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New EcoVillages: Not Just For Hippies

Posted by: Tim Halbur

25 August 2009 - 9:00am

The Whole Village in Ontario, Canada is an environmentally sustainable co-op made up of architects, doctors and teachers instead of draft dodgers and dropouts.

"Far away from strip malls and other offspring of suburban sprawl, Whole Village provides the kind of model urban planners are now looking at for larger sustainable development."

"Over 191 acres, the residents farm, organically, many varieties of vegetables, fruit and grains for themselves and also to sell."

Full Story: Communes of the green generation
Source: The Montreal Gazette, August 24, 2009
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