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    Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage: by Megan Weiss

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    Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage is a sustainable community located in Missouri founded in 1997. Its mission is to create a small town that allows residents to live sustainably without degrading resources. The community uses sustainable energy, grows its own food locally, produces little waste, and governs through consensus-based committees. Visitors can experience the sustainable lifestyle through workshops and community living. One visitor reflected that residents seemed happier and more relaxed than in the outside world, and that small behavioral changes across many could have more impact than drastic changes by few.

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    Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage is a sustainable community located in Missouri founded in 1997. Its mission is to create a small town that allows residents to live sustainably without degrading resources. The community uses sustainable energy, grows its own food locally, produces little waste, and governs through consensus-based committees. Visitors can experience the sustainable lifestyle through workshops and community living. One visitor reflected that residents seemed happier and more relaxed than in the outside world, and that small behavioral changes across many could have more impact than drastic changes by few.

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    Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage is a sustainable community located in Missouri founded in 1997. Its mission is to create a small town that allows residents to live sustainably without degrading resources. The community uses sustainable energy, grows its own food locally, produces little waste, and governs through consensus-based committees. Visitors can experience the sustainable lifestyle through workshops and community living. One visitor reflected that residents seemed happier and more relaxed than in the outside world, and that small behavioral changes across many could have more impact than drastic changes by few.

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    Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage is a sustainable community located in Missouri founded in 1997. Its mission is to create a small town that allows residents to live sustainably without degrading resources. The community uses sustainable energy, grows its own food locally, produces little waste, and governs through consensus-based committees. Visitors can experience the sustainable lifestyle through workshops and community living. One visitor reflected that residents seemed happier and more relaxed than in the outside world, and that small behavioral changes across many could have more impact than drastic changes by few.

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    Dancing

    Rabbit
    Ecovillage
    By Megan Weiss
    What is Dancing Rabbit?
    What is Dancing Rabbit?
    • Ecotopia! (Similar, but not)

    • Mission: To create a society, the size of a small town or village, made 
    up of individuals and communities of various sizes and social 
    structures, which allows and encourages its members to live 
    sustainably.* 
    • To encourage this sustainable society to grow to have the size and 
    recognition necessary to have an influence on the global community 
    by example, education, and research.

    • Sustainability: “…no resources are consumed faster than their 
    natural replenishment, and the enclosed system can continue 
    indefinitely without degradation of its internal resource base or the 
    standard of living of the people and the rest of the ecosystem within 
    it, and without contributing to the non‐sustainability of ecosystems 
    outside.”
    History
    • Synergy – student co‐op at Stanford 
    University, 1993
    • Three students 
    • Vision: Ecotown of 1000
    • 1993‐95: Email list and monthly potluck
    • 1995: Head to Berkeley, CA! 
    • Doesn’t cut it though…
    • 1996: Six from the original group set out 
    in search of a new home
    • 1997: Land purchased in Sandhill, 
    Missouri 
    • 1998: Down to only four members
    • 1999: Steady growth and experiments 
    with eco technologies
    • 2004: 20 members 
    • 2007: 40 members and 16 new buildings 
    • Today: 45 members
    Requirements and
    Non‐Requirements
    Required  Not Required 
    • No cars on Dancing Rabbit • Vegan or vegetarian 
    • No use of fossil fuels for cars,  • Conform to a certain religion 
    heating, or cooling • Give up modern healthcare 
    • No biocides may be used • Completely abandon vehicle 
    • Electricity produced there  transportation 
    only from sustainable sources
    • Lumber must be reused, 
    locally harvested, or 
    sustainably harvested
    • Waste disposals used for 
    organic recycled materials 
    Village Life
    • Local currency 
    • Car‐pooling
    • Humanure! 
    • Break free from gender roles
    • Consensus‐style government
    How?
    • Drive Less  • Less Meat and More Local
    • Average 911 miles vs 6500/year • Vegetarian and vegan diets cut 
    footprint by 30%, 40% respectively
    • Less Electricity 
    • Local food cuts food transport
    • Cut home electricity use by 80%
    • Use sustainable energy  • Less Waste
    • Produce 2 lbs. of waste a day 50% 
    • No gas products for heating
    less than the average American
    • Use local firewood
    • Recycle 80% of waste while the 
    • Moving towards homes that have  average American recycles 34%
    super insulation 
    Sustainable Living
    Visitor Program
    • 2 weeks (can stay for only 1)
    • Live in a tent, cabin, or natural 
    building 
    • Workshops about DR life (green 
    construction, alternative 
    currency, inner sustainability and 
    communication etc.)
    • Help with daily chores 
    (gardening, cooking, building 
    etc.)
    • Community Fun!  
    Reflection: Roy Chijiiwa
    • “I didn’t quite anticipate how sane the place would feel, and how 
    crazy the “real world” would seem once I came out of the 
    experience.”
    • “The people seem relaxed, and happier. They stop to interact with 
    each other.”
    • “As far as governance goes, they have an interesting streamlined 
    version of a consensus‐based model, where functional areas are 
    broken into separate committees.”
    • “In the grand scheme of things, getting a large number of people to 
    slightly change their behaviors might be far more impactful than 
    getting a tiny number of people to live drastically different (albeit 
    sustainable) lifestyles.” [Do you agree or disagree?]
    Resources
    • http://www.dancingrabbit.org/
    • http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green‐
    science/sustainable‐community2.htm
    • https://laptopandarifle.com/2014/09/08/thoughts‐from‐a‐
    short‐visit‐to‐dancing‐rabbit‐ecovillage/
    • http://www.resilience.org/stories/2015‐03‐11/dancing‐rabbit‐
    ecovillage‐living‐abundantly‐on‐10/

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