Prototyping is a process where you do what you want to do early and on a small and easy scale. It does not have to be perfect; but it should lead you into doing and trying out your idea. Try to find a small version of your big idea and start doing it. This helps you to: a: get to know your own role early, so you can adjust and clarify b: see what the project is in a “live surrounding” and get feedback c: get feedback from others fast and early so you can adopt it in your on going … Read more
Zambia – Ecovillage Development Training
- Date: 6 – 25 August 2017
- Language:
- English
- 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
INNER CLIMATE CHANGE Documentary
- Date: 24 April 2020
- Language:
- English
- 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
- Language:
- Portuguese
- 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
The Natural Step Framework For Sustainable Development A science based, holistic approach to defining and understanding sustainability
The Natural Step framework is * Based on a scientific consensus of the 4 basic principle ways in which humanity is destroying the biosphere. *Uses these principles as a lens to gain a clear understanding of how a project (business, product,community) is contributing to unsustainability. * Generates a future vision of how the project would look if it was complying with these 4 principles and was 'sustainable' * Allows for cross disciplinary communication using a common language that brings the … Read more
Adaptation to Climate Change Building resilience to climate change
Adaptation to climate change is a response that seeks to reduce the vulnerability of biological systems to the effects of long term perturbations. Climate change adaptation is especially important in developing countries as those countries are predicted to bear the brunt of the effects. That is, the capacity and potential for humans to adapt (called adaptive capacity) is unevenly distributed across different regions and populations, and developing countries generally have less capacity to adapt. … Read more
Taller de Dragon Dreaming
- Date: 18 – 20 November 2016
- Language:
- Spanish
- Location: Espai Llum, Valencia-Barrio Russafa., Undefined
Taller de diseño y gestión de proyectos colaborativos y sostenibles con Dragon Dreaming Taller dirigido a personas que quieren aprender a diseñar y gestionar sus sueños y proyectos conectando con su creatividad de forma holística, cooperativa y transformadora. SOBRE EL TALLER Durará 18 horas repartidas en cinco sesiones entre el viernes, sábado y el domingo. Siguiendo una metodología vivencial se invita a los/las participantes a salir de su zona de confort, para explorar nuevos … 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
Curso Permacultura Integral en Red
- Language:
- Spanish
- Location: Undefined
Persona de contacto: Esther 633675829 Fecha límite de inscripción: 15 de Julio de 2015 Podrás participar de los diseños dentro de las diferentes áreas, ya sea en las etapas de visión, planificación, ejecución y/o evaluación. Las áreas son Huerto, Jardinería, Animales, Cocina, Educación, Gestión Integral, y Asociación. Ejemplos de diseño: Elaboración y manufactura de alimentos. Organización y mantenimiento del Huerto, Jardines y Animales. Visión de un vivero. Integración en la … Read more
Happiness Promoting human and ecological wellbeing
It is important that we promote a holistic vision in which human happiness or wellbeing are seen as inseparable from ecological wellbeing. This means integrating the wealth of information about the human need for community and contact with nature, with the information about the need for biodiversity. In this way, we can spell out the multiple benefits of human-scale adaptation to the natural world, and shift the direction of the economy away from monoculture, towards diversity - a fundamental … Read more
