BOOK: Eco-Homes: People, place and politics

My book about eco-homes worldwide will be published on 16th January 2016. It is being published by Zed Books (London) and Chicago University Press (USA) as a paperback, so hopefully reasonably affordable. Book blurb: It is widely understood that good, affordable eco-housing needs to be at the heart of any attempt to mitigate or adapt to climate … Continue reading BOOK: Eco-Homes: People, place and politics

My house and home: Living in an eco-house

We have lived in our new eco-house for six years now and at time progress has been very slow – we are only just feeling like we have got it how we want it to be. But it has also been far more transformative that I had imagined, knowing where my water and electricity comes from … Continue reading My house and home: Living in an eco-house

Findhorn Eco-village, Forres, Scotland

    Houses at Findhorn  Trying to summarise what Findhorn is about, what it does and what contribution it makes is almost impossible. Every visitor, resident, student or employee would focus on something different. Even in its own literature it describes itself as a ‘spiritual community, learning centre, ecovillage’. It is these three things and so … Continue reading Findhorn Eco-village, Forres, Scotland

Book review: The Birth of an eco-village by Paul Wimbush

Starting an eco-village is such an enormous and ambitious task that few attempt it and many fail early on. Despite a plethora of books about eco-village living, few detail the full painstaking journey of founding one (Diana Leafe Christian’s Creating a Life Together and Jan Martin Bang’s Growing Eco-Communities being the two main exceptions). This … Continue reading Book review: The Birth of an eco-village by Paul Wimbush

LILAC, Leeds: Low Impact Living Affordable Community

LILAC is a new co-housing eco-development in urban west Leeds (Bramley), Britain. It is particularly interesting because it is using straw bale, it is accessible (the definition of which I will return to), affordable, grassroots, collective, and (sub)urban. There are 12 flats, 8 houses and a communal house, building work is advancing at a pace … Continue reading LILAC, Leeds: Low Impact Living Affordable Community