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Informed compassion in action for a sustainably thriving world.
Earthville is a global community of local initiatives to create a more compassionate and sustainably thriving world through service learning, green social entrepreneurship, holistic personal development, and creativity.
Empower yourself. Transform your world.
Our world is changing quickly in ways both helpful and harmful. We can’t fix everything, but we can’t keep breaking it either. Each of us can make a difference with informed compassion, reducing our harm footprint and expanding our help footprint, and cultivating nurturing relationships in our communities.
Here in Earthville, we work toward a better world by educating ourselves as responsible global citizens, empowering ourselves as effective change agents, and connecting with one another other in creative collaborations for experiential learning, volunteer service, compassionate commerce, and altruistic arts.
Connections: An Integrated Approach to Personal & Global Transformation
The challenges we face are complex and interdependent, so they require holistic solutions. Earthville’s interdisciplinary approach considers the whole picture to engineer whole solutions for the whole person and the whole planet.
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What We Do: Featured Projects
Tapping the Awesome Power of Music to Create a Compassionate & Sustainable World
Earthville Music is an artist-driven record label cutting positive grooves from across the planet, with proceeds supporting artists and charitable projects worldwide. Our artists are multi-talented global citizens who make great music while making a difference somewhere in the world.
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Sustainable Development & Personal Empowerment Through Contemplative Service-Learning
Dharmalaya Institute provides education and empowerment for compassionate living, with a practical focus on sustainable village development and contemplative service-learning. Dharmalaya offers volunteer opportunities, green building workshops, meditation retreats, and more.
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Sponsor Tree Plantings in India to Shrink Your Carbon Footprint & Create Green Jobs
Earthville Orchards is a carbon offset and green jobs program enabling conscientious global citizens and responsible businesses to sponsor tree plantings in India. With a few clicks, you can reduce your net carbon footprint while providing eco-restorative employment for rural villagers.
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Top Stories
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Dharmalaya Institute’s Autumn 2018 Season Begins with Reflections on Compassion
After the invigorating monsoon season, autumn is a natural time for reflective engagement as we return outdoors to work with the earth. Dharmalaya Institute’s autumn 2018 program season began with a five-day silent meditation retreat, led by mindfulness trainer Ellen van Iersel from the Netherlands, which set a contemplative tone. We then welcomed a lovely […]
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Earthville Welcomes Spring Up Foundation
The Earthville Network is pleased to announce the newest addition to our family of projects incubating in the Earthville Umbrellavator: The Spring Up Foundation is a UK-based charitable project established to support a peaceful and hopeful future in the Middle East by funding further education for Palestinian students.
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Didi Contractor Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award
Didi Contractor, a celebrated earthen architect and co-founding Professor Emeritus of the Internship in Vernacular Eco-Architecture at Dharmalaya Institute (a project of the Earthville Network in the Indian Himalayas), was honored with WADe Asia’s Lifetime Achievement Award for her work in natural building in the Himalayas, which has inspired countless architects in India and beyond.