Ecological Village
Eco-Village
There are several ecological problems that threaten both nature and humans, including depletion of natural resources, climate change, and related natural disasters, rapid population growth, urbanization, and social inequality.
By integrating economic, social, and cultural activities into the environment, ecological villages are a solution to these problems. They practice organic agriculture and natural living in harmony with the environment, achieving a peaceful and harmonious existence. As a means to create self-reliant human communities, it offers solutions that reduce ecological footprints, promote social order, and reduce income and living inequality.
As a means of protecting the ecological order, utilizing renewable energy in accordance with nature, maintaining a clean soil, air, and water supply, improving quality of life, and contributing to economic development, ecological villages are becoming increasingly popular.
Network of Global Ecological Villages
After the United Nations' 2nd Habitat meeting in Istanbul in 1995, the Global Ecovillages Network-GEN was created. GEN has American, Asian, and European units. GEN shares and supports the creation and revitalization of ecological settlements, as well as their social and natural environments. It has 47 full members and 110 supporting members.
We do not know how many ecovillages are members of GEN in Turkiye, however we will list some of them here:
- KNIDIA Eco Farm,
- Mulberry Collective,
- Ankara Guneskoy,
- Dedetepe Eco Farm,
- Imece House,
- Garp Eco Farm,
- Eco Foca.
Applications of ecological villages around the world
There have been significant developments in renewable energy, energy efficiency, biological wastewater treatment, recycling, organic food production, sustainable economic growth, and comprehensive decision-making processes among the ecological villages listed below.
Ithaca Ecovillage – USA,
Govardhan Ecovillage – India,
Findorn Ecovillage – Scotland,
Sieben Linden Ecovillage – Germany,
Solheimar Ecovillage – Iceland.
Practices in Turkish Ecological Villages
Some ecological villages in Turkiye have been closed, and no serious steps have been taken except for small projects.
Latif Yalçıner Farm – Erzincan,
Birecik Nature House – Şanlıurfa,
Forest House – Çanakkale,
Gağgı Farm – İzmir,
Marmariç Ecological Settlement – İzmir,
Knidia Farm – Muğla,
Foça Ecological Village – İzmir,
Hindiba Nature House – Bolu.
In this context, we are primarily interested in achieving the following objectives:
By applying a method that produces holistic and versatile solutions, the eco-village approach is able to bring a radical critique to our understanding of civilization today. This critique reveals the shortcomings of urban solutions as spatial reflections of civilization and consumption culture.
Orbiba Robotics' vision is to develop small, renewable energy powered robotic platforms for entrepreneurs interested in setting up or already operating ecological villages for organic farming in their area. This will help them with their operations. This will enable us to assist entrepreneurs with their operations by providing them with small, renewable energy powered robotic platforms.
Consequently, we consider ecological villages to be one of the most significant stakeholders in our organization.
Agricultural Analyst / Soil Ecosystem Engineer
BÜŞRA ÖZER
Resources
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Kilic, D., (2019). https://obs.hkmo.org.tr/ Ecological Village Practices in the World and Turkey.
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