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This site is where Green Now makes available
all the important information relating to green sustainability.

We start here with fuel and electricity,
and a few other areas too, like communities and green building materials.

We also will get into organic and permaculture techniques for growing food,
as well as planet-friendly building techniques for homes and businesses.
Actually, we plan on covering all the issues around green sustainability and community development;
in other words, how to meet all the basic human needs every community has,
in a sustainable manner.

On this page you find vital links on the subject of
“Green” systems and technologies.

This is the Green Now information hub,
where people who are curious
about how to become sustainable
on their fuels and electricity,
come to learn from experienced experts
rather than try to reinvent the wheel.

This site is Simple, Easy, Informative, Resourceful, and Empowering.

➢ Simple: GreenNow presents to you the most informative links—the real shakers and movers, the experts, and the pioneers of Green systems and technologies.

➢ Easy: You do not have to reinvent the wheel. GreenNow personally researched each of these links, and gives you here a short review, telling why we recommend it.

➢ Informative: GreenNow focuses on informative sites that are the result of in-the-field research, hands-on applications, and professional experience.

➢ Resourceful: Each site provides resources that you can easily access and apply, to become more sustainable.

➢ Empowering: Through the resources of bio-fuels for vehicles, solar power and windmill electricity for our homes and businesses, and cooperative communities; it all becomes possible, easy, and makes sen$e.

This page is Green Now’s first step to providing you with valuable information and services. We plan many more, such as:

➢ Tele-seminars with the experts,
➢ Audio/video recordings of speakers and events,
➢ Videos of existing prototypes,
➢ Forums addressing all GreenNow related topics,
➢ Newsletters with the latest technology developments,
➢ Coverage of successful systems revealed,
➢ How-to guides and blueprints,
➢ Where the next important or informative Green Event will be.
➢ And PRODUCTS! We have a great lead on ethanol stills for a better price!

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What I am posting here is very important.
If you have seen the Al Gore movie, then you know what I mean.
It is time to get serious about the petroleum problem,
and to quickly switch to “appropriate” fuels.

My partners and I are starting GreenNow as an information hub to facilitate the changeover to sustainable non-polluting fuels and energy. This blog is the first step toward that goal. We trust you will find it very helpful and that it will save you many hours of searching for these resources all by yourself.

We invite any and all interested people and groups to participate in our networking hub.

Currently we are drafting our business proposal and seeking investors. But mostly, if you or your group or community are at all interested in becoming a sustainable community, you should connect with us, get on our newsletter list, and get all the info about this.

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Special Featured Links!

We will list here the links that GreenNow discerns to be the best in their category or the most recent with valuable new approaches, techniques, or information. This section will change regularly, so please check back for the latest new updates on valuable GreenNow links.

To go to the sections for the other links please scroll down this page.

GreenNow also has a pod and blog on Zaadz, and we invite serious green activists to join us there for discussions on all these subjects.
Zaadz members tend to be proactive visionaries rather than the lonely hearts at such places as MySpace, check it out.

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Here are 2 links that explain why and how to do Green Ethanol. They are by World business and technology expert Vinod Khosla (Sun Microsystems & AOL), and are the most important information now available about the “non-polluting” energy resources on our planet.

This video was just put up in August-06, and it is the current state-of-the-art information on the most historic financial energy opportunity ever--Bio-fuels. Mr. Khosla is a seriously successful and respected business man who lays out all the facts on this subject more clearly than any we have seen yet. This same presentation was given to the US senate energy committee at their request, and was extremely well received. More information is available at Mr. Khosla's website, where the powerpoint link below takes you.

Watch the movie and view the powerpoint presentation, and become completely informed on this extremely important subject.

Join us in the adventure of becoming Kyoto compliant! We can do it!!!!

Khosla's PowerPoint Presentation

Khosla's Video Presentation

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p.s. Brasscheck.com has a great selection of videos that will never be seen on regular television, check them out.

The History of Oil is a humorous theatrical recording by Robert Newman, and is one of the best history stories about the last 100 years of the oil wars. Watch this in your spare time for entertainment as well as information.

http://www.brasscheck.com/videos/oil/oil1.html

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Sustainable Ballard is the most together urban sustainable community we have found. This website is loaded with useful information about community sustainability in operation. This group has seriously made headway into becoming the model for other urban communities to emulate, and their experience is growing by leaps and bounds. One of their most successful projects was a hands-on bio-diesel class in the local High School.

