Ecovillages & Earthships - new ways of living, with: Kevan Trott and Nathaniel White

[Louis Loizou]

Interviews with: Kevan Trott, began work with building contractors, gained an MBA and was for 15 years a council building inspector and now a Chartered Surveyor and Chartered Environmentalist, involved in feasibility study for a 16 Earthship Development above Brighton Marina and in obtaining planning permission - he hopes it will go ahead if his funding group can buy the land once it is released for sale. He has almost finished a working Earthship in Normandy and was also involved in the latter stages of the Earthship in Stanmer Park Brighton;

Nathaniel White raised in Vermont, USA, left college early to work within Intentional Communities and socially responsible or green businesses, in 1997 co-founder of The Ecovillages Network of The Americas. He developed expertise in supporting personal transformation and creating high quality relationships, training for 3 years with shamans in the American south-west and 2 years with pioneering psychologists. Now completing a BA in Anthropology at Sussex, and serves others through his life-coaching consultancy Integrity Unlimited, he is also one of the organisers of a group seriously intending to create and live in an ecovillage near Brighton.

LINKS AND RESOURCES
http://www.earthship.co.uk/ Kevan Trott (Brighton based) & Michael Reynolds ( USA Originator/Designer of Concept) & Daren Howarth who partnered them in setting up Earthship Biotecture Europe (EBE) with links to Green Building Web Ring

http://www.earthship.net/ Michael Reynolds Original international site for Earthships

http://www.earthship-france.com Kevan Trott's Earthship in Normandy

http://www.lowcarbon.co.uk/ Info on The Brighton Earthship and links

http://www.chaordic.org/ The Chaordic Commons is a global network of individuals and organizations committed to pioneering new ways to organize, based on the discovery and expression of deep common purposes and essential principles of right relationship. http://www.sociocracy.info/ "Sociocracy is a method of governing organizations, both businesses and associations, that produces more effective and harmonious decision-making."
http://www.consensus.net/ Books & resources on conflict & consensus http://www.gen-europe.org/ The European Ecovillage Network http://www.isec.org.uk/ International Society for Ecology & Culture http://www.arcosanti.org/main.html a kind of urban laboratory in the USA http://www.calearth.org/ Good for info and pictures from a Californian Institute

http://www.transitionbrightonandhove.org.uk/ a good place to begin as interested in all transitional change
http://transitionculture.org/ Transition Towns

http://www.villagejourney.blogspot.com/ Nathaniel White's Group committed to setting up an ecovillage
[e-mail] email for Gaian business projects
http://www.ecovillage.org/ Global Ecovillage Network"">http://www.ecovillage.org/ Global Ecovillage Network
http://www.livingroutes.org/ Study abroad in ecovillages

http://www.myspace.com/benkonstantinovic Gifted young local guitarist playing live in January 2008 program.
http://www.estherbertram.com/index.html Local singer-songwriter played on show
http://www.myspace.com/uknarf Galician guitarist supreme played on show, touring UK in Spring