Self-Sustainable Village

What is sustainable village?

An ecovillage is a traditional or intentional community with
the goal of becoming more socially, culturally, economically,
and ecologically sustainable. ... However, such communities
often cooperate with peer villages in networks of their own
(see Global Ecovillage Network for an example).

What does self sustainable mean?

maintaining or able to maintain oneself or itself by
independent effort a self-sustaining community

DHARM RAJ JANGID

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 Innovative Self-Sustaining Village Model Could
Be the Future of Semi-Urban Living

An innovative new housing model dubbed ReGen Villages (short for regenerative) has been developed in response to
some of the world's most pressing environmental, social and economic issues. Helmed by Dutch holding firm ReGen
Villages B.V. and Copenhagen-based architecture firm EFFEKT, the new model facilitates off-the-grid, self-sustaining
communal neighborhoods that can be deployed across the globe. The first project site will be in Almere, the
Netherlands, with work starting this year.

The increasingly unavoidable facts about global warming, population growth, global food crisis and scarcity of
resources lead the project team to consider how a holistic development could offset the dangerous consequences of
human inhabitation. One of the largest drivers of environmental destruction and the loss of biodiversity remains the
agricultural industry, and so the project team has used a sustainable agricultural model to drive forth the input based
system of design.

The concept combines a variety of innovative technologies, such as energy positive homes, renewable energy, energy
storage, door-step high-yield organic food production, vertical farming aquaponics/aeroponics, water management
and waste-to-resource systems. Lynge explained in a press release: “ReGen Villages is all about applied technology.
We are simply applying already existing technologies into an integrated community design, providing clean energy,
water, and food right off your doorstep.“

Whilst half of the global population currently lives in cities, the efficiency of the ReGen systems could reduce a
household's dependency on high-frequency urban living. This would open up a new wave of peri-urbanism and rural
development, allowing a more sustainably distributed density of people across the planet's surface. This distribution
would also ease the burden on municipal and national governments who are currently buckling under the pressure of
their overpopulated areas.