Christine Lines

The Global Ecovillage Network Europe (GEN Europe) announces the 21st edition of its summer conference, “Conscious Happiness: Living the Future Today- Solidarity, Resilience & Hope” July 16th-20th 2017 at the Swedish ecovillage Ӓngsbacka. This annual event, which draws hundreds of intentional communitarians and their supporters from across Europe each year, offers speakers, expositions, workshops and a place to meet, inspire and be inspired. In an era of uncertain ecological and political futures, Robert Hall, GEN Europe’s Council President, invites participants to “come and network with Europe’s grassroots change-makers. Join us to learn ways of increasing your happiness while being of greater service to humanity and the planet.” This year’s conference themes of Solidarity, Resilience and Hope will weave into conference workshops and activity tracks, gathered together by keynote speakers Charles Eisenstein and Helena Norberg-Hodge. Keynote Speakers Charles Eisenstein is a self-described “degrowth activist” and the internationally-acclaimed author of “Sacred Economics” and “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible”, described by Publisher’s Weekly as “a revolutionary and interactive book…inspires the reader to think out of the ordinary.” He has been described as “one of the up-and-coming great minds of our time.” Helena Norberg-Hodge is a pioneer of the ‘new economy’ movement, where she has been promoting an economics of personal, social and ecological well-being for more than thirty years. She is an author, filmmaker and director of the organization Local Futures, which promotes a systemic shift away from e

. 2nd Annual United Nations Sustainable Energy for All Forum from 17-21 May 2015 in New York. The theme of this year’s Forum is Financing Sustainable Energy for All, including the launch of a new Global Sustainable Energy for All Commitment Platform. Importantly, the Forum will also feature the first ever Global Energy Ministerial Dialogue at the United Nations, in order to reaffirm the Rio+20 determination “to act to make sustainable energy for all a reality and, through this, help to eradicate poverty and lead to sustainable development and global prosperity. see the official invitation letter here: http://www.iseesonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Energy-Access-Practitioner-Network-invite-to-SE4ALL-Forum.pdf

Deep Ecology & Permaculture is a course where participants are guided through deep learning processes based in the framework of the Work That Reconnects(WTR) by Joanna Macy, combing the learning on practical Permaculture. Deep Ecology learning process will help participants to reconnect with nature as the whole and start questioning and finding insight about who we are and our place in it. Practical Permaculture helps participants to see how deep connection with nature and understanding of our place in nature can be manifested in a practical reality. This course combine the learning in the head( deep thinking, philosophy) heart (deep connection through heart) and hand ( practical learning)

¡Nos volvemos a encontrar del 22 al 24 de mayo! En la Ecoaldea de Valdepiélagos. ¿Quieres venir a compartir con nosotras sobre la vida alternativa y en ecoaldeas? Organizado por Taller Karuna, El Rincón de los Sueños y la Ecoaldea de Valdepiélagos, miembros de la RIE. El espacio para compartir y comprender el proceso para materializar aquí y ahora la opción de las ecoaldeas, los proyectos comunitarios, la vida alternativa… Creamos una nueva forma basada en desarrollar las 4 dimensiones: social-comunitaria, ecológica, económica, espiritual. Con talleres, charlas, experiencias que nos permitirán trazar nuestra propia ruta por este universo ecoaldeano. También será un momento festivo en donde compartir experiencias, comprobar lo valioso de las ideas y las dificultades de su implementación, divulgar conocimientos que nos ayuden a transformar, de manera creativa, nuestras vidas y nuestro entorno hacia nuevos modelos de convivencia que velen por la sostenibilidad, la autogestión y el ecoaldea, encuentro ecoaldea, vida alternativarespeto por minorías y mayorías. Además talleres, actuaciones, música, fiestas, juegos… Cuando abramos las inscripciones, os avisaremos!