Category Archives: Community

Creating an Ecovillage Co-op

Posted on Thursday, October 20, 2016 by Jonathan Cloud

As described elsewhere on this site, we have embraced a new approach to creating ecovillages in New Jersey, a cooperative proposal being led by a group of longtime activists and experts called the Ecovillagers Alliance. This post provides some of the key background … Continue reading →

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The Story So Far… A Brief History of EcovillageNJ

Posted on Monday, September 12, 2016 by Jonathan Cloud

It may be helpful to anyone interested in becoming a member of Ecovillage New Jersey to get a brief sense of the group’s history, current status, and intended future. Over the past few years, two key groups became interested in … Continue reading →

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Taking a New Direction

Posted on Sunday, September 11, 2016 by Jonathan Cloud

Over the past several months we’ve been exploring a new approach to “ecovillaging,” founded on a sustainability-based cooperative model developed by Joel Rothschild and the Ecovillagers Alliance. Steve Welzer had reached out to Katie McCamant to find the closest “graduate” of the … Continue reading →

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