These Core Values are to guide the design of Ecologically Sustainable Communities:

  A. Ecological Sustainability and Resource Consciousness:
      1) Diversity is paramount (people, housing, economic levels, physical spaces, ambiance, etc.)
      2) Every "waste product" is food for something else in the ecosystem.
      3) Use nature to assist with temperature control.
      4) Pure water, air, and soil is required, and must be consistently monitored and purified.
      5) Energy generation without fossil-fuels is the rule.
      6) A healthy community knows itself.

  B. Community:
      1) A healthy community is a "full-service community."
      2) A healthy community has mixed-use, meaning an appropriate mixture of residential, commercial, and industrial uses.
      3) Networking with like-minded individuals, organizations and communities builds community strength through sharing of experiences, contacts, goals, and technologies.
      4) A healthy community is locally based. Local people and local materials are used both in building the EcoVillage, and in its operation and maintenance.
      5) The Ecological Footprint is calculated, along with the EcoVillage's environmental impact, and is used as a checklist and a guide for self-monitoring

  C. Self-Determination:
      1) A healthy community has a strong local (village) government.
      2) A healthy community knows its ideal, sustainable size and maintains it
      3) Community sustainability includes the future of all living beings within it, human and non-human.

  D. Social Conscience and Socio-Economic Equity:  healthy community:
      1) provides equitable opportunity for all with respect to education, work, shelter, & health.
      2) encourages diverse enterprises for citizens, rather than just "jobs."
      3) emphasizes self-help for ownership, including individuals building their own homes under programs set up by the developers and the community.

  E. Synergies are Promoted at All Levels:
      1) Old and Young
      2) Urban-Rural-Wilderness, with partnership between the natural and the built environments.
      3) Local-Global-Cosmic - integrated into the village philosophy and its education.
      4) Internal-external integration of the economy, transportation, and communication.
      5) Attention to scales, such as a small village in large bioregion; individuals in an EcoVillage of thousands of persons, etc.

  F. Citizen Access and Participation Encouraged at All Levels:
      1) Local, Bioregional, National, Global.
      2) Leadership for the Future - the village provides leadership, where leadership is defined as, "the creation of new opportunities and possibilities for others."
      3) Politically transparent government that is user-friendly and accessible to all.
     4) Access to all facilities is physically easy for all citizens, including children, seniors, and handicapped.
      5) Safety from fire, wind, flood, animal and human interference is provided for.

  G. Beauty, a healthy community is beautiful in all its aspects:
      1) Parks and plazas
      2) Building materials and color
      3) Three-dimensionality
      4) Views - internal and external
      5) Village focal points - civic, cultural, recreational, commercial, etc.
      6) Greenbelts and water catchments- buffer the wilderness and rural from the urban.

  H. Strong Local Economic Stability:
      1) Community-owned utilities.
      2) Local economics based on useful production, rather than unnecessary work.
      3) Publicly owned and operated insurance, educational system, bank & credit union, and inter and intra-EcoVillage transportation systems.