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Tamera y su visión de la paz global,

  • Language:
      Spanish
  • Location: Chile

El proyecto de Tamera (http://tamera.org) ha trabajado desde hace 37 años en un modelo replicable de sustentabilidad social y ecológica. Algunas de los áreas centrales de Tamera incluyen la creación de comunidades que funcionen, nuevos caminos para amor, sexualidad y pareja, la restauración de la naturaleza, la investigación e implementación de tecnologías para auto-suficiencia en água, alimento y energía y cooperación no violenta con animales y los seres de la naturaleza. La presentación se … Read more

Incubadora

  • Languages:
      DanishDutchEnglishEstonianGermanItalianSlovenianSpanish
  • Location: Undefined

21 representantes de nueve Redes Nacionales europeas de Ecoaldeas, entre ellas la Red Ibérica de Ecoaldeas RIE, se reunieron en Torri Superiore, Italia, del 31 de octubre al 4 de noviembre para comenzar a diseñar un programa de incubadora de iniciativas comunitarias sostenibles. El proyecto de dos años, "Programa Sostenible Comunidad Incubadora Partnership" (SCIPP), financiado por el Erasmus + diseñará un marco de apoyo para las fases más sensibles del desarrollo de proyectos e iniciativas … Read more

Aurora Eye comes to Findhorn Young Filmaker Visting Communities

In early October Serena Aurora visited Findhorn Foundation community in Scotland and the GEN International office located there in order to make a short film promoting GEN and Findhorn. Serena is an adventurous, nature-loving filmmaker inspired by the ecovillage movement. She is dedicating her energy to traveling around our precious planet, giving a voice and platform to ecovillages and other intentional communities. She documents and explores the diverse communities that live principles of … Read more

Gift-economy Social Permaculture

  • Regions: GEN Africa, GENNA, GENOA
  • Areas of Regeneration:
    • Culture
      • Wisdom & Innovation
    • Integral Design
      • Contextualised Design
    • Ecology
      • Seeds, Food & Soil
    • Economy
      • Planetary Boundaries
      • Sharing & Collaboration
      • Social Entrepreneurship

A gift economy, gift culture, or gift exchange is a mode of exchange where valuables are not traded or sold, but rather given without an explicit agreement for immediate or future rewards. This contrasts with a barter economy or a market economy, where goods and services are primarily exchanged for value received. Social norms and custom govern gift exchange. Gifts are not given in an explicit exchange of goods or services for money or some other commodity. Property is not a thing, but a … Read more

Uniorder – The Cooperative Society

  • Regions: GEN Africa, GENNA, GENOA
  • Areas of Regeneration:
    • Social
    • Culture
    • Integral Design
    • Ecology
    • Economy

Only 3 steps are needed: Step 1: Human Rights – We must declare that we really want human rights for all people on the planet. Step 2: Fair monetary system – To 1st step become a reality we simply must create a fair monetary system, controlled by computers, where the wealth of the individual is proportional to the wealth of society. Step 3: Human resource optimization – In order to have progress, someone must work. Therefore, we must create a computerized social network. There are five … Read more

Construcción Invernadero con Caña

  • Date: 20 – 22 November 2015
  • Languages:
      EnglishSpanish
  • Location: www.culturadelatierra.net, Spain

En este curso aprenderás cómo construir tu propio invernadero con caña de una forma sencilla. Durante 3 días trabajaremos en equipo, aprenderemos diferentes técnicas de estructuras con caña y los beneficios de la reutilización de materiales. Experimentaremos las distintas fases de construcción y conoceremos los aspectos y detalles del proceso: - Herramientas y materiales - La caña: selección, recolección, preparación y usos. - El terreno: Elección, preparación y marcado. - Preparar … Read more

Bioconstrucción de Horno Pan

  • Date: 2 – 8 November 2015
  • Languages:
      EnglishFrenchSpanish
  • Location: Spain

Taller práctico de construcción de un horno de leña, de fuego indirecto. Aprenderemos a trabajar con barro para el montaje del horno, destinado a la cocción de pan, repostería, así como asados etc. Será un taller completo de montaje desde el principio hasta el final, con la dirección de Dani y Jandro, que traen su experiencia en montaje de hornos, y en bioconstrucción. MATERIALES: Barro, caña, algunos ladrillos refractarios. DURACIÓN: Todas las mañanas de 10 a 14h, desde el martes día 3, … Read more

Hildur Jackson In Memory of a Life Well Lived

In this newsletter, we share in the celebration of Hildur, mother of GEN and Gaia Education, in memory of a life well lived, and in grieving of her passing. Hildur’s life was a song for justice and human dignity. Remembering her, it seems her voice was singing rather than speaking … Read more

New Threats Against the Peace Community San José de Apartadó / Colombia

In 1997, more than 1000 farmers and refugees declared themselves as neutral in the conflict between the Guerilla army and the Paramilitary. They formed the Peace Community, giving themselves guidelines of non-violence and trying to protect each other from being expelled from their remote parishes and farms. In the following years, more than 200 of them were killed brutally in the merciless fights for land, strategic advantage and resources in that region. But still they stayed together and … Read more

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