Sunny Hill Association

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About the Communities

  • Established
  • Slovenian
  • Ecological
  • Rural

Founding year

  • 2012

What we do

Sunny Hill Association is a space of cooperation, innovation, and supportive environment for research, education and active practice of sustainable development. It cooperates with competent individuals and organisations and is a member of ECOLISE, European Network of Community-led Initiatives for Sustainable Europe.
The integral part of the project is Sunny Hills of Istria cooperative in the village Hrvoji and in the nearby abandoned houses. In 2019 we bought one more house (a ruin) and we will renovate it in a sustainable way.
The hamlet MoÄŤunigi would be renovated in the same, traditional Istrian style, but that will take some time due to administrative obstacles.
For now, we operate from a house in Hrvoji which we renovated between 2014 and 2018.
THE GUIDING PRICIPLE
The guiding principle of Sunny Hill is cohabiting and collaborating in the living social laboratory.
Our core values are simplicity, joy, community, care and diversity.
We use appropriate technologies to build a home for our sustainable community, in order to revive potentials of Istria in harmony with tradition and sustainability.
Living together in luxurious simplicity we are opening the space for each individual to flourish.
We are one of the partners in ERASMUS+ funded CLIPS – Community Learning Incubator Programme for Sustainability and we’re offering mentoring and counselling to emerging sustainable initiatives.

  • Purpose
  • Ecological
  • Languages
  • Slovenian
  • Croatian
  • English
  • German
  • Italian
  • Community type
  • Ecovillage
  • Activities
  • Permaculture
  • Education

Commemorative dates

  • January 1, 2012
  • Started planning
  • January 1, 2015
  • Started living together
  • Open to new members
  • Open to visitors
  • Open to volunteers
Total
3

How to join

In October 2019 we have reset the project and changed the membership scheme. There are four possible memberships: investor-user, investor, user, and supporter. Normally aspiring members from investor-user membership spend enough time with the community so we get to know each other — at least 1 year. That’s the membership form for people with the most commitment and highest decision making power. Investors support the project with real-estate, goods, tools or funds. Users pay lower membership, but they pay higher rents and have decision-making power only in their domain. Supporters pay a small fee and support the project. Our meetings are in English.

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Location

  • Slovenia

Sunny Hill Association

Promoted Needs and Offers

  • Events
7 years ago

Communities for Future Online Summit

The Communities for Future Summit is an entirely free, online experience hosted by the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN). From the 1 to 10 February 2020 we will daily unlock 3 interviews with well known thought leaders, change makers, indigenous elders, community lovers and youth activists from around the planet. During the Summit, we will explore: Systemic change – a complete transformation of our human institutions and workplaces, Inner change – the inner healing that is needed in order for us to heal our relationships to the world around us; Change on the Ground – how communities around the planet are already becoming space of regeneration; and Youth Change – the young people who are taking to the streets, raising their voices and demanding climate justice for future generations. Together, we will engage in finding our authentic response to the Climate Emergency, a response that is not driven by urgency, fear, panic and hurry, but comes from a deep sense of connectedness, love and responsibility. Young people are taking to the streets, demanding that we all take urgent action on the climate and planetary crisis. GEN is picking up the baton and inviting all of us to manifest the needed change now, protecting, restoring and transforming in our communities, municipalities and countries. Let’s build Communities for Future. Let’s find our response to the Climate Emergency. Please join us. To see the full list of speakers and to see which interviews are live at any given time, visit summit2020.ecovillage.org

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