Wongsanit Ashram was founded in 1984 by social activist Sulak Sivaraksa and colleagues. It is a spiritual activist community devoted to developing and promoting an alternative lifestyle that is grounded in Buddhist Dharma, cultural diversity and environmental sustainability. It is home to educators and social activists who lead programmes in grassroots leadership, in natural construction techniques, and in empowering marginalised communities. The EDE will start at the Ashram but include sites … Read more
Children’s Village School
Moo Baan Dek is a living alternative education and a community. Its environment is arranged to help poor children from even the most difficult backgrounds to learn to love themselves and society. The children learn from nature and their immediate environment. They grow up in a warm and loving atmosphere in which they find understanding and freedom plentiful. Their learning can take place at any corner of this natural school, 70% of which is covered with cultivable land and forest, and is not … Read more
Pun Pun
Pun Pun is an organic farm, seed-saving operation, and sustainable living and learning center. We feel that only by living in a sustainable way ourselves, is it possible for us to create a model from which others can learn and live. Through natural cultivation on our organic farm we display ways of transitioning to, and living more sustainably. Through the living and learning center we experiment with appropriate technologies, organic farming, and natural building techniques. We discover the … Read more
The Panya Project
The Panya Project is an open potential community that is working to be a thriving example of sustainable living in northern Thailand. At this point, we host workshops and internships on Permaculture, and Natural Building, as well as host schools from around Thailand, for outdoor sustainable living education. Our community is excited to be working toward self-sufficiency, recently installing a series of water harvesting swales, as well as and extensive food forest. What the future holds … Read more
