Category Archives: Ecovillage

Local Action Circles to Meet Next Week (March 6-7-8)

Posted on Thursday, March 2, 2017 by Jonathan Cloud

Do you want to live in an Ecovillage? Then you must help us build one. Where do you want to live? In a city, town, suburb. or in a rural setting? Join us next week as we plan for our new … Continue reading →

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Action Packed Meetup this Sunday In Princeton

Posted on Wednesday, February 15, 2017 by Jonathan Cloud

Have we got a Meetup for you! Sunday, February 19 — Noon to 4:00pm 794 Alexander Road, Princeton, NJ 08540 After our traditional noon to 1 pm pot luck lunch, we will have Jack Carman, President of Design for Generations … Continue reading →

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Our Next Meetup – Sunday, February 19, 2017

Posted on Monday, February 13, 2017 by Jonathan Cloud

There’s been some interest in the idea of locating one of our New Jersey ecovillage communities in the Princeton area. So we’ve scheduled our next Meetup there — right down the block from where Albert Einstein used to live! Sunday, … Continue reading →

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Join an Action Circle to Grow an Ecovillage Near You

Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2017 by Jonathan Cloud

Ecovillage NJ is forming Action Circles to actively plan and grow 1 to 4 cooperative communities in the Garden State in the next 2 years. We have 4 circles to choose from: urban, town, suburban, and rural. Our first meetings … Continue reading →

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January 22nd Meetup – Imagining Our New Homes!

Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2017 by Jonathan Cloud

Sunday, Jan 22, 2017 12:00-4:00 PM Zelin / Cloud Home 8 Revere Drive, Bedminster, NJ This month we’ll be envisioning the location(s) of the first ecovillages in NJ. The process begins with each individual, as we imagine what our new … Continue reading →

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Nov 19 Meetup: Exploring Coops: What, Why and How They Work so Well

Posted on Saturday, October 22, 2016 by Jonathan Cloud

Saturday, November 19 at 12:00 PM, at Conservation Development LLC – Lise Thompson 626 Montgomery Road, Hillsborough, NJ (map) RSVP here Successful EcoVillages are built by people who understand what cooperative living is all about. Our coach in setting up … Continue reading →

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Creating an Ecovillage Co-op

Posted on Thursday, October 20, 2016 by Jonathan Cloud

As described elsewhere on this site, we have embraced a new approach to creating ecovillages in New Jersey, a cooperative proposal being led by a group of longtime activists and experts called the Ecovillagers Alliance. This post provides some of the key background … Continue reading →

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The Story So Far… A Brief History of EcovillageNJ

Posted on Monday, September 12, 2016 by Jonathan Cloud

It may be helpful to anyone interested in becoming a member of Ecovillage New Jersey to get a brief sense of the group’s history, current status, and intended future. Over the past few years, two key groups became interested in … Continue reading →

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Taking a New Direction

Posted on Sunday, September 11, 2016 by Jonathan Cloud

Over the past several months we’ve been exploring a new approach to “ecovillaging,” founded on a sustainability-based cooperative model developed by Joel Rothschild and the Ecovillagers Alliance. Steve Welzer had reached out to Katie McCamant to find the closest “graduate” of the … Continue reading →

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Financial Disclosure (End of Summer 2016)

Posted on Sunday, September 11, 2016 by Jonathan Cloud

As of this writing, the account contains $6,028.51, representing donations from members (of the Central/Northern NJ Ecovillage Meetup) and a small amount of interest from our credit union account. There have been no withdrawals so far, though these amounts are … Continue reading →

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