Directory of Eco-villages in Europe - Kennedy Bibliothek

France
Montlaur
existing
eco-village
Les Sources
Founded at the end of 1993, our international association has acquired
a 35 hectare land with 4 buildings; this land has its own spring. The
acquisition has been financed by private loans and a bank loan. We
expect to build additional houses according to our needs.
Each member, living on site, has to be financially independent; 7 people
are permanently installed in our village and have outside activities.
Possibilities are given to work in our village in agriculture or other
traditional activities.
On the cultural and spiritual point of view, everybody has his own activity
and his own way of thinking and living. We do not have any dogma
or „guru".
The decisions are taken in common agreement during working groups.
A „heart-meeting" has been created in order to give everybody the
possibility to explain their problems and to listen to the other members
of the village. During these meetings, we try to solve our conflicts.
We work every day together in common jobs, for instance: renewing or
rebuilding, maintenance, garden, kitchen, firewood, planting... Our
garden and our orchard are based on biological concepts and know
how, including the principles of permaculture. Concerning energy, we
have made the following investments:
• solar boiler
" solar cooker
• micro photo-voltaic power station installed on a pick-up truck
8 photo voltaic power station
• biological waste water recycling
In the future we expect to install or to develop:
• a windmill for power supply
• a water turbine
8 a car driven by electricity from photo voltaic
• a solar dryer for fruit...
60