A GEN delegation of more than 15 leaders participated in the United Nations Climate Conference in Paris this December. Through our participation, we explored the questions: what role do ecovillages have in climate change and what do we seek to accomplish? … Read more
The First EDE Course in Palestine Waters of Hope – Nourishing the Heart of Sustainability
In November 2015, the first Ecovillage Design Education (EDE) course took place in Palestine: two weeks of learning, sharing, and community empowerment. The village of Farkha has great promise for becoming a model of sustainable ecological development. … Read more
Taller Introductorio de Dragon Dream
- Date: 13 – 14 February 2016
- Language:
- Spanish
- Location: Fleix, Vall de Laguar (Alicante), Spain
Taller dirigido a personas involucradas en proyectos en la zona de la Marina Alta para aprender a diseñar y gestionar tus sueños y proyectos conectando con tu creatividad de forma holística, cooperativa y transformadora. APORTACIÓN PARA EL TALLER: 60€ (consultar la posibilidad de pagar una parte en moneda social) Aportación para alojamiento: 10€ por persona y día y 15 € por persona y día con desayuno incluido. Cada uno traerá comida para compartir a medio día. Organizado especialmente … Read more
Co-Act: Together Network Dialogue with all Actors
The TOGETHER network has launched the CO-ACT project to counterbalance the power of economic lobbies by using radically different methods. Considering that co-responsibility not only includes local actors but also public policy makers and legal frameworks at other levels, it is not enough to apply pressure with technical reports, by connecting with high-level contacts, etc. There is also a need to develop a bottom-up process dialogue involving the largest amount of citizens at a local level, … Read more
“Fin de la Revolucion Industrial” (Reflexión antes de la COP21- Paris /2015)
Una de las formas de ver la vida, es como un proceso de aparición/desaparición de especies, pronosticar el final de todo lo que comienza encaja dentro de esa lógica. Muchos finales se han pronosticado, el fin del capitalismo y del socialismo V.I.Lenin (1917), el fin de la historia Fukuyama (1992), inclusive se ha planificado la finalización del hambre ver “objetivos del milenio/Naciones Unidas”. La visión de la revolución industrial con su matriz energética ha tenido tal éxito que … Read more
Mexico: The Power of Grandmothers The Story of Kalpulli and Grandmother Hope
The Power of Grandmothers can create and maintain healthy communities - just like this one from Mexico, collected and translated by Tracy Barnett. Esperanza Moran was not a young woman when she decided to pack up her family, leave the big city and stake out a claim in the wilderness with an assorted band of spiritual seekers. The eldest of her five children was already in college; she had co-founded the first School of Love, a program dedicated to exploring the divine feminine within, and had … Read more
First Ecovillage Network Forum China "Green land and pure water is the true wealth"
The Sunshine Ecovillage Network Forum of China held its first meeting in October 2015. Dorota Owen reports. … Read more
Green Phoenix 2015 Deep Sharing among Communities
"We are all refugees, migrating from one Earth to a new Earth" said someone during the harvesting of a silent meditative walk in the rich and magical woody mountains surrounding the Center for Unity Schweibenalp. It was during the Green Phoenix congress, initiated 5 years ago by the founder of the Center for Unity Schweibenalp, Dr. Sundar Robert Dreyfus. It was the 6th edition of the congress that each year, in autumn, brings together representatives of experiential models for the future in … Read more
A New Home for Refugees In this Moment, in Heilhaus Kassel...
Founded by Ursa Paul 25 years ago, the Heilhaus Kassel Community was created with the vision of being a spiritual home, offering a place for all stages of the lifecycle: birth, living, and dying. Alfred Hohmann reports on their experience welcoming refugees. … Read more
Heart Communication with Refugees If I don´t deal with the fears in myself, I am all too ready to project them on to others.
“If I don’t deal with the fears in myself, I am all too ready to project them on to others,” writes Dolores Richter of the ZEGG Community of Bad Belzig, Germany. She explores the question: how can we communicate with people from a different culture who have lost everything? … Read more