Sustainable Ballard will help you out with any questions on how to do the same with your community. They have many valuable resources to learn from and lots of experience.

Sustainable Ballard

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NCAP is one of the oldest websites serving the green energy interests of US citizens. It has many grant-funded projects like the one they do in Montana to teach farmers and ranchers how to grow green fuels for sustainability among many other things.

This group is both non-profit and for-profit. It is a leader in providing information and resources; but it's strongest points seem to be in the ways they can help out if you are needing funding or learning about sustainable techniques. They have info for organic sustainable food crops, and water-saving irrigation techniques too.

http://www.ncat.org/

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Mr. McDonough is the most exceptional design expert we ever heard of, especially about using integrity and consciousness with human systems. We include 2 links here, one to his own website that is full of great resources, and the link to a video that will blow your mind. For your own sake you need to check out the video and let others know about it too.

http://mcdonough.com/#

Even though this video is 6 years old, it is still the most relevant on the ethics and integrity of our human systems--a must-view video for all to see. Please check it out.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7987612343225687713

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The best site for videos on environmental responsibility. Dozens of great videos that are very powerful and resourceful.
Watch TV that won't rot your brain. Better than anything you have seen yet!

http://www.treehuggertv.com/

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FRUEL is here! FREE FUEL FOR YOUR MUNICIPALITY!
(if you hurry)

Greg Goble is the founder of the non-profit business called "Fruel"--which means "FREE FUEL" for all municipalities! This is no joke; it is a very serious plan and application with extensive research and lots of government documents to prove it will work. BUT HURRY! The carpet-baggers would like you to pay for the dumping of the municipal waste materials, which they would collect from tax payers, and then sell it back to the taxpayers as ethanol fuel for the municipal vehicle fleets across the country.

BUT Mr. Goble's plan shows how every municipality could not only save the taxpayers the expense of dumping the municipal waste, but also fuel all the municipal vehicles and still have lots of ethanol left to power Metro-transit buses or school buses. WOW! This is the most powerful community sustainable plan for cities we have ever seen!

Check out all his links and see the proof, using the government's own facts and figures on bio-fuels made from refuse and garbage. This is one to act on immediately, and get your local municipal government going in the right direction. The President signed the Energy bill last year, which mandates all government municipalities to become sustainable and non-polluting with their fuels. Many State and local governments have followed suit with similar bills or laws now, so this should be easy to get rolling in your community.

The facts on this website will blow your mind as to how close we are to actually not needing any petroleum at all in this country; and most of all--it costs less than it does to dump our trash--to make free ethanol fuel from our waste!

http://fruel.org/

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GreenNow's Links of Green Resources
Here you will find links that GreenNow personally reviews and checks out for you.
The result of hundreds of Internet research hours, these links are not paying us to do this, GreenNow offers this service to the Internet community as an educational tool.

Please support GreenNow if you can with a donation to help this service continue, click here.

We will add more links as they come to our attention if they deserve notice. Please email us any that you know of that might fit here and we will review them.

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The First Link Category:
Green Resources Information

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The Montana Green Power site has many resources for green sustainability be it solar, wind, or farm crops for fuel. Special activities for the classroom as well as many links to other information make this a very helpful website for both the curious and serious.

This is a well laid out site, easy to navigate to the many resources presented on the main page.

http://www.montanagreenpower.com/

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Although it focuses on Arkansas, this site has so many resources for everyone to learn from that I must mention it here. It has Renewable Energy News, Publications, and Fact Sheets that really help you catch up on the latest and best techniques for green energy on a renewable basis.

http://www.arkansasrenewableenergy.org/

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This is the US Department of Energy website for information on using energy more efficiently and specifically for renewable energy help. They claim to have "The most complete collection of state, regional, and federal business resources ever compiled for developers of energy technology." and this may be true. The site has lots of resources on all the subjects of renewable energy. Great links to check out even if they are aimed mostly at inventors and businesses.

