Related: findhorn_ecovillage · auroville
Overview
Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, Rutledge, Missouri. Key I09 benchmark: residents have reduced their ecological footprint to 10% or less of the average American. Achieved through abandoning exclusive ownership of goods, investing in collective resource management skills, reducing waste, and using local resources. LIT_012
Communal economy model: rent $150–450/month. Representative of the “full sharing” end of the ecovillage economic spectrum. LIT_012
Evidence
- Ecological footprint: 10% or less of average American — achieved through collective ownership, resource sharing, waste reduction, local sourcing. (Boyer 2016, primary source pending [RT_052]). LIT_012
- Cost of living: rent $150–450/month communal wage model. LIT_012
- Per-capita consumption vs average American (Lockyer 2017 PAR data, 2013–15): electricity 744 kWh/yr (18%), water 20 gal/91 L per day (23%; 65% rainwater self-supply), solid waste 0.09 kg/day (18%; 73% recycled), vehicle fuel 28 gal/yr (6%), propane 22 therms/yr (5%), 0.06 cars/capita (8%) — aggregate ~10% of US per-capita resource use. LIT_081
- Community energy: BEDR power cooperative runs 25 kW solar PV, grid-connected, covenant to export ≥2× renewable drawn (3.5× in 2012). LIT_081
- Governance: community-land-trust (land out of speculative market, permanently-affordable leaseholds), cooperatives for utilities/vehicles, consensus→village-council decision-making, six ecological covenants. LIT_081
- Quality of life: 81% of members report happiness ≥7/10; 88% rate DR “good”/“extremely good” — on par with mainstream Seattle residents despite ~10% resource use. LIT_081
Open questions
Lockyer 2017 primary now ingested (LIT_081) — supplies the per-capita consumption dataset and governance model. Boyer 2016 (RT_052) still pending for the formal one-planet-living / ecological-footprint methodology, which this paper deliberately does not compute.
Connections
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Sources (2): LIT_012 · LIT_081
Cases (2): Auroville · Findhorn Ecovillage
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Cases (2): Auroville · Findhorn Ecovillage