An innovative municipal solar incentive program is spreading like wildfire across America. Based on a program devised in Berkeley, California, Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) bonds are provided by the municipality and paid for over time through voluntary property tax increases tied to the home (rather than the individual). Several cities across the country have [...]

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Each morning, as the sun casts its light down to San Gabriel Canyon, more than 100 kilowatts-worth of solar panels kick into action in Azusa, California, feeding clean and green energy into a very busy Los Angeles County electric grid. And that’s just the start. More and more of that bright southern sunlight is being [...]

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I am intrigued by the Global Eco Village Network!

“The Global Ecovillage Network is a global confederation of people and communities that meet and share their ideas, exchange technologies, develop cultural and educational exchanges, directories and newsletters, and are dedicated to restoring the land and living “sustainable plus” lives by putting more back into the environment than we take out. “

GEN members include large networks such as:

• EcoYoff and Colufifa (350 villages in Senegal)
• Sarvodaya (11,000 sustainable villages in Sri Lanka)
• the Ladakh project on the Tibetian plateau
• ecotowns like Auroville in South India
• the Federation of Damanhur in Italy
• Nimbin in Australia
• small rural ecovillages like Gaia Asociación in Argentina and Huehuecoyotl, Mexico
• urban rejuvenation projects like Los Angeles EcoVillage and Christiania in Copenhagen
• permaculture design sites such as Crystal Waters, Australia, and Cochabamba, Bolivia and Barus, Brazil
• educational centers such as Findhorn in Scotland, Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales, and Earthlands in Massachusetts.

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