Create a partnership network for solar kits, ensure supply. Ensure that transport is possible, if not also create partnerships for transport in this direction. Identify the beneficiary villages. Identify people to train, for stability, women. Train women leaders per village. Create microcredits around the solar project to support sustainability. Install kits with persons empowered. … Read more
Resilient School Communities Inclusive and participatory planning and implementation of resilient school community plans
School communities (learners, teachers and parents) use the Integrated Land Use Design (ILUD) tool to improve land use and environmental consciousness and practice at their schools. The core principles of ILUD are: Promoting deep and thoughtful care for the environment Emphasis on identification and use of local and indigenous resources and knowledge Inclusive and active participation of the school community Genuine and wide participation of young people at all levels of our … Read more
Freinet pedagogy Improving education
Freinet pedagogy, while contributing actively for socialization and solidarity thanks to its cooperative organization allows the child to get in contact with the reality of the world in the 21e century using different tools such as the free text, the correspondence, the printing, the school magazine, the scientific reports, the audiovisual tools as well as the critical use of the new communicative and production technologies . It is a method which assures the liberation of the whole creative … Read more
Rejuvenating the essence of communty Sustainable Community Incubator Partnership Programme meeting in Park Istra, Slovenia.
19 representatives from nine European National Ecovillage Networks met in Park Istra in Slovenia, from January 18 to 22, to continue their work on the two-year Erasmus+ funded project “Sustainable Community Incubator Partnership Programme” (SCIPP). In October, the partners of SCIPP met in Torri Superiore in Italy for the first time to work on the outline of the programme. For the second meeting in Park Istra, Slovenia we started giving the framework shape and content.We carried out an … Read more
Retiro Yoga Naturaleza – Semana Sant
- Date: 23 – 27 March 2016
- Language:
- Spanish
- Location: Los Molinos del Río Aguas - Almeria, Spain
Yoga Integral, meditaciones en la naturaleza, conexión con los elementos, senderismo consciente, cantos devocionales “mantras” y más... Estaremos en plena naturaleza en el Paraje Natural de Karsts en Yesos de Sorbas, un Oasis en el Desierto. Todos los días de 8.00 a 10.00 realizaremos una sesión de yoga integral. Despues desayuno y un poquito de tiempo para descansar. Y hasta la hora de la comida diversas actividades como: meditaciones guiadas, actividades de contacto con los … Read more
Editorial Newsletter January 2016 Dear friends of ecovillages, dear ambassadors, members, allies throughout the world,
Two major crises of our time - climate change and the refugee crisis – are intertwining to reach historical dimensions. People the world over - and all beings of nature – are existentially threatened, with nowhere to turn to. Climate change, in the guise of a long-term drought from 2006-2011 was one of the factors that lead to the war in Syria. In the past three years, the number of people boarding rickety fishing boats – leaving Myanmar and Bangladesh for countries further south in … Read more
With RefuGEN on Lesvos Nothing prepares you for Moria
RefuGEN was created by GEN Europe to help support refugees arriving in Lesbos, Greece – more than 1,000 arrive to the island daily. GEN has established a volunteering hub on the island, committing volunteers through June 2016. Leila Dregger of the Tamera Ecovillage shares her experience as one of RefuGEN’s first volunteers. Want to help? Click here to volunteer. Donate (all RefuGEN efforts are volunteer). … Read more
Virtual Meet up
- Date: 24 January 2016
- Languages:
- EnglishSpanish
- Location: Australia
Virtual Meet up Sunday 24th of January 6.30pm - 7.00pm - join the meet up and participate in the discussion - re-current event happening every Sunday http://www.meetup.com/ECOVILLAGE-CONNECT-HUB/ Please join the meet up group and go to the top menu discussion in the group to join the conversation … Read more
Charla Presentación Dragon Dreaming
- Date: 5 – 6 February 2016
- Language:
- Spanish
- Location: La Casa de los Sueños en Accion - Benimaurell (Alicante) y Centre UMA - Oliva (Valencia), Spain
¿ Tienes un sueño que quieres hacer realidad? ¿Estas involucrado/a en un proyecto y sientes que necesitas ayuda? ¿Formas parte de un grupo y queréis mejorar vuestro funcionamiento? Te invitamos a conocer esta técnica, su filosofía y aplicaciones CUANDO Y DONDE El viernes día 5 de Febrero 2016 a las 18:30 En La Casa de los Sueños en Acción, Benimaurell – Alicante El Sábado, día 6 de Febrero 2016 a las 12:00 En el Centro UMA, Oliva - Valencia INFORMACIÓN Y RESERVAS Charla … Read more
GEN-Africa Strategy Meeting Resilient communities as a seed of hope and abundance for Africa
Representatives from the GEN Africa Council, Advisory Board and from the national networks from different countries came together in Sekem, Egypt, from the 15th – 20th December 2015. … Read more
