Twin Oaks

Twin Oaks is a écovillage founded with the the United States in 1967, in the Comté of Louisa in Virginia. It is one of oldest and largest the intentional Communauté of North America. It was built while taking as a starting point the utopian account of Burrhus Frederic Skinner Walden Two (sold since its publication in 1948 with more than two million specimens) which describes a community which functions according to the principles of the Béhaviorisme. However thereafter Twin Oaks has took its distances with the ideas developed by Skinner. Among the values on which currently the project rests, one finds:

the Community division
It not violence
the equality enters the individuals and between the sexes
an ecological lifestyle

Twin Oaks was founded on the site of a farm of tobacco of 50 hectares by a group of eight individuals. According to Kat Kinkade, one of the founders, the community fought considerably the first years which followed its establishment. Indeed, at the beginning, the renewal of the members was very important and the community released only little income. However, according to Kinkade, the community avoided the problems carcteristic of this type of project (in particular idleness with work, profiteurs, and excessive lack of organization) by adopting system of a structured, but flexible work. The incomes economic of the city are today mainly assured by marketing hammocks and Tofu.

In 2007, the population of Twin Oaks rose with 85 adults and 15 children.

External bonds

(Ang) Official site of the community of Twin Oaks

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