Third Day – Sunday, August 22
9:00 am – 10:00 am – "Finding & Financing Ecovillage Land"- Story #1
Review of 2nd day. Great land-buying adventure, part 1 (how Sowing Circle/OAEC purchased
& financed their properties.
--- Break – 10:00 - 10:15 am ---
10:15 – 11:15 am – "Finding & Financing Ecovillage Land" - Stories #2 & #3
Great land-buying adventure (how Dancing Rabbit and Earthaven purchased and financed
their properties. Small group exercise: What you liked, didn't like, found surprising.
--- Break – 11:15- 11:30 am ---
11:30am – 12: 30 pm – Legal Options for Owning Shared Property
Ecovillage Story: How Abundant Dawn Found Their Lawyer. Legal options for owning shared
property. (How OAEC, Dancing Rabbit, Earthaven, and EcoVillage at Ithaca use legal entities
to own property and administer educational programs.)
--- Lunch - 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm ---
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm – Making It Affordable for People to Join
Ecovillage Story: The "Most Favored Young People" Status. Paying site fees & joining fees
over time. Sweat equity programs for sustainable logging and farming. Work exchange
programs. Long-Term Resident status. Associate Member (renter) status. Small group
exercise: What you liked, didn't like, found surprising.
--- break 2:30 pm – 2:45 pm---
2:45 pm – 3:45 pm – Evaluating & Supporting Participants' Community Projects
Advice, resources, and support from the instructor and other participants on each other's
community projects.
--- break 3:45 pm – 4:00 pm---
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm – Creating "Community Glue"
Ecovillage Story: The Feeling, Thinking, & Business Meetings of Ecovillage Sieben Linden.
Factors that create "community glue." Exercise: The Gifting Circle Process. Workshop
evaluation. Closing.