Ecovillage Design Education is:

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  An education where a thorough and objective assessment of the state of the planet is followed by regional, community, and place-based solutions.
• An education that empowers individuals and communities with the knowledge for shaping their worlds and becoming more self-reliant while engaging in bioregional as well as international cooperation.
• An education that is universal in scope but local in application, directed toward preserving precious cultural diversity.
• An education where investigating theory is followed by practical application.
• An education that imparts useful and instrumental life-skills as part of the curriculum.
• An education relevant to people in rural and urban regions.
• An education promoting and facilitating healthful planetary evolution, as well as the well-being and quality of life of individuals and their communities everywhere.
• An education exploring and expanding the perceived limits of human potential.
• An education that informs, enables and inspires community-based visions of a sustainable human civilization as well
  as the means to turn such visions into reality during the course of the 21st century.

Ecovillage Design Education is of relevance to 

• community leaders in ecovillages as well as rural and urban communities everywhere
• students with an interest in sustainable design, 
• educators wishing to develop new skills and perspectives, 
• community redevelopers & builders, 
• members of non-governmental organizations, 
• urban, rural and regional planning professionals, 
• professionals in architectural, engineering and building careers, 
• permaculture and horticultural researchers and designers, 
• renewable technologists, 
• business leaders interested in social and environmental responsibility and ethical development.