Big Changes in Communities! We’re excited to announce two major changes in Communities magazine, starting with our Spring 2015 issue. Fulfilling a long-held dream of better aligning our production process with our ecological values, Communities is now printed on 100 percent post-consumer recycled paper. Not a single tree fell to produce our new issue of Communities. We are thrilled to be using this beautiful matte-finish recycled paper from our new printer, Ovid Bell Press, and to be … Read more
Ashevillage Eco-Urban Program
- Date: 23 March – 23 October 2015
- Language:
- English
- Location: Asheville, NC, United States
Work Site: Ashevillage Sanctuary, Asheville, NC Dates: March 23 – October 23, 2015 (with roughly 40 hours of preliminary online permaculture homework) Schedule: Monday-Thursday (full days) + special workshops two weeks in the season — details below. Room & board: Apprentices will live off site and make their own living arrangements. Leads on affordable housing will be provided. Fee: Includes Permaculture certification, water retention landscape & natural building workshops, primitive skills … Read more
Communities Conference in VA
- Date: 3 – 6 September 2015
- Language:
- English
- Location: Twin Oaks Community - Louisa, VA, United States
If you live or want to live according to the values of cooperation, sustainability, and equality this conference is for you. You’ll get something out of this event whether you’re brand new to communities and cooperatives, or have been living and working in them for decades. The conference focuses on Intentional Communities, including models such as Ecovillages, Cohousing, and Housing Cooperatives, and the larger cooperative movement, including all kinds of cooperative and collective … Read more
Curso Certificado Diseño Permacultur
- Date: 13 – 27 November 2014
- Language:
- Spanish
- Location: Spain
Diseña para la vida con permacultura La Permacultura nos ofrece nuevas formas de pensar, hacer y ser que pueden ser utilizadas individual y colectivamente para crear culturas humanas sostenibles en armonía con la naturaleza. Curso de 90 horas con Certificación Internacional El Temario incluye, entre otros: ética y principios, practicas de diseños, gestión del agua, el suelo, agricultura regenerativa, bioconstrucción, energía, nuevas economías, aplicación ecológica y humana: al hogar, … Read more
Permaculture Design Certificate Cour
- Date: 16 October – 27 November 2014
- Language:
- English
- Location: Spain
Design for life with Permaculture Permaculture offer us new ways of thinking, doing and being that can be use individually and collectively to create sustainable human cultures in harmony with nature. 90 hours course with PDC International Certificate. The course program includes: ethics and principles, design processes, basics of ecology, water management, soil building, plants for permaculture systems, ecobuilding, energy, new economies, with regenerative ideas for: home, garden, … Read more
Permaculture Design Course
- Date: 26 September – 7 October 2017
- Language:
- English
- Location: Italy
26 settembre - 7 ottobre 2014 Ostuni (BR), Italy Permaculture Design Course at Casinasettarte (Ostuni, BR) Docenti: Rod Everett, Mill Millichap Lingua del corso: Inglese A Permaculture Design Course is a 72-hour intensive hands-on course that equips you to learn and practice how to design your land and life using permaculture principles. Course Content Includes: Permaculture Principles Patterns and design Landscape analysis Building soil fertility Water harvesting Waste … Read more
Sustainable is Possible: Ma'ikwe Schaub Ludwig at TEDxCarletonCollege
Ma'ikwe Schaub Ludwig is the Executive Director of Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, the pioneering sustainability educator who heads up Ecovillage Education US, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Fellowship for Intentional Community. She believes strongly that sustainability is possible, assuming we can learn to cooperate, share and assess what really makes us happy, rather than staying bought in to the material excess culture we've been raised in. In addition to more common sustainability … Read more
VII Voluntariado Intercultural
- Date: 2 – 11 July 2014
- Languages:
- BelgiqueDutchEnglishFrenchSpanish
- Location: Colombia
El voluntariado es una propuesta del acompañar. Surge como posibilidad activa y pedagógica, para fortalecer el desarrollo de los procesos propios que buscan nuestras comunidades. Convocando gente de todos los territorios, nos unimos para co-crear un espacio de abundancia desde el Intercambio Cultural. Participa en el VII Voluntariado de Intercambio Pedagógico del 2 al 11 de julio, 2014. En esta ocasión nos enfocaremos en la continuación de la construcción de la escuela propia de Gunkerun, … Read more
Taller “CONSTRUYE TU CASA CON PAJA”
- Date: 27 September – 3 October 2014
- Language:
- Spanish
- Location: Spain
*Programa. Teoria y Practica En el curso estudiaremos y practicaremos todo lo necesario para poder construir uno mismo su casa: principios, materiales, herramientas, etc. Temas: • La ecología en la construcción. • Arquitectura bioclimática: Diseño, elementos bioclimáticos, etc • Las casas de balas de paja. • Cubiertas verdes. • El Proyecto de tu casa. Cómo hacer un diseño adecuado. • Qué se necesita y cuánto cuesta. • Proceso de construcción por fases: cimentación, estructura, … Read more
Superadobe Building Workshop
- Languages:
- EnglishSpanish
- Location: Spain
Duration: 8 days (13th to 20th August) / 8 hours x day, with 2 hours for lunch and rest. Cost: 300 € + IVA (including accident insurance) Location: 'Cal Jess' (next to Vilafranca del Penedès / 40Km to Barcelona) Registration dates: Until June 31st / Maximum 12 participants Accommodation: We can provide information on different hosting solutions nearby and also land to camp with tents The workshop would be simultaneously in Spanish and English More information and registration: … Read more
