Alfonso Flaquer, Communication Officer at GEN-Europe Office in Arterra, reports 2016 was a year both celebratory and challenging for GEN Europe on organisational and financial levels. After twenty years, our network is bubbling with myriads of initiatives every year, hundreds of projects pointing towards our main goal: that of a modern and mindful lifestyle based on sustainable and fair communitarian development that cares about all beings. In the following lines I describe some of the … Read more
Tribodar
Tribodar is an association born in 2010 out of a dream to create an environment which facilitates learning, sharing and connection for people of all ages. Holistic and sustainable living is at the core of Tribodar. Since the beginning of the project we have recieved many people from all corners of the world to volunteer and participate in our permaculture and creativity gatherings, open learning events, healing retreats and our Tribojam Festival. In the past few years we have been dedicated to … Read more
Indigo project
For now we are only 4 and we want to build an eco-village, but we know that people will be called to us at the right time... Two of us are a moroccan couple, we have one belgo-moroccan and one french girls. We all are artists in different ways: paintors, fire jugglers, jewelry creators, hula hoopers, video artists, dancers, sculptors, musicians, recycling artists, art therapists, etc... Our land (2,5 ha)is in a rural area, close to a small small city: Kelaa des Sraghnas (a little less than 1 … Read more
Folleterre Faerie Sanctuary
Welcome to Folleterre: part of the global network of radical faerie communities. Folleterre aims to be a “pink lighthouse” where queers expand their special gifts and nature, explore the relationship between sexuality and spirit, and aims to provide a place of safety, homecoming, inspiration – a home for an ever-growing family of kindred souls. Folleterre is a sanctuary from the materialism and consumerism of much of gay life: a place for respite and healing in the beauty of nature. This … Read more
Deep Ecology & Mindful Gardening
- Language:
- English
- Location: Thailand
Deepen our connection with nature through our head, heart, hands and spirit. Join us at Gaia Ashram in the North-East of Thailand for this two weeks contemplative learning where we will learn together What is Deep Ecology as a philosophy, as a way to see and interpret life, as an approach to deepen our connection with nature and as a way of living. This two weeks program is designed to have balance of the learning through different channel of our being: Head: Theoretical learning, … Read more
Jaguarapira Wildlife Reserve
In 1994, as a master’s student in forest science, we start to restore the vegetation of a land we bought in 1998. This land is located at the foothills of a mountain in southern Brazil, harboring a mix of Araucaria and Atlantic Forest severely degraded by mining. After 27 years of restoration the forest cover and wildlife is exuberant. We teach conservation and restoration and wildlife studies. … Read more
Green Village
- Date: 25 April – 31 July 2017
- Language:
- English
- Location: Sri Lanka
Step 01. Building the "Green School" The land to build the school is already being identified and the method of the building using more environment friendly materials such as "Clay, Wood and Palm (for the roof). … Read more
Green Village
It is not only farming. And not only educating. As well as not only exchange. It is combination of farming, education and exchange about ideas, environment friendly concepts and educating about the green life-style concept from children to adults. It is team work, cooperative activities and sharing. The project background: Location :- Sri Lanka City: Dambulla Region: Central province Step 01: To establish the "Green Village" There are major … Read more
Terramana
Welcome to Terramana, a non-profit eco-spiritual project aiming to recreate Paradise on Earth. The project is taking place in Sumatra, Indonesia, on more than 5 hectares of an indigenous rubber plantation, with a beautiful river passing through, bordering the wild primitive jungle, where we planted 1000 fruit trees in 2002. Today, many are still alive and strong with lots of durians. Terramana is born from the vision of a group of dedicated men and women whose dream is to recreate Paradise … Read more
Green educator
1. Inventory of the biodiversity of the green species Each member of the association is invited to make a scientific research of biodiversity to establish an inventory or a census of the trees, plants and flowers with photos that exist or that can withstand the climate of the willaya of Sidi Bel Abbes. Once this first steps is completed, we will have to do: Classify species according to scientific criteria. Collect information about each species (type of soil supported, watering rate, … Read more
