TerraVerde Ventures

THE INNOVATION:
Creating eco-villages to promote large scale sustainable development on a national level.

Curt Johansen, President, TerraVerde Ventures
Curt@terraverdeventures.com

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Excerpts:

• “What we're actually doing is going back and picking up many of those good ideas and putting them all together in a community -- as opposed to short term, what makes the most money -- [instead] much more long term, what is a truly sustainable community.”

• “They’re principle based communities, they’re not commodity based, but whereever they occur they are very sensitive to place and culture and they are created as an organic process where the community is very involved.”

• “If we’re going to be effective in reducing auto dependency we have to analyze in great detail where the trips come from where there going, use a transportation demand model that gets into a much higher level of detail and an understanding of what would make people have viable alternatives.”

• “The idea is that they want to be self-reliant, more self-reliant, and they want to live intentionally: so they don’t want to feel like they are overwhelmed by globalization.  They actually want to take more local control of their quality of life, that’s really what it’s about, sustainable communities are all about quality of life.”