The practices of ecologically-minded alternative communities illuminate differing perspectives on what might constitute an economy. This paper explores the extant literature and presents a framework for considering four spheres of confluence between the modern market economy and diverse economies: economic production practices, attitudes towards growth, environmental responsiveness and the socialrelational context of transactions. Drawing on evidence from an Australian ecovillage, the paper adopts the framework presented as a means of understanding the experiences of cooperatively negotiating various practices necessary to establish an intentionally sustainable community economy. Through this analysis, the paper provides insights into ways ecovillages may operate in the context of the modern market economy without adopting all of its practices. Ecovillages may indeed be places where convergence between economic approaches may be incubated, experienced and experimented, and through closer trading with the local external communities opportunities for the diffusion of such practices may ensue.

具有生态意识的替代社区的做法阐明了关于可能构成经济的不同观点。本文探讨了现有的文献，并提出了一个框架，以考虑现代市场经济与不同经济体之间融合的四个领域：经济生产实践，对增长的态度，对环境的响应以及交易的社会关系背景。借鉴澳大利亚生态村的证据，本文采用的框架是理解合作协商建立有意可持续的社区经济所必需的各种实践经验的一种手段。通过这种分析，本文提供了对生态村庄如何在不采用其所有实践的情况下在现代市场经济背景下运作的见解。