter.
Futures by Design: The Practice of Ecological Planning
edited by Doug Aberley, New Society Publishers, 1996.
The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design
by Anne Whiston Spirn, Basic Books, 1984.
The Greater Cleveland Environment Book: Caring for
Home and Bioregion by David Beach, EcoCity Cleveland, 1998.
A Green City Program for San Francisco Bay Area Cities
and Towns by Peter Berg, et al, Planet Drum Books, 1989.
Green Development: Integrating Ecology and Real Estate
by the Rocky Mountain Institute, John Wiley & Sons, 1998.
Greening Cities: Building Just and Sustainable Communities
by Joan Roelofs, The Bootstrap Press, 1996.
The Neighborhood Works newsletter by the Center
for Neighborhood Technology, 2115 W. North Ave., Chicago, IL 60647, (773)
278-4800.
The New Urbanism by Peter Katz, McGraw-Hill,
1994.
Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on
the Earth by Mathis Wackernagel and William Rees, New Society Publishers,
1996.
Primer on Sustainable Building by Rocky Mountain
Institute, 1995.
Rebuilding Community in America: Housing for Ecological
Living, Personal Empowerment and the New Extended Family by Ken Norwood
and Kathleen Smith, Shared Living Resource Center, 1997.
Reclaiming Our Cities and Towns: Better Living with
Less Traffic by David Engwicht, New Society Publishers, 1993.
Regenerative Design for Sustainable Development
by John Lyle, John Wiley & Sons, 1994.
Toward Sustainable Communities: A Resource Book for
Municipal and Local Governments by Mark Roseland, New Society Publishers,
1977.
Urban Ecologist newsletter by Urban Ecology, 405 14th
St., Suite 900, Oakland, CA 94612, (510) 251-6330.
Village Wisdom: Future Cities edited by Richard
Register and Brady Peeks, Ecocity Builders, 1997.
The Wealth of Cities: Revitalizing the Centers of
American Life by John Norquist, Addison-Wesley, 1998.
"Down
a green path: An alternative vision for a section of east Detroit takes
shape."
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