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Ashley DobbsCreating the world's greenest community.
Ashley Dobbs multi-award-winning eco-developer describes his project to create a 500 home community in the Lake District in England on a former iron ore mine to be the world's greenest community that is energy, food, wildlife, health and rent positive. Ashley says “the stone I carry in my soul is that in my lifetime I want to demonstrate that we can make communities that are positively beneficial to the planet. If we don't do this we won't survive as a species”. Ashley however does not see this as wearing a hair shirt he sees it as a great opportunity to improve civilisation making communities that are much more enjoyable healthy and stimulating to live in. |
Ashley an internet pioneer has been described as the European godfather of teleworking or working from home and has previously built communities known as the televillage and telehamlet that encouraged people to live and work from one community. His new projects are known as agrivillages - places where people live work grow things make things and sell things.
Prior to being an eco-developer Ashley was an international gold medal winning underwater photographer and cameraman and son of Dr Horace Dobbs a.k.a. the Dolphin man. Ashley is immortalised in his father's book Follow Wild Dolphin in which his father describes him being picked up by a dolphin and taken for a ride when he was 13 on the Isle of Man.
Ashley also has up-cycling fashion brand called awear.co. Awear uses charity shop clothes and in doing so creates helps women gain income. Every outfit is unique and the rejuvenators/seamstresses gain self esteem from becoming their own fashion designer.
Ashley is:
Managing Director of inHarmony Agrivillages in-Harmony.co
Founder of awear.co
Founder of GreenCitiesfoundation.org
Honorary Director of International Dolphin Watch IDW.org
Prior to being an eco-developer Ashley was an international gold medal winning underwater photographer and cameraman and son of Dr Horace Dobbs a.k.a. the Dolphin man. Ashley is immortalised in his father's book Follow Wild Dolphin in which his father describes him being picked up by a dolphin and taken for a ride when he was 13 on the Isle of Man.
Ashley also has up-cycling fashion brand called awear.co. Awear uses charity shop clothes and in doing so creates helps women gain income. Every outfit is unique and the rejuvenators/seamstresses gain self esteem from becoming their own fashion designer.
Ashley is:
Managing Director of inHarmony Agrivillages in-Harmony.co
Founder of awear.co
Founder of GreenCitiesfoundation.org
Honorary Director of International Dolphin Watch IDW.org