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TRIBALIZE Regenerative Living Summit III

  • Date: 5 – 8 July 2018
  • Language:
      English
  • Location: Sunrise Ranch, Loveland, Colorado., United States

Find your Tribe and Build Your Dream Community! Please join us at the upcoming TRIBALIZE: Regenerative Living Summit III on July 5-8 at Sunrise Ranch, in Loveland, CO. Visionary keynotes, best practice breakout discussions, village showcases and project incubation and relationship building over a 3 ½ day Summit. Watch and interact with visionary speakers like Daniel Pinchbeck author of Breaking Open the Head, Cassandra Ferrera of Green /Key Real Estate, Daniel Schmachtenberger or Neurohacker … Read more

Dragon Dreaming – participatory project design

  • Date: 25 August – 1 September 2018
  • Language:
      English
  • Location: Milna, Island Brac, Croatia

Your dreams can become reality with dragon dreaming, no matter if you are already pursuing a social, ecological or other project alone or in a team, or simply have an idea you wish to realize. This creative process supports you in making your projects and dreams reality – in joyful cooperation with others.  This fascinating method shows how to step into your potential wholeheartedly and how a team can work together, based on mutual support and deep-felt trust. Thus, sustainable and successful … Read more

Holigent Transition Town Live/Work pedestrian eco-village with a variable economy

  • Impact: Community
  • Areas of Regeneration:
    • Social
      • Diversity & Cohesion
    • Integral Design
      • Contextualised Design
    • Ecology
      • Green Building
      • Renewable Energy & Transport
      • Seeds, Food & Soil
    • Economy
      • Planetary Boundaries
      • Sharing & Collaboration
      • Social Entrepreneurship
  • Stage:
    • Daring to Act

Build, test and demonstrate all-green self-organized live/work cellular pedestrian communities with hybrid economies and social contracts that will secure quality of life and true systemic sustainability for their residents. To counteract fragmented, Cartesian thinking, social philosopher Nicholas Frank has coined the term Holigent to describe the new qualities that emerge from holistic thinking (holistic-emergent). The blueprint for achieving this is featured in Frank's latest book (April … Read more

Learn Permaculture Where it’s LIVED

  • Date: 15 June – 7 July 2018
  • Language:
      English
  • Location: Lanas de Puriscal, Costa Rica

A 21-day intensive immersion course exploring the theories outlined in Bill Mollison’s Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual in both hands-on and classroom settings. Course curriculum covers regenerative practices as well as design theory and the basics of design consultation on a professional level. Our well-rounded permaculture courses cover the many facets of permaculture and focus on practical solutions in agriculture, building and design, economics, social sciences, and politics. Fresh, local … Read more

Día Internacional de la Permacultura

  • Date: 6 May 2018
  • Language:
      Spanish
  • Location: Alajuela, Costa Rica

Un día en cual los proyectos como huertas, jardines, fincas, granjas entre otros abren sus puertas para ofrecer la oportunidad de experimentar la Permacultura y aprender, se organizan charlas, talleres educativos, películas, entre otros eventos. … Read more

Achieving the Paris Agreement

  • Date: 11 November 2017
  • Language:
      English
  • 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

Social Franchising Social franchising is a method for scaling up social enterprises by replicating existing well­functioning good examples.

    • Areas of Regeneration:
      • Economy
        • Planetary Boundaries
        • Sharing & Collaboration
        • Social Entrepreneurship
    • Stage:
      • Opening to the Unexpected

    The European Social Franchising Network (ESFN) has found some 65 social franchises in Europe. The largest of these, the Kringwinkel second­hand shops in Flanders, employs nearly 5,000 people, of whom 80% are disabled. Social franchising comprises three phases: 1. Pilot: identification of a business model which works well in at least one instance, and is transferable to other contexts 2. Development: codification of business processes to create tools such as a franchise agreement, … Read more

    Project Management Making things happen on time, on budget and with ease

      • Areas of Regeneration:
        • Social
          • Diversity & Cohesion
          • Leadership & Governance
        • Culture
          • Vision & Purpose
        • Economy
          • Social Entrepreneurship
      • Stage:
        • Opening to the Unexpected

      Planning and managing projects are core to your work as a social entrepreneur. Within any project, you will have to manage your resources ­ people, time, money, materials, tools ­ and combine them to get things done. And you need to do all this in a way that ensure you do not run out of money, lose your team, or become despondent. Ultimately, you are doing what you are doing because you love it! So, if you are not loving it, it is a good sign that something is wrong. Setting up a project … Read more

      Finances ­ Money & Resources The Blood of your Business

        • Areas of Regeneration:
          • Economy
            • Social Entrepreneurship
        • Stage:
          • Opening to the Unexpected

        Money and how we use it is currently an essential element within the social fabric of our world.. So, the first step to accessing it is to think about money and research some theories about what it is. The second step is to know how much money you need to set up your business and then to make it flow. The third step is to know where to get money from...where are the various sources? The fourth step is to know how to attract it and keep it flowing. Core idea : One core idea that is at the … Read more

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