Ecovillage
An ecovillage is the traditional or intentional community with the goal of becoming more socially, culturally, economically, and/or ecologically sustainable. An ecovillage strives to produce the least possible negative impact on the natural environment through designed physical appearance & resident behavior choices. it is for consciously designed through locally owned, participatory processes to regenerate as alive as restore its social and natural environments. most range from a population of 50 to 250 individuals, although some are smaller, and traditional ecovillages are often much larger. Larger ecovillages often symbolize as networks of smaller sub-communities. Some ecovillages develope grown through like-minded individuals, families, or other small groups—who are not members, at least at the outset—settling on the ecovillage's periphery and participating de facto in the community.
Ecovillagers are united by shared up ecological, social-economic and cultural-spiritual values. Concretely, ecovillagers seek alternatives to ecologically destructive electrical, water, transportation, and waste-treatment systems, as living as the larger social systems that mirror and assist them. many see the breakdown of traditional forms of community, wasteful consumerist lifestyles, the waste of natural habitat, urban sprawl, factory farming, and over-reliance on fossil fuels as trends that must be changed to avert ecological disaster and create richer and more fulfilling ways of life.
Ecovillages advertising small-scale communities with minimal ecological impact or regenerative impacts as an alternative. However, such communities often cooperate with peer villages in networks of their own see Global Ecovillage Network GEN for an example. This improvement example of collective action is similar to that of Ten Thousand Villages, which manages the fair trade of goods worldwide.