This idea of bringing together in villages the values of ecological integrity, global responsibility, community and spiritual sensitivity has received its recent impetus from such visionaries of cultural change as David Spangler, William Irwin Thompson, and Margaret Mead. They intuited independently that villages would be a critically important part of future world culture. While the idea is utopian, given the contemporary world, so fraught with potential peril from nuclear war, ecological catastrophe, etc., it is an image of the kind of future many of us are committed to creating. What Is A Planetary Village? by Tim Clark Winter 1983

You must return to the mind and spirit of the land from the strength of a deeper human consciousness. This means that the movement back toward villages and communities will increase, but now these will be planetary villages that deal with the land in new ways and that draw not only on local environmental influences for self-definition, but on the planetary perspective as a whole. This would be true even if local conditions necessitated reliance on purely local resources. The present challenge to industrial culture is how to adapt itself and its technology to the village and to networks of villages (even to creating "villages" within your present cities). The form of these villages will vary, of course, but they will be embodiments of a common consciousness - one of integration with land, with self, with others, and with the planet. Such villages will then become true centers of training for the next step in human evolution . . . David Spangler, Conversations with John, 1980

The metaindustrial village is a turn on the spiral back toward the preindustrial village, but it is not the preindustrial village; for with electronics, complex informational flow on a global level, and higher states of consciousness from a contemplative education, it is not a return to the "idiocy of rural life."William Irwin Thompson, The Metaindustrial Village 1980

Global Villages in the special sense we chose to use this terms means a type of physical locality (mostly, but not exclusively, whole villages or neighborhoods, sometimes farms, monasteries, telecenters, hubs) where people make use of global communication possibilities to enhance rather than neglect the local.

siehe GlobaleDörfer, APatternLanguageOfGlobalVillages, GlobalVillagesNetwork

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