We are absolutely thrilled to share with you the 10 finalists of the Hildur Jackson Award! The jury has had a challenging time deliberating, as we have received outstanding 25 applications from 18 countries and across all of the 5 regions. Together with Gaia Trust, GEN developed the Hildur Jackson Award, a €3,000 annual prize that supports and honors projects around the world that demonstrate regenerative best-practices in all dimensions of sustainability. Meet our 10 finalists for the 2021 edition, and help the jury choose the winner. Leave your comment below!
Global Permayouth Project – Australia, GENOA
The Permayouth Project is based in Crystal Waters Ecovillage in Australia, as part of GEN Oceania & Asia. The Global Permyouth connects young people aged between 11-16 around the world – from Europe, Asia, Americas, Africa, Oceania and youth in refugee camps too. They gather together via zoom to explore what permaculture means in their local context, to learn about different ways of thinking about it and applying it.
This group is led by young people for young people, with Mentors from around the world too – Morag Gamble, Rosemary Morrow, Hannah Apricot Eckberg, Sierra Robinson, Charlie McGee, Fritjof Capra, Nora Bateson and many more to come.
They also organize a weekly newsletter, a monthly online festival, local camps, a youtube channel, and raise funds for the Permayouth clubs in refugee camps and villages. So far this year, around 1.000 young refugees across 10 camps and villages have received free permaculture training led by local teachers, and they have also been able to support the donation of tool and seed kits to start gardens, and/or seed-funding for local enterprises.
Learn more about their work at: https://ecovillage.org/solution/permayouth/
Ecovillage Chitubu – Zimbabwe, GEN Africa
Ecovillage Chitubu is a part of the Schools and Colleges Permaculture (SCOPE) Zimbabwe, working since 1994 with young people throughout the country on practical environmental education Programme and sustainable lifestyles.
In March 2018, SCOPE established a sustainable lifestyle learning Centre, Ecovillage Chitubu which aimed at showcasing ecovillage principles and offer inspiration for regenerative solutions.
Amidst COVID19 crisis, Ecovillage Chitubu was joined by 58 female youths and their households. Among these, 29 are female-headed households struggling to meet their daily dietary needs of the families, 27 of them are caregivers of orphaned children.
To explore deeper, visit: https://ecovillage.org/project/scope-zimbabwe-ecovillagechitubu/
Boekel Ecovillage – Netherlands, GEN Europe
Boekel Ecovillage is a Dutch-based project that acts as a Living Lab, a real-life test and experimentation environment for a sustainable future. The 47 members of the ecovillage are users and producers, co-creating innovation and fostering user-driven open innovation. Founded in 2016, they have built a self-supporting village when it comes to energy, water and a major part of their food.
Their lowtech innovative heat storage system is used to store summer heat into basalt and use that stored heat to warm their 36 houses for the rest of the year. This system is carbon free, uses 100% local energy and will result in zero energy costs to the ecovillagers. This system allows Boekel Ecovillage to balance out the top of energy production in the summer and energy demand in the winter! On July 1 2021, the Dutch Building sector awarded Boekel Ecovillage as the Most sustainable organisation of the Netherlands. Boekel Ecovillage also won the Public choice award.
To learn more, visit: https://ecovillage.org/project/ecovillage-boekel/
Inkiri Community Piracanga – Brazil, CASA Latina
The Inkiri Community Piracanga, in Brazil, was founded in 2015 and is made up of 43 adults and 15 children. They dedicate themselves to the expansion of consciousness, realizing and inspiring the transformation of the planet that so many feel to be both necessary and urgent. They aspire to be propagation agents for a worldwide culture based on self-knowledge, union, regeneration, purpose, prosperity, love and diversity.
Brazil is going through a great political and health crisis, a time when citizens are losing hope and looking for new ways of life. Between 2020 and 2021, Inkiri Community has supported local communities in vulnerability with food and basic needs. They distributed more than 100 baskets with basic supplies and food in 5 different communities in their region, which attended to more than 500 people.
Learn more about their work at: https://ecovillage.org/project/inkiri-community-piracanga-ecovillage-bahia-brazil/
Sonas Village – Cambodja, GENOA
Sonas Village is a sustainable community development In Cambodia. Their first eco-village community was developed in the Takeo province of Cambodia. They have been applying the holistic eco-village model since 2013.
Since the start of the Covid -19 in Cambodia, they have been put to the toughest test of all for sustainable living. The livelihood of millions across Cambodia depends on tourism which was crippled within weeks of the outbreak. This created a huge pull for new ideas that can help people to survive financially.
In this period, Sonas Village has started seven new projects in different parts of Cambodia, growing from 55 families to 250 families across 5 villages. They have also started working with the indigenous communities in Mondulkiri province to preserve their culture and create a sustainable living for the forest communities.
Find out more at: https://ecovillage.org/project/sonas-village/
Musu Runakuna Indigenous Community – Colombia, CASA Latina
In March 2017, the river that crosses Mocoa, south of Colombia, produced a landslide of water, mood, rocks and debris, razing 40% of Mocoa’s neighbourhoods, affecting more than 2300 families and killing +1000 people, including the settlement of the Musurrunakuna indigenous community
The Colombian government began the process to grant 69 Hectares for the reconstruction of the Musu Runakuna territory. The land used to be dedicated to livestock and therefore it has damaged soil. In the same year, Musu Runakuna families moved to the land, at first to live in a temporary communitarian camp. Joining forces, Musu Runakuna Cabildo and CASA Latina Chapter Colombia are working on the sustainable reconstruction of the community’s settlement.
The Participatory Reconstruction of the Musurrunakuna Territory in Colombia responds to the urge of rebuilding the people’s territory focusing on the 5 elements of the Musurrunakuna’s Life Plan: Territory (which includes environment and economy), Mother Tongue (specifically separated from culture), Health & Traditional Medicine, Social Organization (and Own Rights), Culture and Education.
At last, as of March 2021, the land is finally owned by the community:
“This generates a great positive impact for us and marks the beginning of the house construction project, because we were in suspense with this decision, because we did not know if we could continue here or if we should start another establishment process in a new property. The decision of the judges is that the land that is ours belongs to us. This shows unity and resilience are strong and living values in the Musu Runakuna community.”
Today there are 145 members in the community, including the ones living there permanently and those who have to commute to generate income. If the Musu Runakuna community receives the Hildur Jackson Award, they plan to invest the prize to strengthen income generation, improving their fish farming production. It already generates quality food for the community and for the local market, and their project is to achieve full food sovereignty with it.
To explore deeper, visit: https://ecovillage.org/project/musu-runakuna-indigenous-community/
Eco-Clean Ghana – GEN Africa
Eco-Clean Ghana Foundation is a Not for Profit organization that recycles waste into resources and creates entrepreneurial opportunities for the vulnerable in our society. It uses permaculture and ecovillage sustainable modules in turning waste into resources and creating livelihood empowerment opportunities. It empowers women and youth into generating income from plastic waste by turning these waste into school bags, laptop bags, and market bags. It also trains them on producing cleaning detergents (Liquid soap, shower gel, hand sanitizer, and bar soaps) for sale. Mushroom production training is also organized for these targets to produce and sell in the market to improve their livelihood.
Between 2020 and 2021, Eco-Clean Ghana was able to recycle over 1.5 tons of plastic waste. It has also recycled over 6 tons of degradable waste such as sawdust, rice bran and wheat bran into edible mushrooms. They have been able to directly organize livelihood empowerment training for over 76 youth and women. Eco-Clean Ghana also supported 3 local schools with 15 liters of cleaning detergents including liquid soap and hand sanitizers to mitigate and curb the spread of the COVID19 pandemic. Over 3000 people have benefitted from their products and radio advocacy programs made in 5 radio stations in our municipality.
Eco-Clean Ghana applied for the Hildur Jackson award to expand their sustainable projects and enable them to train even more women and youth who were hit hard in this COVID19 pandemic, with their livelihood skills development activities including Eco-bags production, Mushroom production and Cleaning Detergent Production.
Learn more about their work at: https://ecovillage.org/project/eco-clean-ghana-foundation/
Khetee Regenerative Agroforestry Farm – India, GENOA
Khetee Regenerative Agroforestry Farm, in the semi-arid zone of India, restores land from monoculture practices to regenerative agroforestry where they plant around 24 types of crops and plant all grown together. Inside the farm they have found ample impact in improving soil quality, soil water retaining capacity, natural biodiversity and changing the quality of yields which helps in carbon sequestration, groundwater level recharge and making the ecosystem sustainable.
