Eco Village

It's a utopian fantasy- discover a ghost town and rebuild it in line with your ideals-, but in Spain where there are nearly 3000 abandoned villages (most dating back to the Middle Ages), some big dreamers have spent the past 3 decades doing just that.

There are now a few dozen "ecoaldeas" - ecovillages - in Spain, most build from the ashes of former Medieval towns. One of the first towns to be rediscovered was a tiny hamlet in the mountains of northern Navarra.

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Eco Tourism

When the young group of Vivood architects discovered an abandoned animal preserve perched on a hillside in the stunning Guadalest Valley (Alicante, Spain) they knew they’d found a home for their landscape hotel. 

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VIVOOD Landscape Hotel

Eco Farming

The making of this film was inspired by a fascinating week of study in May 2019 - funded through the Erasmus+ program and facilitated by ARCH - to the 500 hectares Dehesa San Francisco Farm in Andalucía, owned by the environmental organisation Fundación Monte  (Source: Youtube)

DEHESA Agroforestry Farming System

Sustainability

Sunseed is a non-formal education project for the transition towards sustainability in Southern Spain. It's an off-grid transient community committed to self-sufficient living and environmental stewardship.

Sunseed Desert Technology