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Info Encuentro de Verano. Arterra

  • Date: 27 – 30 August 2015
  • Languages:
      EnglishSpanish
  • Location: Undefined

Hola Compas Nos vemos en unos días.Que alegría teneros aquí. Para que disfrutemos todas: cositas que saber, y que traer. Y alguna que NO traer... Como todos los años os pedimos que traigáis vuestro servicio de comidas: platos, cubiertos, vasos. Las personas del Sur, no olvidéis que venís al norte, y por la noche refresca: algo de ropa de abrigo! Sacos de dormir , claro. Linternas no estarán de más, sobre todo las personas en acampada! El aparcamiento: no está incluido en la inscripción. … Read more

GEN +20 Summit Developing the New Story of Community

This year's Global Ecovillage Network Summit at Findhorn Ecovillage in Scotland, marked the organisation's tremendous growth and development since its emergence 20 years ago. Returning to the place where GEN was launched into the world in 1995, the founders Ross and Hildur Jackson were joined by other GEN legends, Declan Kennedy, Robert Gilman, Jan-Martin Bang and Helena Norberg-Hodge, in bearing witness to how their offspring has now developed contacts with communities on every inhabited … Read more

Programa Talleres

  • Date: 27 – 30 August 2015
  • Languages:
      EnglishSpanish
  • Location: Undefined

Este es una primera propuesta de los diferentes espacio que os proponemos. Sabiendo que vamos a ir incluyendo otros, y que aquí no están los del espacio abierto que publicaremos en breve. … Read more

V Incubadora de Ecoaldeas.

  • Date: 30 August – 1 September 2015
  • Language:
      Spanish
  • Location: Undefined

Para Inscribirse a la Incubadora, enviar un correo a : [email protected]. La Incubadora de Ecoaldeas y Comunidades es un programa desarrollado por facilitadoras de la RIE (Red Ibérica de Ecoaldeas) para acompañar a grupos que están en proceso de dar el salto hacia la creación de un proyecto colectivo (comunidades, redes, cooperativas, emprendedurías,…). Facilitado por personas con amplio recorrido y experiencia en ese tipo de procesos creativos y vitales, el programa … Read more

Not in our name! German austerity policy for southern Europe

Or: go on holidays in Greece, Mrs. Merkel! Open letter to the German Government We, the German participants of the international GEN+20 Conference, distance ourselves from your policies. The Global Ecovillage Network unites more then 10.000 villages and communities of all continents. In Germany there is a growing network of ecovillages, communities and transition towns. In cooperation with people and organizations from many countries we generate knowledge and expertise for the regeneration … Read more

We are all Greece! A Declaration of Action and Solidarity

We are 280 participants of the GEN+20 Summit (Global Ecovillage Network), from five continents and 50 countries, working and engaging ourselves in building resilient communities, ecovillages, models for sustainability and autonomy throughout the world. With concern, compassion and anger we witness the situation in Greece; families who cannot feed their children anymore, unemployed youth, impoverished retired people, hospitals without medicine and countless homeless people , all of whom are … Read more

EDE Azores – Portugal

  • Date: 15 August – 18 September 2015
  • Language:
      English
  • Location: Azores, Portugal, Portugal

Ecovillage Design Education ::: 5 week community experience ::: We're a team of 12 friends inspired by this program that changes people's lives and invites us all to co-create a more beautiful world! We want to engage hearts and minds in learning, unlearning, experiencing, sensing and co-creating happy life in communities around the globe. One year and a half ago Rita heard a dream of bringing the Ecovillage Design Education to the Azores islands.... step by step we have been getting … Read more

Strawbale Building Earthquake resistant interior frame for hand constructed energy efficient housing using straw bales as insulation

  • Region: GEN Fertile Crescent
  • Areas of Regeneration:
    • Integral Design
      • Contextualised Design
    • Ecology
      • Green Building
    • Economy
      • Sharing & Collaboration

Straw bale construction began, following the invention of the modern straw baler, in 1896. Construction began in Nebraska, USA and spread across North America through the 1930's. A worldwide resurgence of straw bale construction began in the 1990's. Well designed and built straw bale houses are energy efficient, long lasting and environmentally sound. The EcoCampus Straw Bale Domes at Kibbutz Lotan's Center for Creative Ecology are a site specific solution. The domes' internal structure is a … Read more

From Apartheid to Ecovillages TEDx - Findhorn by Kosha Joubert

In this 17 min TEDx Findhorn talk Kosha Anja Joubert reminds us of the future we dream of and how people all across the globe are building it now, following their inner values, focussing on life as a whole and rebuilding the connections that have been broken. We can regenerate the soil, replenish depleted water tables and reconnect in community. We can do this and so much more when we come together and marry our love for the planet with our need to make a living. We can serve life. This is … Read more

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