Between 2020 and 2021, Khetee developed 2 acres of new Agroforestry farm in the village to best showcase the model and its benefits. Under their Agroforestry Fellowship program, 11 fellows (7 marginalised women, 4 male farmers) successfully completed their fellowship. They started their new batch with 30 fellows (22 marginalised women, and youth) to get trained in Agroforestry. Khetee was also able to reach out to remote and tribal areas of Bihar to distribute dry ration.
Khetee works for community development through regenerative Agroforestry. If they receive the Hildr Jackson Award funds, they plan to support 400 households of Durdih Village to undertake introduced Gharbadi cultivation in homestead land to produce and consume clean, green, safe and nutritious vegetables for round the year. Nutrition Garden is an age-old practice in India where the women used to grow vegetables and fruits according to their need in the homestead reusing grey water of the house.
To learn more, visit: https://ecovillage.org/project/khetee-regenerative-agroforestry-farm/
Ayrumã Ecovillage – Brasil, CASA Latina
Ayrumã Ecovillage is a sustainable settlement of 42 members in Cerrado, the Brazilian Savannah. Its creation in 2012 has taken place through a circular governance process that counted on the participation of all our members and countless collaborators in constant learning and transformation. In its formative process, a permacultural planning was carried out aiming at the environmental regeneration and conservation of a large part of the land, where the native forest is home to great biodiversity, preserving waters and native species of the Cerrado biome, one of the most biodiverse regions of the world.
Ayrumã carries out numerous activities focused on the valorization and rescue of socio-cultural traditions, environmental research and education, sustainability, and agroecology.
In order to strengthen a broad support network, Ayrumã has been articulating joint actions among community associations, schools and universities, third sector entities, and public administration.
Besides keeping on protecting 134 hectares of land in the Cerrado (the Brazilian savannah) – an internationally recognized biodiversity hotspot – through fire prevention and conduction of natural regeneration, Ayrumã Ecovillage promoted several activities related to environmental education and solidarity economy.
To explore deeper, visit: https://ecovillage.org/project/ecoaldea-ayruma/
Green Village Calauan – Philippines, GENOA
Since 2013, excluded young adults have participated in the creation and construction of Green Village Calauan in the Philippines. Beyond the incredible impact they bring to the development of their own country, they became the real actors of their own development : they learned to work as a team, to manage a budget, to hold meetings with professionals such as engineers or suppliers. Above all, they discover that they have the credibility, talents, skills to present to an employer with this rewarding experience that is well worth the diplomas.
2020 marked the end of the construction period, allowing the Green Village center to move to the second phase of the project: to become a Sustainable entrepreneurial hub. They were able to host an integration of all the Youth from the team in July before closing the center because of the lockdown.
From mid-2020 to 2021, the group has been able to maintain the place and step back and adapt their method LP4Y Green Village pedagogy 2.0 to become a 3-month residential training for young excluded women (18-24). The Youth develop and manage micro-businesses 5 days a week and thus develop soft, life and entrepreneurial skills. One day a week is dedicated to personal development. At the beginning of 2021, local coaches have been welcomed again on-site to prepare the ground for this new pedagogy and start recruiting new participants.
Find out more at: https://ecovillage.org/project/green-village-calauan-2/
Help us to choose the winner of the 2021 edition
The Global Ecovillage Network is made up of thousands of individuals and communities all over the world, innovating, rediscovering and implementing regenerative, just and pioneering ways of living together. The prize is awarded to projects bringing the most impactful inspiration about ecovillages/ecovillage lifestyles to a broad audience.
As we lead up to announcing the winner on Hildur Jackson’s birthday, 7 October, we want to give you the chance not only to meet each one of the finalists, but also to share with the jury your comments. What did you think about each project? Which one is your favorite? Please, share your thoughts, leave a reply down below!
Thank you for your aktivstes. I am rearly happy about all this Projekts of the world. All of them is my favorite.
Anyway, I will chose the following Projekt.
Musu Runakuna Indigenous Community – Colombia, CASA Latina
One another very sad situation for these children in Nigeria, maybe your organisation can also help those children.
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/103828-000-A/nigeria-skolombo-das-heisst-hexenkinder/
Regards
Permayouth are Inspirational and are educating our youth for a better tomorrow by example around the world!
Meu voto vai para a Ecovila Ayrumã, Estrela da Manhã! A Ecovila Ayrumã é um grande projeto de eco sustentabilidade do cerrado brasileiro, que atua em prol da preservação do bioma e das águas de nossa bacia hidrográfica, atua com as comunidades quilombolas através do agroflorestamento em rede, da economia solidária e criativa, assim como atua na preservação da cultura dos povos tradicionais da região. Esta ajuda será de grande valia uma vez que a comunidade regional está sendo ameaçada pelo projeto de mineração em Serro (cidade próxima) que afetará as comunidades do entorno.
Meu voto vai para Ayrumã Ecovillage.
Green Village Calauan – Philippines, GENOA go LP4Y, great project great people.
U get my vote!
Permayouth is such a timely and transformational project!
Combining the potential of permaculture (landscape) design with the dynamic energy of youth and livelihood-building with refugee communities… that’s an amazingly smart set-up. While originated in Australia, I came across Permayouth recently through one of its Ugandan youth advocates Tom Olaam in Northern Uganda. Tom, 21 years-old, got into Permaculture thanks to a Permayouth scholarship and extended collaboration. He is an amazing human being and very passionate youth leader and farmer. He helped us to dynamise — or should I say permaculturise — our newly founded community supported agriculture Karecelo CSA Farm in Gulu. Thanks Tom & Permayouth!!
My favorite one is Ayrumã Ecovillage
My favourite one is Ecovillage Chitubu – Zimbabwe, GEN Africa
Looking around the world, I see with deep concern the fate of women. So it is important for me that they are focusing in female youths.
Additionally it touched me deep that these women are struggling to meet their daily dietary needs of the families, and the orphaned children that take care.
What kind of civilization is this if people need to struggle for food?
Please, support them
Please give young women a chance to have the control of their lives
Thank you
I vote for eco-clean Ghana
My favorite one is GREEN VILLAGE CALAUAN for the educational, community development and social impact it has beside the environmental actions. Also, it is duplicable.
The second on my wishlist is the Ecovillage Chitubu for the women and children impacts, very inspiring to have a whole community of women, mothers… and it works hand in hand with the local government, so looks like impactful.
Boekel Ecovillage is very inspiring but looks difficult to duplicate because very technical.
I also like Musu Runakuna Indigenous Community but I am not in favor of animal farming… so as the prize will be invest in fish farming… no.
Global Permayouth Project – Australia, GENOA
I am in awe of the passion and commitment I have observed from this wonderful community of young adults and would love to give them my vote. It is a privilege to be able to connect with the members of Permayouth through their monthly festivals – I always feel inspired and hopeful that the next generation feel empowered to speak up and let their voices be heard, be that through connection to others, music, poetry or the sharing of their experiences. They speak to change, solutions and to their generation.
I vote for Musu Runakuna.
we are living here in Serro in a very danger moment with mining exploration trying to come and explore what will definitively finish with the water and the simple way of life. We need visibility. We need that the world see SERRO and help us to take care of this importante bioma, in a very delicate politic moment of destrution of nature in Brazil. Will be very important that ecovillage Ayrumã could make this project reality. Thank you very much for this oportunity.
hello!
amazing and critical projects! it’s really difficult to select only one. so, I would like all of them could be awarded somehow.
1. is there a way to provide resources to integrating them?
2. is there a way to develop a future great project (or projects) embracing their common goals? a network of them!
3. is there a way to catalize a contact among them? a workshop!
congratulations and good luck to all projects!
thanks to GEN!
The GREEN Village Calauan is an incredible hub for sustainability and innovation, putting the Youth in the center of the Change and empowering them as the real actor of their community. The revival after the pandemic is stunning and it is fantastic to see the former Youth of the program, hand in hand with the International catalyst, taking the lead to positively impact their community, involve them while promoting the local culture and eco system. Moreover, the ecological infrastuctures, again maintained by the Youth themselves, is a great example of a beautiful, green and peaceful environement to empower the Youth in a sustainable way !
