Our Vision

Although Dancing Rabbit is still a small community in the pioneering stage, we call ourselves an ecovillage because our goal is to grow to be a small, locally self-reliant town of 500 to 1000 residents, committed to radical environmental sustainability.

We are housed in a variety of living arrangements, eat a variety of foods, and work on varied projects. Our society is flexible enough to include egalitarian communities, cohousing, and individual households. We may have different approaches to some issues, but the common desire for environmental sustainability underlies all key decisions at Dancing Rabbit.

Although Dancing Rabbit strives for self-sufficiency and economic independence, we do not sequester ourselves from mainstream America. Rather, outreach and education are integral to our goals. We vigorously promote ourselves as a viable example of sustainable living and spread our ideas and discoveries through visitor programs, academic and other publications, speaking engagements, and the like.

• Mission Statement -- The Mission of Dancing Rabbit, Inc.
• Ecological Covenants -- These 6 covenants define the basic concrete actions that we will take to enact our vision.
• Sustainability Guidelines -- These guidelines describe what we mean when we say "sustainable."
• Membership Agreement -- When someone becomes a member of Dancing Rabbit, they sign this document.

• Details of our vision -- In the years before we settled on our current land DR spent most of our time trying to clearly articulate our collective vision of our rural ecovillage. Here is a description of our vision for DR, written before we bought land in 1997, but still in many ways guiding us today. Sections include:
  • Agriculture, technology, and sustainable economy
  • Socio-governmental structure
  • Outreach: working for change


• A Society of Communities -- The Society of Communities model describes our vision of people living in a variety of smaller communities within the town of Dancing Rabbit.
• Filters on Diversity by Tony Sirna -- Here is an article about our thoughts on diversity at Dancing Rabbit, written in 1996, before we moved onto our present land. (Originally for Communities Magazine.)