ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to make some sense of this process, exploring the factors that have catalysed the ecovillages evolution towards sustainability. The chapter recognises that the wider process of building sustainable futures in the community would need to begin by placing children at the heart of the process. sustainability education has become a central feature of our work. Lynedoch is home to the Sustainability Institute, which is run as a non-profit trust. The challenge will always be to harness the strengths of the entire community to create vibrant and viable futures. Exercising leadership in this context means framing stories of connection and integration, and acting skilfully to build different and sustainable futures. Perhaps most important in this regard has been the continuous flow of learning capabilities with which to navigate uncertain social-ecological futures. The author concluding prose in Mental Fight, An Anti-Spell for the 21st Century reads: This distant music of the future Haunts him.
