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ALMA Ecovillage

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About the Communities

  • Forming
  • French
  • Ecological
  • Rural

Founding year

  • 2020

What we do

ALMA is a french acronym that means “Accompany the world that comes after”
Also:
* the scholar in Arab
* the nourishing in Latin
* the soul in latin modern languages
=> Thus the 3 foundations of our vision:
* pass the 21st century necessary knowledges (how to get food from the earth, build a cheap house…)
* nourishing people with healthy food, culture…
* become better version of ourselves with wellbeing, good communication…
But also:
* Create a model scientifically monitored (hence solid argues to defend alt societies models), “open source”, replicable and adapted anywhere, at different scales.
* Reach a good amount of self-sustainability on every life aspects
Some values / goals:
* “classics” of ecovillages: kindness, solidarity, mutual aid, multi-generation-origins-countries, social melting pot, permaculture…
* Open-minded: without any banners, but celebrating pluralities (the founder belongs to LGBT community), accepting differences…
* Festive: from sharing a smile, the living happiness, to the organisation of 4 seasons festivals, always celebrating victories and preparing occasions for it.
* Entrepreneur minded: if we know what and how to do, then let’s do it today and not tomorrow. Having no fear of others, of failures… Evaluate the risk yes, but no stuck minded.
* “0.5”: the opposition to the binary machine 0 1 language. Human being should be a cursor evolving around this 0.5, never radical as 0 or 1, trying to estimate pros and cons, to find the balance for everything.
Our place is awesome !
* 5ha of legal land to install alt houses
* 4500 sqm of buildings to host almost every activities
* 1.3 ha of pond. Source, small river, well, drilling, town water.
* Few ha of wood
* More than 2000 h / year of sun, ocean at 20 min…
For instance only few people are involved in ALMA. A lot of technical stuffs are already done, less exhaustion in the future.
We recruit 20 families with 3 must-have:
* human harmony with us
* skills we need
* at least 30 k€
=> fb.me/almaecovillage

  • Purpose
  • Ecological
  • Languages
  • French
  • English
  • Community type
  • Land-Based Communities
  • Activities
  • Permaculture
  • Education
  • Experiences

Commemorative dates

  • January 1, 2020
  • Started planning
  • January 1, 2022
  • Started living together

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How to join

We recrut 20 families (1 to ++ members) with 3 must-have:
* human harmony with us
* skills we need: agriculture (market gardening, cereals, touristic and work horses, wine, bread, beers makers… every kind of cultivations and farmings) food transformation labs, market manager, eco-building, hotel-restaurant management, education, wellbeing, crafts, energies engineering, low techs, fab-lab and business incubator management, social / bio /… scientists, surfer and skateboarder with degrees to teach, admin, accounting, communication, legal, sys admin, full stack developper… and more !
* at least 30 k€ = the global cost per family is estimated around 100 k€, covering a private land for your alt house, the cost of an alt house, shared parts for work, agriculture, hosting… we have a 650 k€ bank credit confirmed that can help but needs 400 k€ of auto-financement to be activated, thus 30 k€ is a minimum to have to balance the shares between all of us.
=> A google form is available to apply, only in French for instance (easy to translate with good web browsers), we read your answers written in English:
https://forms.gle/xkbpTmCcNw2Dqy5B6

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  • France

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9 years ago

Autumn PDC 2017 Greece, Tinos Island

Autumn 2017 Permaculture Design Course 23 September – 5 October (12 days, 80 hours certificate) Led by Andrew Jordan and Elena Symeonidou We are excited to announce the second FULL PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE (PDC) that will be hosted in Tinos Eco-lodge with two knowledgeable teachers Andrew Jordan from Ireland and Elena Symeonidou from Greece. The Permaculture Design Certificate The Permaculture Design Certificate is an 80 hour theoretical course based on Bill Mollison’s Designers Manual, teaching how we can use today’s tools and technology to create a more sustainable world. Permaculture is not only about growing vegetables and animals, it is a whole sustainable lifestyle. Permaculture ethics are Earth Care, People Care and Return of Surplus and this is taught by showing students to focus on local resources and their local community, and to have well thought out design practices to create abundance sustainably. Andrew and Elena aim at inspiring students with their own very real examples of transforming their lives with permaculture in a contemporary context. Having worked in a broad spectrum of climate and social conditions, they will share with their students the thrills but also the challenges they faced. Oftentimes permaculture is being presented as a panacea for world problems and the road to resilience and abundance is depicted as straightforward and easy. Andrew and Elena will challenge this notion and try to prepare their students in a realistic manner for their own fascinating journey towards change. Nikos will share his hands-on experience of building the ecolodge and designing the energy, water, plant and waste systems. We will have the rare opportunity to discuss and elaborate on Nikos’ and Marilia’s choices on different aspects of their project, reflect on the challenges, opportunities and limitations. Anyone who wants to bring a big change in his life and gain a thorough understanding of how we can use our natural e

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