How entire village runs fully off-grid on small hydropower & solar

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• DN

  @dne50 · 1 year ago

  Seems like a real model of cooperation. That's not easy to do for 30 years. Kudos to everyone involved

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• BW

  @bwonglife · 1 year ago

  We love Earthaven! My wife and I visited last year and left deeply inspired by their ways of living more ecologically and communally. If anyone is looking for something similar on the west coast, we just joined a forming ecovillage an hour north of Seattle called Rooted Northwest and are actively looking for new members as we build out our first village :) <br><br>Also, Diana Leafe Christian from Earthaven has been an advisor to our community and I&apos;ve heard various founding members express their deep gratitude to her. Thank you to Diana and everyone at Earthaven for their example and leading the way!

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• ST

  @strongsam-b2c · 1 year ago

  One minute in and that kid is amazing! Most kids can identify thirty fast food restaurants but this kid has her plants down!!!

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• LI

  @lisawyer7524 · 1 year ago

  I am amazed at the ingenuity of this community.

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• CH

  @chelu4u · 1 year ago

  The main results I see in this experiment is love and caring for each other 👍

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• SA

  @sashastarshanti3599 · 1 year ago

  I hope this community faired very well during and after Hurricane Helen&apos;s devastation of Western NC. I live on the NC coast and would love to visit this extraordinary community next time I&apos;m in Black Mountain.

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• SC

  @scottc8152 · 1 year ago

  Thanks for this view into off-grid communal living Kirsten. I&apos;m hoping to start a food and energy self-sufficient community in rural WI near Eau Claire using hyper-efficient housing combined with rocket stoves and thermosyphon systems for winter heat and hot water. Using solar, batteries and buried air tubes for AC in Spring-Fall, solar and batteries for powering mini splits too. Ruth Stout gardening with no weeding or watering (as shown in this video), in-ground greenhouses year-round, trying to get things a little simpler than what these fine folks have done. Great work there.

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• MA

  @mackigator · 1 year ago (edited)

  That soil restoration shown at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YfcVFExDJE&amp;t=669">11:09</a> is so dang impressive. I garden in the same red clay base, same mountain soil, and I am in awe of the amount of topsoil they have rebuilt. Just wow. Good work!

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• JI

  @jillpaull2206 · 5 months ago

  Love this neighborhood. &nbsp;Cooperative living! &nbsp;More people need to do this!

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• SO

  @sophiasometimes9818 · 4 months ago

  West Virginia needs this❤

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• EL

  @elfstone8606 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Born and raised WNC native, and ever since I heard about Earth Haven, I&apos;ve always been so proud of what they’re doing. <br><br>Keep it up, you great folks!!

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• AI

  @aileamanashebar5798 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Brava! Well done! As someone who knew a fair number of the original members of Earthaven I am blown away at how it looks today! A lot of what I &apos;knew&apos; about how Earthaven functioned behind the scenes for power and water, and especially about the styles of building in a sustainable community, suddenly made sense with the great visuals and what people said about what they were doing. The aerial shots gave me a grand sense of the size of the community that I had never imagined as that large. I learned a lot! Thanks for making this film, Kirsten!

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