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In 1996, the village of Crystal Waters was a finalist in the World Habitat Awards by the Building and Social Housing Foundation for its "pioneering work in demonstrating new ways of low impact, sustainable living". [2] In 1998, the village of Crystal Waters was included in the "World's Best Practices" database of the United Nations organization ...
Eco towns, such as Auroville in South India and the Federation of Damanhur in Italy; rural ecovillages, such as Gaia Asociación in Argentina and Huehuecoyotl, in Mexico; permaculture sites, including Crystal Waters, Queensland, Australia, Cochabamba, Bolivia and Barus, Brazil;
Earthaven Eco-Village in Black Mountain, NC was the first community called an Eco-Village and was designed using permaculture (holistic) principles. The first residents moved onto the vacant land in 1993. As of 2019 Earthaven Eco-Village has over 70 families living off the grid on 368 acres of land.
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Robert C. Gilman, born 1945, is a thinker on sustainability who, along with his late wife Diane Gilman, has researched and written about ecovillages.The Gilmans’ work was important in giving definition to the ecovillage movement and shaping the direction of the Global Ecovillage Network.
287M is used as private residence at Crystal Waters Eco Village. 288M was at Red Rattler Bricks & Pavers, Hoppers Crossing from around 1999 until it was redeveloped in 2012. [30] 320M is at a private home in Warranwood, Victoria since around 1990, and has been restored to become an artist studio. There is a video of the restoration. [31]
The Cloughjordan Ecovillage is an ongoing project to create an eco-village community in the village of Cloughjordan in County Tipperary, Ireland.The community is being developed on 67 acres (270,000 m 2) of farmland, purchased in 2005, within the townland of Oxpark and which merges with the existing village of Cloughjordan. [2]
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