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Ecovillage, the Glossary

An ecovillage is a traditional or intentional community with the goal of becoming more socially, culturally, economically, and/or ecologically sustainable.^[1]

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Ecovillages

Animal husbandry

Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, or other products.

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Biodiversity

Biodiversity (or biological diversity) is the variety and variability of life on Earth.

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Bioenergy village

A bio-energy village is a regionally oriented concept for the use of renewable energy sources in rural areas.

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Bioneers

Bioneers, under its parent foundation, Collective Heritage Institute, is a nonprofit environmental advocacy organization based in New Mexico and California.

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Cohousing

Cohousing is an intentional, self-governing, cooperative community where residents live in private homes often clustered around shared space.

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Collective action

Collective action refers to action taken together by a group of people whose goal is to enhance their condition and achieve a common objective.

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Communities Directory

The Communities Directory, A Comprehensive Guide to Intentional Community provides listing of intentional communities primarily from North America but also from around the world.

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Consumerism is a social and economic order in which the aspirations of many individuals include the acquisition of goods and services beyond those necessary for survival or traditional displays of status.

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De facto

De facto describes practices that exist in reality, regardless of whether they are officially recognized by laws or other formal norms.

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Deep ecology

Deep ecology is an environmental philosophy that promotes the inherent worth of all living beings regardless of their instrumental utility to human needs, and argues that modern human societies should be restructured in accordance with such ideas.

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Diana Leafe Christian

Diana Leafe Christian is an author, former editor of Communities magazine, and nationwide speaker and workshop presenter on starting new ecovillages, on sustainability, on building communities, and on governance by sociocracy.

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Diane Gilman (environmentalist)

Diane Gilman (1945–1998), was a painter, potter, writer and co-founder of the Context Institute.

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Diggers and Dreamers

Diggers and Dreamers is a group that promotes intentional communities in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Ecovillage and Diggers and Dreamers are simple living.

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Eco-cities

An eco-city or ecocity is "a human settlement modeled on the self-sustaining resilient structure and function of natural ecosystems", as defined by Ecocity Builders (a non-profit organization started by Richard Register, who first coined the term).

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Eco-municipality

An eco-municipality or eco-town is a local government area that has adopted ecological and social justice values in its charter. Ecovillage and eco-municipality are environmental design, simple living and urban studies and planning terminology.

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Ecodistrict

An ecodistrict or eco-district (from "ecological" and "district") is a neighborhood, urban area, or region whose urban planning aims to integrate objectives of sustainable development and social equity, and to reduce the district's ecological footprint.

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Ecofeminism

Ecofeminism is a branch of feminism and political ecology.

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Ecological Economics (journal)

Ecological Economics.

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Ecology

Ecology is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment.

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Ecoregion

An ecoregion (ecological region) is an ecologically and geographically defined area that is smaller than a bioregion, which in turn is smaller than a biogeographic realm.

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Ecosystem

An ecosystem (or ecological system) is a system that environments and their organisms form through their interaction.

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Ecotourism

Ecotourism is a form of tourism marketed as "responsible" travel (using what proponents say is sustainable transport) to natural areas, conserving the environment, and improving the well-being of the local people.

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Fair trade

Fair trade is a term for an arrangement designed to help producers in developing countries achieve sustainable and equitable trade relationships.

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Findhorn Ecovillage

Findhorn Ecovillage is an experimental architectural community project based at The Park, in Moray, Scotland, near the village of Findhorn. Ecovillage and Findhorn Ecovillage are ecovillages.

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Fossil fuel

A fossil fuel is a carbon compound- or hydrocarbon-containing material such as coal, oil, and natural gas, formed naturally in the Earth's crust from the remains of prehistoric organisms (animals, plants and planktons), a process that occurs within geological formations.

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Garden city movement

The garden city movement was a 20th century urban planning movement promoting satellite communities surrounding the central city and separated with greenbelts.

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Global Ecovillage Network

The Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) is a global association of people and communities (ecovillages) dedicated to living "sustainable plus" lives by restoring the land and adding more to the environment than is taken. Ecovillage and global Ecovillage Network are ecovillages.

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Global Scenario Group

The Global Scenario Group (GSG) was an international, interdisciplinary body convened in 1995 by the Tellus Institute and the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) to develop scenarios for world development in the twenty-first century.

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Goal

A goal or objective is an idea of the future or desired result that a person or a group of people envision, plan, and commit to achieve.

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Green development

Green development is a real estate development concept that considers social and environmental impacts of development.

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Human scale

Human scale is the set of physical qualities, and quantities of information, characterizing the human body, its motor, sensory, or mental capabilities, and human social institutions.

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Hundstrup

Hundstrup is a small town located on the island of Funen in south-central Denmark, in Svendborg Municipality.

