Green Technology and the Design of a Green Lifestyle
Keywords:
green lifestyle, ecovillage, cohousing, consumptionAbstract
Ecovillages are illustrative of a growing social and environmental trend. They bolster the view that adopting green technology is a promising and realistic resource on the road to sustainable living. These ecological cohousing neighborhoods and communities are being designed as places where residents can live in harmony with nature and with each other. Using green technology in the various forms it holds, these new communities are raising important questions about the role and importance of green technology in the local and global efforts to respond to an environmental crisis. Using anthropological methods to analyze the ways in which some residents of Ecovillage at Ithaca use green technology to create a green lifestyle, this paper describes the challenges and opportunities residents negotiate as they struggle to create a social and environmentally sustainable way to live.
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