Tecnologias socioambientais das ecovilas reaplicadas além de suas fronteiras.

Abstract

Ecovillage are intentional communities that seek to live and develop themselves in a more integrated way with Nature. The first experiences date from the end of the 1960s, those experiences derived from the movement called counterculture. More ecovillages have been emerging over time around the globe; they act as actual human sustainability laboratories. Since the 1990s, they have been among the best sustainability practices according to ONU. This exploratory, descriptive research, sought to understand the relationship between ecovillages and their surroundings, focusing on the study of sustainability practices that are developed and re-applied beyond their geographical boundaries, addressed as socioenvironmental technologies in this study. In order to achieve this, the study methodology chosen was the multiple-case method. The ecovillage called Terra Mirim, located at Simões Filho in Bahia Brazil and Aroville, located near Pondicherry city in the southeastern region of the island, were chosen for in depth analysis purposes. The data was collected through bibliographical references, visits, interviews, official website, documents, pictures and maps using different methods adapted to each case considering their respective particularities and the researcher’s limitations. The research presents the context which the ecovillages are inserted in, their principles and practices, an overall landscape with international and national examples and a series of socioenvironmental projects developed by Terra Mirim and Auroville in their surroundings.