Ecovila Ayrumã, sensacional! Belíssimo trabalho maravilhoso!
Wonderful project! In a vulnerable ecosystem❤️
Global Permayouth Project gets my vote. They are doing such good work and led by young people. What a great idea they had. I love seeing youth involved in something so positive.
Ayrumã – Extremely valuable initiative with social and environmental impact. I’m rooting for the project to be selected. The region needs a proposal like this to resist and be an alternative to mining. We are all Gaia.
Ayrumã is a very important project for the preservation of the Serro and region. Mining is devastating the entire region and this project, the ecovillage, is one of the preservation areas.
Ayrumã é um projeto muito importante para a preservação do Serro e região . A mineração está devastando toda a região e este projeto , a ecovila, é um dos locais de preservação.
Ecovila Ayrumã – Brasil, CASA Latina
Estamos vibrando com essa conquista e torcendo por vocês.
Vcs são muito especiais!
Parabens!!!
I realy enjoyed all of those beautifull projects.
But my vote goes to the Ayrumã village for the beautifull work they are doing as protectors of the rivers and the mountains of the Brazilan cerrado.
Ecovila Ayrumã – Brasil, CASA Latina
Trabalho comunitário inspirador!
Ayrumã Ecovillage deserves the award! I personally attest their sincerity to contribute and to change the reality of local communities as well as to preserve our beautiful Cerrado!
I loved the Ayruma project, it deserves to win!
Ayrumã Ecovillage – Brazilian Savannah.
Here we are rooting for Ecovila Ayrumã to win this award, in particular to give Serro world visibility at a time when it is being threatened and to develop work in favor of this vulnerable biome and local communities.
My vote is for: Musu Runakuna Indigenous Community – Colombia
Having visited the area, I’ve come to understand the immense damage caused by the 2017 flood. Putumayo still needs to receive more help from the government. The indigenous communities, keepers of the jungle and its inhabitants would certainly do some good with the prize money.
Ayrumã Ecovillage is a beautiful model of sustainability, preservation and care for Life and Nature, in an environment threatened by indiscriminate mining activity.
Ayrumã Ecovillage é um belo modelo de sustentabilidade, preservação e cuidado com a Vida e a Natureza, num ambiente ameaçado pela atividade de mineração indiscriminada.
Hi, I’m very happy to come on this wonderful platform to vote for my inspiration youths who work along the terms because of our regenerative ecosystem, really they are working very hard and inspire others in 7 continents, I’m very grateful to give my vote to Global permayouth project- Australia GENOA.
Thank morag Gamble and maia for your hardworking
Ecovila Ayrumå tive o previlegio de conhecê-la e seus projetos sociais e ambientais como a agrofloresta com a comunidade de Capivari distrito do Serro MG que infelizmente está sofrendo uma ameaça de uma mineradora se instalar de forma arbitrária em uma região rica em recursos hídricos essenciais para a sobrevivência de todo ecossistema da região ,parabéns a todos finalistas e Ayrumå e digna desse Prêmio.
Global permayouth project- Australia GENOA are deserve award for a great work which they are doing in my place really it’s very amazing through giving a scholarship to sumaili – who is living in kakuma refugee camp, supporting him to empower other youths who was suffering from drugs abuse and great jobs for main young people through permaculture knowledge and skills, I give my vote to, Global permayouth project-Australia GENOA.
Ecovila Ayrumã – Brasil, CASA Latina
Parabéns, MG está torcendo por vocês. São guardiões da natureza e da sustentabilidade.
I am very happy to give my vote to Ayrumã project because it makes great difference in our region. Good lucke!
My vote goes to the Global Permayouth with it’s amazing work in helping organizing courses to refugees and donating tools to the vulnerable communities across East Africa’s refugees settlement and host Communities.
My vote is for global permayouth project because they enable youth talents and train them as well.
Ecovilla Ayrumã é repleta de pessoas do bem, que entendem a importância de um meio ambiente equilibrado. Esgoto sanitário devidamente tratado, resíduos direcionados à compostagem e agricultura agroflorestal.
É uma area de grande importância em termos de patrimônio material e merece ser cuidada por pessoas de bem.
Meu voto vai pra Ecovila Ayrumã!
I would like to vote for Permayouth. I love that this organisation is run by young people for young people. I also love the potential for what they are doing to transform refugee camps into ecovillages, wherever those camps might be. This is surely a living example of the permaculture principle of the greatest effect for the least change. I see how these young people are developing resilience, leadership and connection across the planet while also harnessing the power of creativity through music, poetry and art.
I also respect the way they are training teachers that live in the camps so that permaculture can be adapted to the local context by people that are already part of the community.
I would love to give my vote to the Global Permayouth Project. Such a wonderful group of bright, passionate young folk who are really making positive change in the world.
I vote for the GREEN VILLAGE CALAUAN! Such an inspiring project, and super well structured!
My vote goes to the Green Village Calauan for its positive impact and strong sense of humanity.
Congrats to all the amazing finalists who make our world a better place!
GREEN VILLAGE CALAUAN, for the actions it does and the impact it has on the community / environment is my favorite project. This kind of village looks really interesting and demonstrates a willingness for change. It allows to build a place working towards long term social and environmental stability.
Without any hesitation my second favorite project is the Ecovillage Chitubu, for its particular focus on women and children. The use of permaculture to achieve this social objective is particularly interesting.
Congratulations to all the projects for their social commitment, environmental protection, and creativity.
I would vote for the Green Village Calauan in the Philippines !
The Green Village Calauan is an ecological and social project that is done for and by the local community.
Through a project focus on the youth all of the community is impacted on a ecological, economic and social aspects.
And it is wonderfull to see ecological and social project growing all over the world.
All the projects seem very impactful! What I like about the Green Village Calauan because it involves environmental advocacy on the education of the youth. This supports the environmental issue through the empowerment of future generations.
My vote is to the permayouth global project,
I love the innitiative of bringing the refugees alive not only by offering scholarships to again have the feeling of studying, but also continuing helping them in transforming the refugee camps into ecovillages which is soon to be achieved.
All the projects are doing a great job👍🌱 but my vote goes to Global permayouth project- Australia GENOA. Refugee communities live in adverse conditions. This project is really needed to empower such communities to become self-sufficient and resilient economically, socially, and ecologically. And the refugees themselves have shown positive growth in all aspects. Kudos Morag and team for great work that you are doing in refugee settlements.
My favorite solution is Green Village Calauan – Philippines, GENOA.
It shows greatly how an inclusion project helping people out of poverty can also have a powerful ecological impact!
My vote goes to: Green Village Calauan – Philippines, GENOA
I vote for the Green Village Calauan, an incredible replicable project for Youth inclusion!
Very amazed by the GREEN VILLAGE CALAUAN project, I will vote for them!
The initiative is rare and furthermore it provides many opportunities for the youth (next generation) to make impact for the community while preparing them selves for a better future! It’s a life changing project indeed!
Congratulations for all the projects, they are all very interesting and deserve to be supported!!! My vote will go to Eco-Clean Ghana due the really difficult context they have to face to develop this project.
Green Village Calauan – Philippines
Ayrumā is an incredible work in Brazil. All those ecovillage are valuables and precious works but the dangerous which sorround The Ayrumā Project and the way they are trying to survive despite all troubles, deserves a chance to grow and spreed all their educational knowledge and environment protection as far as they can go. I vote in Ayrumā with the hope it can win.
[Eng] Ayrumã and Piracanga in Brazil are communities that are in great need of this award, each with its pressing needs, with great threats from projects with a very negative impact in their regions.
Brazil is experiencing a time of great political, economic, environmental, ethnic and cultural difficulties.
We are under attack by an inept, corrupt, belligerent government, acting like a worm eroding Brazilian democracy. Vibrating a lot for one of these two communities to be contemplated, if possible, the two, they deserve it!
[Port] Ayrumã e Piracanga no Brasil são comunidades que precisam muito deste prêmio, cada um com suas necessidades prementes, com grandes ameaças de empreendimentos de impacto muito negativo em suas regiões.
Brasil está vivendo um momento de grandes dificuldades políticas, econômicas, ambientais, étnicas, culturais.
Estamos sob ataque de um governo inepto, corrupto, beligerante, agindo como um verme corroendo a democracia brasileira. Vibrando muito para que uma dessas duas comunidades seja contemplada, se possível, as duas, elas merecem!
