Eco Village

In the small magazine from India Motherland, I read an article about a village called Mawlynnong. This village is known to be 'the cleanest village in Asia'. That sounds eutopia! But it's clear that all inhabitants add to make it happen. They seem to live like an extended family anyway, how special is that! Tourist taxes are used to pay village cleaners, schools pay so much attention to the importance of ecology that all children also find it normal to keep their village clean and every grassroot initiative is welcomed by the local government. And the village is built among the huge trees with even using those trees:

"Working with nature and building with the smallest possible footprint has a history in Mawlynnong, something that you can see in the living-root bridge that is the oldest man-made structure in the area."