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Ecovillage Research Review
Most relevant academic papers offer insights into prior studies of ecovillages, but there are none that offer a complete overview. This review is meant to contribute to filling that gap.
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Research in Community: Collaborating for a Culture of Sustainability
Ecovillages are a perfect example of efforts to create a “culture of sustainability”. To fully explore their potential, Research in Community (RIC), an inter- and transdisciplinary research network, was created to promote research on and education for so-called “pioneers of change.
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The Built Ecovillage: Exploring the Processes and Practices of Eco-housing
This essay explores the choices made in how people are building eco-housing themselves and why, what makes eco-housing work, what it is like to live in such dwellings, and what the accompanying constraints and opportunities are.
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An Overview of Research on Ecovillage at Ithaca
Ecovillage at Ithaca could be thought of as an “alternative suburb,” or as a US middle class neighborhood with an ecological focus and a high awareness of community.
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Collaborative Research: Examples and Lessons from a Baltic Sea Project
ECOVILLAGES, is a collaborative research project in which ecovillagers and academics, and ecovillager academics, aim to advance the political recognition, number, resources, and influence of ecovillages in the Baltic Sea Region.
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“For Whom? For the Future!” The Ecovillage Sieben Linden as a Model and Research Project
The authors discuss a series of workshops held with residents of the ecovillage Sieben Linden to discuss what the idea of being a “model and research project” meant to them.
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Mercurial Activity and Subterranean Landscapes: Towards an Environmental History of Mercury Mining in Early Modern Idrija
Hollsten focuses on the mercury mines at Idrija in order to trace the movement of this material and the various ways its history intersects with human history.
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Eco-Images and Environmental Activism: A Sociosemiotic Analysis
This essay will focus on the use of eco-images in unconventional visual environmental campaigns.
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Assuming Responsibility for the Anthropocene: Challenges and Opportunities in Education
The Anthropocene emphasizes that all of us are collectively responsible for the future of the world. Society will have to legitimize science and technology, focusing in particular on education as one of the most powerful tools for transformation, in order to make the Anthropocene long-lasting, equitable, and worth-living.
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The Enjoyment of Complexity: A New Political Anthropology for the Anthropocene?
This article argues that a paradigm change in political anthropology might be reasonable and realistic as a way of establishing dams against human self-destruction in the Anthropocene.