All projects are incredible and i hope they keep on growing, but my vote is for Ayrumã Ecovillage – Brasil, CASA Latina. The sustainable and educational projects they are developing are very important for the local traditional communities and the protection of nature, mainly in this moment, when the city is trying to resist to the entrance of mining companies in the region, that can prejudice water fountains and their traditional ways of living.
Amazing
I’m very delighted to come before you to give out my vote, I’m very happy with work which Global permayouth project they are doing to restore our planet, I’m voting for Global permayouth project.
I vote for the Permayouth!
Helping the future generation take hold of their future is exactly what we need.
Thankyou for all you’ve done Morag and Maia!
My vote goes to Khetee Regenerative
Wow all of the eco-villages and projects that are going on around the world are so inspiring.
I’m adding my vote to The Global Permayouth organisation. although i also wish i didn’t have to choose as all of the eco-villages are doing amazing and much needed tasks.
My vote goes to Ecovillage Chitubu – Zimbabwe.
Transitioning into a society which fosters values for any life is hard in Zim. Especially when tribal core values are so deeply rooted in the societal system. More local initiatives are taken each year, to keep what is helpful and nurture a culture of change. Yet, to actually take steps on this new pathway, basic human needs need to be addressed first. Access to your own safe food and water and learning how to best tune into the ecosystem is paramount. From there anything is possible. Reading the review and website, over last years this initiative has demonstrated perseverance in working with “the system”, benefitting thousands of young people. To work through a global pandemic with female youths and their households shows the deep work Chibutu (flower bud) is committed to do.
I would like to vote for Musu Runakuna Indigenous Community – Colombia, CASA Latina. All of the projects are so impressive that it was difficult to choose. However, I narrowed down on Colombia because after the natural disaster and the recent ruling of the judges regarding the property rights in favour of the indigenous community, they need financial support to establish themselves so that they are able to support themselves in the future and become independent.
Ecovillage Chitubu – Zimbabwe, GEN Africa
I vote in Chitubu for your work with young women.
I strongly recommend Eco-Clean Ghana to be selected as the winner of this award. This organization is changing the spirals of massively in an Innovative way . Training of youth in the rural communities and and empowering women through their skill training programs. This award will help Eco-Clean Ghana expand their reach and enroll more youth and women in their training programs.
Programs include:
Mushroom production from degradable waste material like saw dust, rice chaff and wheat bran.
Detergent production (liquid soap, hand sanitizer, shower gel) training for youth and women
Eco Bags Production: Trains youth and women on how to turn plastic waste into beautiful backpacks, laptop bags and many more.
Regards
Stephen
I strongly wish all these projects could be funded. Eco-Clean Ghana is doing a wonderful job in our communities and this fund would really help them go a long way.
My vote goes to Eco-Clean Ghana. GEN Africa They are doing a wonderful job here in Ghana
It is my solemn prayer all these projects gets funded all of them are great projects. I will suggest Eco-Clean Ghana is considered for this award for their hard work in the GEN Africa region
Green Village Calauan is my favorite!
The work they do for Youth inclusion is amazing, and this socialy, economicaly and environmentaly sustainable model can be duplicated everywhere it is needed.
Hello everyone,
I vote for the Green Village Calauan as it supports the integration of excluded Youth and at the same time, makes awareness on sustainability.
Celebrating and supporting the GLOBAL PERMAYOUTH PROJECT for the creative momentum and action around global regenerative change, led by young people 😀
I choose Global Permayouth Project – Australia, GENOA
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What amazing projects !
Green Village Calauan gets my vote because this project combines sustainability and fight again exclusion.
I vote for the Global Permayouth Project – amazingly inspiriring work with refugee youth in East Africa.
My vote goes to Ayrumã Ecovillage – Brazil.
It’s a very inspiring project.
Ayrumã Ecovillage project is amazing.
They are playing an essential role for the preservation of the Cerrado biome, going beyond the environmental agenda, with education and strengthening of the local community, being a resistance against large mining corporation.
Long live to Ayrumã!
I think the best one is Ayrumã Ecovillage, Serro, Minas Gerais- Brazil.
We need Ayrumã to protect from mining .
Mining os destroying everything around .
Meu voto é para a Ecovila Ayrumã – Brasil, CASA Latina
We are from the Water Movement that fights for the environmental protection of Serro and we follow Ayrumã’s important work for the conservation of the region at a time when it is under threat. Therefore, our vote goes to Ecovillage Ayrumã.
I see Ayrumã project as a very important initiative because it not only preserves the Cerrado but also gives the opportunity to the local community to learn about a sustainable way of life. Other important factor is that their have the courage to face the mining industry which has explored people and environment for a long time. Congratulations to Ayrumã for the great and courageous work.
I do like the Ayruma project, because it represents Brazil in a very delicate moment. The world needs to help saving Brazil!
I vote for Ayruma project, because it represents Brazil in a very delicate moment.
hello, I’m sorry, I desire a good luck to all projects, as well as suggesting some ideas, but forgot to indicate my favorite project – it’s AYRUMÃ Ecovillage, because of your innovative project linking biodiversity and cultural conservation and knowledge! Ayrumã ecovillageis a pionner in Brazil and in the world in this kind of link. Indeed, the ecovillage acts in one of the most diverse and theatrened biome, the Cerrado – Brazilian savanna – protecting a large área of native vegetation, with endemic and threatened species, and fortifyng the tradicional cultural knowledge of the communities surrounding the ecovillage, in Serro, Brazil.Therefore, Ayrumã ecovillage has a deep impact and solutions to the issue of biodiversity conservation associated with science and tradicional knowledges within an area strongly affected by minning companies. So, despiste all other projects are bright and crtical, I indicate Ayrumã with its love to nature and culture.
I vote for Ayruma!!!! A wonderful project in a vulnerable ecosystem.
I choose Ayrumã !!! It is an initiative that has a heart, is important and necessary for the local environment and is an example for similar initiatives in Brazil and around the world.
I choose Ayrumã ecovillage Brasil. Excellent iniciative
I also would like to vote for Ayrumã!
Wow! Amazing!
GEN is such a powerful network! And the projects, so inspiring…
Congratulations to everyone on every effort towards creating more sustainable ways of living.
Really hard to choose just one project, but as a Brazilian biologist, I am familiarized with the urgency to conserve the Cerrado in face of climate and land-use changes. Millions of lives depend on this! It is not an easy task, indeed, but together we can work it out. That’s why Ayrumã is my choice: because it has been doing amazing work gathering all stakeholders in this paramount mission.
Voto em Ayrumã, Minas Gerais, Brasil.
A terra e a água precisam de guardiões conscientes e engajados.
Pessoas dedicadas à preservação ambiental e à educação. Conhecedores de agrofloresta e bioconstrução. Protetores da saúde de fauna, flora e humanos. Talentosos na promoção de arte, cultura e integração social.
Os amigos de Ayrumã vivem a nova Terra a cada dia, em cada gesto.
Obrigada por todo o Amor.
My vote goes to the Green Village Calauan for its positive impact and strong sense of humanity. A wonderful concept also.
All the best!
Eu voto na Ecovila AYRUMA – Serro MG, dedicada à promoção da sustentabilidade e da
conservação do patrimônio natural e cultural de um dos últimos refúgios do Cerrado brasileiro – bioma frágil e riquíssimo, ameaçado pela mineração.
I vote for the amazing project that is the Green Village Calauan – Philippines, GENOA !!
I vote for the Green Village Calauan in the Philippines, what a great project to support youth inclusion in rural areas!
I vote for the inspiring project of the Green village Calauan. The impact of this project on the ecosystem surrounding is super impressive!
Even if it is not easy to choose between incredible projects, I advise to push the Green Village Calauan in the Philippines. They need help for this incredible Village created since 2015 by very excluded Youth and their community in a remote relocation site for people rejected from the Slums of Manila. From this experience other Green Villages have been created for the most poor Youth in central India (Chhattisgarh), the West Bengal (India), near Kathmandu (Nepal) and soon in Lebanon (Tripoli), Bangladesh (North), … Encourage these Young Entrepreneurs coming from very excluded background.
Among all those amazing projects, I vote for the Green Village Calauan!
What an impressive project Green village Calauan !
Hello !