http://www.eere.energy.gov/inventions/energytechnet/index.html

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This site is owned and run by the National Center For Appropriate Technology. In their own words, "ATTRA services are available to farmers, ranchers, market gardeners, Extension agents, researchers, educators, farm organizations, and others involved in commercial agriculture, especially those who are economically disadvantaged or belong to traditionally underserved communities." But there are so many valuable resources on this site, any group interested in green sustainability should check it out. Many of these resources are aimed to help you make money with appropriate technology.

http://attra.ncat.org/

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In their own words, "The goal of the Southwest Marketing Network is to ensure that new, existing, and prospective farmers in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah—especially small-scale, alternative and minority producers—have access to the latest technical, financial and marketing information, as well as personal contacts with successful farm marketers as a means to improving their profitability, viability, and bottom line."

This is an important site for getting green products to the market, especially for small alternative producers of sustainable energies. It is also another one of the businesses of NCAT.

http://www.swmarketing.ncat.org/

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Another NCAT website just for raising sustainable poultry, something the chicken world loves. Healthy happy chickens make better tasting eggs and dinners. Any sustainable farm could use the information here to get involved in the healthy poultry business as a cottage industry.

http://www.sustainablepoultry.ncat.org/

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SCN says, "Our particular expertise and focus is the efficient use of energy, material and natural resources to help localities achieve economic vitality and environmental health."

This site offers many resources to learn about and implement green energy for communities. Especially helpful with acquiring funding sources from the federal and state governments. This is an active and viable network managed by NCAT.

http://www.globalenergycenter.org/

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Holds four summits during 2006-2007 and presents the reports. 4o top experts in green sustainability attend each summit and recommend strategies to implement sustainability nation-wide. These studies are written for your resources, and some have video as well. Another great NCAT site for the latest from these summits and how that applies to your situation.

http://summits.ncat.org/

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NCAT's site for helping disaster victems rebuild using sustainable technologies. A powerful site we hope you never need to use, but we list here as a very helpful resource if you ever do have a disaster you need to recover from. New Orleans folks should really check this out.

http://www.freshstart.ncat.org/

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From the US Department of Human Services and not updated since 2003, but it has lots of good information and resources for energy efficiency in the home. Utilizing these suggestions will save money too.

Many of the links are especially for low-income housing situations, and there are links to really help get the bills lowered and assistance for paying them. Another NCAT managed link.

http://neaap.ncat.org/index.htm

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No longer updated, NCAT keeps this site up for the resources it has to offer. This is focused on building materials and has a good bunch of links that help you access those green building materials and use them. A reference and information site we are glad to see still available .

http://crbt.ncat.org/

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This site features news and events of the NorthWest USA that advance regional sustainability. They provide quarterly updates about what’s happening at Sustainable Northwest and within their extensive networks of partner communities and organizations. Includes a service for getting expert speakers to help your events or workshops.

In their own words, "We will customize an educational itinerary, showcasing best practices in Oregon and Washington, that meets your unique interests and objectives. We can put together a combination of speakers, workshops, site visits and/or dialogues to meet your needs.

Workshops with speakers: We will provide an overview of sustainability with an emphasis on the topics that most interest you. We will also line up speakers from organizations that exemplify sustainability in your industry sector so you can hear first-hand what they did and how they did it. Your host consultants will help you decide how best to apply what you learn."

http://www.sustainablenorthwest.org/

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Includes resources for green building materials in the NorthWest and has a list of businesses that supply green building materials and construct sustainable buildings. An extremely valuable resource for the NW region with lots of networking to help you. We support the "guild" approach and this is a great example of how that can work well. Check this out if you want to learn what is happening with the green sustainable groups and communities of the NW.

http://www.ecobuilding.org/

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The National Association of Home Builders has one page with some great links to information on building green homes. Not much, but they are very valuable resources for any building of green homes. Check this out for your next construction project and get the info and resources they offer in this area. The link here is only to the green resource page on their site.

http://www.nahbrc.org/green3.asp?CategoryID=1801

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SEI offers hands-on workshops in solar, wind and water power and natural building technologies in 17 locations. SEI also offers internet based online courses. the site has many resource books and publications to help you use solar power. This is a great resource for setting up workshops and events about solar power. They also have a very detailed solar power curriculum of workshops throughout the year at various locations. SEI is the place to get trained in solar and other green sustainable energies and systems.

http://www.solarenergy.org/

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This site is mostly a library of information on green energy and a long list of all companies involved in any way with green energy production or manufacturing. This is a valuable research and resource-rich site to check out. Includes cooperatives and communities as well as businesses in the list, which is geographic-region searchable for those near you.

http://www.carbohydrateeconomy.org/

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A great resource site for green building and environmental design. Lots of valuable resources, information, networking links, and help. Check out their sidebar menu with all the links to related topics.

