I’ve been looking at alternative forms of rural living recently: less; hideously over-sized palace with 8ft hedge and winding crunchy gravel drive, more; slick, zero carbon, IKEA catalogue cabin with communal vegetable patch and reed bed waste filtration system.
Part of the research for this right-on way of living has led me to
communes in the form of a community that works the land and is mostly
off-grid for electricity and water but are still allowed to watch DVDs
and have a mobile and don’t pray to an alien overlord. Brithdir Mawr in Wales is a good example of a commune I’d actually quite like to live
in. The term ‘Eco Village’ reduces connotations to nudist colonies of cosmic beings but removes the aspect of social experimentation and people learning to live together as a community. However, Eco Villages seem more likely to be the future for the British; generally we’re a fairly unfriendly people, who delight in personal space.
- Originally posted to untroddenview.tumblr.com on 20.11.2012
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