Founding members of ZEGG, Ina Meyer-Stoll and Achim Ecker embarked this October on a teaching tour in intentional communities in California, Colorado, and New York under the theme of living in a community embraced by love, partnership, and friendships. … Read more
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Green Phoenix 2015 Deep Sharing among Communities
"We are all refugees, migrating from one Earth to a new Earth" said someone during the harvesting of a silent meditative walk in the rich and magical woody mountains surrounding the Center for Unity Schweibenalp. It was during the Green Phoenix congress, initiated 5 years ago by the founder of the Center for Unity Schweibenalp, Dr. Sundar Robert Dreyfus. It was the 6th edition of the congress that each year, in autumn, brings together representatives of experiential models for the future in … Read more
Greece: Alternative Economy A Crisis can Turn into a Chance
The SKALA Ecovillage leverages the economic crisis in Greece as a chance to learn about and implement alternative economic systems. SKALA co-founder Anna Filliopu reports. … Read more
Ecovillages in Tanzania Innovative Climate Interventions in African Villages
Ecovillages in Tanzania have the potential to lead the way in adopting an integrated approach to climate mitigation and adaptation while adding to climate resiliency. An article by Michael Farrelly, programme coordinator, Tanzania Organic Agriculture Movement, with introductory comments by Rob Wheeler, United Nations Representative, GEN, and Tim Clarke, GEN Ambassador. A primary example of what can be done in either a traditional or ecovillage community to best address our climate challenges, … Read more
A New Home for Refugees In this Moment, in Heilhaus Kassel...
Founded by Ursa Paul 25 years ago, the Heilhaus Kassel Community was created with the vision of being a spiritual home, offering a place for all stages of the lifecycle: birth, living, and dying. Alfred Hohmann reports on their experience welcoming refugees. … Read more
Heart Communication with Refugees If I don´t deal with the fears in myself, I am all too ready to project them on to others.
“If I don’t deal with the fears in myself, I am all too ready to project them on to others,” writes Dolores Richter of the ZEGG Community of Bad Belzig, Germany. She explores the question: how can we communicate with people from a different culture who have lost everything? … Read more
Earthaven, USA Almost Fossil-Free: The Hut Hamlet Neighborhood at Earthaven Ecovillage
Could Earthaven Ecovillage in the southern Appalachian Mountains of the US become, as GEN advocates, “Fossil-Free by 2020”? Diana Leafe Christian reports. … Read more
January 2016 The two major crises of our time
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 … Read more
September 2015 Ecovillages Responding to Disasters and Crises
Dear Friends and Members of GEN, Dear change-makers throughout the world, With thousands of refugees and migrants arriving on the shores of Europe on a daily basis, the pain and crises in the world are becoming increasingly impossible to ignore, even in those regions which have felt relatively sheltered for a long time. It is a precious moment in history: the connectedness between all people of the world is becoming palpable in a new and urgent way. In many places all over Europe, … Read more
Cuso online gratuito para jóvenesr
Curso gratuito on-line para monitores, profesorado y personas que trabajan con jóvenes. Somos siete organizaciones asociadas de siete países europeos, entre ellas la RIE (Red Ibérica de Ecoaldeas). Creemos que la juventud: - Es muy conscientes de que el sistema actual no funciona, que necesitamos alternativas. - Dispone de la energía y el potencial para traer los cambios necesarios; en la forma en que nos relacionamos con los demás y en nuestro hogar, el planeta Tierra. - Tienes que ser … Read more