This site is serious about getting the public empowered with these systems and resources. You must check this out if you are at all interested in the future buildings in your community, from small home to huge malls. The green sustainable building model presented here is for all structures of any size and their research is fantastic.

http://www.edcmag.com/

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In their own words, "the home of the GreenSpec green product directory. - The GreenSpec Directory brings you information on nearly 2,000 carefully screened green building products that cover more than 250 categories--from access flooring to zero-VOC paints. As with all BuildingGreen's resources, GreenSpec carries no advertising, and is not sponsored by any industry or manufacturer fees. This means you get unbiased, reliable product information that you can trust."

Definitely a huge list of products and resources they have researched. Very helpful and empowering for building green sustainable structures of any kind.

http://www.buildinggreen.com/

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Rural Development Initiatives, Inc. sponsors this website for their annual Regards to Rural Conference -- a gathering to Inform, Inspire, and Celebrate. They had their 4th one this last July, and from this informing website it sounds like something to attend next summer.

We also are including here the RDI link because, "RDI is dedicated to helping small communities shape their futures by providing a variety of services that include strategic planning, project assistance, leadership development and facilitation. "

"Mission Statement: RDI is a catalyst for community vitality in rural areas: we work with rural leaders and volunteers to expand the knowledge, skills and networks for building communities that foster opportunity, thrive and endure."

In their own words, at the annual event, "You will:

| Gain practical skills for successful rural community and economic development

| Learn about successful community revitalization projects from near and far

| Connect with other community leaders, funders and elected officials, and

| Recharge your energy for making a positive difference in your community."

this link will take you to both websites:

http://www.rdiinc.org/

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Making Biomass Work
How to Meet Community, Economic, and Ecological Needs
April 6-7, 2006 ~ Running Y Ranch ~ Klamath Falls, Oregon

We include this link because this annual event was, "Attended by over 180 professionals representing every side of this region’s forest health and energy interests, this two-day conference addressed the most current issues and knowledge regarding sustainable biomass utilization in the Northwest."

"With a strong focus on both the technical and economic feasibility of biomass utilization enterprises, and on the potential ecological and community benefits of biomass utilization, participants of this unique conference explored the interdependence between forest restoration, biomass utilization, and rural economic revitalization"

Their 2006 Biomass Task Force Report link:

http://www.westgov.org/wga/initiatives/cdeac/Biomass-full.pdf

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This page provides information on alternative transportation ideas, alternative fuel vehicles, and ways to improve fuel efficiency.
http://www.globalstewards.org/town.htm

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Sustainable Life is a Gateway to Information Products & Services to help you find what you need to live a Healthier, more Socially & Environmentally Sustainable Life. Lots of resources, links, and information about green sustainable fuels. Their site covers much more than this though, so you may have to wade through the 'search' box to see it all.

http://www.sustlife.com/

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Currently, one of their main foci is sustainable wildcrafting and organic growing of medicinal herbs.

Some of their key programs over the years include:

tree sales and exchanges

seed collection,

production and sales of Northwest native plants and medicinal herbs

publishing

organizing conferences and events

educational workshops on many plant-related topics

permaculture design courses

organic farm apprenticeship programs

Travelers Earth Repair Network

networking on local, regional, national and international levels.

http://www.friendsofthetrees.net/

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Perhaps the most powerful network for expanding the "leading edge" of environmentally friendly and ecologically sane systems and technologies. Bioneers does an annual gathering of expert speakers and workshops on creating a balance with nature in all human systems.

Here's what they have to say about their network, "Bioneers Community Network (BCN) is about building community around a shared vision of restoration and democracy."

