Ecovillage Findhorn

Four feasibility studies, funded by the Just Transition Fund with the aim of reducing carbon emissions, enhancing resilience, and generating green jobs in Moray and Scotland, have been successfully concluded. Image ©Arboreal

Experience and learn about this unique pioneering community through an immersive programme with other like-minded individuals. This programme is for innovators and change agents, artists and scientists, visionaries and healers or anyone with an interest in ecological or sustainable practices.

The Findhorn Ecovillage has been awarded a grant from the National Lottery to explore what is required for a village with residents and businesses, buildings, gardens and roads to achieve carbon neutrality.

Ecovillage Findhorn– is 60 years old. The pioneering eco-settlement in the Northeast of Scotland continues to play a leading role as a research and development centre for low-carbon lifestyles, pursued through a complex melange of dream and vision, dance and chant, technology and spirit, investigation and design, reflection and action, death and renewal.

Current thinking on suatainable humna habitat: The Findhorn Ecovillage case. Ecovillages worldwide address the contemporary quest for sustainability while increasing bioregional literacy and developing processes and tools that aim to reduce their ecological footprints. 

20-minute neighbourhoods are settlements of human scale and short distances where living and working are reconciled and long trips to work become unnecessary.