Si alguien pasa o sale de Madrid hacia Arterra y tiene una plaza, por favor que contacte conmigo, Tel 918416045 email: [email protected] Colaboro con los gastos de viaje. Puedo llegar a cualquier estación de Metro de Madrid Ciudad … Read more
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Preguntas para Talleristas Encuentro de Verano
Hola a tod@s! Muchas gracias por ofreceros en los Talleres para este Encuentro de Verano RIE. Nos gustaría poder organizar lo mejor posible la realización de los talleres y facilitar su éxito! Por esto nos gustaría saber cuales son vuestras necesidades: de materiales, espacio, participantes, etc.... He preparado un sencillo documento con 6 preguntas sobre esto; así que os pido, a las personas que vais a realizar un Taller (ya sea troncal o de espacio abierto) que lo rellenéis, por cada … Read more
Research Newsletter August 2015
Get the GEN Research Working Groups Newsletter for August 2015 Download PDF … Read more
GEN +20 Summit Developing the New Story of Community
This year's Global Ecovillage Network Summit at Findhorn Ecovillage in Scotland, marked the organisation's tremendous growth and development since its emergence 20 years ago. Returning to the place where GEN was launched into the world in 1995, the founders Ross and Hildur Jackson were joined by other GEN legends, Declan Kennedy, Robert Gilman, Jan-Martin Bang and Helena Norberg-Hodge, in bearing witness to how their offspring has now developed contacts with communities on every inhabited … Read more
We are all Greece! A Declaration of Action and Solidarity
We are the 280 participants of the Global Ecovillage Network GEN+20 Summit. From 5 continents and 50 countries, we are all engaged in building ecovillages: resilient communities that are models for sustainability and autonomy throughout the world. With concern, compassion and anger we witness the situation in Greece; families who cannot feed their children, unemployed youth, impoverished retired people, hospitals without medicine and countless homeless people… none of whom are responsible … Read more
A Letter from Greece Taking Action in Times of Crisis
Skala Ecovillage is becoming a place of hope for people who are working on a perspective in the middle of the chaos. Anna Fillipou reports about the situation in the country. «Nothing is like before» one of the signs of May ’68 seems to be written for Greece also today. The questions that everybody, who follows what is happening in Greece the last days are: “Was it really necessary this humiliation of the Greeks?", or as, Mat O'Bryan from Washington Post says: "Germany doesn't want to save … Read more
Siddharth Village: Spark of Change EDE Odisha, February 2015
An eco-village in India, at the turn of the local traditions and the new eco-friendly philosophy Siddharth Village was established in 1986. The center of the community is located 25 km from Bhubaneswar, the capital of the region of Orissa in eastern India. 14 people living there, often surrounded by volunteers who stay for short or long periods . Over the years, the headquarters were born elsewhere across India. Thanks to the industriousness of its founders, today Siddharth village is … Read more
Not in our name! German austerity policy for southern Europe
Or: go on holidays in Greece, Mrs. Merkel! Open letter to the German Government We, the German participants of the international GEN+20 Conference, distance ourselves from your policies. The Global Ecovillage Network unites more then 10.000 villages and communities of all continents. In Germany there is a growing network of ecovillages, communities and transition towns. In cooperation with people and organizations from many countries we generate knowledge and expertise for the regeneration … Read more
We are all Greece! A Declaration of Action and Solidarity
We are 280 participants of the GEN+20 Summit (Global Ecovillage Network), from five continents and 50 countries, working and engaging ourselves in building resilient communities, ecovillages, models for sustainability and autonomy throughout the world. With concern, compassion and anger we witness the situation in Greece; families who cannot feed their children anymore, unemployed youth, impoverished retired people, hospitals without medicine and countless homeless people , all of whom are … Read more
Sala RIE
Hola Todos, Os recuerdo que queremos montar la Sala RIE durante el encuentro para poder tener un espacio dedicado a nuestros proyectos y fomentar el contacto entre el público y nosotros. Para ello necesitamos vuestra COLABORACION o el espacio quedará algo pobre. Copio abajo el texto de la carta que envié hace más de un mes. Necesitamos que empiezan a enviar el formulario rellenado y las fotos que hemos pedido para que no se acumula el trabajo a última hora... El idea es incluir: … Read more