"In the spirit of the annual Bioneers Conference, BCN seeks to connect networks, providing tools that assist in the formation of communities - both virtual and actual.The first three domain communities are Ecological Medicine, Food and Farming and Youth Leadership. Users have access to domain-targeted content, forums, blogs and news feeds. Register with the site (it's free) and you can post to our forums and add commentary to our articles."

There are vast resources at this site, so dive deep and join the network!

http://www.bioneers.org/

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In their own words, "The Mendocino Ecological Learning Center (MELC) is an educational organization and demonstration site where people can come and see examples of living in ways that conserve resources, create diversity, increase self sufficiency, and promote profound understandings of the relationships between ourselves and our planet."

Hands-on workshops and lessons all year long on various skills for green sustainable rural communities. Great resource for the NW USA! These people will connect you to the "how-to" information your projects need. Their outreach is International and supports many 3rd world sustainability programs.

http://www.melc.us/

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This group takes their task of education and implementation
seriously. They focus mostly on bio-diesel systems and have partnerships with major manufacturers of equipment to sell the exact equipment you need for any size of bio-diesel production.

The group knows all about bio-diesel and ethanol, and provides products, information, workshops, and help for communities and businesses who are interested in becoming green sustainable.

http://www.dogwoodenergy.com/

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Focused on the marketplace, this site has lots of resources for any green businesses. Information, products, and networking are all included. Lots of links here to related websites and resources.

Up to the minute news releases, financial considerations, studies of the increased production of green fuels, and a great overview of the Brazil model. Many helpful articles too.

http://www.biofuelsmarketplace.com/

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Official site for the American Coalition for Ethanol, this link has in-depth information about all aspects of the ethanol industry. Here you will find many links, information, and resources for all the issues around producing and distributing ethanol. This group has their fingers on the pulse of the emerging huge market world-wide.

http://www.ethanol.org/

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This is an amazing site with tons of resources on everything related to sustainability. Lots to check out here that will educate you about all aspects of the issues and resources. Great resources! One of the best sites we have found on the subject.

http://www.pleiades-enterprises.bigstep.com/

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The industry's giant, publicly-traded company, making ethanol out of waste products for 18 years. This is an example of a forward-thinking company that had the patience to wait for this opportunity to provide ethanol from refuse pay off. Takes care of two birds with one stone.

Watch their stock zoom to the top of the oil field!

http://xethanol.com/

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The oldest and largest conglomerate of energy and power has been making power plants for over a hundred years. This is who to call for that island or isolated farm you need a power plant for. They even make ethanol and fuel cell power plants. they are huge and they can make power every way that is currently known about. All they seem to care about is making money. But what the heck, if that is the only company who can fill the need for huge ethanol or bio-diesel generated power plants, then so it goes.

This link is to their power plant pages, they have so many other products that you might not find this one unless you search right, so here it is.

http://www.powergeneration.siemens.com/en/products/ic/index.cfm

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The Second Link Category:
Green Communities & Eco Villages

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This is the most ambitious eco-village concept we have heard about, but based more for "mainstream" people rather than the typical new age environmentalist. These folks have plans, well-laid-out descriptions of each facet, and a proposal for the forming of a green sustainable village of 10,000 people--a great idea and a noble endeavor. Definitely worth checking out and possibly joining. Seems like $30,000-$40,000 gets your land to build on to be part of it, but there is obviously some kind of screening process too. This may seem like a new "pipedream" to some, but it is very well thought out. Definitely the wave of the future, based on sound principles and good research. After reading all the details, I certainly want to join up or connect with them. Fits our "Green City" idea!

http://www.for-the-future.org/index.aspx

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A HUGE International Network of ecovillages! In their own words, "The Global Ecovillage Network is a global confederation of people and communities that meet and share their ideas, exchange technologies, develop cultural and educational exchanges, directories and newsletters, and are dedicated to restoring the land and living "sustainable plus" lives by putting more back into the environment than we take out. GEN's main aim is to support and encourage the evolution of sustainable settlements across the world, through:

Internal and External Communications services; facilitating the flow and exchange of information about ecovillages and demonstration sites;

Networking and project coordination in fields related to sustainable settlements; and

Global cooperation/Partnerships (UN Best Practices, EU Phare, EYFA, Ecosoc)."

