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In the United States, and particularly Texas,  we venerate independence and privacy. We dream of living on acreage or owning our own private mountain top. Add our reliance upon the personal automobile and we have produced an isolated society. With this isolation, we lost accountability to our friends, neighbors, and family.

At least in part because of our lost accountability, we have become a society of wasters. The U.S., with 6% of the world's population, uses 25% of the world's resources. If everyone in the world lived like Americans, we would need at least four planets to support our lifestyles. 

There is an environmental movement back to sustainability which includes a movement back to acting locally. Acting locally includes community. 

The American past was rooted in community. We all knew our neighbors; we cared for them; they cared for us; we had a feeling of place and belonging. Americans acted locally. 

Combine community with sustainability and accountability and you have the beginnings of an ideal we can call an ecovillage. 

According to Robert and Diane Gilman: "An ecovillage is a human-scale, full-featured settlement in which human activities are harmlessly integrated into the natural world in a way that supports healthy human development, and which can be successfully continued into the indefinite future."

An urban ecovillage is a housing settlement which strives for sustainability in design and cooperation among residents. It is comprised of one of more intentional  communities where residents share common spaces and some common land while retaining their privacy with individual home ownership. 

Cohousing started in Denmark in 1969 when a group of professionals looking for less time-consuming domestic duties and better child care started an intentional community. From this first intentional community, the cohousing movement started. It is a form of cooperative housing.

Cooperative housing is the ideal of an ecovillage and the combination is a concept our society can utilize to become whole again. 

Again, whatever you call it is not important. The importance lies in combining these movements and bringing them to Dallas-Fort Worth and North Central Texas. 

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