Last year our group sponsored a one-day trip to visit and tour the Ecovillage at Ithaca (EVI). This year our colleagues in the New York Back-to-the-Land / Ecovillage Movement Meetup are sponsoring a similar trip, but it will be a two-day excursion involving an overnight stay.
It’s too much driving to go to Ithaca and back in one day from NYC. But it’s do-able from most points in northern New Jersey. So we NJ folks have two options if we want to piggyback on the arrangements being made by our New York friends: Some of us could sign up for the Saturday tour, drive up to Ithaca in the morning, eat dinner with the New York participants, then drive back to New Jersey at night. Others might want to allocate the weekend and join in with the full two-day program.
In either case, it’s always of value to see the progress being made at Ithaca. Established in 1995 and located on 175 acres, EVI is an award-winning (and one of the most well-known) ecovillages in North America. Over 22 years it has developed into a large and fully functioning community. Buildings and landscape, farms and gardens, roads and paths, governance structures and group process, and — most importantly — relationships, are created and cared for. In November 2014, EVI’s third and newest neighborhood was awarded a coveted Zero-Energy-Ready Home certification by the US Department of Energy.
Learn more about EVI here: http://ecovillageithaca.org
The October 21st and 22nd tours will include an eco-psychology walk, background on how EVI began, and Q&A sessions on community development. There will also be in-depth, hands-on workshops on green building, local food, and community building. For details, cost, and sign-up info, click the event listing below. Please RSVP to secure your spot since space is limited. RSVP deadline is October 13.
Want to Carpool? Sign up here to offer a ride or indicate that you are looking for one — but if you want a ride it’s up to you to reach out to the person(s) nearest you and make arrangements with them. Please note that you may need a separate ride there and back depending on whether you plan to return the same day or stay overnight.
To view carpool sign-up results go here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1C7cehTdCoBA-DcKCOU1kqsYg33EKu6ZrN1fr2uSUwHA/edit#gid=65223317.
Hi Jonathan,
I will definitely be coming to the tour on Saturday. I don’t know yet if I will stay overnight or not, as I am in the middle of making plans to drive to see an old friend up in Burlington, VT. If it turns out that I will not be going to Vermont, then I will want to stay overnight and in that case, I would also be able to take another person or two (I live in Montclair, NJ).
Since I don’t yet know what my plans are beyond the Saturday afternoon tour, I don’t think I can sign up for anything yet.
Thanks Jonathan!
I’m just now wondering if there isn’t a doc missing here as the one referred to here, “For details, cost, and sign-up info, click the Google doc below,” seems to be the doc for ride sharing.
best, Sarah
Right. I still had the old sign-up page linked. That’s now been fixed (I hope). Thanks
Hi Jonathan, I’d like to join this tour but I will be coming from the Hudson Valley. I’m going to look in to an overnight stay and may be bringing another interested party. Do I/we need to register with you and/or with Ithaca?
Our hosts now want all registrations handled through here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ecovillage-at-ithaca-weekend-tour-and-workshop-tickets-38520131751
Thanks!