Their list is very impressive, but much of their information is based on filling in a "search" field that makes it not too easy to just see a list unless you get all the info filled in correctly.

http://gen.ecovillage.org/

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They say it well,"Lost Valley has recently completed 17 years of experimentation and growth! We average around 25 adult and child members, ages 3 to 65 (plus interns and others), living and working together on our 87 beautiful acres of gardens, meadows, forests, pond, and creek. We are located 18 miles southeast of Eugene, Oregon, 20 minutes off of I-5 via Route 58."

"We run a nonprofit retreat and conference facility with 120 beds plus camping, and also organize our own workshops in areas such as Ecovillage and Permaculture Design and Heart of Now (personal growth). For the past eight years we have published a journal called Talking Leaves."

"We are creating a Nature Center and are in the process of developing an on-site children's education program called DELVE."

"We offer longer-term learning experiences through our intern program. People wishing to apply for community membership begin by participating in a Community Experience Week."

This group does regular classes on green sustainable community.

http://www.lostvalley.org/

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Perhaps the oldest attempt at an eco-village built from scratch, Arcosanti is a project of the Cosanti Foundation initiated by Paolo Soleri, the world famous architect.

Years in the making, and many years yet till fiinished, Arcosanti has many workshops and resources it offers. Lessons learned along the way are offered in workshops and apprenticeship programs.

http://www.arcosanti.org/

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One of the oldest communal experiments of the new age, The Farm now features classes in green sustainability and organic techniques. They have announced that they will become a model for growing green fuels and manufacturing them. You can bet they will use those soybeans for more than just tofu!

http://www.thefarm.org/

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Great written resources, including books. One of the most important is a book on consensus, which is the real art of communicating and decision making for any community.
Basicly a store of the network founded by Findhorn.

http://ena.ecovillage.org/English/store/index.html

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This group has been a leader in the sustainable community movement since its inception in 1977. It features a retreat center that grows organic food for its guests' meals. and has wonderful mineral hot springs that geo-thermally heat all the buildings.

Many wonderful events happen there throughout the year in a series of diverse workshops. Or you can visit and enjoy the day in the beautiful Oregon mountains, capping it off in a naturally fed hot tub of mineral waters. Check out their schedule for the event you would like to attend, and then go there, see the geo-thermal set up, including the river powered electrical generator, and talk to the residents--great people.

http://www.breitenbush.com/

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440 acres in south central Colorado, carefully looking for others to join their eco-ranch, which they hope to be an eco-village. Very raw in the forming-stages of its development with only a few people so far.

Notice all the wide-open spaces just waiting to be filled with solar panels, and gardens of organic food and fuel. Lots of resource potential here.

http://www.earthart.org/

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Santa Fe based Ecoversity has classes in all phases of green sustainability, as well as internships, and events at its 11 acre campus. A full curriculum makes this truly a "university" and it has certification and accrediting available too.

http://www.ecoversity.org/index.php/site/index/

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In their own words, "Sustainable EcoVillage Community in Northern California for Ecological, Egalitarian and Cooperative living in a Natural Learning and Healing Environment! Eden has been designed around a 2,240 acre Valley that will allow us to be able to grow all the food we would ever need, where we can build all our own naturally passive solar homes in a circle of homesteads all around the rim of this unique and beautiful Valley."

http://www.edenvillage.net/

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In their own words, "Hummingbird Ranch was created by a core team within Global Family as a way to model the consciousness which is seeking expression in our world at this time. As a living laboratory for the evolution of consciousness, the community is engaged in a sacred experiment to create a loving and compassionate world.

Members of Hummingbird are committed to both personal and global transformation. It is our desire to model a sustainable integrated lifestyle deeply attuned to the wisdom inherent in nature. Young and old alike are working together in a spirit of reverence, building a co-creative culture that embodies integrity, cooperation, respect, trust and love."

"Global Family, founded in 1986, is a non-profit international network of individuals and groups who choose to experience themselves as members of one human family and who desire to actualize their true life purpose through joining with others in compassionate action for the benefit of all."

http://www.globalfamily.net/website/60-hummingbird.html

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This group has bought an apartment building and a few quads. They feature a cooperative "lease to own" process for members, plus tons of information on urban sustainability.

