/ The Ecovillage People

We list practitioners. We verify the work.

Every name in this directory has a completed system you can visit, a climate they know, and a track record of staying through installation — not just through the proposal.

Close environmental shot from the left edge: a practitioner's hands pressing a timber joint into a cob wall section, straw and clay visible on fingertips, natural overcast daylight, rough-cut lumber and building site in soft focus behind
Close environmental shot from the left edge: a practitioner's hands pressing a timber joint into a cob wall section, straw and clay visible on fingertips, natural overcast daylight, rough-cut lumber and building site in soft focus behind
— How We Vet

Completed projects, not certificates

Before anyone appears in the directory, we confirm a finished system — a greywater loop still processing water, a passive solar structure still occupied, a food forest in its third harvest season. Credentials are noted; working systems are required.

We also check delivery. If a designer submitted a plan and left before the community installed it, they are not listed. The directory is built around practitioners who stay on-site through completion.

Organized by discipline and climate

Three structural decisions that separate this directory from every general contractor network or sustainability consulting list.

Discipline Filter
Climate Context
Accountability Record

One trade, deep

Regional, not generic

On-site through completion

Practitioners list the climates and soil types they have worked in. A greywater designer with Pacific Northwest clay experience is a different hire than one whose projects are all in Arizona.

Each profile notes whether the practitioner offers design-only or design-plus-installation. Communities can see at a glance who will still be on-site when the foundation is poured.

Filter by natural building, water systems, food production, or governance design — not by a broad 'sustainability' tag that returns fifty unrelated profiles.

Built systems. Apply to be listed.

Applications are reviewed within five business days. We accept practitioners with verifiable completed projects — not portfolios, not course certificates.