Hola grupo, os mandamos la propuesta de agenda para la asamblea en Granada el próximo 19, 20 y 21 de febrero. Como grupo coordinador, estamos tratando de poco a poco ir hacia el modelo sociocrático, proceso que ya iniciamos hace 3 años, y que el pasado encuentro de invierno aclaramos un poco más con las explicaciones de Mauge. Por eso, recordaros el trabajo escrito que os pedimos la semana pasada acerca de lo que está ocurriendo en vuestros círculos. Muchas gracias por mandárnoslo en cuanto … Read more
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Rejuvenating the essence of communty Sustainable Community Incubator Partnership Programme meeting in Park Istra, Slovenia.
19 representatives from nine European National Ecovillage Networks met in Park Istra in Slovenia, from January 18 to 22, to continue their work on the two-year Erasmus+ funded project “Sustainable Community Incubator Partnership Programme” (SCIPP). In October, the partners of SCIPP met in Torri Superiore in Italy for the first time to work on the outline of the programme. For the second meeting in Park Istra, Slovenia we started giving the framework shape and content.We carried out an … Read more
Regenerative strategies for climate
Rice has been cultivated in the East Indian state of Odisha since ancient times, its fertile land and running rivers supporting paddy cultivation as the mainstay of its people. Odisha is similar to the Latin word for rice (Oryza) and some believe the name of the State derives from the crop known as Oryza Sativa, also known as Asian rice. Koraput is a district of Odisha known for its abundance of paddy fields as well as many varieties of millets, yam, and tuber crops, which are gradually … Read more
Editorial Newsletter January 2016 Dear friends of ecovillages, dear ambassadors, members, allies throughout the world,
Two major crises of our time - climate change and the refugee crisis – are intertwining to reach historical dimensions. People the world over - and all beings of nature – are existentially threatened, with nowhere to turn to. Climate change, in the guise of a long-term drought from 2006-2011 was one of the factors that lead to the war in Syria. In the past three years, the number of people boarding rickety fishing boats – leaving Myanmar and Bangladesh for countries further south in … Read more
Oportunidad de partenariado:
Os paso esta info para ver si ha alguna le interesa o a la propia red. URGENTE como el plazo de solicitud Erasmus + es el segundo de febrero :-) Estimado Alfonso y Mauge, ¡Hola! Soy Elena, amigo y colaborador de Andrei, que amablemente acaba de compartir sus contactos conmigo. Como él, poco mencionado en su correo electrónico, estamos buscando un socio de España para la organización de 2 Intercambios Juveniles (un curso de formación seguirá adelante con otro plazo de … Read more
With RefuGEN on Lesvos Nothing prepares you for Moria
RefuGEN was created by GEN Europe to help support refugees arriving in Lesbos, Greece – more than 1,000 arrive to the island daily. GEN has established a volunteering hub on the island, committing volunteers through June 2016. Leila Dregger of the Tamera Ecovillage shares her experience as one of RefuGEN’s first volunteers. Want to help? Click here to volunteer. Donate (all RefuGEN efforts are volunteer). … Read more
Join Friends of GEN Support what is close to your heart: GEN Small Projects Campaign
You can be part of making sustainable dreams come alive in 2016! All around the world there are communities and people doing amazing work to take care of people and the planet. There are incredible examples of the restoration of degraded ecosystems, rivers and lakes; the rebuilding of community support ‘nets’; the recognition of elders knowledge and ancestral wisdom; the development of economic activities and systems that create solutions and not just problems, to name a few. In … Read more
GEN-Africa Strategy Meeting Resilient communities as a seed of hope and abundance for Africa
Representatives from the GEN Africa Council, Advisory Board and from the national networks from different countries came together in Sekem, Egypt, from the 15th – 20th December 2015. … Read more
Carbon Farming The Best Way to Sequester Carbon and Reverse Global Warming
Many ecovillage communities have been experimenting with different means of carbon farming and have gone well beyond carbon neutral to become net-negative carbon communities. These villages provide best practices models for sequestering billions of tons of carbon and reversing global warming. Essential Reading: GEN Representative to the United Nations, Rob Wheeler, brings you stories of success from ecovillages around the world. We think it’s a must-read! … Read more
GEN at COP21, France "These are our friends that are being existentially threatened."
A GEN delegation of more than 15 leaders participated in the United Nations Climate Conference in Paris this December. Through our participation, we explored the questions: what role do ecovillages have in climate change and what do we seek to accomplish? … Read more
