About Us

UEN's Primary Objectives
Increase communication among urban ecovillages

Organize gatherings of urban ecovillagers and interested parties

Create and promote speakers/writers bureau to produce/gather, distribute articles on the urban ecovillage concept and existing projects

Seek grants/donations and provide services to urban ecovillages to accelerate their public demonstration efforts

Expand public awareness of the urban ecovillage option

Urban Ecovillage Directory
Note: we include in our network organizations that do not specifically identify themselves as ecovillages, but which fit the criteria anyway.

To find urban ecovillage projects, please use the Ecovillage Network of the Americas database and mark "urban focus" as a search criteria.

Many urban ecovillages can also be located on the Communities Directory at www.ic.org.

This website was first organized by Orion Kriegman, Boston, USA; Manda Gillespie, Cleveland, USA; Anamaria Aristizabal, Bogota, Columbia; Lois Arkin, Los Angeles, USA; Orlando Balbas, Brazil; Robert Bolman, Eugene, USA; Jacob Corvidae, Detroit, USA; Thomas Maguire, Alberta, Canada; Brett Trogrimson, Cincinatti, USA;