In their own words, "When we started the processes of creating an ecovillage in January 1993, very few residents knew each other, most were fearful of their neighbors, and there were no neighborhood activities."

"A sampling of our accomplishments includes:

We purchased the 40 unit apartment building in our neighborhood in 1996 and the adjacent 8 unit apartment building in 1999 with loan monies raised through our ecological revolving loan fund (ELF).

An environmental educational program was created for the K-2 children at White House Place Primary Center in Eco-Village. This program is not currently functional (2004).

Nearly a dozen small gardens and more than 100 fruit trees have been planted in the two block neighborhood.

Approximately 100 cubic yards of green wastes have been composted in the neighborhood.

Twenty tons of red clay brick from the 1994 earthquake were diverted from the landfill for Eco-Village beautification projects.

Weekly community potluck brunches or dinners continue to build a sense of community among neighbors.

Tours are conducted throughout the year to acquaint the general public with the processes of creating sustainable community.

A consensus oriented intentional community of 40 persons has been developed.

The Bike Kitchen has been established as a center for advancing the best of bicycle culture in Los Angeles. See .

2004 sees the launching of the Institute for Urban Ecovillages, a training center that plans to stimulate and provide resources to many ecovillages in the L.A. area.

35 of the 40 units in our large building have been rehabilitated and approximately a dozen persons trained in basic rehab skills.

The landscape around our buildings has been transformed into a soil regenerating food producing soul healing environment."

http://www.laecovillage.org/

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Primarily a co-housing project in Prescott Arizona, this group has been successful in creating affordable housing and achieving group decision making.

http://www.manzanitavillage.com/index.pl?iid=0

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In their own words. "Piñon Ecovillage is a small, new intentional community working towards environmental and social sustainability."

"Piñon Ecovillage is located in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in the fertile Pojoaque (po-hwa-kay) Valley, 20 minutes' drive north of Santa Fe. Our land is at 6,000' elevation, in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Piñon Ecovillage was formed in March, 2001."

"Environmental Sustainability: In such a manner that
1) no resources in the defined area are consumed faster than their natural replenishment, and
2) the enclosed system can continue indefinitely
a) without degradation of its ecosystem or internal resource base,
b) without degradation of the standard of living of the people within it, and
c) without contributing to the non-sustainability of ecosystems outside."

"Social Sustainability: practicing nonviolence, cooperation, interdependence, trust, mutual respect, diversity, self-care and caring about each other."

http://www.pinon-ecovillage.org/

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In their own words, "We are forming a small urban community 20 miles south of San Francisco in two 4-unit apartment buildings facing the lagoon between San Mateo and Foster City. We are seeking other "families" and individuals to share ownership. We expect to share some meals, gardening, and other interests. There are fruit trees and organic gardens."

http://www.greensolutions.org/smcc.htm

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"Western Cultural Heritage Institute Conservation Farm is a program of Sustainable Living Systems (SLS) which is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. The Conservation Farm is a working school with the goal of teaching four main items:

Concentrated gardening methods

Alternative housing

Self sufficient living skills

Voluntary simplicity

"The Conservation Farm is a 10 acre parcel of land located in the western part of Montana only 10 miles from the Montana / Idaho boarder. We are located 35 miles south of Missoula, Montana north and east of the rural community of Corvallis."

http://www.wchi.net/

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In their own words, " The purpose of the OWG is to organize the founding of an ecological village in Eastern Oregon. Some of the guiding concepts that underpin our approach to the project can be found in those of generative processes, pattern language and deep ecology. The OWG is conceived along process lines instead of project lines. This means that there is, initially, less of a concern about building sustainable buildings and growing organic foods than there is in creating a social dynamic that can, in turn, unfold into a community rooted in love, in living, in the organic and the truly sustainable. Something that can be applied not as a comfortable, priviledged lifestyle superimposed on the prevailing social reality, but a way of living and being that can actually aid in changing that reality. "

http://www.geocities.com/oregonworkinggroup/

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"The purpose of the Urban Ecovillage Network is to engage urban neighborhoods throughout the world in the process of re-inventing how we live in cities, to be more ecologically, economically, and culturally sustainable."

They are primarily composed of projects in the Americas, and North America in particular, but say they look forward to expanding that focus.

http://urban.ecovillage.org/

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