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.
Rather wonderful book and five part TV series, featuring Dr David Bramwell and his time trips to potential world-wide Utopias.
Includes Damanhur and Christiania…
Extraordinary and good fun too!
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.”
The San Franciso Diggers were one of the legendary groups in Haight-Ashbury. The San Francisco Diggers evolved out of radical traditions that thrived in the SF Bay Area in the mid-1960s: the bohemian/underground art/theater scene, and the New Left/civil rights/peace movement. The Diggers Archives website includes a vast array of historic material.
Diggers and Dreamers website. Published the resource guide to communal living. Useful links to communities, WWOOFers and more.
The Communes Britannica Facebook Group has been renamed Diggers and Dreamers. They were always closely connected, being many of the same people involved in communal living and publications. Chris Coates co-ordinates.
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.
New Zealand film documentary on the NZonScreen website. Wonderful images of old-style hippy festivals and much more.
You’ll find other interesting archived films there too.
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.
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.”