Synergia Ranch

Synergia Ranch is an eco-village in New Mexico, founded in 1969 by John P. Allen and his followers, who refer to themselves as Synergists or sometimes Synergians. This group went on to build several other "ecotechnical" projects around the world, including art and music centers in England and Texas, a conference center in France, a hotel in Nepal, ecological research stations in Australia and Puerto Rico, a ship called the Heraclitus, and the world-famous Closed Ecological Life Support Systems experiment called Biosphere 2.

Philosophy and vision
The Synergists' ambitious goal was to help bring about the rise of "synergetic civilization." One aspect of this was what they called Ecotechnics, i.e. human communities and technologies that work together synergistically with the natural world in mutually beneficial relationships. (It would be difficult to find a better one-sentence definition of Gaian Action than that.)