Place-Based Living at Earthaven Ecovillage
An Overview of Our Regenerative Systems
Self-paced Online Course
Visitors to Earthaven Ecovillage are often surprised to hear that we are not yet fully sustainable or 100% self-sufficient. This online workshop helps define the context and describe the journey of moving from a consumer culture to a land-based, place-based life.
This course looks at the actual lived experiences of the over 29 years of village building through examining our homes, power, water, and waste systems, and especially our food and medicine. Compare and contrast the concepts of self-reliance, interdependence, permaculture, sustainability, resilience, regeneration when it comes to whole systems design.
This workshop is part of series of courses about Earthaven infrastructure with Lee Warren. This course explores the permaculture ethic of earth care in the creation and life at Earthaven.
This course was a good overview of how Earthaven got started. Lee Warren led the course well. She clearly has a thorough grasp of all the layers of interrelationship between all the systems and people that make Earthaven successful. She is an excellent communicator.
Program
Introduction
Video 1: Introduction to the course and instructor.
Overview of Place
Video 2: Why place is important.
Video 3: Geographical place aspects and information about the Southern Appalachian bioregion where Earthaven Ecovillage is located.
Video 4: Cultural place aspects and information about the cultural and economic context around Earthaven Ecovillage.
Video 5: Earthaven project aspects related to place, including the definition of an ecovillage, and Earthaven’s mission and vision.
Developing Earthaven Ecovillage
Video 6: Design approach based on ecological design or permaculture used when developing Earthaven.
Video 7: Clearing land and processing wood.
Video 8: Building common buildings and houses.
Video 9: Building roads, paths, and bridges.
Video 10: Utilities, including off-grid electricity, water, and carbon composting.
Wrap Up
Video 11: Thank you and blessings on your journey.
Cost
$35
What’s Included
Eleven videos totalling 73 minutes. Each video has subtitles and includes resources and a transcription.
You have access to this course for at least one year after purchase.
About the Instructor
Faculty and SOIL Co-Founder Lee is a sustainability professional with twenty five years of experience envisioning, designing, and living innovative solutions to organic food systems, intentional community, and sustainability education. She’s been living in rural, land-based community since 1995 and at Earthaven Ecovillage since 2000. 
Lee Warren