Ecovillage Library

Jeff McGregor and I share ideas and reflections about transitioning towards an economic paradigm that is more accommodating to the creation of ecovillages and living off the land. Share your thoughts and comment below!

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Interview guest: Michael Ney, editor of Eco Village Voice (description below) // Contact: michael@ecovillagevoice.com Guest Links: Eco Village Voice: https://ecovillagevoice.com/ Crystal Waters Documentary: https://bit.ly/cwdoco01 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Signup with Ecovillage...

Why have we seen massive rural to urban migrations during this past century? What does it take to improve the quality of life in the rural sector and transition towards a village economy? Share your thoughts and comment below!

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The making of charcoal has been a versatile utility for humans for as long as history has been recorded. Charcoal is made from any kind of wood and its manufacture may promote a socially desirable development provided that its organization is well planned and conducted in an ecologically conscious manner. Special thanks to Appropriate Technology Library and to the original Peace Corps volunteers who documented their on-the-ground e...

Adelaide Merle is one of the authors of the Yelema Project Case study: click here. Sobata is a traditional village in Guinea, West Africa. The community can grow food only three months of the year, during the rainy season – and the rest of the year is getting drier and drier with climate change. The people of Sobata dream of transforming their community into a thriving ecovillage by helping to restore and regenerate the natural cyc...

Interview guest: Vera Franco (verafranco.org) facilitator for greater consciousness and presence in communities; businesses; next cultures; and learning environments, centered on authentic adulthood initiatory processes.  Contact Ecovillage Library Podcast at: ecovillagelibrary@gmail.com or leave a voice message! If you'd like to donate to Ecovillage Library, follow the link: paypal.me/ecovillagelibrary or you can also support...

Interview guest: Clarissa Wei (clarissawei.com) is senior reporter at Goldthread, a digital imprint of the South China Morning Post. She has previously written for National Geographic, the Los Angeles Times, NPR, CNN, BBC, VICE, USA Today, Bon Appétit, Eater, CBS Los Angeles, Food Network, Saveur, among others.  Contact Ecovillage Library Podcast at: ecovillagelibrary@gmail.com or leave a voice message! If you'd like...

Interview guest: Cynthia Tina (cynthiatina.com), founder of Ecovillage Tours, is based out of Vermont and Slovenia.  Contact Ecovillage Library Podcast at: ecovillagelibrary@gmail.com or leave a voice message and get featured in the next podcast episode! If you'd like to donate to Ecovillage Library, follow the link: paypal.me/ecovillagelibrary or you can also support the Ecovillage Library Podcast on Patreon here. Cynthia is ...

Interview guest: Lilian Enders Ribeiro, founder of 7 Irmas, is based out of Sintra, Portugal.  Lily is a visual artist, mother of two, and focuses on the versatility of the hemp plant through the production and transformation of products based on home-grown hemp. Check her out here: https://www.instagram.com/7_irmas http://www.quinta7nomes.com/canhamo.html  Contact Ecovillage Library Podcast at: ecovillagelibrary@gmail.co...

How to Read Water: Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea combines elements of natural navigation history, techniques for observing the weather and the way flora and fauna give clues about any kind of water, and personal narrative to encourage readers to become engaged noticers.

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Interview guest: Martin Robinson from Queensland, Australia. Martin is a beekeeper and grows his own food on one acre. To see more visit his page at: https://www.instagram.com/on_one_acre/ Send an email! Contact Ecovillage Library Podcast at: ecovillagelibrary@gmail.com or leave a voice message and get featured in the next podcast episode! (anchor.fm/ecovillage-library) If you'd like to donate to Ecovillage Library, follow the link...

The Andean region is facing an increased shortage of water. What are the solutions to these water stresses? Perhaps a look at the regions ancestral wisdom may provide us with some clues........

‘The water is our mother, that is why we should respect and take care of her’ is an Andean proverb.

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 Practicing aquaculture on the homefront may provide greater certainty of whether or not you’ll be eating in the future. And not only that, aquaculture produces the finest homegrown protein in the smallest amount of land.  It all happens 3-dimensionally! That is quite the bargain when you consider that in today’s markets, protein calories are the most expensive calories to produce. It is estimated by the FAO that aquacult...

In this book you will find a short history of timber framing and a fully illustrated discussion of the different kinds of joinery, assembly of timbers, and raising of the frame. There are also detailed sections on present-day design and materials, house plans, site development, foundation laying, insulation, tools, and methods.

 For centuries, post-and-beam construction has proved to be one of the most durable building techniq...

The Permaculture Guide to Reed Beds is a comprehensive overview of reed bed systems and treatment wetlands for household effluent treatment. Going from system selection and design to construction, planting and maintenance; this guide offers the reader a complete how-to manual for getting your own reed bed system up and running.

Reed beds are an efficient, effective, low-energy filter system for protecting local groundwater and stre...

Nothing is as important as water these days. From “countdown cities” to military conflict over water, it’s essential that you and your community secure your supply for generations to come. Water storage is certainly one of the key needs of the 21st century.  

This do-it-yourself guide is an invaluable resource for designing, building, and maintaining water tanks, cisterns, and ponds, and sustainably managing groundwater s...

 The ecovillage movement is growing: worldwide, new communities and inhabitants of existing villages and suburbs are consciously choosing the path of sustainable development. In the face of both ecological and economical crisis, poverty in the South and social isolation in the urban North, people are coming together to assume joint responsibility for their region, its resources and their social surroundings. In the process the...

Claim your independence! And learn how to live a more fulfilling life on your own terms that's more in tune with nature.  Anyone who has ever dreamed of getting back to the soil will get from  Maurice Grenville Kains' practical and easy-to-understand discussions a  more complete view of what small-scale farming means. Most likely, you,  like thousands of others who have read "Five Acres and Independence,"  ...

 Joel Salatin illuminates the path of successful farm entrepreneurship with his articulation of the common threads of success for beginning farmers and what makes a farmer thrive. “Twenty years ago Joel Salatin wrote You Can Farm, which has launched thousands of farm entrepreneurs around the world. With another 20 years of experience under his belt, bringing him to the half-century mark as a full-time farmer, he decided to bui...