More people are turning to eco communities as a viable alternative to urban life. Laura Sevier reports Are you nature-starved, lonely, and fed up with the materialism, stress, waste and pollution of ...

Max Lindegger had a good idea - why not, he proposed, set up a community that brings all of the benefits of life in a village as well as sound ecological design? It just so happened that he was ...

People living in ecovillages around the world are not only reducing their environmental impact but living less stressed more fulfilling lives. That is according to a new Vital Signs Update from ...

Two things caught my eye in the New Statesman over the last week. The first was the emphatic thumbs-down by Sian Berry, UK Green Party speaker, to Gordon Brown’s new ‘ecovillages’ idea – the proposed ...

A quiet revolution is taking place in the heart of America, where off-the-grid ecovillages are experimenting with new ways to live.

We look for papers about ecovillages as pragmatic examples of bottom up initiatives for climate action all over the world. All papers will be published fully Open Access in npj Climate Action. The ...

Ecovillages are confronting the problem head-on, establishing the foundation of a new culture that, although marginal, may one day be applied by the mainstream. Many of them also lead the way in ‘best ...

Not so successful for all. Max, Morag, Evan and the Michaels are the success stories of creating livelihoods in the sometimes isolated rural settings of ecovillages, but not all who have moved into ...