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
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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
The First EDE Course in Palestine Waters of Hope – Nourishing the Heart of Sustainability
In November 2015, the first Ecovillage Design Education (EDE) course took place in Palestine: two weeks of learning, sharing, and community empowerment. The village of Farkha has great promise for becoming a model of sustainable ecological development. … Read more
Co-Act: Together Network Dialogue with all Actors
The TOGETHER network has launched the CO-ACT project to counterbalance the power of economic lobbies by using radically different methods. Considering that co-responsibility not only includes local actors but also public policy makers and legal frameworks at other levels, it is not enough to apply pressure with technical reports, by connecting with high-level contacts, etc. There is also a need to develop a bottom-up process dialogue involving the largest amount of citizens at a local level, … Read more
“Fin de la Revolucion Industrial” (Reflexión antes de la COP21- Paris /2015)
Una de las formas de ver la vida, es como un proceso de aparición/desaparición de especies, pronosticar el final de todo lo que comienza encaja dentro de esa lógica. Muchos finales se han pronosticado, el fin del capitalismo y del socialismo V.I.Lenin (1917), el fin de la historia Fukuyama (1992), inclusive se ha planificado la finalización del hambre ver “objetivos del milenio/Naciones Unidas”. La visión de la revolución industrial con su matriz energética ha tenido tal éxito que … Read more
