Environment protection/issues, humanitarian aid

“The movement to create ecovillages is perhaps the most comprehensive antidote to dependence on the global economy. Around the world, people are building communities that attempt to get away from the waste, pollution, competition and violence of contemporary life.”

This quote on the home page of the European Ecovillage Network website is a very good, simple and accurate introduction to understand the purpose of ecovillages.

And the best way to describe how an ecovillage works is to take a concret example. (continue reading…)