Located in Australia’s Queensland this is a 650 acre bushland eco-village. As well as the core group, there are many other ‘members’ of the community around the local area north of the Woodford Festival site.
The official site of Damanhur Fedeeration and community. Founded in 1975 by Oberto Airaudi (1950-2013). Located in the north Piedmont area of Italy. Most famous for its underground Temples of Humankind. Unique. Wonderful images of eight halls in the Temple. Not without its ‘dark side’ and controversies.
Deep Ecology. The Foundation based on the ideas that Arnae Naess developed up to his death in 2009. In essence, all about ‘wild nature’. The say:
“We begin with the premise that life on Earth has entered its most precarious phase in history. We speak of threats not only to human life, but to the lives of all species of plants and animals, of the entire ecosphere in all its beauty and complexity including the natural processes that create and shape life's diversity. It is the grave and growing threats to the health of the ecosphere that motivates our activities.”
Arts community is squatted ex-cigarette factory in the Netherlands.
They say:
"In 1980 a group of about 40 artists squatted a former Mignot cigarette factory in Eindhoven. They were determined to have space where to create and experiment with new forms of art: performance, video, installations... They were all engaged with the same aim: keep doing things as long as possible , giving complete freedom to the artistic process of creation. De Fabriek is still going on, based on the same principles.”
Dial House is located near Epping in Essex, UK.
Permacultural and arts courses AND the community that is home for founders of anarcho-punk band, Crass, Penny Rimbaud and Gee Vaucher.
Links to their facebook page and SpiralSeed permaculture site, all about ‘permacultural anarchy’ and composting toilets at Dial House.
Diggers and Dreamers website. Published the resource guide to communal living. Useful links to communities, WWOOFers and more.
Innovative housing and self-help village for homeless and impoverished Portland, USA, residents.
Their site says: “Dignity Village is a membership-based community in NE Portland, providing shelter off the streets for 60 people a night since 2001. It’s democratically self-governed with a mission to provide transitional housing that fosters community and self-empowerment– a radical experiment to end homelessness.”
Links to their main site and a ‘YES’ magazine article.
US intellectual magazine that often features articles of the environment, such as the two here, presenting differing views about the German attempt to move towards renewable energy sources in the ‘Energiewende’ programme.
Famed UK road protestors who travelled with handcarts to site protests and ancient hill forts around the UK. They also included some good musicians. Worth checking out the links to a German video and some of their music from around the world via a Bell Tent!
Their name apparently comes from the Matabele word for ‘gully’ – in their case the gully at Twyford Down protest site.
Organisation behind many of Australia’s largest eco-festivals. Linking up alternative lifestylers, creators and eco-activists.
Their official description: “The Down to Earth Co-op Society has been organising ConFest (Conference/ Festival). We are a completely volunteer organisation. The first ConFest was held at Cotter River, ACT in 1976 with the aim of `transforming society'. ConFest was started as an 'alternative living' festival in the 1970's by Jim Cairns (then Deputy Prime Minister) and his assistant Junie Morosi and others.”