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Index
Cover
Title Page
Contents
Author’s Foreword
Guest Preface by Kosha Joubert: Ecovillages in a Time of Transition
Chapter 1. Ecovillages
Intentional communities in the distant past
Pythagoreans
Essenes
Monasticism
The recent past
Ecovillages today
Community profile: Hurdal Ecovillage
Starting group work
Tips for facilitators and groups
Hopi Poem
Some suggestions for groups
Introduction session (simple)
Introduction session (with pictures)
Getting to know your names
What to write on?
A Permaculture song
Crossed arm exercise
Fruit salad
Cosmic circle
Vision workshop
The ball game
Chapter 2. Permaculture Tools
Permaculture definitions
Biomimicry
Permaculture principles
Design as a divine art
Permaculture in the world
Transition towns
The changing face of Permaculture
Community profile: Earthaven
Tips for facilitators and groups
Permaculture principles
Chapter 3. The Size of Communities
Size of Ecovillages
Privacy and integration
Greenfield or retrofitting
Community as organism
Community profile: Auroville by Ann Ellsie Morger
Tips for facilitators and groups
Whole community
Chapter 4. Farming
Small scale farmers
Forest farming
Community Supported Agriculture
Velwell Orchard
Farming in cities
Organic Bhutan
Biodynamic farming
The agricultural spectrum
Community profile: Solborg
Tips for facilitators and groups
Make your own companion plant groups
Chapter 5. Gardening, Soil and Plants
Soil architecture
Compost
Biochar
Nitrogen fixing in organic agriculture
What plants do with soil
Plant genetics – breeding or modification?
Plant communities
Food forests and forest gardens
Rotation
Garden Schedule
Garden design
Community profile: Lotan
Tips for facilitators and groups
Backcasting
Chapter 6. House Design
Design strategies and techniques
Permaculture zoning
Site planning
Energy and heating
Passive and active houses
Design values
Community profile: Lancaster Co-housing, Forgebank
Tips for facilitators and groups
Brainstorming and wild design
Chapter 7. Building
Materials
Stone
Earth
Bricks and blocks, tiles and pottery
Glass
Metals
Timber
Grass and stuff
Straw bales (SB)
Natural fibres
Paints
Junk, recycling and earthships
Plastics
A checklist of materials for sustainable building
Deeper considerations
Community profile: Friland
Tips for facilitators and groups
Solar tracking exercise
Chapter 8. Energy and Technology
Critique of nuclear with emphasis on Fukushima
Solar power
Falling water
Wind generators
A total system
Geological heat
Bio energy
Wood
Fuel values of wood
Manure
Biogas
A word of warning about Biofuels
Unconventional energy sources
Carbon capture and storage
Bioregions
Community profile: Solheimar
Tips for facilitators and groups
Create a bioregion
Chapter 9. Water
Water on earth
Looking after our precious water
The magic of water
Uses of water
A few Permaculture principles
Landscapes and keylines
Wastewater
Flowforms
Natural water treatment technology
Rootzone treatment
A word of warning
Community profile: Vidaråsen
Tips for facilitators and groups
An exercise in swale construction
Chapter 10. Alternative Economics
The myth of progress
Economic background
Natural economics
Measuring economics
Ethical banking
Biblical economics
Islamic economics
Different kinds of money
Threefolding and peace work
LETS and other trading systems
Citizen’s wage
Eight forms of capital
Community profile: Damanhur
Tips for facilitators and groups
Create an alternative currency
Chapter 11. How Groups Develop
Course lifecycles
Making decisions
Tools for better meetings
Listening exercise
Go arounds
Popcorn
Every one speaks first
Speaking from yourself
Consensus
Why consensus
The process of consensus
Consensus tasks
Open Space Technology
Typical meeting process
Conflict resolution
Active hope
Rudolf Steiner’s words
Community profile: Svanholm
Tips for facilitators and groups
Evaluations
Chapter 12. Crises and Solutions
Mass extinctions in the past
Climate change
Peak Oil
Design solutions
Ecovillage profile auditing
Environmental footprint analysis
The Pachamama Alliance Symposium
From Zone 00 to Zone 5
Community profile: EcoMe
Appendix 1: Dragon Dreaming: Its power and promise for ecovillages by John Croft and Kosha Joubert
Appendix 2: The Ecovillage Design Mandala by Kosha Joubert and Robin Alfred
Appendix 3: Transition to Resilience by Robin Alfred and Kosha Joubert
Follow up and Further Reading
Copyright
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