Academic Research about EVI

2024 Weeder (Whitman College) - Bowling Alone or Gardening Together?: Ecovillage Ithaca’s Creation of Alternatives to a Disconnected and Unsustainable World

2017 Cohen (MIT) - Ecovillages as models for sustainable urban neighborhoods: Design guidelines and methods for understanding, analyzing and designing sustainable communities

2014 Boyer (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) - Sociotechnical Transitions and Urban Planning: A Case Study of Eco-Cohousing in Tompkins County, New York

2014 Standen (Queen’s University, Belfast) - Re-examining “Community” in the Modern World: The Role of Boundaries in the Intentional Community Construction of “Community” at an Ecovillage in Ithaca

2014 Sherry (Rutgers University) - Community Supported Sustainability: How Ecovillages Model More Sustainable Community

2014 Palmer (Cornell University) - Ecovillage at Ithaca: Methodology for Landscape Performance Benefits

2013 Boyer (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) - Transitioning to Sustainable Urban Development: A Niche-Based Approach

2012 Franke (Montclair State University) - An Overview of Research on Ecovillage at Ithaca

2012 Hostetter (Free University of Amsterdam) - How Ecovillages Are Contributing to a Residential Energy Transition in the United States

2011 Shaw (York University) - Ecomothering: Creating and Nurturing a Sustainable World

2011 Holleman (Free University of Amsterdam) - Individuality in Community at the EcoVillage at Ithaca

2010 Ashlock (Bard College) - Lessons Learned from the Ecovillage Movement: A Global Analysis Focusing on Francophone Countries

2009 Breton (The University of Northern British Columbia) - Organizing for Sustainability at a Small Scale: A Case Study of an Ecovillage

2008 Guinther (University of Cincinnati) - Cohousing: Its Characteristics, Evolution, and Emerging Typologies

2008 Fischetti (University of Oregon) - Building Resistance from Home: Ecovillage at Ithaca as a Model of Sustainable Living

2008 Chitewere (San Francisco State University) - Green Technology and the Design of a Green Lifestyle

2007 Blouin (Pomona College) - The Urban Ecovillage Experiment: The Stories of Six Communities that Hoped to Change the World

2006 Chitewere (SUNY Binghamton) - Constructing a Green Lifestyle: Consumption and Environmentalism in an Ecovillage

2006 Andrey, Johnson, Moos, Whitfield (Montclair State University) - Does Urban Design Matter?

2004 Kirby (City University of New York) - Self in Practice in an Ecological Community: Connecting Personal, Social and Ecological Worlds in the Ecovillage at Ithaca

2004 Jovic (University of Calgary) - Lighter Footprints: Quality of Life Correlates, Mindfulness and the Sustainability Movement

2004 Brown (MIT) - Comparative Analysis of Energy Consumption Trends in Cohousing and Alternate Housing Arrangements

2001 Whitfield (University of Waterloo, Ontario) - Understanding the Barriers Encountered by Residents of Ecovillages

1994 Buckwalter (Cornell University) - The Contribution of Consensus-Building to Participatory Design: A Case Study of Ecovillage at Ithaca