ABOUT BOOK

The present study was born out of an agreement between the Sieben Linden ~community (Siedlungsgenossenschaft Ökodorf e.G.) and the Politecnico ~di Torino (DIST), approved on May 9, 2013. The Politecnico team, led ~by professor Andrea Bocco, intended to perform an overall analysis of ~the way of living in the ecovillage, including a number of areas among ~which are agriculture, biodiversity, building, decision-making, diet, economy, ~energy, land husbandry, etc. The Sieben Linden community, on the ~other hand, was particularly interested in having a new ecological impact ~assessment done, a dozen years after that by the University of Kassel ~(Dangelmeyer et al. 2004).