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A partir del 1 de febrero, cada día durante 10 días se mostrarán virtualmente 3 entrevistas a activistas, personas de cambio, ancianos de comunidades aborígenes, promotores de comunidades alrededor del planeta. Durante todo el evento, juntos exploraremos: Cambio sistémico: una transformación completa de nuestras instituciones humanas. A partir de un cambio interno, la sanidad interna nos invita a sanar nuestras relaciones. Cambio en el territorio: cómo múltiples comunidades alrededor del planeta están convirtiéndose en espacios de regeneración y; Cambio desde la juventud: gente joven se está tomando las calles, levantando sus voces y demandando justicia climática para futuras generaciones. Juntas, nos articularemos para encontrar respuestas auténticas a la emergencia climática. Respuestas que no emerjan desde la urgencia, el miedo, el pánico y el apuro, sino desde un sentido profundo de conexión, amor y responsabilidad.

Support The GEN+20 Summit Updates The GEN+20 Schedule is now available. View it here. Sign up to live stream the GEN+20 Summit from anywhere in the world! Read more Read the bios of the nominated GEN Delegates here. Come to the GEN+20 Summit!Register hereLive Stream from anywhere!Register here Support the GEN+20 Summit Support GEN+20 at donate.ecovillage.org/gen20 The success of the summit depends on a rich and diverse representation of cultures and people from all over the world. We have invited more than 100 of our most dedicated volunteers to attend the summit. These are people who have invested years of their life to building a more just, sustainable and beautiful world. Many of them forgo well paid jobs to do so or come from the Global South and have limited access to funds. Please consider donating to our crowdfunging campaign at donate.ecovillage.org/gen20 to make it poss

“Build a small wind turbine” construction course July 24th to August 2nd, 2015 A ten day live-in course in Nea Makri, Greece Learn how to build a small wind turbine and put yourself on the road to self-reliance Organized by Nea Guinea Small wind turbines ‘Nea Guinea’ has been organizing small wind turbine construction workshops since 2009 and has empowered many people with the knowledge of harnessing power from the wind. The wind turbines built in the workshops are based on the designs of Hugh Piggott, a renewable energy expert living in the off-grid community of Scoraig (Scotland), as described in his ‘Wind Turbine Recipe Book’. These wind turbines can be constructed with the use of common materials, simple manufacturing techniques and basic tools, providing a low cost small wind turbine that anyone can built. Hundreds of homemade small wind turbines have been constructed worldwide using these designs, and have proven to be robust, efficient, easy to maintain and quick to repair. Typical applications of locally manufactured small wind turbines are development projects such as electrification of village communities in the global south, educational projects in universities and schools and sustainability projects such as renewable energy electrification of eco-villages. Course outline During this one week course a 600W small wind turbine with 2.4m rotor diameter will be constructed from scratch, using simple raw materials like wood for the blades, steel for the mounting frame and tail, copper wire for the coils and neodymium magnets cast in resin for the generator. The wind turbine will be the product of enthusiastic team work, as we will work in groups focusing on woodworking, metalworking and generator fabrication, along with short breaks to share what we have learned with the whole team. Woodworking will involve hand curving the blades of the rotor using drawknives and spokeshaves, planes and chisels. Metalworking will involve fabri

El próximo viernes 20 de junio cierra la convocatoria de la Escuela de Innovación Comunitaria, una iniciativa del Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts (MIT), una universidad de la élite académica mundial; la Fundación Ford y la Corporación Manos Visibles. Una descripción de la Escuela, la brinda Alyssa Bryson, ver http://youtu.be/mRUj1d-NJ0U. Le invitamos a que revise detalladamente la convocatoria en la página www.innovacioncomunitaria.com donde encontrará el formulario de aplicación online. El elemento fundamental para la selección de este programa es su Idea de Innovación, por tanto le invitamos a ver algunos ejemplos que en el mundo ha acompañado el Laboratorio de Innovadores Comunitarios del MIT http://innovacioncomunitaria.com/referentes/. La fecha limite es el 20 de junio. Le sugerimos avanzar en su aplicación con antelación. No se aceptarán aplicaciones por fuera de este periodo. No deje su aplicación para el último momento y compártala con personas que también estén interesadas en participar en la co-creación de nuevas soluciones para los retos sociales y económicos del Pacífico colombiano.