- Date: 11 November 2017
- Location: Conference Room at the Haus der evangelischen Kirche (House of the Evangelical Church) Adenauerallee 37, 53113 Bonn, Germany, Germany
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This symposium on regenerative practices is being organized by a partnership of organizations including the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN), Open Team, the International National Trusts Organisation (INTO), the Nordic Folkecenter for Renewable Energy and Zero Carbon Britain. This event will feature keynote presentations by Bronson Griscom, Director of Forest Carbon Science for The Nature Conservancy and Joachim Schemel, Deputy Head of Division, Climate and Environmental Policy Sustainable Economy, German Federal Foreign Office
10.00am – 2.00pm – 11th November
Click here to register and to find out more visit:
www.ecovillage.org/cop23
www.folkecenterevents.net/
Keynote speakers:
Bronson Griscom, Director of Forest Carbon Science for The Nature Conservancy & Lead Author, Natural Climate Solutions for achieving the Paris Climate Agreement.
Joachim Schemel, Deputy Head of Division, Climate and Environmental Policy Sustainable Economy, German Federal Foreign Office
Moderator:
Kosha Joubert, Executive Director, Global Ecovillage Network
Speakers:
Leire Gorroño, Community Energy Expert, Nordic Folkecenter /Volker Thomsen, Senior Advisor, Nordic Folkecenter for Renewable Energy
Keith Jones, the National Trust’s Environmental Adviser for Wales, International National Trusts Organisation
Joanne Schanté, Co-founder and ScaleSchool Program Director, Open Team
Paul Allen, Zero Carbon Britain research from the Centre for Alternative Technology
Albert Bates, GEN Ambassador, Founder/Director, Ecovillage Training Center, Tennessee
Dr. Ousmane Aly Pame, GEN Africa President, GEN Ambassador, Founder/Director Network for ERDES Ecovillage Emergence and Development in the Sahel, Senegal
Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD, President, Global Coral Reef Alliance
And Coordinator of the UNCSD Small Island Developing States Partnership in New Sustainable Technologies (tbc)
Join us in the afternoon for Catalyzing the Power of Ecovillages for Carbon Drawdown: An Interactive and Intercultural Space of Inspiration.
2.30pm – 5.00pm – 11th November
Click here to register and to find out more visit:
www.ecovillage.org/cop23
www.folkecenterevents.net/
Join the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) during this interactive session where we share best practices and success stories that are being implemented in thousands of ecovillage communities around the Earth. Learn about what we are doing to create more sustainable communities bringing Ecovillage Development Programmes to Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. Learn more about GEN Consultancy and the EmerGENcies Programme which addresses both climate mitigation and adaptation and works with refugee camps.
Take a break from listening to panel discussions and get to know the Ecovillage Playing Cards used for community based planning and development processes! These cards are a tool for participatory design centered around the four dimensions of sustainability: ecology, economy, culture and society, arranged around a central path of whole systems design.
Speakers:
Kosha Joubert, Executive Director, Global Ecovillage Network &
Tim Clarke, former EU Ambassador to Tanzania and the African Union, GEN Ambassador (moderators)
Samuel Kaboka, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Grow Biointensive Agriculture Centre of Kenya
Sarah Queblatin, GEN Oceania and Asia, Green Releaf, Co-Founder
Margarita Zethelius, Project Development in The Global Ecovillage Network and CASA, board member of GAIA Education, Director of Alliances for Abundance
Robert Hall, GEN Europe
Macaco Tamerice, GEN-Advisory board, President of Damanhur Education APS
Click here to register and to find out more visit:
www.ecovillage.org/cop23
www.folkecenterevents.net/
