Arcosanti - Ecovillages - North America Green Century Institute: Green Community Network - This relatively simple Green Community Network Map is a concept demonstration for a next generation mapping interface that is being developed under the auspices of the Green Century Institute. GCI has already initiated a full software development spec of this leading edge green 'metamap' and will soon be putting it out for development to the green open source community. The current map gives a geographical access point for navigating across the internet to the websites for various green communties around the world—with an emphasis on communities in the Green Century Institute's local bioregion, the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California. If you have information on a green community you would like to see added to the Green Community Network Map or any other ecological development projects that fits neatly within the map's current categories, please contact GCI through this site, providing project/community description and links in the body of the email.

Arcosanti

Ecovillages

arcosanti website

Arcosanti is an experimental architectural project of the Cosanti Foundation, a nonprofit educational foundation. As a construction site our goal is to build a prototype structure called an "Arcology." Arcology (architecture as ecology) is a concept developed by founder and chief architect Paolo Soleri. When complete Arcosanti will rise 25 stories on approximately 30 acres of land in a complex, three-dimensional, energy-efficient, pedestrian configuration of integrated living/working/social spaces for about 5,000 people of all ages.
As it is now we serve as a learning center, offering five-week workshops in which over 6,000 students and people of all interests have come to participate. All of our residents, volunteers, and interns come in through our five-week workshops. After completing the workshop, you have the option to become a resident or volunteer. We offer many areas of interest, including construction, planning, bronze foundry, woodworking, landscaping, and agriculture. We offer a gallery, bakery and cafe open to the public as well as guided tours from our gallery seven days a week from ten until four. We do welcome visitors and have overnight accommodations available. Closed Chirstmas and Thanksgiving. Call for details.

North America

Green Century Institute: Green Community Network

This relatively simple Green Community Network Map is a concept demonstration for a next generation mapping interface that is being developed under the auspices of the Green Century Institute. GCI has already initiated a full software development spec of this leading edge green 'metamap' and will soon be putting it out for development to the green open source community.

The current map gives a geographical access point for navigating across the internet to the websites for various green communties around the world—with an emphasis on communities in the Green Century Institute's local bioregion, the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California. If you have information on a green community you would like to see added to the Green Community Network Map or any other ecological development projects that fits neatly within the map's current categories, please contact GCI through this site, providing project/community description and links in the body of the email.