I vote for the Green Village Calauan – Philippines, GENOA ! What an amazing project, focused on empowering young adults with providing them the environment they need to grow! A great place to impact future generation and the world! Youth are the future !
The GREEN Village Calauan is an incredible hub for sustainability and innovation, putting the Youth in the center of the Change and empowering them as the real actor of their community.
An organisation run by young people for young people. What a better way to educate the new generation to good ecological practices?
Anyway, good luck to all these super projects!
I vote for Green Village Calauan – Philippines, GENOA ; I was lucky to visit this place and it’s an incredible place to build bridges amongst communities, ideas, corporates, institutions – and TOGETHER find solutions !
Congratulations 🥳 all of the Top 10 Final lists Green Village Projects. I get eco inspiration from reading this. For me, I would like to vote “Green Village Calauan” for bringing the development of the young adults together with best practices in dimension of sustainability.
I vote for the Calauan green village
I vote for the Green Village Calauan, a huge impact for the environment and the professional inclusion!
Congratulations !!! All of the top 10 finalists of Eco village projects. I get eco inspiration from reading this. For me, I would like to vote for “Green Village Calauan – Philippines, GENOA” for bringing the development of the young adults together with the best practices in the dimensions of sustainability.
Very impressed by *Green Village Calauan*, being sustainable and leading to the professional inclusion for the young adults.
Congratulations for this amazing work!
So many wonderful projects ! Not easy to chose one.
However my choice will be to the Green Village Calauna because I am amazed that it focus both on sustainable development and development of skills for the Youth !
My vote goes to Eco-Clean Ghana.
I am very excited about this great initiative of supporting such wonderful projects. My vote will go to Eco-Clean Ghana for the great efforts they are putting up
My vote goes to Eco-Clean Ghana.
My vote is : Ayrumã Ecovillage is a beautiful model of sustainability, preservation and care for Life and Nature.
Great to see so many beautiful projects!.
My vote goes to Ayrumã, since I see how this amazing dream has changed the life of so many people, including mine!
I vote for the Ayruma project, which will bring a great social impact and will help in the environmental preservation of the region
My favorite is…
Ayrumã Ecovillage – Brasil, CASA Latina,
which stands out as an inspirational holistic community that searches for new and old ways to express life and meaning in this complex era.
A associação Ayrumã desenvolve um trabalho crucial de preservação em uma área ameaçada do Brasil.
Acredito que o fato de serem selecionados para este renomado prêmio nos dá esperanças de que um trabalho sério de conservação será desenvolvido neste bioma vulnerável e nas comunidades locais.
The Ayrumã association carries out crucial preservation work in an endangered area of Brazil. I believe that being selected for this renowned award gives us hope that serious conservation work will be carried out in this vulnerable biome and in local communities.
I would love to see the Ayrumã ecovillage receive the Hildur Jackson Award 2021. The association has a committed, respectful, affectionate and collaborative work with the landscape in which it is inserted, including the exuberant and biodiverse nature and the residents and activists of the region. The cerrado is a biome that is under strong pressure from the mining market and is under threat, hence the importance of each experience, project, association to preserve the biodiversity of this relevant biome. Based on the heritage of the local culture, Ayrumã dreams and weaves a more diverse, healthy and balanced world.
Ayrumã Ecovillage is a wonderful project with awesome people involved on it!
I had one of the best experiences in my life there. I’ll be forever grateful!
Thank you Ayrumã!
Eu voto na Ayrumã pela importância social que ela proporciona em um local em que o meio ambiente e a população estão ameaçados pela mineração predatória. Tivemos dois acidentes gravíssimos com barragens de mineradora aqui no estado de Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Ayruma is the best!
Ayruma is the best
My vote goes to Ayrumã Ecovillage, since the region is deeply threatened by mining activity and, therefore, needs all the support to preserve its unique fauna and flora. It is an amazing project!
All projects are very interesting! My vote is for Ayrumã Ecovillage to win the Hildur Jackson Award 2021, because I know how dedicated the association is to the local diversity preservation, beyond the hectares that the association has directly preserved for almost a decade, and to the empowerment of the surrounding communities. Ayrumã is dedicated to give life to social, constructive and planting technologies that are healthy for the planet, that is why it won my admiration and my vote for the Hildur Jackson Award 2021.
My vote is : Ayrumã Ecovillage.
It is a beautiful model of sustainability, preservation and care in Brazil.
It’s been a while since I visited an environment with such preserved, biodiverse and exuberant local vegetation in cerrados biome as the one at Ayrumã Ecovillage. Their job have great importance to the region. I hope they win the Hildur Jackson Award 2021 to implement another project, which will undoubtedly be a success!
I always visit the Ayrumã Ecovillage, established in a very special place. They develop very important projects, both socially with traditional quilombola communities and with nature. That is why I vote for Ayrumã Ecovillage.
What a wonderful set of initiatives! Hope everyone finds what they need to move forward. Very inspiring to meet each one, congratulations to all and to GEN, you guys are amazing!
My choice is Ayruma, for the loving work to protect a fragile and important area for the conservation of species and natural resources in a vulnerable region, and for the support for sustainable solutions for the local economy, education and health, strengthening the network of cooperation and solidarity in our precious Cerrado.
I give my vote to Ayrumã Ecovillage to win the Hildur Jackson Award 2021!
Amazing projects! My favorite is Eco-Clean Ghana – GEN Africa.
It’s so inspiring to see so many great initiatives happening around the globe. Thank you all!
All these projects are important in today’s reality. But my heart goes to Ayrumã Ecovillage – Brasil. What is happening there is devastating. The corruption in Brazil goes beyond imagination. A beautiful lash nature gets destroyed very quickly and it affects a lot of people, especially people of the forest, indigenous people who have hard time to protect themselves and thier land.
We need to preserve a very sacred place on earth, the energy of this region gives balance all over the planet.
Ayrumã Ecovillage – Brasil
All the projects are outstanding, so my choice is purely political. Some time ago I read that Cambodia has some problems due to chinese influence, for this reason I choose to cast my vote for the Sonas village of Cambodia.
My vote is for Ayrumã Ecovillage!
All the works are amazing. It’s not easy to choose. But I give my vote to Ecovillage Ayrumã because I know them personally. There work with the comunities are very important.
Congratulations to all ecovillages! Personally, I hope that Ayrumã Ecovillage wins the Hildur Jackson Award 2021, because I know the zealous work they do for the surrounding nature and communities.
I really like the green village Calauan in the Philippines !
Amazing projects!!
However, I voted for Green Village Calauan – Philippines, GENOA. Working in youth inclusion and respect ecological aspect are really important nowadays for our world.
Congratulations on these amazing projects. My vote goes to the Green Village Calauan for their potential to empower the Youth.
My vote goes for the GREEN VILLAGE CALAUAN for its great sustainability and reproducibility.
Young adults are empowered and can easily use what they learnt during their lifetime, share it & impact their family and community. This project fights for the inclusion of excluded young adults and does it from the construction of the village to the running of the project itself. The residential aspect is interesting to give the opportunity to any young adult to integrate the program from all over the country .
Thank you for sharing all those amazing initiatives all over the world!
I vote for Green Village Calauna !
I vote for green village Calaun. So impactful and pertinent it is.
I Vote for the GREEN VILLAGE CALAUAN!
My favorite is definitely the Green Village in Calauan in Phillippines !
Viva!! To All these beautiful projects! May them All persist throughout time, flourshing in prosperity and love!
My Personal vote goes to Ecovillage Ayrumã, in the Region of Serro, Minas Gerais, Brazilian Cerrado.
Ayrumãs Team is performing a very important role concerning the protection of the waters as of course the whole biome of our region. Both through the conscious guardianship of a considerable area, full of cristaline waters and through social media, artistic and sacred activism.
Mining Industry has indeed a huge interest in exploiting the region and the impacts of their presence, in the way it has been happening, is sadly devastating. IT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.
For the maintainance of balance and resilience of both the natural and cultural environment of SERRO, WE NEED GLOBAL VISIBILITY NOW to sensibilize authorities on their responsibilities to serve THE PEOPLE, who is and has always been one with its natural environment.
May we all live in peace, free of the fear of being deprived from that, what is our COMMON BIRTH HERITAGE AND HOME.
Blessings to all guardians of Mother Earth.
Viva Ayrumã!
Salve as Águas do Serro!
