Created in Quebec in December 2002 under the name of Newlimits.org, the project was initially in French and under Free Art License. It was using TWiki wiki application for collaborative edition and in 2004, community decided to migrate to MediaWiki.

The project got over 1000 articles December, 10 2006^[1]. In February 2007, English^[2] and Esperanto^[3] Projects were created. Italian^[4], German^[5] and Polish^[6] were created in February and March 2008 and the Spanish^[7] in November 2008. Ekopedia has about 2500 articles (> 1 800 in French).

The Ekopedia Foundation was created in September 19, 2007^[8]

In april 2009, Ekopedia has migrate all its contents from Free Art License to Creative Commons (CC-BY-SA-3.0)^[9] in order to facilitate content sharing with other projects like Wikipedia, and Appropedia.