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How can we realize the happy enterprises for people? *All people both presidents and employees can enjoy working *No hierarchy, no orders, no punishments, The enterprises running well, where all employees can lively work. *No mutual attack, no opposition, The enterprises people can talk out anything together. Practical Studies on the site of Mammy’s Lunch Box in As-One Community, Suzuka, JAPAN Mammy’s Lunch Box is a community business of handmade lunch boxes. Employees appear for work by each free will, but they can make and sell more than 1000 lunch boxes per day. No hierarchy, no orders, no punishments. the president calls himself “a person in charge”. How can they realize such company? You can see their working on site. Let us study the sustainable management by esteeming all people together! Desk: The College for Sustainable Community Building With the support of GEN-Japan, As-One Inc. Email: jssc358.wix.com/college Entry fee 55000 Yen including meals and accomodation (6 meals and 2 stays)

If you live or want to live according to the values of cooperation, sustainability, and equality this conference is for you. You’ll get something out of this event whether you’re brand new to communities and cooperatives, or have been living and working in them for decades. The conference focuses on Intentional Communities, including models such as Ecovillages, Cohousing, and Housing Cooperatives, and the larger cooperative movement, including all kinds of cooperative and collective organizations. From September 4th – 7th, 2015, network and learn about communities of all kinds — co-housing, co-ops, communes and ecovillages — at one of the best-known intentional communities in North America. At the conference, you can attend workshops topics such as group-decision making, diversity in community, intentional relationships and sustainable living. Camp in a beautiful forest alongside fellow participants and be a part of a temporary, once-in-a-lifetime intentional community. Register: http://communitiesconference.org/register/ The Twin Oaks conference site has open air facilities and the basic registration option includes camping. Indoor accommodations are also available. Meals and snacks are provided (including food contributions from participants) from Friday dinner through Monday dinner. Find out more about the logistics of the conference: http://communitiesconference.org/info/ Activities at the conference include formal workshops and presentations, open space workshops provided by participants, community introductions and networking, tours of three different intentional communities, a rockin’ dance party, and plenty of time to hang out and have fun. Check out the schedule and descriptions of activities and workshops: http://communitiesconference.org/schedule-of-events/ Please consider making a donation to help us keep the conference financially accessible. Tax deductible donations can be made to Fellowship for Intentional Community, a 501(c)3 non

YOU ARE INVITED TO JOIN US AT OUR BEAUTIFUL GAIA ASHRAM COMMUNITY AND ECO LEARNING CENTER! Gaia Ashram is an Permaculture Education Center established in 2012 on 6 hectares of land in the North East of Thailand. Gaia Ashram has over 10 years experience of practicing permaculture and applying permaculture principles to the design and the development of our land. Gaia Ashram aims to keep progressing the land towards absolute abundance for nature and people. Increasing biodiversity and life throughout the land. At the same time Gaia Ashram aims to increase resilience for upcoming challenging. Gaia Ashram is strongly rooted in the local community as our founders are from the local area. Gaia Ashram is working with the local community on different projects promoting ecological resilience. We strongly believe that there never was a bigger need for spreading knowledge of Permaculture and related sustainable living practices. Especially with increased climatic changes and the growing awareness of the ecological crises we are facing. In these times people’s empowerment and community experience is the right response to change. WHAT IS A PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE (PDC)? A Permaculture Design Certificate Course, short PDC, is an internationally known and accepted 72-hour theory course resulting in a Permaculture Design Certificate. The PDC provides an introduction to permaculture design according to the movement’s founder Bill Mollison and it is designed on his international course curriculum. The Permaculture Design Course equips you with the knowledge and an understanding on how to design sustainable living systems for a wide variety of landscapes and climates. To date, thousands of permaculture designers worldwide have been certified through this course, and now comprise a global network of educators, ecological activists, consultants and practitioners who are influencing the decisions of major corporations, small businesses, and people from all walks

II Encuentro de Ecoaldeas En el II Encuentro Estatal de Ecoaldeas, celebrado en Artosilla en agosto de 1999, se avanzó considerablemente en la creación de una red de ecoaldeas, al permitir que nos conociéramos unos cuantos colectivos que, en diferentes lugares de la geografía española, estamos trabajando en esta línea. Sin embargo, por ser todavía pocos y por hallarnos todavía en una fase muy inicial, en la última asamblea celebrada en dicho Encuentro se decidió mantener de momento una estructura de coordinación mínima —que recaía por otra parte en la Carrucha Cultural— y esperar que el movimiento de ecoaldeas se fuera consolidando en todo el territorio español antes de crear una verdadera red. También se decidió, que dado que la palabra “ecoaldea” es de uso muy reciente, y algunos colectivos ya llevan trabajando en líneas similares desde hace años, se podría ampliar la red a otro tipo de comunidades sostenibles, como colectividades rurales, comunas urbanas y rurales, municipios o pueblos ecológicos, cooperativas de viviendas, comunidades de desarrollo personal, etc., siempre que se hallen predispuestas a avanzar en la consecución de los requisitos mínimos de ecoaldea. No existen ecoaldeas perfectas, ni en España ni en ningún otro país europeo, y por tanto no se trata de que los colectivos que quieran unirse a la red ibérica de ecoaldeas lo sean completamente. Basta con que haya en ellos una intención de avanzar en el desarrollo de comunidades sostenibles. En Artosilla, los siguientes colectivos constituyeron el germen de la futura Red Ibérica de Ecoaldeas: • Cooperativa de viviendas Valdepiélagos (Madrid) — so********@***ix.net • Asociación La Osa (Asturias) —as********@***sa.org • Municipio ecológico de Amayuelas de Abajo (Palencia) — ce****@********os.es • Asociación La Semilla (Cádiz) — gr*****@***oo.es • Proyecto de Cooperación Nueva Tierra (Sevilla) — qu*****@*******ok.net • Instituto de Permacultura Montsant (Tarragona) — wa**@**ac.es • A