Ecovillage

Is it a dream to live in harmony with life and nature, listening to the sound of silence, to the music of birds, eating what we plant, drinking pure water and using the time to develop our own inner nature? We believe it is possible and important for the sake of the quality our health.

Download our Power Point presentation with photos and information about our ecovillage.

We are building this dream in the south of Minas Gerais State , in Brazil. The location is the mother of all the mineral pure water found in Sâo Lourenço and Caxambu cities. Surround by beautiful mountains and traditional communities, close to Itamonte city.

As far as we know, the first appearance of the word "ecovillage" was in the preparation for a Gaia Trust seminar in Thy, Denmark in September 1991, arranged by Diane and Robert Gilman of the Context Institute in Seattle . The seminar brought together for the first time representatives of several very different projects that the Gilmans had identified around the world for use in their commissioned report "Ecovillages and Sustainable Communities: A Report for Gaia Trust".

The projects identified varied from well-established settlements like Solheimer in Iceland, Findhorn in Scotland, Crystal Waters in Australia, Lebensgarten in Germany to places like The Farm in Tennessee and the loosely knit inner-city Los Angeles Ecovillage project to places like the Folkecenter for Renewable Energy in Thy and many smaller groups that were barely started, not to mention the traditional villages of the South.

Somehow the term "sustainable communities" just did not convey the right message. A new term was required. What seemed to be common was the value system rather than physical structures. All of these projects had a similar vision of living in small communities that were both fun to live in and at the same time were closely connected to nature and spirit

Read this paper by Ross Jackson, "The Ecovillage Movement", that puts the whole phenomenon into a broader, political perspective.

To see more details and images, please visit the page about our ecovillage project.

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