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Intensive animal farming

Intensive animal farming, industrial livestock production, and macro-farms, also known (particularly by opponents) as factory farming, is a type of intensive agriculture, specifically an approach to animal husbandry designed to maximize production while minimizing costs.

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An intentional community is a voluntary residential community which is designed to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork.

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J.T. Ross Jackson

James Thomas Ross Jackson is a Danish-Canadian economist, author and philanthropist born in Ottawa, Canada in 1938.

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Leopold Kohr

Leopold Kohr (5 October 1909 – 26 February 1994) was an economist, jurist and political scientist known both for his opposition to the "cult of bigness" in social organization and as one of those who inspired the Small Is Beautiful movement.

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Living Villages

Living Villages is an organisation in the United Kingdom established in 1993 as part of The Athena Foundation UK (now dissolved) and as The Living Village Trust in 1997 by Carole Salmon and Bob Tomlinson.

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Low-energy house

A low-energy house is characterized by an energy-efficient design and technical features which enable it to provide high living standards and comfort with low energy consumption and carbon emissions.

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Low-impact development (UK)

Low-impact development (LID) has been defined as "development which through its low negative environmental impact either enhances or does not significantly diminish environmental quality". Ecovillage and low-impact development (UK) are ecovillages and simple living.

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Miccosukee Land Co-op

The Miccosukee Land Cooperative (MLC) is a cohousing community (a kind of intentional community).

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Organic farming

Organic farming, also known as ecological farming or biological farming,Labelling, article 30 of is an agricultural system that uses fertilizers of organic origin such as compost manure, green manure, and bone meal and places emphasis on techniques such as crop rotation and companion planting.

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Permaculture

Permaculture is an approach to land management and settlement design that adopts arrangements observed in flourishing natural ecosystems. Ecovillage and Permaculture are environmental design.

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Polity (publisher)

Polity is an academic publisher in the social sciences and humanities.

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Principles of intelligent urbanism

Principles of Intelligent Urbanism (PIU) is a theory of urban planning composed of a set of ten axioms intended to guide the formulation of city plans and urban designs.

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Retreat (survivalism)

In the survivalist subculture or movement, a retreat is a place of refuge.

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Robert Gilman

Robert C. Gilman, born 1945, is a thinker on sustainability who, along with his late wife Diane Gilman, has researched and written about ecovillages.

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Simple living

Simple living refers to practices that promote simplicity in one's lifestyle.

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Spiritual ecology

Spiritual ecology is an emerging field in religion, conservation, and academia that proposes that there is a spiritual facet to all issues related to conservation, environmentalism, and earth stewardship.

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Sustainability

Sustainability is a social goal for people to co-exist on Earth over a long time.

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Sustainability (journal)

Sustainability is a peer-reviewed open-access academic journal published by MDPI.

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Sustainable city

A sustainable city, eco-city, or green city is a city designed with consideration for social, economic, environmental impact (commonly referred to as the triple bottom line), and resilient habitat for existing populations, without compromising the ability of future generations to experience the same.

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Sustainable habitat

A Sustainable habitat is an ecosystem that produces food and shelter for people and other organisms, without resource depletion and in such a way that no external waste is produced.

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Sustainable living

Sustainable living describes a lifestyle that attempts to reduce the use of Earth's natural resources by an individual or society. Ecovillage and Sustainable living are simple living.

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Ted Trainer

Ted (F.E.) Trainer (born 1941) is an Australian academic, author, and an advocate of economic degrowth, eco-anarchism, simple living, and 'conserver' lifestyles.

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Ten Thousand Villages

Ten Thousand Villages is a nonprofit fair trade organization that markets handcrafted products made by artisans from more than 120 artisan groups in more than 35 countries.

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The Cultural Creatives

The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World is a nonfiction social sciences and sociology book by sociologist Paul H. Ray and psychologist Sherry Ruth Anderson (born 1942).

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Triple bottom line

The triple bottom line (or otherwise noted as TBL or 3BL) is an accounting framework with three parts: social, environmental (or ecological) and economic.

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Urban sprawl

Urban sprawl (also known as suburban sprawl or urban encroachment) is defined as "the spreading of urban developments (such as houses, dense multi family apartments, office buildings and shopping centers) on undeveloped land near a more or less densely populated city". Ecovillage and urban sprawl are environmental design and urban studies and planning terminology.

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Urban vitality

Urban vitality is the quality of spaces in cities that attract diverse groups of people for varied activities over frequent, varied times.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecovillage

Also known as Eco-village, Eco-villages, Ecological village, Ecovillages, Sustainable neighbourhood.

, Sustainable city, Sustainable habitat, Sustainable living, Ted Trainer, Ten Thousand Villages, The Cultural Creatives, Triple bottom line, Urban sprawl, Urban vitality.

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