Last weekend I went to visit La Grande Cense with a group of volunteers. This co-housing community near Brussels is now some last renovations before all individuals and families can start moving into their new homes. They are therefore organizing a summer camp where everyone is invited to help.
A group of 30 grown ups and [...]
Project Status: Intermediate – active for five years
Number of Members: approx. 15 full time members, many frequent visitors and international volunteers
Current activities:
*Maintenance of organic, permaculture garden
*Development of wind and solar energy, and conversion of diesel cars to run on vegetable oil.
*Renovation of nearby houses using sustainable building practices
*Education, courses and workshops: permaculture, herbal medicine, [...]
Project name: Ixuxu
Location: Soto de Rey, Oviedo, Spain
Profile: Ixuxu is a cultural and ecological association that was initially founded out of a growing concern for the erosion of traditional ways of life, the loss of native animal and plant species and the destruction of the environment in general.
“Ixuxu” is derived from an [...]
The house was built in 1840 by Johann Heinrich Siek and Florentina Maria Welkers. In the end of the eighties it was bought by a group of students that renovated the old farm house, created a reedbed water cleaning system and in later stages a solar & wind energy supply system that enabled community to [...]
Location: Eva Lanxmeer, Culemborg, the NetherlandsThe Werf project was initiated in summer 2004 by architect Marien Faas who lives in Eva Lanxmeer. The original purpose of the project was to create a prototype house. The concept was based on four core principles:
1. To create a house were several generations can live together (housing possibilities for [...]
By the end of 2005 the Stationswerf community living in the old storage house included more than 15 volunteers from different parts of the world that had initiated several projects (including children playing groups, regular networking meetings of a local self sufficiency networks and project development initiatives, art courses, cooperative games, design workshops & planning [...]
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