OUR ecovillage

Workgroup

Workgroups are collaborative communities, often within an organization that complete efforts

• Academic
  • Youth
• Federal
• Local
  • County
  • District
  • Municipality
  • Special District
• Non-Institutional
• Private
  • NGO
• Provincial
• State
• Tribal

Salish Sea References

• Watershed Characterization Mapper
• The Encyclopedia of Puget Sound
• PRISM Project Search
• Washington Coastal Atlas
• WDFW's Salmonscape Map

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OUR ECOVILLAGE is a 25 acre living forest and permaculture farm in the Cowichan Watershed hosting a thriving experience-based learning community that builds sustainable relationships with earth and others. Our vision is sustainable well-being for the land, ourselves and our worldwide village.

https://ourecovillage.org/

Notes

• Created in 1999
• Build around sense of common space and wellbeing.
• OUR is acronym for "one united resource"
• "Did you come to the fire to get warm, or did you bring wood?"--shift from consumption to contribution.
• Created new zoning designation allowing multiple land uses within one development unit.
• Committed to completing regulatory efforts for appropriate technology.
• Currently working on waste water treatment prototypes.
• "This village must dream for the planet"
• Climate change demonstration building - buildings that use local materials (cob, straw bale, post and beam) and thereby store carbon through their construction.
• Green burial project, protecting land by placement of remains.