Someone else posted a googlemaps view of the place: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ecovillage+At+Ithaca+Inc/@42.4422047,-76.5437611,536m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m

Someone else posted a googlemaps view of the place: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ecovillage+At+Ithaca+Inc/@42.4422047,-76.5437611,536m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x71281aa65d9a74b3!8m2!3d42.441713!4d-76.5420994 https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ecovillage+At+Ithaca+Inc/@... All the houses' roofs are south-facing, which combined with large overhangs, are a passivhaus thing (maximum heat energy in the winter when the sun is low, large overhangs block some of that in the summer when the sun is high). Some houses have solar on the roof, while the neighborhood to the north has a small centralized solar farm. If you have the land, it's a lot more cost-effective to put a centralized amount of ground-mounted solar and distribute it to a dense cluster of houses nearby. They mentioned they designed all the homes in their latest batch to shun natgas and go all electric. And then there's a bunch of "eco-mindset" things where it looks like they park their cars in communal lots and the houses are connected by pedestrian paths. Their development model is 10% developed/90% open-space (or something like that which flips the common american subdivision percentages). They said they aren't trying to be completely self-sufficient (they're 15min drive to downtown Ithica), but they do take steps like a have an onsite CSA. So I don't think they're being "eco" if you think eco means some absolutely self-sufficient car-free hippie in the woods. But that's also an impossible ideal -- even the unabomber who railed against the evils of capitalism still had walmart receipts in his shack, and Thoreau got through the Walden Pond winter with his mom bringing him soup or something like that. But as for "eco" in terms of lifestyle arrangements that give you a good mix of modern and sustainable life, yeah, seems like they're doing a good job.