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A Global EcoVillage, Inc. Community
www.globalecovillage.com
NEWS UPDATE
VIEW VIDEO OF EAST LAKE COMMOMS
ARTICLE 12/7/2007 AT AMARILLO.COM
FRONT PAGE ARTICLE IN THE AMARILLO GLOBE
ARTICLES
GEV teams up with Village Habitat Design, LLC
Lovelock Village Site
James Lovelock & The Gaia Theory
East Lake Commons
CONTACT
Ralph Watson
President GEV
520.896.2568
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 Global EcoVillage, Inc. and Village Habitat Design, LLC, have joined forced to design and create Lovelock EcoVillage, a sustainable community development in Amarillo, TX. Lovelock EcoVillages plans to preserve 70% of the 530 acres site for openspace, community supported agriculture, and recreation space. Energy efficient homes are arranged to allow instant access to the landscape and the commercial centers without the need of driving. "Pedestrian connectivity is key," said Greg Ramsey, chief of design at Village Habitat. "It is not enough to make homes efficient. communities can be made for human delight rather than car access. It's a radical idea, but it produces places that are so wonderful to be, just to walk through, that it's hard to keep the prices from getting out of control." In 2005 Ramsey produced the master plan for the expansion of the Ecovillage at Ithaca, in Ithaca, NY.
"This is not science fiction. Mankind has built sustainable communities for millennia. You can see them in Tuscany and Provence. And they are highly marketable. that is what excites me about making these communities. People want them. This works very, very well in the free market," said Clayton Preston, president of Village Habitat Design.
Internationally recognized for excellence in sustainable community planning, Village Habitat Design, LLC works from a 30 year family history of conservation design. In 2001 the firm received the United Nation's top award for sustainable community planning, the World Habitat Award. since that time they have received more Atlanta Regional Commission Awards of Excellence than any other firm. Recent projects include greenspace zoning for 40,000 acres of Atlanta's fulton County, and the sustainable planning for the island nation of the Turks & Caicos. "
"This is the dream team," said Ralph Watson, a director of GEV. "They have the values needed to produce real sustainability, with the ability to work in a for-profit paradigm."
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