Yarok Ba-ir, which means "green in the city" is a community of 17 households that will be living in the same future building in the city Harish. The community started to form in 2012 and is meeting on a regular basis since. The building which started out as a normal city building design of 5 stories went through a redesign in order to incorporate ecological and communal components including 3 community-owned spaces: roof, garden, and indoor. Green building components were also added improving … Read more
Projekt WIR
Das Projekt WIR ist im Juli 2013 auf Initiative von Rikarda, Holger und Reinhard in Berlin gestartet. Im ersten Jahr haben wir uns monatlich zu einer Runde Gemeinschaftsbildung nach Scott Peck getroffen, zusammen mit anderen Menschen die ab und zu dazukamen. Während diesem Jahr lernten wir noch viele andere Kommunikationsmethoden kennen und wollten sie gerne mal ausprobieren. So entstand die Idee, Dozenten dazu einzuladen uns diese Methoden vorzustellen, und wir organisierten dies als monatliche … Read more
The Love Plan
The Love Plan is currently re-evaluating its location, among other things. If our lifestyle interests (see below) call to you, you're welcome to email us to establish a connection. Where ever we are, we're excited about living our values. :-) We are a pair of homesteaders, living within (about) a 15 min. walk of the downtown of Mount Dora, Florida. We've been here since 2014, working to establish a more off-grid residence and self-sufficient food forest. In 2020, we joyfully went car-free. We … Read more
BEND Eco-Neighbourhood
Bend has been designed using permaculture principles, and we value environmental sustainability, social diversity, food production, and energy conservation. Our homes include passive solar design, composting toilets, rainwater tanks, and solar hot water. As a community we share conservation areas and certified organic agricultural land, as well as neighbourhood fire-fighting, photovoltaic, and greywater recycling systems. Our neighbourhood house includes a gathering area, a kitchen, guest … Read more
Bravewomen Foundation
We are small group of 10 women living positively with HIV for more than years. We started after 2013 when Visolela came back from Mpumulanga Umphaktsi village with an EDE training. We were donated 100,000 ZAR for starting with anything we needed. We selected to start with a garden in the backyard of women solidarity which is a Namibian NGO working against violence against women and children. What we did so far: We have cleared the space We identified skilled volunteers to help us with the … Read more
KITA
KITA is a non-profit premier tropical agricultural college in Ghana networking with local and global institutions to better the lives of rural farmers, unemployed youth, hungry and homeless families, women, aids victims and orphans, needy street children, the aged, and the disabled Through training, seminars and workshops, technology transfer, on-farm research, environmental conservation, volunteer exchange, seeds and food aid, input and clothing distribution and children’s sponsorship.For … Read more
Community/school led by Shaolin monk
We are a community led by a Shaolin Monk. We have a base in Berlin where we learn the philosophy, brotherhood, Taï Chi Chuan, Kung Fu. Any level is accepted. Once we know a bit we help our master in humanitarian work all over the world. If you believe in the light and in the action you are welcome in our place in Berlin to start to learn, to live with us and to be ready in the future to act for the others. We share the daily life inside but we work as well outside; a lot of pleasure; a … Read more
CityTree Tel Aviv
CityTree is a nurturing space for incubating a new, regenerative story for our society. Since 2006, CityTree - an ecological oasis in a fast-paced, concrete-covered city - has been speaking climate truth. The truth is that our civilization and planet are in a state of breakdown on multiple levels - from the soil which is losing its fertility, to the global economy which is speeding off the rails of runaway growth. In the midst of these crises, CityTree holds peaceful space, hosting … Read more
Transition Town Freiburg
Transition Town bedeutet Stadt im Wandel. Gemeint ist der Wandel von energiefressenden, umweltzerstörenden und landschaftszersiedelnden urbanen Lebensformen hin zu Städten, die Umwelt und Ressourcen schonen. Für diese inzwischen weltweite Bewegung bedeutet zukunftsfähige Stadtentwicklung eine drastische Einsparung an Energie im Öffentlichen Leben, beim Wohnen und im Verkehr. Angesichts abnehmender Erdölvorkommen, eines durch gehäuft auftretende Unwetter und schmelzende Eisberge deutlich … Read more
Ecoashram
Ecoashram is an eco-village initiative in Armenia, which started as an idea about 17 years ago, has been spinning around and gaining power by interacting with many different cultures in East and West, and this year it started getting realized and took a physical form on one great location as a main spot, and several other places in smaller sizes, as urban and semi-urban eco-village projects. Ecoashram Intercultural Center (EIC) Non-Governmental Organization is the curator and organizer of all … Read more
