Events - Global Ecovillage Network

Zambia – Ecovillage Development Training

Date: 6 – 25 August 2017
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Location: Kasisi Agricultural Training Centre, Lusaka, Zambia

This training is a great chance to explore the ecovillage concept; understand ecovillage development as a tool for climate change adaptation and reaching the UN Sustainable Development Goals; becoming familiar with a framework for holistic sustainability grounded in decades of hands-on experience and design of resilient communities worldwide; practice participatory whole-systems design; explore assets, needs and potential next steps of a group, project or community in each dimension of … Read more

Permaculture Design Course

Date: 23 September – 9 December 2017
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Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada

The Permaculture Design Course is a participatory and dynamic learning experience; classes include in-depth permaculture theory, design methodology, exercises, and group projects. They also include a whole lot of deep questioning, laughter, and growth! The curriculum we follow at P3 was developed by the late Bill Mollison in Australia in the 1970’s, and is today regarded as the standard in permaculture education, recognized and respected worldwide. … Read more

Gaia Ashram Internship

Date: 30 June – 2 July 2017
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Location: Nong Khai, Thailand

The Gaia Ashram Internship is a one month Summer Internship program on Ecovillage Design, Permaculture and Deep Ecology. The internship will be a holistic participatory learning experience & process. Interns will experience being part of the Gaia Ashram Community and we will live together for one month at– Gaia Ashram-. At Gaia Ashram we belief in holistic learning that balances the head, hands & heart. Gaia Ashram encourages participatory learning & values the power of community in … Read more

Autumn PDC 2017 Greece, Tinos Island

Date: 23 September – 5 October 2017
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Location: Tinos, Greece

Autumn 2017 Permaculture Design Course 23 September – 5 October (12 days, 80 hours certificate) Led by Andrew Jordan and Elena Symeonidou We are excited to announce the second FULL PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE (PDC) that will be hosted in Tinos Eco-lodge with two knowledgeable teachers Andrew Jordan from Ireland and Elena Symeonidou from Greece. The Permaculture Design Certificate The Permaculture Design Certificate is an 80 hour theoretical course based on Bill Mollison’s Designers … Read more

Making a Toilet Tissue Holder with Plastic Bottle

Region: GEN Africa
Impact: Community

Areas of Regeneration:
- Social
  - Health & Healing
- Ecology
  - Green Building
  - Water Cycles

What you need: an empty transparent plastic 5-liter container, a 6 to 8-inch nail or metal rod What to do: step1: cut out the top of the bottle ¾ way and keep on the cover Step2: Make a hole in the middle of the bottle from right to left Step3: Pass the metal rod through the hole and the tissue and hang to your toilet wall where it is accessible Your tissue holder is good for use and is water proof. The toilet tissue holder suspends the tissue, covers it, prevents water from … Read more

INNER CLIMATE CHANGE Documentary

Date: 24 April 2020
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Location: Findhorn Foundation Community and Ecovillage, The Park, Findhorn, Forres, Moray IV36 3TZ, IV36 3TZ, United Kingdom

This documentary takes us on a journey to understand how our ‘inner climate’ relates to the topic of climate change. And how changing from within will create the change we need in the world. … Read more

ECCO 2017

Date: 6 – 11 October 2017
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Location: Alto Paraiso de Goias, Chapada dos Veadeiros, Brazil

For the first time since the creation of GEN, Brazil will host a meeting to bring together the Council of Sustainable Settlements of Latin America (CASA LATINA) and GEN. A Visions Council will be held with diverse activists, permacultores, educators, and indigenous leaders from across the planet to discuss and plan PRACTICAL ACTIONS for bioregional and planetary resilience. … Read more

Straw Bale Building & Introduction to Earth Plasters

Date: 10 – 15 July 2017
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Location: L'Horta de La Viola. Palafrugell, Gerona (Catalunya), Spain

Learn to raise load-bearing straw bale walls, as well as how to make Earthen Plasters from scratch and apply them to the walls. All this, while enjoying the food and sun of the Costa Brava, and learning to work as team with the rest of the international students. … Read more

European Ecovillage Conference

Date: 16 – 20 July 2017
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Location: Ängsbacka Kursgård, Nyeds-backa 511 660 60 Molkom, Sweden

The 21st annual European Ecovillage Conference gathers this year from July 16-20, 2017 in Ӓngsbacka, Sweden. Join us and hundreds of others from across the continent as we build a movement toward a more resilient, hopeful and interconnected future…today. … Read more

musical mud stomp festive earthen masonry's barefoot mud stomping

Region: CASA
Impact: Community

Areas of Regeneration:
- Social
  - Diversity & Cohesion
  - Health & Healing
  - Leadership & Governance
  - Lifelong Education
  - Trust & Communication
- Culture
  - Art & Celebration
  - Nature Connection
  - Vision & Purpose
- Integral Design
  - Contextualised Design
- Ecology
  - Green Building
  - Seeds, Food & Soil
  - Water Cycles
- Economy
  - Social Entrepreneurship

Dance and entertainment creates a building material. Live acoustic music fuels the barefoot mud stomping dance which creates a spectacle, connects people to earth and creates an unsurpassed building material. … Read more

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