Ecovillages or EcoCentres - what's the difference?
All ecovillages need an economic base. The inevitable failure of CAT's original self-sufficiency programme led within a year to an economic crisis. This was solved by reorganising part of the site as an exhibition and opening it to paying visitors, who would also buy meals other goods...

Micro Hydro in the Solomon Islands
For the last twenty years APACE has concentrated on the design and installation of village-level micro-hydro electricity generating systems. Its first such installation was commissioned in 1983 in a village in the Western Province of Solomon Islands...