The resource section is intended to offer some of the best articles, links and references available on ecovillage development and sustainable living.
The Bad News & The Good News: The Economics of Collapse and The Birth of a Regenerative Society
J.T. Ross Jackson, (Green Venture ApS (2024).
Occupy World Street: A Global Roadmap for Radical Economic and Political Reform
Ross Jackson, (Chelsea Green, USA and Green Books, UK, 2012).
Gaian Economics: Living Well within Planetary Limits
Jonathan Dawson, Ross Jackson, Helena Norberg Hodge, co-editors, (Permanent Publications, 2011).
Kali Yuga Odyssey; A Spiritual Journey
Ross Jackson, (Robert D. Reed Publishers, San Francisco, 2000).
And We ARE Doing It; Building an Ecovillage Future,
Ross Jackson, (Robert D. Reed Publishers, San Francisco, 2000).
Creating Harmony. Conflict Resolution in Community
Hildur Jackson, ( Permanent Publications, UK, 1999)
Ecovillage Living. Restoring the Earth and Her People
Editors Hildur Jackson and Karen Svensson, (Green Books, UK, 2002).
Shaker of the Speare: The Francis Bacon Story
Ross Jackson, (The Book Guild, UK, 2005).
The “Four Keys to Sustainable Settlements”, or just the “Four Keys”, are anthologies published by Gaia Education to supplement the EDE course material. They cover the four sectors of the sustainability circle, namely, the Worldview, Social, Ecological and Economic dimensions. Each book covers the five modules of its section. Written by pioneers from the ecovillage movement and teachers of the EDE, they include both articles and extensive references.
Danish Ecovillages
The history of the Danish ecovillage movement
By Hildur Jackson
Living and Learning
The pedagogy behind The Ecovillage Design Education (EDE)
By Hildur Jackson
What is an Ecovillage
Definitions of what an ecovillage is and the history of the evolution of the ecovillage concept.
By Hildur Jackson
Gaia Education
A vision for a new kind of educational system based on the ecovillage curriculum and the sustainability circle.
By Hildur Jackson
Integrated Ecovillage Design
How to design ecovillages and sustainable habitats.
By Hildur Jackson
Solheimer in Iceland
Sólheimar, meaning ‘home of the sun’, one of the oldest and most developed ecovillages in Iceland. Its main focus is the integration of people with special needs into the wider community.
By Hildur Jackson
GEN History
The background and history of the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN)
By Hildur and Ross Jackson
The Ecovillage Movement
Article featured in Permaculture Magazine #40, summer 2004
By Ross Jackson
There is an alternative
Paper on globalization presented at the conference “New Wave – Vision of the Youth” in Dubrovnik, Croatia, August 2003
By Ross Jackson
Global Economics — There IS an Alternative
Paper presented at the Danish Social Forum, February 2006
By Ross Jackson
Project Monte Cerro
About healing biotoes.
By Dieter Duhm, Tamera
Inner Net of The Heart
About integration of mind, matter and quantum physics.
By Will Keepin, Satyana Institute
Seeing the forest and the trees
Can sustainable loggers and natural builders in community honor their values and still make a living?
By Diante Christian
Neither Peace Nor Prosperity
Globalisation And Its Fall Out.
By Vandana Shiva
Beyond Johannesburg – Where do we go from here?
Speech at the Johannesburg conference.
By Rashmi Mayur
Intentional Communities: Today’s Social Laboratories
Ordinary people with extraordinary visions tell their stories of living and working together to build a better world.
By Geoph Kozeny
The Ecovillage Dream Takes Shape
By Jonathan Dawson
At bringe solens kraft i menneskehedens tjeneste (In danish)
Om alternativ energi. Bidrag til festskrift i anledning af Hermann Scheer’s 60 års fødselsdag den 29.april 2004
By Preben Maegaard
Hildur Jackson has written several articles for ‘Permaculture Magazine’
Inner Net Of The Heart
Download a slide show by Will Keepin of Satyana Institute, USA, which illustrates the fractal and holographic structure of the universe using as metaphor the beautiful Mandelbrot set. The presentation also presents very briefly some of physicist David Bohm’s concepts of the implicate order (beyond our senses) and the explicit order(the physical world) as a model of how the universe may be structured. A number of fascinating qúotes from several spiritual traditikons make the point that the great spiritual masters have always had a similar insight into the workings of the universe and life on Earth – as above, so below.