Title: Book Presentation:Eco-communities: Surviving Well Together
Date: Wednesday, 4th March, 2026
Time: (12:00 Brazil, 17:00 CEST, 18:00 Israel, 16:00 CET, 23:00 Perth, Australia)
Presenter: Jenny Pickerill
Facilitator: Jan Martin Bang
Eco-communities can inspire, provoke, and challenge us to live more environmentally harmonious and collective lives. They are practical, ongoing experimentations in how we might survive well together – humans and all livingbeings on this planet. Eco-communities are examples of grassroot efforts at socio-ecological transformation –self-organised practices, infrastructures and spaces that seek to transform ways of being, living and working. This book answers four critical questions: Can eco-communities generate socio-ecological transformations, and if so how and in what form?; Who lives in eco-communities and what are the implications of this demographic composition?; What does it entail to organise via collective governance practices?; and how do eco-communities operate financially and generate money and livelihoods? While many eco-communities attempt to transform allelements of their daily lives (a holistic and interconnected reworking of how we dwell, eat, work, educate,reproduce, age, etc.) these processes as always incomplete, in-the-making, unfinished and messy. The book explores the ongoing processes of navigating these tensions and contradictions that none-the-less create hope that we might be able to live otherwise and be involved in world-making projects.
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Format: 90-minute participatory academic session
Title: Book Presentation:Eco-communities: Surviving Well Together
Date: Wednesday, 4th March, 2026
Time: (12:00 Brazil, 17:00 CEST, 18:00 Israel, 16:00 CET, 23:00 Perth, Australia)
Presenter: Jenny Pickerill
Facilitator: Jan Martin Bang
Eco-communities can inspire, provoke, and challenge us to live more environmentally harmonious and collective lives. They are practical, ongoing experimentations in how we might survive well together – humans and all livingbeings on this planet. Eco-communities are examples of grassroot efforts at socio-ecological transformation –self-organised practices, infrastructures and spaces that seek to transform ways of being, living and working. This book answers four critical questions: Can eco-communities generate socio-ecological transformations, and if so how and in what form?; Who lives in eco-communities and what are the implications of this demographic composition?; What does it entail to organise via collective governance practices?; and how do eco-communities operate financially and generate money and livelihoods? While many eco-communities attempt to transform allelements of their daily lives (a holistic and interconnected reworking of how we dwell, eat, work, educate,reproduce, age, etc.) these processes as always incomplete, in-the-making, unfinished and messy. The book explores the ongoing processes of navigating these tensions and contradictions that none-the-less create hope that we might be able to live otherwise and be involved in world-making projects.
Check your time zone HERE
Format: 90-minute participatory academic session
