I was 18 the first time I heard about an ecovillage. My environmental studies professor brought up this time he lived at Arcosanti, an experimental town in the Arizona desert focused on innovating ...

Shea Gunther is a writer, entrepreneur, and podcaster living in Portland, Maine. He covers topics such as renewable energy, climate change, and nature. Ecovillages are communities of people drawn ...

Clint Williams is a writer and editor whose broad range of topics runs from nature and travel to chemtrails and clean coal. Approximately 600 properties are scattered across 4,000 acres about 55 miles ...

When the Sisters of Divine Providence near Pittsburgh tried to sell an 8-acre forested parcel, they were disappointed. Potential buyers didn't offer what the sisters thought it was worth. And for ...

"Hope without change is meaningless," says Rus Funk. It started with a block party and evolved into a group of neighbors sharing everything from babysitting duties to a lawn mower. Keen toward the ...

Kailash Ecovillage in Portland, Oregon, features innovative land design for rainwater absorption across its 2 acres. The ecovillage employs water harvesting swales to manage runoff and utilizes ...

We are used to hearing that if everyone lived in the same way as North Americans or Australians, we would need four or five planet Earths to sustain us. This sort of analysis is known as the ...

An idea that began in Dublin's Central Hotel in 1999 – to create Ireland's first ecovillage – has borne fruit on a 67-acre farm adjoining the village of Cloughjordan, Co Tipperary. Back then, the ...

The Prairie Ecovillage Development Corp. (Pedco) failed to come up with money to finance its green housing development at River Landing. The developer had until June to get all of the approvals ...