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Zegg – Info – Weekend

  • Date: 15 – 17 May 2015
  • Languages:
      EnglishGerman
  • Location: Germany

This is the right event if you want to get to know ZEGG. You will find out the values which the ZEGG community is based on and how it works. We will give you insights into the diverse aspects of community life: ecology and permaculture, social processes, love and relationships, communication and the ZEGG Forum. And the weekend also gives you the opportunity to experience yourself within a community – the group of people coming together for this weekend. Price: €51 CF + €101 … Read more

GEN Europe

  • Date: 9 – 13 July 2014
  • Languages:
      EnglishGerman
  • Location: Germany

The Global Ecovillage Network invites for a time of knowledge transfer, sharing, collaboration and networking. A movement is picking upmomentum: new ecovillages and communities in the countryside and in cities emerge worldwide and existing ones keep on growing. In the global south traditional villages adopt strategies of social and environmental sustainability – and as a result a fair, equal exchange between North and South comes about. Considering the economic and social crises and … Read more

KanAwen the main streams

The video shows how the main streams of developments of the ecovillage is included in the big social picture as a holistic solution to society's issues. The main actors of the design are explaining their general vision for the already recognised great ecovillage project under unfoldment. https://youtu.be/bqu48w2Cuyw … Read more

Handicrafts in Suderbyn Handicraft and its role in a modern and sustainable life

Sustainable development is not only about recycling or having an awareness of climate change. It is a change in our way of thinking and action in relation with nature, the world and humankind; grounded in the belief that the physical, social and intellectual worlds are interconnected. Based on this conviction, the project “Traditional knowledge for a modern and sustainable lifestyle” was developed. GEN Ambassador Jesús Pachecho Justo from Suderbyn Ecovillage, Sweden reports. The project, was … Read more

Modelle gelebter Nachhaltigkeit

  • Date: 14 February 2014
  • Language:
      German
  • Location: Germany

In diesem Workshop wollen wir gemeinsam erkunden, welche Lösungsansätze in Ecovillages entwickelt wurden, wie sich diese in die Stadt übertragen lassen und was jede/r einzelne konkret tun kann, um einen nachhaltigeren und zufriedeneren Lebensstil zu verwirklichen. Modelle gelebter NachhaltigkeitDer Workshop richtet sich an alle, die sich für Nachhaltigkeit interessieren und konkrete Handlungsimpulse und Austausch suchen. Inhalte: Impulsvorträge, Vorstellungen/ Präsentation verschiedener … Read more

Modelle gelebter Nachhaltigkeit

  • Language:
      German
  • Location: Germany

In dieser Workshop-Reihe wollen wir gemeinsam erkunden, welche Lösungsansätze in Ecovillages entwickelt wurden, wie sich diese in die Stadt übertragen lassen und was jede/r einzelne konkret tun kann, um einen nachhaltigeren und zufriedeneren Lebensstil zu verwirklichen. Modelle gelebter NachhaltigkeitDer Workshop richtet sich an alle, die sich für Nachhaltigkeit interessieren und konkrete Handlungsimpulse und Austausch suchen. Inhalte: Impulsvorträge, Vorstellungen/ Präsentation … Read more

GEN-Europe Conference 2014 in ZEGG

  • Date: 9 – 13 July 2014
  • Languages:
      EnglishGerman
  • Location: Germany

GEN-Europe gladly invites all its members and everone who is interested in communal and sustainable living! Let's get together, share our love for the planet and inspire eachother with all knowledge, expererience and faith in a better future. … Read more

Das INTERKOMMune-Seminar

  • Date: 19 – 22 June 2014
  • Language:
      German
  • Location: Germany

Von 1986 bis 2012 sind in der Region Kassel 4 Gemeinschaften entstanden: die Kommune Niederkaufungen, die Villa Locomuna in Kassel, die gASTWERKe in Escherode und der Lossehof in Oberkaufungen. Alle Gruppen basieren auf den Grundsätzen Gemeinsame Ökonomie und Konsens bei der Entscheidungsfindung und sind Teil des KommuJa-Netzwerkes der politischen Kommunen. Im Laufe der Jahre haben sich die 4 Gemeinschaften immer mehr vernetzt und gemeinsame Projekte auf den Weg gebracht: das „Los geht´s!“, die … Read more

What is an Ecovillage? Definition by the Global Ecovillage Network

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

An ecovillage is an intentional or traditional community using local participatory processes to holistically integrate ecological, economic, social, and cultural dimensions of sustainability in order to regenerate social and natural environments. … Read more

Dancing Rabbit’s Local Currency Dancing Rabbit’s Successful Local Currency

Many ecovillages and communities try to create alternatives to the global finance system that support the regional economy. Dancing Rabbit in Missouri, US, has been highly successful in this: “We’re the only intentional community I know of where an individual can pay for all their daily living expenses with locally currency", says a member. Jonathan Swiftcreek reports. Until May, 2007, Dancing Rabbit (DR) - a 70-resident ecovillage in rural northeast Missouri - utilized a time-based and … Read more

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