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Academic Papers / Articles / Essays / Publications

Academic Papers

Ecovillage

(000) General Systems Theory As a Conceptual Tool For Village Designers

(001) The Ecovillage As A Living Cell

(002) Ecovillages as Living Systems: Reviewing and Renewing Organic Settlement Patterning

(003) A Concise History Of The Global Ecovillage Movement

(004) Ecovillage As Ecosystem

Economics

(005) Ecovillage Economics: Advocating a Human Scale

(006) The Economics Of Sustainable Leisure

(007) A Brief Overview Of Village Economics

Ekistics

(008) Classic Egyptian Settlement Patterns

(009) Classic Maya Settlement Patterns

(010) Sustainable Settlement Energetics: EMergy and Ecovillage

(011) Sustainable Cities: An Oxymoron?

Spirituality & Cosmology

(012) Neogenesis

(013) Apocalypse: Prelude to Enlightenment

(014) Jungian Typology as an Archetypal Structural Model

(015) Mythologizing for Our Times: Opening the Space for Emergent Possibilities

(016) Tao Of Manifestation

(017) Utopia

(018) Body Resemblance

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Articles

(019) Educating for the Ecovillage Millennium

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Essays

(020) Home!

(021) Entropy

(022) Grounding

(023) Deep Ecology

(024) The Five Kingdoms Of Life

(025) How Does Gaia Teach ?

(026) Human Ecology Informs Us How To Be Good At Being Human

(027) Lament Of A Nature Writer

(028) Maximizing Potential

(029) Sustainability

(030) The Donovan Farm

(031) The Problem With Civilization

(032) Tracing The Origin Of A Can Of Cola

(033) Water Distribution Systems

(034) Wind

(035) Comparative Analysis Of Radical Vs. Incremental Change

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