Living and Learning in the Americas

The Farm, Tennessee, USA
The Farm is oriented towards low-cost high satisfaction community living and self-reliance. It offers excellent examples of solar building design, micro-enterprise development, large scale composting, food production, and regenerative hardwood forest management. The Ecovillage Training Centre at the Farm offers total immersion courses ranging from basic and advanced permaculture and village design to solar electricity, water treatment, and natural building techniques. It provides a walk-through visit to a straw bale dwelling, a dome, organic gardens, rainwater harvesting facilities, greenhouses, root cellars, a wetlands filtration system, and a solar car prototype. The community has outreach programmes in Central and South America.
La Caravana, Mobile, Central and South America
La Caravana is a mobile ecovillage working in Central and South America that uses theatre arts, workshops, conferences and bio-regional events to teach people how to take better care of the Earth. La Caravana has inspired the creation of ecovillage networks and projects in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Jamaica, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Brazil and helped to create the Ecuadorian Women’s Leadership Network for Peace. International volunteers teach permaculture, ecovillage design, consensus decision-making, facilitation and conflict resolution, appropriate technology, natural building techniques and community development for positive planetary change.
The IPEC (Institute for Permaculture and Ecovillages in the Cerrado), Brazil
IPEC develops sustainable systems that represent viable solutions to the social and ecological problems of Brazil. The IPEC is developing the Ecoversidade Living and Learning Centre (Mollison Centre for Sustainable Studies) to demonstrate permaculture solutions to living in the vast Cerrado region of interior Brazil. It is based on educational outreach and practical demonstration projects and has strong links to the landless movement (Sem Terra), as well as to traditional, intentional and indigenous communities. IPEC is the central hub for the rapidly developing national permaculture network. Areas of interest include viable appropriate technology community models in applied permaculture and village development, food production, natural architecture, nature conservation, reforestation and urban kitchen gardens. Courses provide organic produce certification and permaculture design certificates.

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