Ecovillages Online Newsletter

Diana is now publishing Ecovillages as a free, bimonthly newsletter in order to encourage and inspire ecovillage projects with news about ecovillages worldwide. People seem to love photos and stories about how others are succeeding in good work. Ecovillages will feature stories about successful projects in every issue, and practical, how-to information, too. Subscribe! From six to eight articles will appear in each issue. Here are the kinds of articles and ongoing columns you’ll find:

    The Ecovillage Movement

• Ecovillage Conferences and Gatherings
• Ecovillages in the News
• Profiles of Ecovillage Activists
• Book and Video Reviews

    News from Individual Ecovillages Worldwide

    Practical Ecovillage Tools:

• Communication Skills, Decision-Making, Governance
• Permaculture, Natural Building, Appropriate Technology
• Legal, Financial, and Zoning Practices

     “Ecovillagers Write”  (letters to the editor)

Diana is especially keen on stimulating more interest in ecovillages in North America, ideally with news of what people are doing elsewhere. You’ll find stories about ecovillage projects in Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Russia, South America, Australia and New Zealand, southern Asia, China, and Japan. (We’re everywhere!)

Although Ecovillages is published in English, you can translate it into your language and send it out to friends and colleagues. If you do, please let Diana know; she’ll be honored.

She will be writing most stories; others will be written by ecovillage activists worldwide. If you’d like to contribute a story, please email for guidelines.

Funding for this newsletter will come from advertisers. At the moment it is funded with a two-year no-interest loan from CRSP (Cooperative Resources Service Project) in Los Angeles, the nonprofit that helps Los Angeles Eco-Village and other ecovillage projects.

If you would like to advertise in this newsletter, thank you very much, and please email

diana~at~ic.org

If you’d like to give a tax-deductible donation to CRSP for this project, thank you very much, and please email Lois Arkin, director of CRSP,

diana~at~ic.org