 Echowood is a group of pragmatic idealists, everything from writers to carpenters, web designers to organic farmers. We're working to develop a new way to live based on living in community with others while doing our part to bring the planet into a state of ecological balance. We're building a rural community where people can have meaningful, lasting friendships and fulfilling work.
We are working to create a sustainable culture outside of our current norms of social alienation and loneliness, meaningless dead-end jobs, waste, and mass consumerism. Using our creativity and individuality, we work to build a better life through cooperation rather than competition. We're learning how to help each other out and to combine our individual strengths into a community that’s only boundaries are our imaginations.
We strive to be as self-supporting as possible using both traditional and modern technologies and our own “do it yourself” sustainable systems wherever possible, always moving toward self-sufficiency and environmental responsibility through reuse, salvage, recycling, conservation, and renewable resources.
Echowood is located one hour southeast of Austin, Texas, on 23 acres in a rural area of rolling farm and ranch land. Our land has forested areas, large trees, pastures and a pond for swimming. Because the community is relatively new (started in April, 2007), we are still developing many of our facilities. There are currently two houses and a cluster of smaller buildings, and an organic garden. Read more about our projects.
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