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Where ecovillage fits
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Eco-Village movement in NZ Home Page Editorial Winter 2004
Where Ecovillage Fits on the Sustainability Terrain Map Looking around it is easy to see that we live in an unsettled time, and that this unsettledness is born of imminent change. There is a movie called Koyaanisqatsi , the word is Hopi Indian, and apparently means: 1. crazy life; 2. life in turmoil; 3. life out of balance; 4. life disintegrating; 5. a state of life that calls for another way of living. That sounds like a pretty fair way of describing the global instability of recent current events to me. Simultaneously there are a great many positive things happening as we struggle to break through into an essentially saner paradigm. That paradigm is variously referred to as the Gaia, planetary, egalitarian, solar, or post-modern, but essentially survivable, paradigm. We usually use the term 'sustainability', and there is a vast volume of writing on this topic with for instance Amazon.com offering 3,555 books on the subject, and AltaVista indexing 96,006 web pages about sustainability. That was in 2001 when this material was drafted: these figures have increased to 8238, and 1,817,206 respectively. | |
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