A tablemat made of plastic bottle covers safes the soil from pollution. Littering in any home is reduced and up cycling the plastic covers is fare better than burring them and safes the user the cost of buying more plastic mats that would be more waste in the near future. What you need: plastic bottle covers, plastic glue Making your table mat: they could be very beautiful Just get creative step1: glue the plastic covers in any desired design and color pattern adjacently and let it … Read more
Flavoured Water Reduce waste and save the planet by making your own flavoured water
Getting rid of soda, juice, and bottled water by taking the time to learn how to make easy, low-cost, nutritious and refreshing flavoured water; by using any fresh fruit (Bananas excluded). Water is so important because our bodies constitute about 70% of it. Water plays a key role in transporting nutrients and oxygen to every cell in our bodies and it keeps every cell hydrated in order to keep our bodies fit. This process particularly affects the skin, as skin is the largest organ, thus when you … Read more
Upcycled Oil Candle
Aluminium cans waste is a free resource. Kids, women or even disabled people can create some decorative candles with them through upcycling. During a workshop we can discuss with the participants about the environmental and social problems caused by bauxite (aluminium) mining, industrial palm oil production and waste. To this effect, it can be used with (old cooking) vegetable oil thus showing that we care about nature. For a more potent effect, adding essential oil can also help against … Read more
ECCO 2017
- Date: 6 – 11 October 2017
- Language:
- Portuguese
- Location: Alto Paraiso de Goias, Chapada dos Veadeiros, Brazil
For the first time since the creation of GEN, Brazil will host a meeting to bring together the Council of Sustainable Settlements of Latin America (CASA LATINA) and GEN. A Visions Council will be held with diverse activists, permacultores, educators, and indigenous leaders from across the planet to discuss and plan PRACTICAL ACTIONS for bioregional and planetary resilience. … Read more
Straw Bale Building & Introduction to Earth Plasters
- Date: 10 – 15 July 2017
- Language:
- English
- Location: L'Horta de La Viola. Palafrugell, Gerona (Catalunya), Spain
Learn to raise load-bearing straw bale walls, as well as how to make Earthen Plasters from scratch and apply them to the walls. All this, while enjoying the food and sun of the Costa Brava, and learning to work as team with the rest of the international students. … Read more
European Ecovillage Conference
- Date: 16 – 20 July 2017
- Language:
- English
- Location: Ängsbacka Kursgård, Nyeds-backa 511 660 60 Molkom, Sweden
The 21st annual European Ecovillage Conference gathers this year from July 16-20, 2017 in Ӓngsbacka, Sweden. Join us and hundreds of others from across the continent as we build a movement toward a more resilient, hopeful and interconnected future…today. … Read more
musical mud stomp festive earthen masonry's barefoot mud stomping
Dance and entertainment creates a building material. Live acoustic music fuels the barefoot mud stomping dance which creates a spectacle, connects people to earth and creates an unsurpassed building material. … Read more
DRC 4th Annual Ecovillage Workshop
- Date: 4 – 18 June 2017
- Language:
- French
- Location: Congo (Kinshasa)
The Democratic Republic of Congo will hold its 4th Annual Conference on Ecovillage Strategies from the 4th to the 18th of June 2017. The workshop is aimed at building capacity of members of the Ecovillage Network and new members in ecovillage strategies using the Ecovillage Design Education Model. Mostly participants will include representatives or 3 Villages in Kinshasa namely Mingadi-1 ,Mingadi-2 and Diaki. GEN DRC will like to welcome other international participants who will want to … Read more
Voluntariado Arterra Bizimodu
- Languages:
- EnglishSpanish
- Location: Undefined
El periodo de voluntariado será del 18 al 26 de febrero Desde Arterra Bizimodu se va a abrir unos días al voluntariado para realizar una serie de trabajos en los cuales necesitamos mucha más gente que nosotras mismas. Necesitaríamos un grupo de 10 o más personas para hacer varias labores, se valorará especialmente conocimientos de electricidad, fontanería…etc pero no son imprescindibles. Sería conveniente que la llegada del voluntariado se haga el viernes 17, como no hay transporte … Read more
Curso Certificado Diseño Permacultur
- Date: 15 – 24 March 2017
- Language:
- Spanish
- Location: Ubicación Sede: Centro Ecoturístico del Lago www.centroecoturisticodellago.com Carretera Huasca - San Miguel Regla Km 2, San Miguel Regla, Huasca, Hgo. Ubicación: https://goo.gl/maps/fTr7T, Mexico
PERMACULTURA es un sistema integral basado en varias ciencias que se enfoca en diseñar entornos autosustentables y crear procesos regenerativos, ambientales y sociales. ¡Forma parte del proyecto de restauración planetaria más grande en la historia de la humanidad! APROVECHA LA PROMOCIÓN Ven a vivir la experiencia, a aprender una de las disciplinas más ricas, completas y propositivas que está creando e impulsando movimientos de regeneración ambiental y social en todas las escalas y en todos … Read more
