Community

How can we build our homes and communities so that they co-exist harmoniously with Nature? What does it mean to create a sustainable house, a sustainable community, a sustainable city? For each additional day that we live, design and build unsustainably, we pull another fibre out of the fabric of Earth’s ecosystems.

• Sustainable Communities Consultancy – Guy Dauncey’s green building and development business
• Ecotopia! - as appeared in Common Ground magazine

Green Building

• Where is LEED leading us?
• Beddington Zero Energy Development (BedZED), Sutton, UK.

Community Planning

• Car Sharing in Vancouver
• Bamberton - The Sustainable Town that Nearly Happened
• A Sustainability Score Card for Proposed New Developments
• Village Homes, Davis, California
• Sustainability in Community Design : 40 Questions
• 21 Sustainable Property Management Solutions for the 21st Century
• 15 Ways to Build a Sustainable Community
• Public Hearings in British Columbia - Can We Do It better ?
• What is an Eco-Friendly Infrastructure ?
• Ten Easy Things that a Municipal Officer Can Do on a Monday Morning
• Local and Regional Approaches to Growth and Change
• A Checklist for New Sustainable Communities
• Smart Planning, Smart Growth
• 15 Ways to Fix the Suburbs

Neighbourhoods

• Recreating Our Neighbourhood Centres
• A Blizzard of Self-Organizing Neighbourhoods
• In Praise of Neighbourhoods

EcoVillages and Cohousing

• EcoVillages – Eight Stages of Building
• Building an EcoVillage Economy
• EcoVillages – Global Links and Examples
• Gaviotas, Colombia – Re-Inventing the World

Transport

• Celebrating Car-Free Cities
• Walking in the City
• Let’s Make this Island a Cyclists’ Heaven
• Could Victoria be a Slow City?
• The Sustainable City

Ecohousing at Findhorn

Last Updated January 2005