Ecovillages

The subtitle exactly describes the content of this comprehensive guide to both the principles and practice of sustainable communities. The author himself has extensive firsthand knowledge of nearly all the communities cited in the book, and provides the theoretical context behind them as well as evocative illustrated descriptions of communities around the world. This means that both the principles and practice are conveyed in a way that could also inspire new experiments in the genre. What emerges is a sustainable way of life and thinking covering housing, agriculture, energy, economics and society.