Re: ecovillage and sustainability
"E.Christopher Mare" <[email protected]>
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Edenvillage writes: I hate to be the one to say it but Size is important. Of course size [scale] is important. Who would deny that there are different design considerations for: a simple homestead, an eco-enclave, an eco-hamlet, or an eco-village? Each individual scale of these settlement patternings affords a unique corresponding level of 'emergent properties, ' and, design challenges. "Village-scale' is most sustainable [I propose] because it has the characteristics of 1) it is small enough so that everybody is known - there are no 'strangers' - a social organic unity results; and 2) it is large enough so that all primary, necessary, specialized economic functions can be served entirely within that social grouping. That is the magic formula [I propose]: that is why it is coherent to ask: "What is it about an ecovillage that makes it a VILLAGE? Ekistically yours, Chris Mare -VDI <[email protected]> writes: > > >I hate to be the one to say it but Size is important. You can't have a 5 >acre EcoVillage. Imagine a teenaged girl being invited to a party. She >gets all done up and shows up ready to have a good time socializing only >to find that it is just one or two guys who were pretending to be having >a party just to see what would happen. > >We have the same thing here where people are parading around as >EcoVillages who actually are not at all doing anything but exploiting the >name. You must have real land or a plan to get some in my view of things. >Sustainability is important. 30 people on 5 acres is not sustainable. I >say it is more like One Person per every 3 acres as it is here in Eden >where we have taken the trouble to think things through a little more >deeply. - T > >[ http://edenvillage.net ]http://edenvillage.net > >----------------- >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Tax Center - [ http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html ]File online by >April 15th ------------------------------------------------ To subscribe or unsubscribe to ecobalance go to: http://www.ecovillage.org/ecobalance ------------------------------------------------