Findhorn
Ecovillages
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The Findhorn Foundation is the educational heart of the spiritual community founded in 1962 by Peter and Eileen Caddy and Dorothy Maclean in Morayshire, northeast Scotland.
Our work is based on the values of :
* living from our personal source of inner divine wisdom
* co-operation with the intelligence of nature
* service to the world
We have no formal creed or doctrine, and honour all the world's major religions as paths to our inner divinity. We believe humanity is engaged in an evolutionary expansion of consciousness, and we seek to develop new ways of living infused with spiritual values, in harmony with the earth and with each other.
We are a centre of spiritual education, offering people many ways to visit, live and work in a transformative community environment. Over 400 people live within or are locally connected to our community.
Our residential Experience Weeks began in 1974 and provide a powerful, often heart-opening, introduction to our spiritual principles and their application in daily life, and have been attended by over 30,000 people.
The development of our ecovillage is a continuation of our work with nature and is a tangible demonstration of the links between the environment and the social, economic and spiritual aspects of life. It is a constantly evolving model. The Findhorn Foundation is a founding member of Global Ecovillage Network and is associated with the Department of Public Information of the United Nations as a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO).
Europe
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.