Ecovillages are communities striving to create cooperative lifestyles in harmony with their local environments. From appropriate technologies to holistic health; from sustainable agriculture to group facilitation, ecovillages are integrating solutions within human-scale communities and creating new cultures and "stories" in which we can live well and lightly together. In the process, they are developing real-world models of sustainable development that make ideal "campuses" where students can learn about sustainability while striving to live it.

Come learn about the growing ecovillage movement worldwide (e.g., Findhorn, Scotland; Auroville, India; Sirius, MA), the possibilities and challenges of using these communities as contexts for education and social change, and the work of Living Routes, which partners with UMass-Amherst to offer study abroad programs based in ecovillages worldwide.

Event sponsored by the Society for Natural Resources Conservation