Collective Identity Supporting Sustainability Transformations in Ecovillage Communities

Ecovillages are collective projects that attempt to integrate sustainability principles into daily community life, while also striving be demonstration for mainstream society. As spaces of experimentation, they can provide valuable insights transformations. Through shared values and interpersonal connections, ecovillages possess identities, which a platform enacting their ideals. However, many ecovillage residents question how best enhance role as models, resource centers, pieces greater movement toward transformations, simultaneously preserving unique identity. In relation the above, this paper addresses questions: What identity in communities teach us about objective subjective dimensions transformations? Furthermore, perspective highlight challenges initiating Sustainability transformations encompass (behaviors) (values) dimensions; however, interactions between these spheres deserve more scholarly attention. Using ethnographic data in-depth interviews from three United States, reveals value underscoring belonging relationships exposes paradoxes frictions societal structures systems embedded within.