The best examples of eco-friendly domestic architecture from around the world
ÉCOLOGIE - Une communauté écossaise a créé un village quasiment autosuffisant, qui renferme des habitations pour le moins originales.
While Okotoks is forging ahead with plans to develop a Tiny Homes Eco Village in the centre of town, there are hints that the diminutive dwellings could soon cluster in Calgary too. The popularity …
BedZED is the UK’s first large-scale, mixed use sustainable community with 100 homes, office space, a college and community facilities. Completed in 2002, this pioneering eco-village in south London suburbia remains an inspiration for sustainable neighbourhoods and our One Planet Living Communities across the world. It is also Bioregional’s headquarters. A world famous eco-development BedZED …
ReGen Villages could be built in more rural parts of the world, establishing attractive living situations outside of metropolitan areas.
Imagine living in a self-sustaining eco-village of homes enclosed in greenhouses? A new community in the Netherlands will harness the latest technologies to create a closed-loop system that will produce its own solar and biogas power, grow organic vegetables, farm fish and chickens, harvest water, and recycle waste into fertilizer. “If you look at any long-lasting […]
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The best examples of eco-friendly domestic architecture from around the world
Completed in 2010 in . All year round most villagers go to the towns and cities to earn for their living. The rest stay home and continue to grow rice very hard. The...
Image 4 of 21 from gallery of Jordanbad Sauna Village / Jeschke Architektur&Planung. Photograph by Sandra Wolf
A Dutch couple and their Kiwi kids love their off-grid life in an eco village outside Motueka, where one yurt just led to another
They were green when, for most of the world, that word was just a color. Inhabitants of this 45-year-old eco-community use composting toilets connected to individual organic water-treatment systems, run their homes on solar power, and aim to reuse 100% of the community’s waste. The area is also a car-free zone that boasts a relatively lucrative cottage […]
Adapted for the Australian climate, the eco-friendly, low-maintenance CORE 9 house starts at $192,000.
Silicon Valley entrepreneur believes the time has come to build artificial-intelligence-driven eco-villages that generate their own power and produce their own food. ReGen Villages are ‘the right optimistic solution coming out of Covid-19’, he says.
Originally posted on EcoWorldly on December 29, 2009. Ecovillages are great habitats and support systems for people who want to live environmentally friendlier, happier, healthier lives. One of the…
Dome houses come with plenty of eco-benefits! Learn more about them here.
Of all the neurotic, tamed and desensitized species of the world, we human beings are probably the worst. Our increasing alienation from nature and all of her wonder, power, wisdom and beauty has led us to not only abuse and corrupt her without a second-thought but also to denigrate and sabotage ourselves in the process. Conforming to the cookie-cutter image of what our lives should look like in our cult-ures has led us to become profoundly unhappy people. We hoard money and possessions in hopes of becoming rich, respectable and famous, we go on binges and perverse diets, we flood
Steps to start your own tiny house community with community layouts and other resources to join a tiny village.
The growing phenomenon of the tiny house village is emerging as a new solution for many of our nation's homeless.
The 250-strong village produces no carbon on a daily basis, with residents living entirely sustainably.
ReGen Villages could be built in more rural parts of the world, establishing attractive living situations outside of metropolitan areas.
Most of us know there is something wrong with the way we are living. I really don’t want to point fingers because we’re all in the same boat, but there is a massive problem with societ…
Elderly Japanese women live in this enchanting retirement village in Japan. Issei Suma designed this incredible set of homes that would make anyone envious.
BedZED (Beddington Zero Energy Development) is the UK's largest eco-village, a mixed housing / work space development, with sedum greenroofs.
With pedestrians in mind, these projects refresh a traditional configuration with extra green space
Rubin and Rotman Architects’ Aanischaaukamikw Cree Cultural Institute draws from the traditions of native peoples of the region to create a modern, LEED-seeking center for cultural celebration.
Image 18 of 24 from gallery of Shangping Village Regeneration / 3andwich Design / He Wei Studio. Photograph by Jin Weiqi
Much like the liquor that once swilled around inside their wooden casks, the barrel houses at Findhorn ecovillage have matured nicely in their surroundings. Constructed out of giant whisky vats, the homes were the first permanent dwellings to be built at the famous spiritual community which today supports more than 500 residents. The idea to […]
