SUSTAINABLE ENERGY WEEK - DENMARK

ECO-VILLAGE DEVELOPED SOUTH OF COPENHAGEN

Director and camera operator: Anja Strelec

Editor: Pascal Haass

Motion design: Jonathan de Mulder

Production: ICF NEXT

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Permatopia is a 30-hectare eco-village at Karise, south of

Copenhagen, developed in accordance with renewable energy,

recycling and self-sufficiency principles. It has a farm which

supplies produce for residents and 90 houses built using

renewable materials to rigorous energy efficiency standards.

The site is owned by 200 professional and amateur farmers and

eco-enthusiasts, and residents began moving in in late 2017.

Permatopia’s cooperative community model, allied to good rail

links with Copenhagen, is proving attractive, with some 200 people

on a waiting list for houses.