Tatiana is the founder and facilitator behind a number of projects and spaces including the Russian House in California and Shiram Community in Russia. This provides the link to her Path – her Trace towards Global Enlightenment. Thought provoking and challenging.
Links to the Global Enlightenment site and the Eco-School: Yes! Project: “The project is based on the concept of creating rural economy on the principles of deep ecology and daizma.”
Telæthrion is a Greek Eco-utopian project, with Free & Real as their slogan. These Greek Eco-activists have envisioned village full of geodesic domes on a Greek Island, called Evia. They organize several activities such as yoga and even guided 'mushroom-experiences' for the culinary enthousiast, but also are altruïstic since they want to spread their way of living by instructing others. By means of 'free and real familymembership', travelling and through a telæthrionic media-department (!)
Their website is as impressive as their ethos to create this small piece of paradise: in seven European languages, though most of their activities are -quite logically- in the local language Greek -> ελληνικά
The Farm is an intentional community of families and friends living on three square miles in southern middle Tennessee, USA. An influential hub of learning and information.
They say:
“We started The Farm in 1971 with the goal of establishing a strongly cohesive, outwardly-directed community.
We want, by action and example, to have a positive effect on the world.
Over the last 40+ years, The Farm has become well known for many things, from natural childbirth and midwifery to healthy diet and vegetarian cuisine, creative arts and alternative technologies to its partnerships and assistance to native cultures.”
Link to their official site which includes videos and photos, plus info on their books.
Global self-build site. Lots of info about eco-sustainable building. It acts as a network hub site for:
Linking up people.
Exchanging information, and
Providing a global network of self-builders and their projects.
Danish community formed out of the early 1970s ‘New Society’ festival. It refers to itself as a ‘social experiment’. Their three rules are:
No hard drugs. No violence No theft
The second link is to a video about their festival in 2014 - in Danish, but with music.
A long-standing eco-community in Somerset in the UK. Dedicated to sustainability. Links to their blogsite which includes lots of day-to-day commentary and pics. And a link to Harvey Quirke and friends’ 2015 documentary. Plus a new wonderful collection of pics from Ed Gold, with commentary from the BBC site.
The oldest and arguably the most ’hippy’ of the UK’s intentional (perhaps) eco-communities since being established in 1976. It is located in deeply rural Wales. Links here to an interesting and pretty honest article in ‘Huck magazine about the diverse range of folk who live in the valley. In the article, Sarah Bentley suggests,
“After spending time at Tipi Valley, I’m struck by the variety of lifestyles, dwellings and characters harmoniously housed within it. From yogis holed up in tents on three-year retreats to families living in farmhouses running renowned tipi-building businesses and festivals such as The Big Green Gathering, it’s all here with no hard or fast protocol.”
Links to their internet link to Diggers and Dreamers directory and the 2008 Huck article. Be careful as things change at Tipi Valley.
A hacker-based collective of some students, living somewhere on the (ex-Atlantian) Canary Islands.
They've been creating an oasis, cyberhippies they are calling themselves and are very much worth a visit if you end up on one of those bountifull Islands near the African Coast. However, on Spanish ground they've been squatting a piece of land with putting up tents. In their own words: It will be creating new & deploying existing free technology, theory and art. The goal is to create a functional technological and behavioural recipe/typology (a "lifestyle infrastructure") for a free, post-capitalist society. A lot of work has already been done by the hackbase, and by other people & projects. Everybody is welcome + it's really cheap.
Dutch-based, but world-wide site linking up artist in residence and communities programmes.
Trans Europe Halles (TEH) is a Europe-based network of cultural centres initiated by citizens and artists. TEH says that they have, “been at the forefront of re-purposing Europe’s industrial buildings for arts, culture and activism since 1983. As of 2018, TEH has brought together nearly 102 multidisciplinary cultural centres and other cultural organisations from across Europe.
Our mission is to strengthen the sustainable development of non-governmental cultural centres and encourage new initiatives by connecting, supporting and promoting them.”