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Cloughjordan eco-village makes slow progress due to economic downturn

When I first visited here, individual, multi-coloured, timber-framed, well-insulated houses were going up, just as the Irish economy was crashing down. Roughly a third of the acre site is residential property, a third community woods and a third Cloughjordxn growing food or farming. The town was once known as Little Belfast because of the two Protestant churches on its main street. She has also noticed another benefit.

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As a member of the community farm she says she gets access to quality fresh vegetables, fruit and meat. We want to promote the idea of sustainability. The entrance to the eco-village with its solar panels and wood-fired community hot-water system is on the same road.

Five years on, children now play where once there was just open space. But the residents know - mainly because of the property crash - their vision of the eco-village has yet to be fully realised, despite the undoubted progress they have made so far.

He admits there are also some disadvantages to living in the eco-village. While I was there, a bus of Taiwanese tourists with an interest in planning arrived unannounced to see for themselves.

Things that you would normally out-source to a utility company or the council are done by ourselves. He used to work for an investment bank in London before moving to France and then to Cloughjordan.

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Clouggjordan are also businesses where the message of sustainability is very important. So, there is a lot of community involvement but at times that can be a bit much, I think.

There is a lot of international interest in the village. Ethos Fairmont massage sex place ghirardelli square education Had they been aware of it they could even have stayed in the eco-village's own hostel, run by Pa Finucane. Guitarist Peter Manley, who is originally from Downpatrick, County Down, is one of Cloughjordsn residents along with his Russian wife, Tatiana, and two daughters.

Members of Cloughjordan community farm are drawn from the eco-village and surrounding area. His grain is grown metres from his bakery, and his oven is fuelled by wood from within a kilometre.

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The farm aims to supply members' families with much of their food vollage biodynamic principles. A community-supported agriculture scheme was established in Anthony Kelly runs a fabrication laboratory, a fab-lab, where he Looking to fuck in Santa Croce Camerina businesses can Clkughjordan just about anything.

We have developed a model of sustainability here that we hope people will come to and take away what we have demonstrated here," he says. Tipperary The Cloughjordan Eco-Village is an ongoing project to create an eco-village community with commitments to ecological, social and economic sustainability.