Il Villaggio Verde
Il Villaggio Verde (the Green Village) of Cavallirio (NO) is an eco-village project founded at the beginning of the 1980's by Bernardino del Boca, a noted utopian and spiritual man, as well as an artist, anthropologist and philosopher. Founder of the publishing house "The Age of Aquarius" and of the journal bearing the same name. Bernardino del Boca passed away in the year 2001. Il Villaggio Verde was proposed to be an experimental center for the evolution of conscience of the new era, a free laboratory of living in accordance with theosophic - aquarian values, seeking harmony with one's self, with others and with nature. The Green village is an experimentation carried out by a group of people that fulfill different roles in society, at times recquiring a certain ammount of responsibility with the scope of putting forth a life example in contrast with that of the frenetic and polluting life of the city. The project foresees the creation of a village that is for the most part self sufficient and sustainable, made up of several families that are autonomous from an organizational and economic standpoint but with numerous collective spaces, moments and resources. There is not a predominant political or religious inspiration, nor a rigid set of rules: every one is free to participate or not to common activities according to personal needs and inclinations. Decisions are made in the majority looking, however, to reach unanimous consent, which is for the most part accomplished.
Association "Friends of the Green Village"
The inhabitants and almost 250 external sympathizers are grouped within the Association of Social promotion “Amici del Villaggio Verde” (friends of the Green Villagge), that carries out a series of activities, among which various organic agriculture techniques (biodynamic, synergic, permaculture - in collaboration with the Association Bionovara) , the management of a small wood and ceramic shop, the planning of excursions on foot, mountain bike or on horseback through the near natural riserve of the Barage and a calendar of courses, seminars and conferenzes on various themes from agriculture to architecture, holistic wellbeing disciplines or interior and spiritual search. It does not put itself forth then as an isolated place but as a sustinaible development project and a center for the disclosure of culture and a holistic awareness.
Cooperative Society Viveca
A new community
The “Green Village”, eventhough structured upon a model of a selfsufficient agricultural business, it is in the first place a community and a school for life: an inhabited center in the midst of nature, where everyone is able to participate directly to the management of productive activities and at the same time, take part in the decision making process on the base of individual responsibleness. The "Green Village" puts itself then a very well defined goal: the riuse of abandoned agricultural land transforming it into self producing parks and gardenswith a new method of agriculture, with the scope of producing primary foods to satisfy the needs of its inhabitants in a new and true community. The "Green Village" proposes to create a new relationship between man and environment and to rediscover those values - such as awareness, comprehension and respect - that have been lost in time in the relationship between human and nature and as a consequence that of human and human.
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