In the first year Earth Day that has
gathered attention in Latin America, a couple of the region's biggest musicians, actors and performers have participated in a campaign held by National Geographic to raise awareness in society about our part in the
global warming cause.
But as this past weekend's second Japan Ecovillage Conference and this month's earlier Chicago Urban Ecovillage
gathering demonstrates, the word «ecovillage» has quietly evolved to become an all - purpose, cross-cultural and positive term describing a
global phenomenon of diverse people living and working together in communities with the common vision of building a more sustainable future, developing and testing different models of economy, energy and cooperative living (without the sensationalist media
attention).