In order to support societal transition, and the scaling up of 'grassroots' solutions to climate change, we need to couple 'bottom-up' with 'top-down' processes, says Kosha Joubert, President of GEN International. In April 2014, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published the third part of a trilogy of reports, compiled by thousands of the world’s most eminent scientists, giving the most accurate and up to date account of climate change. The first report, released in … Read more
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Japan’s AS-ONE Community: The Story of a 14-Year Community Creation Process
In 2001, some volunteers gathered in Suzuka, Japan, aiming to realize a happy society free from fighting and opposition, in harmony with nature. A borderless community named “AS-ONE COMMUNITY” has been created in an ordinary neighborhood of Suzuka, a typical middle-size city and also well known as a city of the Honda company. Hiroko Katayama, GEN ambassador reports. The name ‘AS-ONE’ was taken from a line of John Lennon’s masterpiece Imagine, ‘and the world will be as one'. Nowadays, 38 core … Read more
The Evolution of Money: GEN ́s Role and the Proposed Ecovillage Exchange System
GEN could become the place to conceive a new paradigm of money. Jamie Brown (agent of Biomimicry in Switzerland), and Matthew Slater (an economy specialist), share about the background and proposal to create an exchange system of Ecovillages, and launch it at the July 2015 Ecovillage Summit at Findhorn, Scotland. Background: Why GEN Feels Poor Our money system is at the point of an evolutionary phase-change resembling the natural completion of a youthful growth period. Our global system … Read more
Water Flows in Damanhur Permaculture Approach to Water Flows in the Tentyris Region of Damanhur
In Damanhur, the community region of Tentyris has a special relationship with water, honoring it as a natural force and enjoying an abundance of it on the lands. In 2011, a team from Tamera, Portugal, came to collaborate on the creation of a large scale water retention system of six lakes, that are now in use. In November 2014, a new Permaculture Design for Sustainability course was launched, focusing on developing the wetlands area of Tentyris as a continuation of the work of utilizing, and … Read more
Nurturing The Future; Bangladesh! The Ground-Breaking EDE ToT of Southern Bangladesh
Building Capacity and Empowering Communities project launched in 2013 aims over a period of 3 years to improve sustainable food security and livelihoods of vulnerable communities of Khulna and Bagerhat, through capacity building programmes and effective climate change adaptation strategies and interventions. The project is a cooperation between BASD, Gaia Education, CIFAL Scotland and funded by the Scottish Government. Its second year saw a group of previously trained community leaders … Read more
se pregunta de si tienen temas para llevar a la asamblea de invierno.
alguien tiene alguna sugerencia o tema para la asamblea de invierno ??? por favor lo diga. os dejamos un borrador con los temas que hemos recogido hasta ahora y que tb se aceptan comentarios B).- Temas para asamblea Amalurra Bilbao encuentro de invierno - temas informativos cortos: 1,. Alterra el encuentro de verano preparación. 2,. Proyectos europeos subvención: a) EVS patri se ofrece ayudar. Alguna novedad. Alguien a pedido. TONI marin queria comentar cuestiones. b) la … Read more
ASPECTOS QUE SE PREGUNTA COMO VAN ???? DE CARA A LA rie DE INVIERNO
- comprobar que ecovamos y couso esten en la lista de correos y no se si alguien mas. (jesus) y dar de baja a jardines de acuario. OK SE HAGA ???? - jonny preguntarle si ha recogido comentarios del encuentro de verano. * Yonnhy recoge sugerencias, propuestas y sentires para guía-memoria encuentro y envía por mail. - Preguntarle al cortijo si recogieron más datos del encuentro- - Toni de comunicación y Mónica de secretaría recepcionan bases de datos de LOS CORREOS Y TELEFONOS DE LOS … Read more
Piracanga: The Power of Youth Brasil: Piracanga – The Power of Youth
Nara Nalinii Pais recently visited Piracanga, an ecovillage, community and human development centre in Bahia, Brazil, where she spoke with co-founder, Angelina Ataide. It started as a spontaneous conversation in which Nalinii shared her experience of Findhorn, and Angelina shared her story of Piracanga. Nalinii was so inspired by this exchange, that she felt compelled to write this article about their amazing meeting. “Four years ago there was nothing here but sand and a few sickly palm … Read more
Local Organic Food Cafe
Our friends in Indonesia has introduced the concept of local organic food cafe, where they inspire and encourage young minds to design their own dreams. The place serves as a shared-space, where youths and experts come together to learn and create a platform for better future. For more details, contact: [email protected] [email protected] https://youtu.be/kr1jVYPBdeU … Read more
A Leap Forward From nettle production to handcrafting
Rural Women and economic well being is often regarded as an unrelated topic especially in a patriarchal society like Nepal. In this context, when village women gather together to empower themselves through their individual effort, it is worth a story to tell. Women of Sankhuwasabha, one of the rural mountainous areas of Nepal, are becoming empowered and economically stable through their own effort. The source of their empowerment is “Nettle Production”, also known as Allo in Nepali. These … Read more
