Events - Global Ecovillage Network

Self-built “Piggott” Wind Turbine

Regions: GEN Europe, GEN International

Areas of Regeneration:
- Social
  - Diversity & Cohesion
  - Leadership & Governance
- Integral Design
  - Contextualised Design
- Ecology
  - Renewable Energy & Transport
- Economy
  - Planetary Boundaries
  - Sharing & Collaboration

The Piggott Small Wind Turbine (SWT) is an open-source technology developed by Hugh Piggott, international expert in small wind energy with worldwide experience in building wind turbines and sharing his skills for 20 years. It is a solid, simple and efficient technology that has the advantage of being self-built, self-installed and self-maintained. It is therefore a reliable off-grid solution for electrification of rural areas that has been successfully used and replicated around the world. It … Read more

Achieving the Paris Agreement

Date: 11 November 2017
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Location: Conference Room at the Haus der evangelischen Kirche (House of the Evangelical Church) Adenauerallee 37, 53113 Bonn, Germany, Germany

This symposium on regenerative practices is being organized by a partnership of organizations including the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN), Open Team, the International National Trusts Organisation (INTO), the Nordic Folkecenter for Renewable Energy and Zero Carbon Britain. This event will feature keynote presentations by Bronson Griscom, Director of Forest Carbon Science for The Nature Conservancy and Joachim Schemel, Deputy Head of Division, Climate and Environmental Policy Sustainable … Read more

Ecosystem Restoration Communities A People Powered Movement to Restore the Earth

Region: GEN Europe
Impact: Global

Areas of Regeneration:
- Social
  - Diversity & Cohesion
  - Lifelong Education
  - Trust & Communication
- Culture
  - Nature Connection
  - Vision & Purpose
- Integral Design
  - Contextualised Design
  - Leading from the Future
- Ecology
  - Ecosystem Restoration
  - Green Building
  - Renewable Energy & Transport
  - Seeds, Food & Soil
  - Water Cycles
- Economy
  - Planetary Boundaries
  - Sharing & Collaboration
  - Social Entrepreneurship
Stage:
- Facing the Dark Night

Ecosystem Restoration Communities offers a profound solution to land degradation, ecosystem destruction and the disconnect between humankind and nature. We do this by building naturally constructed communities on land that is highly degraded, and welcoming people to stay at the camp and learn how to restore land back to fertility. The communities also focus on teaching people skills in how to be radically sustainable, such as how to grow their own food, how to live zero waste, and how to … Read more

Vision Quest Rites of passage for personal transition

Areas of Regeneration:
- Social
  - Leadership & Governance
- Culture
  - Mindfulness & Self Reflection
  - Nature Connection
  - Vision & Purpose
- Integral Design
  - Contextualised Design
Stage:
- Coming Home

Vision quest is a rites of passage usually undertooken by native americans and brought into a modern context. It is a very powerfull time for people to prepare for transistion (or confirmation), go out into solitude & wilderness and then come back into a community to share their gifts. Usually it is hosted by experienced guides or elders and in its full length it consists of 4 days preperation, 4 days/nights of solotime in nature and 4 days of integration. But the basic flow and the … Read more

Presenting your Project show your gifts and learn

Areas of Regeneration:
- Social
  - Leadership & Governance
  - Trust & Communication
- Integral Design
  - Contextualised Design
Stage:
- Maturing on the Path

Presenting your project is a great tool for many things: ● It helps you become more clear within yourself because you have to think about what you want to tell ● You can get great feedback from others and learn ● It is an important part in giving birth to your project: by talking the world starts to see it. So do it. This can be done in many ways (and is a fine art) here are some: ● create a poster (with premaid topics) and speak about that in front of one person, a group or an … Read more

Feedback skills Giving or receiving feedback is the Art of keeping our mind and our heart open to always be a student.

Areas of Regeneration:
- Social
  - Diversity & Cohesion
  - Leadership & Governance
  - Trust & Communication
- Culture
  - Vision & Purpose
- Integral Design
  - Leading from the Future
Stage:
- Opening to the Unexpected

Increase our ability to give and receive feedback as a team will help us grow. Developing this capacity will help us face major conflicts or prevent them escalating. However, we need to be careful with the context in which people are not used to give and receive feedback. It is important to note the target goal, and my intention: am I releasing something and feeling better, or will this feedback serve to the common good? REFERENCES: https://www.cnvc.org/ … Read more

Systems Blindness Overcoming blind spots in planning for sustainability : spatial and temporal systems blindness

Areas of Regeneration:
- Social
  - Leadership & Governance
- Culture
  - Nature Connection
- Integral Design
  - Contextualised Design
Stage:
- Facing the Dark Night

The first problem is exacerbated because problems like atmospheric pollution are increasingly cause by millions of small, incremental damaging contributions to the biosphere (eg aerosols, car exhausts) rather than large scale, more obvious ones (like oil spills, factories). It is a death from a million tiny cuts. We see the parts but not the hole: out of sight is out of mind. This is spatial blindness The second issue, temporal systems blindness, is caused because problems are often … Read more

Shadow Work Dark and light are part of us.

Areas of Regeneration:
- Culture
  - Mindfulness & Self Reflection
- Integral Design
  - Contextualised Design
Stage:
- Facing the Dark Night

Human shadow is often seen as ‘negative’, because we tend to reject or deny or suppress or disown the less desirable aspects of our personality. But on the other hand: in these shadows are fundamental energies of ourselves that are supporting us to become ‘whole’. Shadow work is the conscious work to look on what we “are not” or “dont want to be”: on those parts of ourselfes that we cut off from ourselves. But: if we cut off a part, it still stays part of us and is lived unawarely. … Read more