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Rocket stoves Women support women, creating work options and saving forests (Joshua)

  • Region: GEN Africa
  • Areas of Regeneration:
    • Social
      • Diversity & Cohesion
    • Culture
      • Art & Celebration
    • Economy

Taking the time to learn and construct a simple, low-cost and sustainable stove with local materials; in the process, women empowering themselves to take charge of improving their situation. The construction of one stove leads to smoke-free kitchens and better health for women and children; reduced risk of injury from open fires, protection of forests by reducing firewood consumption by 60-70%; women have more time available for community engagement through efficient use of energy and collection … Read more

Rejuvenating the essence of communty Sustainable Community Incubator Partnership Programme meeting in Park Istra, Slovenia.

19 representatives from nine European National Ecovillage Networks met in Park Istra in Slovenia, from January 18 to 22, to continue their work on the two-year Erasmus+ funded project “Sustainable Community Incubator Partnership Programme” (SCIPP). In October, the partners of SCIPP met in Torri Superiore in Italy for the first time to work on the outline of the programme. For the second meeting in Park Istra, Slovenia we started giving the framework shape and content.We carried out an … Read more

Editorial Newsletter January 2016 Dear friends of ecovillages, dear ambassadors, members, allies throughout the world,

Two major crises of our time - climate change and the refugee crisis – are intertwining to reach historical dimensions. People the world over - and all beings of nature – are existentially threatened, with nowhere to turn to. Climate change, in the guise of a long-term drought from 2006-2011 was one of the factors that lead to the war in Syria. In the past three years, the number of people boarding rickety fishing boats – leaving Myanmar and Bangladesh for countries further south in … Read more

Virtual Meet up

  • Date: 24 January 2016
  • Languages:
      EnglishSpanish
  • Location: Australia

Virtual Meet up Sunday 24th of January 6.30pm - 7.00pm - join the meet up and participate in the discussion - re-current event happening every Sunday http://www.meetup.com/ECOVILLAGE-CONNECT-HUB/ Please join the meet up group and go to the top menu discussion in the group to join the conversation … Read more

Join Friends of GEN Support what is close to your heart: GEN Small Projects Campaign

You can be part of making sustainable dreams come alive in 2016! All around the world there are communities and people doing amazing work to take care of  people and the planet. There are incredible examples of the restoration of degraded ecosystems, rivers and lakes; the rebuilding of community support ‘nets’; the recognition of elders knowledge and ancestral wisdom; the development of economic activities and systems that create solutions and not just problems, to name a few.  In … Read more

Co-Act: Together Network Dialogue with all Actors

The TOGETHER network has launched the CO-ACT project to counterbalance the power of economic lobbies by using radically different methods. Considering that co-responsibility not only includes local actors but also public policy makers and legal frameworks at other levels, it is not enough to apply pressure with technical reports, by connecting with high-level contacts, etc. There is also a need to develop a bottom-up process dialogue involving the largest amount of citizens at a local level, … Read more

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