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| Acknowledgments | |
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| How to use this book | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Story of the Global Ecovillage Network | |
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| Communists and communes | |
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| Organic gardening and alternative technology | |
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| The Well People Group | |
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| The complete world of Kibbutz | |
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| The Global Ecovillage Network | |
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| Burnout and the negative activist | |
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| What is an Ecovillage? | |
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| Ecovillage training centres | |
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| On to Camphill | |
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| The Farm, Tennessee, USA | |
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| Ecotop, Germany | |
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| Sunrise Farm, Australia | |
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| Camphill Solborg, Norway | |
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| Patterns in Nature | |
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| A very short history of the development of human consciousness | |
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| Mollison, Holmgren and Australian bush freaks | |
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| From homestead gardening to community economics | |
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| Deep ecology | |
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| Reading nature's book | |
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| Some patterns from nature | |
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| Reading meaning in the things around us | |
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| Earthaven, North Carolina, USA | |
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| Kibbutz Lotan, Israel | |
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| Design | |
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| Modelling the Ecovillage: the Social Aspect | |
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| The three-legged stool | |
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| Threefolding | |
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| Thinking machines | |
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| The spiral of improvement | |
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| Democracy or dictatorship? | |
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| The co-ordinating leader | |
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| Quality circles | |
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| Ecovillage auditing | |
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| Footprint analysis | |
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| Social ecology | |
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| Conflict resolution | |
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| Findhorn, Scotland | |
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| Zegg, Germany | |
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| Clil Ecovillage, Israel | |
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| Old Bassaisa, Egypt | |
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| Bhole Baba, Italy | |
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| House Design and Building Techniques | |
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| Spiritual aspects | |
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| Feng Shui | |
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| Siting and zoning | |
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| Materials | |
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| Design | |
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| Water and sewage | |
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| Energy and heating | |
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| Social aspects | |
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| Twin Oaks, Virginia, USA | |
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| Wilhelmina, Holland | |
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| Agriculture: Soil, Plants, Gardening and Farming | |
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| Community food production, the Cartwheel model | |
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| From PC to biodynamic to organic to chemical farming | |
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| Agriculture as power: advice to growers and consumers | |
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| Structure and behaviour of soil | |
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| Plants and their spirits | |
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| Mulch gardening | |
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| Small scale vegetable planning | |
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| Upacchi, Italy | |
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| Kimberton Hills Camphill, Pennsylvania, USA | |
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| Kibbutz Ketura, Israel | |
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| Water and Sewage | |
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| The planet water | |
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| Our crimes against water | |
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| Biological sewage systems | |
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| Living Machines | |
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| Thomas Crapper's terrible legacy | |
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| Flowforms | |
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| Water as intelligence | |
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| Terre d'Enaille, Belgium | |
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| Energy Sources and Alternative Technology | |
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| Wasting our fossil fuel reserves | |
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| The nuclear waste legacy | |
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| Falling water | |
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| Wind generators | |
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| Solar power | |
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| Bio energy | |
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| Unconventional sources | |
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| Kibbutz Samar, Israel | |
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| Alternative Economics | |
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| What is money and what is it for? | |
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| World economics, the gold standard and porridge oats | |
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| Shareholder protectionism and instability | |
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| Indicators of sustainable economic welfare | |
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| LETS and other self-generated systems | |
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| Local capital, business and income creation | |
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| Community Supported Agriculture | |
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| Lebensgarten, Germany | |
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| New Bassaisa, Egypt | |
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| Harman Centre, Turkey | |
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| Putting it all together | |
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| Design Hands-On | |
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| Creativity | |
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| Group dynamics | |
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| Design process, step by step | |
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| Site assessment | |
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| Report writing | |
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| Project presentation | |
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| Looking to the future | |
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| La Paix-Dieu, Belgium | |
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| Camphill Botton, England | |
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| Woodcrest Bruderhof, New York, USA | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Garden Plan | |
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| Garden Schedule | |
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| Compost Ingredients | |
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| Site Assessment Check List | |
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| Book List | |
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| Periodicals | |
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| Organizations | |
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| Index | |