Video – Ecovillage Future: And How Access to Land is a Barrier (Ecological Civilisation Series)
What is an ‘ecovillage’ and how do practices and values different from ordinary life within consumer capitalist societies? And what would the world look like if there were millions of ecovillages emerging to replace industrial civilisation?
In this presentation, I examine these question and draw on research which attempts to measure the energy and resource reductions of ecovillage living. After reviewing an inspiring example of the Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, I examine how access to land can be a barrier to embracing such low-impact living and explore a policy response.
This is Part VI of the Ecological Civilisation series.
The introduction to this series is available here.
The series is grappling with the problems of consumerism and the growth economy; envisioning alternative, post-carbon ways of life; and considering what action can be taken, both personally and politically, to help build an ecological civilisation.
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