Eco -Clean Ghana has great initiatives, therefore my vote goes to Eco-Clean Ghana. All the above listed projects are so great wish all could be funded
A big thanks to the sponsors of this great innovations. My vote goes to Eco-Clean Ghana for their selfless efforts in the GEN Africa Regions
Quel beau projet ….continuez comme cela SVP !!!
I will love to see Eco-Clean Ghana win the Hildur Jackson awards 2021. They are really changing the spirals of waste massively
As a matter of fact, This award will greatly benefit Eco-Clean Ghana expand their reach to empower livelihood through training and also Waste recycling
Waste recycle has been a major issue in Ghana. Eco clean Ghana is fighting the war of a sustainable and Eco friendly environment for our future generations.
My vote is for Eco-Clean Ghana.
I give my vote to Ayrumã Ecovillage to win the Hildur Jackson Award 2021 because of their awesome job with the nature and with the comunity arround!
All projects are inspiring, but my heart is with Ayrumã Ecovillage. I know how much they do to The surrading nature.
My vote is to Ayrumã!
The cerrado is an endangered biome that is suffering a lot with fire, minig and cattle.
So, initiatives like Ayruma project are very very important!
Eu voto na ayrumã. Projeto fantástico e inspirador. Eu os conheci através do movimento Idealist.org
Fazemos parte do mesmo grupo de cuidado e transformação. ❤️❤️
Minha escolha é a Ecovila de Ayrumã um projeto tão importante para um lugar tão mágico e que precisa de projetos que apoiem a população local e a defesa do meio ambiente, e isso é a síntese de Ayrumã! Boa sorte a todas as ecovilas!
Ayrumã is a wonderful project, in a very vulnerable ecosystem. It deserves the award for sure. Brazil is suffering with an irresponsible government. This initiative is very important to the region and all those involved.
Piracanga uses slave labour and does not deserve any awards, they exploit the local community and the visitors charging absurd amounts.
Eu escolho Ayrumã para ganhar o prêmio!
Ayrumã is my choice!
Ayrumã, mensagem pura de que o mundo tem uma resposta positiva. Respeito aos povos e suas tradições. É minha escolha.
I vote for Ayrumã !!! Change is possible,protecting the water sources and reforesting our savannah for the next generations !! Huge legacy impacting the world !! Love this project wich members of my family are engaging with all efforts to succeed !!! Deborah,André + kids Sarah and Crystal !!
all these are great initiatives but my vote is for Eco-Clean Ghana. God bless GEN.
Eco-Clean Ghana all the way. This NGO is doing great work in my locality.
I suggestion is for Eco-Clean Ghana to win this 2021 award.
All votes go to Eco-Clean Ghana. Wonderful innitiatves
It is very important for Ecovila Ayrumã to win this award, especially to give Serro worldwide visibility at a time when it is being threatened and to develop work in favor of this vulnerable biome and local communities.
Great projects listed above. It’s sad to be asked to select just a single winner. Wish all of these projects won all the award. All the same, I suggest Eco-Clean Ghana to win this project.
Regards
A big thank you to GEN for embarking on this event. I will select Eco-Clean Ghana as the winner for 2021 Hildur Jackson Awards.
It is very keen for Eco-Clean Ghana to win this great award to aid the expand their reach. Thank you
Wow. All these projects are very great. But my support is for Eco-Clean Ghana.
Thank you
I’ve heard Eco-Clean Ghana many times on radio. I strongly suggest Eco-Clean Ghana wins this award
I pray for Eco-Clean Ghana to win this award. With this award, they can increase in the production of Eco friendly products and youth empowerment
My favourite one is the Green Village Calauan in the Philippines! I cannot wait to see the future achievements of the great team members (Catalysts of Change!)
Hi! I congratulate all competitors for the wonderful work.
My vote goes to Ecovila Ayrumã – Brazil, CASA Latina.
We are in the crowd. Thanks.
I vote for the Green Village Calauan !
LP4Y’s work here is crucial to the population who has been moved from Manila City Center. The young adultes living here are in need of perspective and trainings.
I vote for the Green Village Calauan !
LP4Y’s work here is crucial to the population who has been moved from Manila City Center. The young adultes living here are in need of perspective and trainings.
Although ecovillages are not the great solution, but rather the change of structures, we will see their contribution. So we wish the ayrumã ecovillage a good job, we hope it is important for the community. A hug.
Ayrumã Ecovillage merece muito, um encanto de Villa.
Apoio a Ayrumã Ecovillage – Brasil, CASA Latina
A Ecovila Ayruma esta localizada em região ameaçada pela exploração minerária. Sua atuação junto as comunidades é importante para preservação do ecossistema.
I live in the same area of the Ayrumã Ecovillage – Brasil and heartily support the project. I recently conducted an art project with the Collectif Ethnographic about the basin of the river Capivari and the close, intimate and respectful ways the people of our Brazilian cerrado can live with the water. Our area suffers a tremendous threat from the destructive and monstrous, to use the term of anthropologist Viveiros de Castro, capitalist extractive interests. Numerous mining projects represent an orchestrated attack against this still preserved beautiful unique and vital environment
The ecovila is a fundamental part of our effort to live well with the people, the water and all living beings in this part of our planet
Ecovila Ayrumã, sensacional! Belíssimo trabalho maravilhoso!
Ecovila Ayrumã is an example of the time of nature, of caring for people. Integrated with the local community, it has zeroed its ecological footprint. Life and continuity.
Ecovila Ayrumã é exemplo do tempo da natureza, do cuidados com as pessoas. Integrada com a comunidade local, zerou sua pegada ecológica. Vida e continuidade.
Congratulations ecovila Ayrumã, good project!
I give my vote to Ayrumã Ecovillage to win the Hildur Jackson Award 2021…
At this time when the planet is crying out for Healing and transformations that restore the harmony of life in all Kingdoms and sectors, ecovillages represent projects with important initiatives so that humanity can become a collaborator in these purposes and sustainable ways of life can emerge. expand each day more… Ayrumã is one of those groups that I have followed and participated in works with these high goals… Congratulations for your determination, hope and commitment to the projects…
Ayrumã Ecovillage – Brasil – I really hope It wins this award in order to strengthen himself and to motivate other projects as important as this one for regional socio-environmental development. Congratulations, much deserved recognition!
As a Brazilian American, completely in love with Mata Atlântica, I offer my vote to Inkiri Community Piracanga – Brazil, CASA Latina. I love their spirit in action and hope to visit one day!
My vote goes to Ayrumã Ecovillage because they have such a committed work to nature and community!
My vote goes to Ecovila Ayrumã for its important work that it develops together with the local communities, fighting to preserve the fauna, flora and improve the quality of life of the inhabitants of Serro
A Ecovila Ayrumã merece este prêmio pelo envolvimento da sua gente em projetos sociais e ambientais.
Voto Ecovila Ayrumã MG Brasil
Meu voto vai pra ecovila Ayrumã. Ela está localizada em uma zona de disputa da maior mineradora do mundo e uma área natural preciosa, na nascente do Rio Jequitinhonha, no coração da Serra do Espinhaço, patrimônio natural da humanidade. É um Davi diante de um Golias e tenho esperança que Davi Ayrumã vença, a mãe Gaia e todos nós venceremos. UBUNTU
Meu voto é pra Ayrumã. Projeto maravilhoso. Cerrado é uma das nossas maiores riquezas.
My vote goes to Ayrumã, for it’s impressive and pioneer work, defending this most vulnerable biome and eco-system., the Cerrado. in Brazil, envioronmentally agressive mining companies, have caused several major – avoidable – disasters and continue to threaten not only the survivel, livelihoods of the local population, including indigenous and farming comunities, but the existence of critical underground, water sources and entire rivers network that sustens much larger areas of the country as a whole.
The Ayrumã Ecovillage has done ounstanding work to combate the entrance into serro of such destructive industries, and fomnt culturl diversity and foment ecoturism in Minas Gerais. It deserve all the recognition suport it can get.
I vote for Ayrumã Ecovillage – Brasil, CASA Latina. The great work that it does with its actions of environmental education and nature conservancy is very important to create and mantain the conditions to a harmonic way of life for the habitants of the region. This prize can support Ayrumã to give strenght to the local communities so then can resist the threat of devastating mining projects that pretend to explore this precious enviroment.This help is specially necessary now that both the region and the country are opressed by disastrous environmental policies of an horrible government. Beside my vote, i want to congratulate all these wonderfull projects and wish that they grow up and keep making our world better!
