Treehouses with an extra ‘Wow’ factor. This is both a community and a tourist destination in Costa Rica, described as “a sustainable treehouse community”, but is also ‘sold’ on the site as a ‘hotel’ destination.
The 62 acre area started out as a little acorn of an idea: “Erica wondered out loud if friends might be interested in purchasing the property together… and maybe they would like to build a treehouse too… And wouldn’t it be cool if the treehouses were connected with ziplines and bridges? Kind of like the Ewok village in Return of the Jedi…” And there’s now closer to 600 acres.
Link to their website with lots of additional links and videos.
Floating Neutrinos are a diverse floating community of water-borne dwellers and adventurers. Not just about scrap-raft building and living AND sailing rafts across the Atlantic Ocean. But, about sustainability and freedom to a home in an over-crowded world. Under Poppa Neutrino, Captain Betsy and others they have also developed what they call ‘triadic’ thinking and methods to self-repair.
They are pretty awesome! And 'random lunacy' is their pledge.
Link here to their official website, which includes videos, plus another video from Poppa about some of their adventures afloat.
Dutch-based site and concept for what they describe as:
"A Flow Town can be seen as a combination between an (eco) village, care farm, inspiration and education place. They are meant to be about 90% self-sufficient. With their own flow-school, own food supply, and a recycling purpose. The purpose is a global network of flow towns (eco villages).”
So, all about making connections. Some of those involved with discussing the term have also described making an international network of places where ‘nomads’ can travel to, stop and move on. Link to their website with videos, pics, the book, ‘Nova Globe’ and info on summer camps and more.
Lots of floating ideas from Denmark! The Floating City, electricity generating bikes and much more.
Their site states: “The goal of Flydende By is to build up a sustainable society from below. We develop methods to create decentralised sustainable solutions out of reused and organic resources.
We want to find ways of using the ocean in a sense-ful and constructive way, as part of the future sustainable society.”
Started around Boston, USA, but now international with lots of local groups. An activist group.
A peace organisation based around their principles: “Food Not Bombs is an all-volunteer global movement that shares free vegan meals as a protest to war and poverty. Each chapter collects surplus food that would otherwise go to waste from grocery stores, bakeries and markets, as well as donations from local farmers, then prepares community meals which are served for free to anyone who is hungry. The central beliefs of the group are:
Always vegan or vegetarian and free to everyone.
Each chapter is independent and autonomous and makes decisions using theconsensus
Food Not Bombs is dedicated to nonviolence.”
Links to their website and Facebook page.
Fortean: Based loosely on the ideas of American researcher and writer, Charles Fort (1874-1932), fortean studies include everything that is regarded as ‘anomalous phenomena’. In other words, ‘stuff that is hard to explain’. Fort’s own life-work was to take notes on anything that he found interesting. He appears to have been witty, energetic and endearingly odd. One of his unpublished books, titled simply ‘X’, explored the notion that the inhabitants of Earth are being controlled by the inhabitants of Mars. Charles Fort said, "I believe nothing of my own that I have ever written."
It all seems to be a mad mix of science fiction and fantasy, conspiracy theories, myths, magic, the paranormal with wedges of anarchic humour and general scientific and quasi-scientific research with added mayhem. Perhaps.
Here are links to The Centre for Fortean Zoology (on the track of unknown animals) and the Fortean Times Forum.
Foundation Owaze - Earthships' info from Netherlands.
Freedom Cove: Wayne Adams and Catherine King have built their floating arts island in Canada. Some controversy about this as it is a visitor centre too. The link includes video.
This group describes itself as:
“The [freespace] movement is an experiment in what is possible when a community shares the gift of physical space. A [freespace] is a gathering place for people to come together, to create, teach, learn, and share the things which they are truly passionate about, and strengthen connections between individuals as well as communities through art, events, and long term projects.
[freespace] began in June 2013, inspired by the National Day of Civic Hacking, when a building was gifted to the community for just $1. The radically low barrier to entry and open door policy lead to a hugely diverse range of people from different cultural, economic, and professional backgrounds connecting and creating projects together such as a free bike share, maker classes for people in homeless shelters, and a community garden.
To date, [freespace] has hosted over 300 free events, seen more than 30 murals, fostered 4 long-term projects within San Francisco, and instigated an immeasurable amount of inspiration, collaboration, and solidarity within the communities it has touched.
[freespace] is now a global movement. Currently there are [freespaces] developing in 26 locations and 18 different countries around the world.”
Artist, eco-architect and playful eccentric from Vienna. Visionary thinker as well as pioneering environmental-artist. He re-invented himself a number of times during his lifetime. His art statements/proclamations about life are particularly powerful in his ‘5-skins’ model. Worth checking out if you enjoy visual art that reflects the environment. A world of art without straight lines! His Hundertwasser house in Vienna is spectacular. He died in 2000.
Links to the official site about his life and a video of him talking about his dreamscapes.