Ecovillage Living: Restoring the Earth and Her People

by Hildur Jackson

Ecovillage Living is a guide to everything you've always wanted to know about ecovillages, from the tools to make them happen to the people behind them. If you have ever dreamed of natural housing, water treatment systems, solar panels, composting toilets . . . If you have wanted to work close to home, have neighbours whom you know, live in a safe place for your children, or have a more harmonious lifestyle . . . If you're building a community, and want to learn from others' experiences . . . then this is the book for you. It is an unprecedented how-to, and why account of ecovillage living, and a vibrant story of people spearheading a lifestyle which is rapidly growing into a new global culture.

Genres: Nonfiction, Nature, Environment

180 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2002

Reviews

[Dave · Rating 2 out of 5]

I really wasn't too impressed with this one. I think I was more disappointed because I was expecting to be inspired and hopeful after reading it, especially when I saw that Helena Norberg-Hodge and Vandana Shiva were contributors. Most of the examples of sustainable communities in it are just stereotype hippies growing some of their own vegetables, selling biodegradable soap to pay for their solar panels to power their high tech crap, sculpting groovy designs into their houses. One group claims to have a time machine. Basically all the pointless New Age shit I get accused of advocating when I talk to people about permaculture and bioregionalism is what this book is about. Not a fan.

[Bryan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thoughtful planning = better living.