Sustainable Community
Creating a Network of Sustainable Communitieswho share a Vision of an Earth Restored
and a World at Peace
Eden Village
Windward
Abundant Dawn
Lost Valley
Emerald Earth
The Farm
Ithaca
Ibiza
Dancing Rabbit
Twin Oaks
Sirius
Alpha Farm
PanGaia
Eleusis
Whole Village
Vegan Village
Damanhur
Falcon Blanco
Intentional Communities
Global EcoVillage Network
EcoVillage Network of the Americas
Consensus
Sustainable Community Videos
Intentional Communities have been a practical solution for how some of the most progressive people are now choosing to live in a changing world.
Sustainable Communities
This new breed of community is focused on the Ecological Revolution and the Restoration of The Earth. We are now carrying a Global Vision of an Earth Restored and a World at Peace to carry this great momentum we have been building in the Intentional Communities movement for so long now over into the new Sustainable Communities Movement which alone may be able to take us the rest of the way back to the Garden of Eden.Why Now?
We now have a tremendous collective power that we could now begin to pull together to create a new and better world. The sheer numbers alone are changing our places within the larger culture making us into an even more significant portion of the population than we may have previously believed. And along with that new growth come new responsibilities. We now know how important it is for us to start taking measures to Save the Earth because this now lies in our hands.Interdependence
Many of us aren't used to this new position of responsibility that we must now assume. We don't tend to trust authority figures except for experts. We tend to be very independent when what is needed now is to learn how to become more interdependent. We have tried to fit our lives into the larger mainstream society in such a way that we can still keep our own freedoms without sacrificing our own very unique and closely guarded personal ideals. Well done.Sustainability
We don't need that much money to live on. And we don't need a lot of things to be happy. We tend to be very flexible in this way and we can adapt to almost any situation. And that means Freedom. We have already learned what some of the limits are in this way and so we have stopped expecting others to think like we do or to change to suit our needs.We may have become a little bit too content to allow ourselves to be confined in this way to what usually turns out to be a much smaller circle of life than we really do deserve.
These are some of the unnecessary sacrifices we have always been willing to
make for our Freedom.
Cooperative Living
We are all very skeptical people as a whole and tend to be a bit mistrustful and definitely not willing to allow ourselves to be led around by any kind of leader. We want to use a Consensus Council which could offer us an alternative to some degree.Community Spirit
Many of us feel we can never lose control and that can make us very difficult to integrate into anything that is truly new and alive with community spirit which is where this whole thing is going. And we all need to learn how to listen and respond effectively.People in Collaboration
We don't like labels. We have seen what they can do and we have learned to distrust them. We know the time is here to join in with a lot of other fine folks in the creation of a Sustainable New Way of Life in a network of Sustainable Communities that span the globe. But we just don't know how to go about doing that. Well it's a good thing there are people who can help us with that.Consensus Process
That's part of the message we need to get out there to the few other people who not only still have the dream but are really willing to do the work that it takes to join in with us and grow along with the rest of us. If not us who? And if not now when? Consensus is the main tool we have to work with and it needs to be used and refined until we no longer feel threatened by it and can use it with great skill and balance but that takes time. Until then all the other operating principles are still in play.Personal Growth
We are moving past our own personal limitations. Who can we turn to for help? What do we have to do? Where do we get the information? How do we connect? Where do we go from here? Who is going to take care of our needs from now on and how can we create more meaning and connection for all the people? These are just a few of the things that may come up. Some are good and some are not.The Emerald Forest
We do have one of the largest groups of its kind with about 900 members in it who are committed to sharing their goals and ideals and visions of creating the Sustainable Communities of the future.We are in this way, linking up with some of the most interesting people and projects in this movement and that extends all over the world, which is all a part of a larger emerging vision of the Emerald Forest which is a loose knit Network of all the newly forming communities that are linking up both here in the Americas and around the world to Save the Earth.
Each community is seen as being a Tree in that Forest that we are now
planting. We welcome inspired collaboration. Join our email group first and
then bring your good spirits and make your contributions known before all,
because the whole world is watching, and it is now our turn to step out on
the world stage and to start taking decisive action. - T
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