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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
Empowering Compassionate Changemakers for a Flourishing World
Our newest major project, the Earthville Institute in Colorado, will educate and empower compassionate changemakers, particularly in the fields of ecological sustainability, social harmony, holistic well-being, creativity and the arts, and responsible local and global citizenship.
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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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Nonprofit Publishing Platform for World-Changing Ideas from Exemplary Changemakers
Announcing To Create the World That Ought to Be, which follows trailblazing educator Arnie Langberg through his five-decade career as a heroic reformer of public education, gathering insights into humanity and highlighting innovative, road-tested solutions to pressing problems.
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Top Stories
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New Season of Service-Learning Programs in the Himalayas
After an unprecedented four-and-a-half-month monsoon, the Dharmalaya Institute in the Indian Himalayas is reopening its brand-new (and still-to-be-varnished) doors to volunteers, students, and interns, with a series of volunteer, service-learning, and retreat programs spanning the next eight months.
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Announcing Internship in Vernacular Eco-Architecture
The Dharmalaya Institute, in partnership with venerated earthen architect Didi Contractor, is launching the Internship in Vernacular Eco-Architecture. The internship is a formal, academically-supervised service-learning program designed to provide architects (and students of architecture) with both practical experience and deeper theoretical knowledge in the arts and practices of sustainable building.
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Learning from the Ground Up: Earthville Inaugurates Green Campus in India with Service & Meditation
After a marathon rush of construction activity through the winter, the Dharmalaya Institute held the first programs in the new (and still-unfinished) main building of its Himalayan eco-campus for sustainable and compassionate living. Over thirty participants from ten countries made the journey to the mountain village of Bir for the occasion…