I give my vote to Ayrumã Ecovillage to win the Hildur Jackson Award 2021 because their relevante job to the enviroment and the comunities related.
Ecovila Ayrumã is a great place and community. They are environment aware and have a mágical place . Vote To Ecovila Ayrumã.
I think Ayruma is a very good project for the futur. For the planet and hope for a real life healthy with love and union between each other.
I congratulate Ayrumã ecovillage. I hope that the ecovillage will win the award.
Cateline Ronsse, Belgium
August 29th, 2021
My vote goes to Ecovila Ayrumã, a large eco-sustainability project for the Brazilian Cerrado, which works to preserve the biodiversity and the hydrographic basin, works with native communities through network agroforestry, solidarity and creative economy, as well as acting in preserving the culture of the region’s traditional people. This help will be of great social, cultural and environmental value, as the regional community is being threatened by the mining project in Serro (nearby town) which will affect the surrounding communities.
My vote goes to Ayrumã Ecovillage because I know them and they are very good in their work
I support Aryuma ecovillage
Meu voto vai para a Ecovila Ayrumã, O belo projeto é desenvolvido em um município ameaçado pela entrada da mineração. A Ecovila neste contexto apresenta outro tipo de relação com o meio ambiente e comunidades tradicionais
I vote in Ayrumã ecovillage, witnessing the excellent local socio-environmental work they do with the community.
Ayrumã deserve this recognition. They are truly working for te internacional righs of Nature movement
Ayrumã is te project I vote for. All projects are important and beautiful , however Ayrumã develops a very thorough work in social, educational and environmental fields in the important and threatened biome where it’s located: the Brazilian Cerrado. Cerrado is a hotspot , the most biodiverse savanna in the world , apart from being the source of the most important rivers basins in Brazil . Cerrado’s people have been fiercely fighting to protect all those precious assets and Ayrumã plays a very important role in this scenario where Mining companies, agribusiness and others are involved. Ayrumã is resistance!
Ayrumã Ecovillage hás my vote!
My vote is for Ecovila Ayrumã, a community work aimed at preservation in favor of life in all its forms. The region in which it is located needs work like this to maintain its integrity.
Desde que me mudé para Brasil, me enamoré de la diversidad de la Mata Atlántica y el Cerrado. Considero de vital importancia la preservación de estos biomas y por ello felicito (y voto) por el trabajo y compromiso activo de Ayrumã Ecovillage con el ambiente y comunidad.
my favorite is the ecovilla Ayrumã.
My Personal vote goes to Ecovillage Ayrumã, in the Region of Serro, Minas Gerais, Brazilian Cerrado.
Green Village Calauan – Philippines, GENOA, and thank you for your involvement
All these projects look great ! My vote goes to the Green Village Calauan as it is a proven duplicable model.
These are all amazing projects but I would vote for GREEN VILLAGE CALAUAN which is to be a very sustainable and educational approach putting the youth at the heart of change.
My vote to the Green Village in Calauan – Philippines!!
Congratulation to all ! Amazing projects with huge impact. As one needs to win, my vote goes to : Green Village Calauan is an Eco-Entrepreneurial Hub for excluded Young Women to develop skills and professional know-how through practical experiences for their lasting inclusion in the world of decent work.
I vote for Green Village Calauan
Not only a sustainable initiative but an efficient youth inclusion pedagogy delivering results bringing back young adults in the decent live through entrepreneurship.
I give my vote to the awesome GV calauan project . It is such a beautiful and meaningful project with a social and professional aspect to it. 100% together we can
The LP4Y green village. Helping young people to learn a life skill which leads to employment is a winning formula! Young people have suffered most under Covid and here is a chance to give them a future.
My vote goes to GREEN VILLAGE CALAUAN for the impact that they have made in the community especially the youth.
I vote for the Green Village Calauan !
They all look amazing! The Green village Calauan wins my vote!
All projects are amazing =) ! Congrats to all !!
My vote will be for the Green Village CALAUAN project, empowering the Youth of the community around many ecological topics and bringing awareness to pilipino people on all the beauty and strenghts of the Nature around them.
Amazing initiatives! Keep going the 10 of you!
My favourite project is Green Village Calauan – Philippines, GENOA.
I visited Green Village Calauan back in 2015. So glad to see that it has changed the life of so many Youth since then. I like this broad approach of ecology : where the Youth are at the center, where the ecovillage is a way and a mean to accompany them out of exclusion and deprivation.
I will vote for Eco-Clean Ghana for the great work
I vote for Eco-Clean Ghana
I visited Eco-Clean Ghana site at upper west region, Wa and I really admire what they do. I will vote for them to continue their great work in Ghana. Good job to all the projects. GEN really has a very great resource!
I vote for Eco-Clean Ghana
I will vote for Eco-Clean Ghana! I’m using one of their bag and it’s really nice and very strong!
I will vote for Eco Clean Ghana
I vote for Eco-Clean Ghana
My vote goes to Eco-Clean Ghana
I vote for Eco-Clean Ghana
My vote goes to Eco-Clean Ghana. My children are using some of their Ecobags to school. Their concept really looks very nice. A very great initiative.
All the projects really looks so inspiring. I will love if all these project could be supported but vote goes to Eco-Clean Ghana
I vote for Eco-Clean Ghana!
My vote goes to Green Village Calauan
I indicate Ayrumã Ecovillage – Brasil, CASA Latina. Nice and fundamental work for Brazil.
Please vote Ayrumã association. They develop a crucial preservation work in an endangered area of Brazil.
My vote is for Ayrumã Ecovila because it has a sustainability project for the Brazilian cerrado, coherent with environmental preservation, agro-forestry, as well as projects for Quilombola Communities, valuing traditions, culture, and environmental education.
First of all, congratulations to every project! This kind of activity is awesome.
I’d like to vote for the Ayrumã Association! I think they develop a incredible work with sustentability, permaculture, preservation of the Cerrado Mineiro in Brazil and empowerment of local communities.
I vote for Eco-Clean Ghana. They are doing great stuff!
Kudos to Eco-Clean Ghana
All the projects are inspiring. I endorse Eco-Clean Ghana
Charles and Eco-Clean are doing great work in Ghana. I listen to their radio advocacy and it was very perfect.
I vote Eco-Clean Ghana!
All the finalist project are so wonderful. I hope they can all be supported. I will go for Eco-Clean Ghana
I will go for Eco-Clean Ghana. I love their products and believe they can provide training for more people!
I will go for Eco-Clean Ghana.
I’m using Eco-Clean Ghana Laptop bag made from plastic waste. I feel so good anytime I use this product. Plastic waste is a serious issue in Africa and their concept really depict the concept of circular economy. My vote goes to them!
My vote goes to Eco-Clean Ghana
I’m using Eco-Clean Ghana Eco-laptop bag! It’s so nice!
Eco-Clean Ghana
My vote goes for Eco-Clean Ghana
I vote for Eco-Clean Ghana
My votes goes for Eco-clean gh
I nominate eco-clean ghana
Please my votes goes for eco-clean Ghana. Because the project will help to reduce waste in ghana
I goes for eco-clean. I love how innovative they are!
I love Eco-clean ghana, my votes is for them
Eco-Clean Ghana all the way. I nominate Eco clean
A sustainable project l know, Eco-Clean ghana. I vote for them
I vote for Eco-Clean Ghana
I nominate Eco-Clean Ghana
Eco-Clean Ghana is reducing waste out here, we love u eco-clean Ghana. My vote is for Eco-clean Ghana
I nominate Eco Clean Ghana
Eco-Clean Ghana is creating employment in Ghana. Because of that my votes is for Eco-Clean Ghana. Thanks
Am for Eco-Clean Ghana
My vote is for eco clean Ghana
Am for Eco Clean Ghana. Because they empowers women and youth into generating income from plastic waste
Eco clean Ghana creates entrepreneurial opportunities for the vulnerable in our society. I vote for them. Thanks
Eco clean have been able to directly organize livelihood empowerment training for youth and women in wa! We love u Eco clean Ghana. I nominate Eco Clean Ghana
I vote for Eco Clean Ghana
Eco Clean Ghana has been reducing unemployment rate in this country(Ghana). They own my vote.
