News & Events

Kyloring Housing Cooperative moves into design phase

By Eugenie Stockman, CEO Co-operation Housing Following a successful kick-off workshop, Co-operation Housing is excited to now be working with a core group of households who are committed to the successful completion of this project and to calling Kyloring home. We could not have asked for a better outcome. The ...

Diversity is the spice of life

It’s been a long, cold, wet Djilba and while it doesn’t feel like it at times, I think we can now safely say, Kambarang is underway. For those that sniff and sneeze with the pollen release at this time of year, there’s been some relief from dust settling, late season ...

The Witchcliffe Ecovillage film premieres

Without further ado (after five months in production), we are absolutely thrilled to announce the premiere of the Witchcliffe Ecovillage film. Showcasing our magnificent 120ha site in all its abundant glory, the Witchcliffe Ecovillage promotional film is a 42-minute exploration of one of the world’s most sustainable residential communities, located ...

Lights, camera, action! Ecovillage on film

When there’s a lull in the regularity of Village Collective newsletters, it’s safe to assume there are myriad other activities going on behind the scenes in the Ecovillage office. I’ve been busy working with Dunsborough-based filmmaker, Michael Fletcher, and animation studio, Constructive Media, to put together a promotional film on ...

Our first residents get comfortable

It’s given Michelle and I so much enjoyment to see the Ecovillage coming to life over the past year. It’s a great feeling walking and riding around the streets and footpaths seeing the stormwater swales and basins working, dams overflowing, and so many homes under construction. It is also lovely ...

Ecovillage energy systems update

As you’re all aware, an abundance of cheap fossil fuel energy is the main reason for the explosion in population, consumption, destruction of our environment and global warming. As we’ve wanted to completely separate ourselves from energy produced from fossil fuels, our challenge has been to provide 100% self sufficiency ...

To Stage 3 and beyond…

Marketing & Sales Update: September 2021 With the way lot sales are tracking and the number of houses under construction, we’ll have a thriving, bustling community in no time. As I am about to publish this on 2 September, we have nine residential lots still available for sale across Stages ...

Planning and design begins on Stages 4-5

Even though the project site is a flurry of construction activity, there is still a lot to design and planning work to do for future stages. Here’s an update on recent milestones and future planning activities: Community Centre We have now achieved Planning Approval from the Shire for the proposed ...

Putting the finishing touches on Wolghine Square

It has been a VERY WET WINTER and our landscape consultant team, LD Total, has been out in the elements finalising Wolghine Square in readiness for her spring fling. It looks spectacular! In addition to LD Total, we want to thank Nutrien Water and Uralba Stone for all their hard ...