The work seeks to observe and analyze ecovillages as a differentiated form of sustainable human settlement, of a community character, of respect for nature and in favor of the renewal and greater significance of social relations, proposing the hypothesis that it composes a set of actions of alternatives to the current scenario, socially and environmentally fragile. To that end, the ecovillage is studied and also observed empirically, in order to understand its precepts, its form of organization and its operation in practice. And although it represents a current reality, it is important to look at this proposal in a meeting of other significant experiences characterized by community life in recent history - such as Phalanstery, Familistere, Kibbutz, hippie communities, Garden-City, cohousing and Ciudad Abierta de Amereida. Some of these expressions had some historical relevance, while others, such as kibbutz, cohousing and Ciudad Abierta, are still valid expressions of less global impact, but still of interest for this study due to its characteristics. This rescue is proposed to present such alternatives and their practical contributions regarding the stimulation of community life against the dominant pattern of living ruled by the consumer society. From the understanding of the past experiments, theoretical precepts of ecovillage and field work, it is possible to better understand the ecovillage s propositions, as well as to verify that it only portrays one of the other alternatives already proposed by the human being, as one of the possibilities of change in the current moment of environmental crisis.