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Michigan Ecovillages and Intentional Communities Touring -- July 17 through 24, 2025

Updated: Jul 14

Join likeminded people July 17 through 24, as we explore Michigan examples of sustainability, resilience, and restoration. Events are free, but everyone should pre-register to let us know when and where you will join us, and whether you will join in person or by Zoom meeting. [So far, noone has asked for Zoom Access. We will try to make recordings, notes, photos, and summaries at each stop, and can share those with everyone later.] In person guests will provide their own transportation, meals, and lodging if necessary.


All Michigan existing and planned ecovillages are invited to participate, and anyone interested in neighborhood, village, and community based development, sustainability, restoration, and resilency are invited, too. Plans for the tour might still have some adjustments, though the most daily schedules and locations are known. We welcome input from everyone about topics and presenters for discussion. Plans will be adjusted based on registrations and through communications with the registered guests. Please see the EVENTS listings here: https://www.communityenergysolutions.info/events. Each day of the tour has its own EVENT listing.


Co-sponsors for the tour include:


Co-sponsors are assisting with information sharing and are invited to provide content during any of the daily tour events.

 

Community Energy Solution's Tom Stanton is working on multiple projects centered around Ecovillages and Intentional Communities of all kinds. He has helped to establish multiple projects affiliated with Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) and a few of the regional groups that are included in the GEN family of organizations. Those include GEN-Europe, GENNA (for North America), and GEN-CASA (for Central and South America).


Tom initiated what is now a joint project between GEN International and Appropedia (the open-source Wiki for appropriate and sustainable technologies). This project is focusing on success stories and all kinds of technologies, governance practices, decision making tools, and frameworks and guidelines for ecovillages. See https://www.appropedia.org/Ecovillages_%26_Intentional_Communities_Energy_and_Climate_Action_Research_Project.

 

Tom is also working with GEN International and the Foundation for Intentional Community, on a joint project that is generating a comprehensive database and global map to identify existing and planned ecovillages. https://ecovillage.org/map-update/.


Our partners are already exploring how to publish comprehensive listings of places to see and people to meet all over Michigan. We welcome volunteers to participate in these efforts, and as funding permits we will work with others to establish more Michigan tours, covering the state from shore to shore to shore to shore to shore.


Those interested in Ecovillages and Intentional Communities are invited to visit these web sites that contain extensive resources about such communities:



 
 
 

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