I vote for Eco Clean Ghana
You have my vote Eco-clean ghana
I nominate Eco Clean ghana. Thank you
Their Eco bags are very affordable. I like you eco clean Ghana u won my vote
Am for Eco clean ghana
I vote for Eco Clean Ghana for their good works
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I believe in the Ayrumã Ecovillage as a role model for sustainable ecological development. Their mission is beyond altruistic approaches, focusing on empowering local familiar agricultural systems.
Their impact is thru several movements and connections to strength community selfsuficience.
Being located at the espinhaco region in Minas Gerais, inside Capivari region in Serro city. This location is blessed with underground mineral water and lots of
Natural rocky formations loved by the mining companies eager to explore whatever riches beneath regardless of impact on the water streams.
Their movement thru partnerships also work as influencers on the damages posed by mining explorations and on offering alternatives for locals to get some resources from agroecological productions.
My vote goes to Ayrumã Ecovillage – Brasil, CASA Latina
I vote in Ecovila Ayrumã- Brazil because besides their wonderful dedication to the social cause, they are doing a great job tryng to avoid te exploitation of te land by the mining business, to prevent the rivers, mountains, plants and animals from destruction.
Meu voto vai para Ayruma que faz um trabalho fantástico em um bioma muito sensível: cerrado brasileiro.
Me encanta ver la cantidad y calidad de los proyectos presentados. Mi favorito es el de Ayrumã, Brasil necesita de muchas ecoaldeas así.
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I know the work of the members of the Ayrumã Ecovillage. They are people committed to the education and mobilization of local communities and develop various environmental education actions. Serro will be honored by the recognition of this work.
My vote is for Ayrumã Ecovillage – Brasil, CASA Latina. I know the people involved, they’re awesome! And we need them to strenght the fight against mining in our region! MINERAÇÃO AQUI NÃO!!!
My vote goes for Ayrumã ecovillage for the sociocultural and ecological benefits they are bringing to the beautiful cerrado region, so much in need of protection due to mining, agrobusiness and other predatory activities
Tous les projets sont incroyables! Ils donne un peu d”espoir face à la dévastation que le planeta terre subi.
Cependant, je vote pour Ayrumã Ecovillage – Brasil, CASA Latina.
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The Ecovillage.org project is a very much welcome initiative considering the challenges that we face now and in the years to come.
Hopefully this work will be better known and disseminated, in order to develop awareness on the general situation beyond its realm as well. Congratulations for all the important work being done by all the villages represented here!
My vote goes to Ayrumã Ecovillage – Brasil, CASA Latina.
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My vote goes to Ayrumã EcoVillage. They have a Very important work with the local inhabitants of Serro!
Ayrumam is beautifull! They realy care for our planet!
Ayrumam is beautifull! They realy care for our planet! My Vote is for them them!
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Gratidão pelos projetos Ayrumanos!!! Contribuindo sempre para um mundo melhor, cuidando do meio ambiente, colaborando socialmente com as comunidades próximas!!! Lindo projeto!!! Muito amor!!!
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Ayrumã colaborando com a sociobiodiversidade da Serra do Espinhaço Meridional! Estamos juntos. Prosperidade.
My vote goes out to Ayrumã, to help bringing the Serro and Cerrado regions to the spotlight in a moment they really need it, to help in their fight againt mining companies.
Ayrumã is located in a place that is unique, a true sanctuary that must be preserved and has numerous projects aimed at protecting the region, enhancing the culture and wealth of the surrounding communities in a region threatened by numerous projects such as mining. The award will further enhance and crown the wonderful work that is carried out by the group.
I was in Ayrumã and I was delighted with the socio-ecological engagement of the group.
I learned a lot about the importance of the ecological-spiritual relationship with the local population.
Truly an incredible and encouraging life proposal for conscious awakening.
Congratulations to everyone and thanks for learning.
I vote for Ayrumã Ecovillage
A Ecovila Ayrumã é um projeto de grande importância, que valoriza ideais de sustentabilidade e se contrapõe aos interesses minerários da região, os quais ameaçam o equilíbrio hídrico local e a conservação da natureza.
My vote goes to Ecovila Ayrumã, Brazil
Meu voto vai para Ayrumã Ecovillage , Brasil.
A Ecovila Ayrumã é um projeto maravilhoso em uma região ameaçada e invadida pela mineração.
Uma esperança para o resgate do meio ambiente.
My prayer and heart are with Ayrumã, a point of resistance against mining in the Serra do Espinhaço, a cradle of water in the Brazilian cerrado.
My vote to Ayrumã Ecovillage – Brasil, CASA Latina
meu voto é na Eco vila Ayrumã Ecovillage – Brasil, CASA Latina
I vote for Ayrumã! I believe in the potential of the Ecovillage and admire all the work that is already happening.
Excelente iniciativa, apoio totalmente !
Estou impressionada com esta ação da Ecovila Ayrumã. Cuidar da biodiversidade é cuidar do mundo! Vocês merecem o prêmio!
My vote goes to Ecovila Ayrumã, an important experience both in local construction and in the relationship with the surrounding communities, as well as in caring for the planet and in the fight against predatory mining in Serro, Minas Gerais.
I vote for Ecovila Ayrumã because it is located in a strategic place, the watershed, and with a concept that is extremely protective of the environment, of food production through agroforestry, besides the preservation of traditional knowledge and work to ensure spirituality. It is a model for many communities around us!
Incrível Eco Vila Ayrumã!
Belíssimo projeto!
Todo apoio a esta comunidade!!!
Ayruma deserves to win this award due to his great and important commitment to the Serro region, with strong environmental importance and traditional communities, which the association serves with socio-cultural and environmental projects, relevant participation in the activism for the protection of this historical, cultural and environmental heritage of humanity, which is threatened by the advance of mining companies that try to illegally exploit the municipality. This award will bring world visibility for Ayrumã to grow in its performance and for Serro, which cries out for help, to preserve its waters, its culture and the simple way of life of the communities, which is increasingly rare.
Ayrumã é uma ecovilas importante para a conservação e ecologia da região. Apoiamos a iniciativa.
Every finalist is very inspiring and beautiful. I will choose Boekel Ecovillage as the best, because of its universal applicability to the world.
Meu voto segue para Ecovila Ayrumã, que fica numa região montanhosa, muito bela e rica de águas, com ameaça constante de ser explorada e destruída por mineradoras, como já fazem aqui perto, em Conceição do Mato Dentro.
O vote for Ecovila Ayrumã. Important preservation movement against mining activity in the Serro region, Minas Gerais, Brazil
I dream that the award goes to Ecovila Ayrumã.
They are doing an incredible job resisting and protecting the social and natural resources of the state
of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
As everyone knows, since 2019 we have an ongoing extreme right policy in Brazil imposed by the Bolsonaro regime. People with less income are much more socially and economically excluded. They are mostly native Brazilian Indians and Afro-descendants as well as all the natural resources where they uses live and protect.
The Ayrumã ecovillage deserves international visibility and resources to resist and protect it from the mining companies that Bolsonaro wants to free itself to exploit .
My vote is in Ayrumã Ecovillage – Brasil, CASA Latina, the great Transformer experiencie in the Cerrado Brasileiro and a great impact in create news possibilities os preservation and emploied of quality of life in Jequitinhonha valey.
I vote for Ayrumã because they preserve and help all the populations around them to keep water and life safe and clean.
Ayrumã does a very beautiful job with involvement in the local communities. This work brings encouragement to the populations directly involved, creating prospects for work, income, environmental education and new forms of development for the community. This award is the crowning glory of Ayrumã’s wonderful work, which also supports the management of parks and conservation units in the region.
It is great to see so many wonderful initiatives! I hope that Ayrumã can be awarded the prize, since it does an incredible job in the region with the surrounding communities, in addition to environmental preservation. It is initiatives like Ayrumã that bring us encouragement in the face of so many threats to preservation. Long live Ayrumã!
Airumã Ecovillage! I had the honor to visit a few years ago and it’s impressive how beautiful is that place and how important is its presence there in a conflictuous land because of Mining companies.
My vote goes out to Ayrumã Ecovillage!
Eu voto na Ecovila Ayrumã, marcando presença na Serra do Espinhaço
I vote for Ayrumã Ecovillage! They are awesome and necessary to local ambiental preservation.