Roots Ecovillage is an environmentally focused housing cooperative in Austin, Texas founded in 2012. Our focus is on environmental sustainability and community building. We are governed through consensus process and highly value communication. We aim to generate awareness of societally generated oppression and create a non-hierarchical relationships in our community.
Our mission is to be eco-friendly, self sustainable, to grow gardens and give back to the community through skill shares and workshops, to reduce our carbon footprint and be a beacon of hope in a crumbling civilization, to create and utilize alternative sources of energy, to be inclusive, to be queer, non-hierarchical, and consensus-based, and to be a place for alternative family and /community structures and people who don’t fit in, and a sanctuary for the marginalized, to host shows and events that help the community, and to become a model of a self sustainability to be replicated on a large scale.