This technology is Developed by Dr Noah Owusu-Takyi, a renowned permaculturist in Ghana who have from 30 years experience training young farmers in sustainable farming technologies, and developing solutions for improve African farming. The technology uses various permaculture design principles to design farmlands to ensure the use of ecologically sustainable farming practices into the farm design to ensure profitability whiles protecting the environment. Farm lands are resurveyed, the size … Read more
Creating High-Trust Relationships and Collaborations Creating trust
This is a video from Foster, Hicks and Associates. Internationlly recognized pioneers in the field of hapiness, Foster and Hicks are also authors of the national besteller ''How We Choose to Be Happy''. They have thaught their High-Trust, High Performance program to over 10 000 doctors, nurses, patients and member of organizations such as G.E and Well Fargo. … Read more
How to Build Trust ? ''Trust'' from John Gottman
'' How to build trust ? '' from John Gottman in Seattle, in a short video. You can also find his book ''The Science of Trust''. … Read more
What is an Ecovillage? Ecovillage
Here is a description of Ecovillages made par Global Ecovillage Network. … Read more
Olive Picking as Community Activity Olive picking: connecting friends and family and strengthening bonds between people
As the olive harvest requires a tedious picking process, families in Palestine collectively work on their relatives land. During the short picking season, young and older members of extended families and friends join forces to speed up the process of olive picking and packing. A healthy and abundant olive tree will require a minimum of two days of work to pick, sort and pack in big cloth bags. The yield from olive trees is extremely important to the livelihoods of families and thus olive trees … Read more
Village Charity Sense of solidarity, cooperation and gratitude through common meals
Village charities (köy hayırları) are traditional spreads organized in spring time where rural people come together, eat together and pray together to express their sense of gratitude, as well as creating a social space. Organized consecutively by the surrounding villages of towns (mainly Canakkale and Balikesir in the Aegean region), according to a certain calendar, village charities are an example of social and economic solidarity in addition to its religious aspect. Each year in March, … Read more
World Café Consciously tapping into collective capacity
World Café’s invite participants to enter an atmosphere of relaxation and vibrant exchange with others from a variety of backgrounds. We tend to prefer having conversations with those who move in similar circles. Interestingly enough, it is precisely when we invite diversity and engage in multi-stakeholder dialogues that innovative approaches may arise. The setting is organised around café-tables, preferably with white paper tablecloths that may be used for doodling and scribbling down ideas. … Read more
Open Space Supporting true insight and innovation by allowing space for expression and cross-pollination
True insight and innovation is created amongst the people, deeply embedded in real life and real experience, and cannot be downloaded from key speakers, books or the internet (though all those may be of help and inspiration). The question of how to open up more space for this kind of innovative creativity within conference settings, sparked off the development of Open Space. In Open Space, people are invited to gather around a theme statement that ideally holds enough inspiration and power to … Read more
Imece (Collective Labour) Community Volunteering
Imece is a name given to traditional Turkish village-scale collaboration. For example, if a couple is getting married, villagers participate in the overall organization of the ceremony including, but not limited to, preparation of the celebration venue, food, building and settlement of the new house for the newly weds. Tasks are often distributed according to expertise and there is no central authority to govern activities. Imece is a voluntary (sometimes obligatory) activity, generally … Read more
“Permaculture Design Certificate”
- Date: 3 – 15 November 2016
- Language:
- English
- Location: Kin Kin, Queensland, Australia., Australia
The Noosa Forest Retreat Permaculture course on Australia’s beautiful Sunshine Coast will include the standard “Permaculture Design Certificate” (PDC) curriculum as created by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren This is a globally recognised education course on sustainable living design. This includes valuable hands on practical exercises plus experience with permaculture principles and systems including - animal systems, super compost making, swale design and implementation for water … Read more
