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Construcción de un 
aerogenerador

  • Date: 1 – 5 March 2015
  • Language:
      Spanish
  • Location: Spain

El Centro de Formación e Investigación en Eco Tecnología de la comunidad Los Portales organiza un taller, en marzo 2015, para aprender a construir un  AEROGENERADOR de tipo «PIGGOTT». Hugh Piggott, su inventor, es pionero en la auto-construcción de generadores eólicos y experto en mini eólica. Ha desarrollado un aerogenerador sencillo, eficiente y sólido, que se realiza con materiales accesibles y herramientas … 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

Erigiendo Dipam Consideraciones sobre el lugar y una edificacion central

Terrain: * Water: The first priority is to find a terrain near a freshwater cause ​(a river, stream, ect) or otherwise a freshwater well (in Corrientes freshwater is easily achievable in Chaco presents more difficulty, but it's not insurmountable). * Power lines: if there are any laying around, that will facilitate the construction of the eco-village, although Dipam aspires to be independent later on, the possibility of having a nearby power line network allows a faster start and an … Read more

What is an Ecovillage? – by EarthDeeds Models of Living Well Together in a Post-Oil World

Ecovillages, by definition, are communities striving towards high quality lifestyles that have low ecological impacts.  As such, they are modeling how we can live well and lightly together in a post-oil future. But even with their focus on renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, and voluntary simplicity, ecovillages will never be able to reduce their impact to zero.  In addition to reducing their ecological and carbon footprints, ecovillages also need to consider how to account for … 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

Taller La Semilla de la Permacultura

  • Date: 28 – 31 August 2014
  • Languages:
      EnglishPortugueseSpanish
  • Location: Colombia

Este es un taller diseñado con el propósito de empoderar a los participantes para que se conviertan en agentes del cambio hacia sociedades más conscientes de sí mismas y de su relación con la Naturaleza. Para esto se expondrá una metodología de diseño basada en la Permacultura y se entregaran herramientas prácticas para materializar sus proyectos de una vida en armonía con su entorno. Si asiste a este Taller podrá: Aprender, la metodología de diseño que ofrece la Pemacultura Conocer, … Read more

Maya Pedal y las Bici Máquinas! Centro de Bicimáquinas en Guatemala!

http://comuntierra.org - Video parte de la documentación del Proyecto Común Tierra mapeando Ecoaldeas y Proyectos Ecológicos en Latino América. Entrevista con Carlos Marroquín, fundador de Asociación Maya Pedal, pionera en el desarrollo de Bici Maquinas en San Andrés Itzapa, Guatemala. En este video Carlos enseña diversos tipos de bici maquinas producidos por ellos. Mas informaciones: www.comuntierra.org Interview with Carlos Marroquin, founder of the Maya Pedal Association, pioneer in … Read more

The Farm Conference – Summertown, TN

  • Date: 21 – 23 May 2015
  • Language:
      English
  • Location: The Farm Community in Summertown, TN, United States

The Farm Conference on Community and Sustainability May 22-24, 2015 Come to The Farm Community in Summertown, TN to set your course for the future, Life In Community! Our fifth conference in partnership with the Fellowship of Intentional Communities, this gathering is a unique opportunity to tour Green Homes of all types, see Sustainable Food Production at work, over 89 KW in Solar Installations, learn about Alternative Education, Conflict Resolution, Land Trusts, Midwifery and so much … Read more

Solar Dryers in Palestine Decentralized and Organic Food Technology in the Westbank

To have peace in Israel-Palestine, the mentality of scarcity needs to be replaced with an awareness of abundance, because the conflict is based on the fear that there is not enough for everyone: not enough land, not enough water, not enough energy. In the frame of the Global Campus, in the process of founding GEN Palestine, Aida Shibli made another step in food sovereignty in organising seminars to create abundance on a farm of the Westbank. Frederick Weihe reports. If we want to support the … Read more

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