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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

Responsible Tourism Community based tourism: how it benefits local people by creating revenue streams while protecting environments

  • Regions: GEN Africa, GENNA, GENOA
  • Areas of Regeneration:
    • Culture
      • Nature Connection
    • Ecology
    • Economy
      • Sharing & Collaboration

The Ecovillage Design Education course (EDE) is a wonderful way to promote eco-tourism. The social, cultural, economic and ecological potential that exists within coastal villages brings new and bigger visions for participants. Sandele Eco-Retreat hosted a second EDE for participants from 10 coastal villages. The participants decided to form PeCEN – “The People’s Coast Ecovillage Network”). It was emphasised that eco-tourism is just one of many possible local businesses and that it could bring … Read more

Decentralised renewable energy The multiple benefits of appropriate technology in the form of passive solar, solar electricity, small-scale hydro, ram pumps

  • Regions: GEN Africa, GENNA, GENOA
  • Areas of Regeneration:
    • Ecology
    • Economy

To raise awareness about the potential for a human and ecological development path, based on a diversity of decentralised renewable energy technologies. We need to devote time, money and effort to counter the corporate energy path through educational campaigns. At the same time, we need to provide information about the multitude of renewable energy solutions. These range from those suited for high-rise, urban living, to those appropriate for rural villages in the global south: solar electricity, … Read more

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