We are 280 participants of the GEN+20 Summit (Global Ecovillage Network), from five continents and 50 countries, working and engaging ourselves in building resilient communities, ecovillages, models for sustainability and autonomy throughout the world. With concern, compassion and anger we witness the situation in Greece; families who cannot feed their children anymore, unemployed youth, impoverished retired people, hospitals without medicine and countless homeless people , all of whom are … Read more
Trabajar en otros Contextos Cultural
- Languages:
- EnglishSpanish
- Location: Spain
Curso facilitado por Rico Zook, única oportunidad en Europa en 2015 Se darán las bases para trabajar con éxito en proyectos de reconstrucción comunitarias y sostenibilidad en otras culturas. Temas que se tratarán: los principios de la permacultura itinerante, la ética, la diversidad, las buenas practicas de formación y de realización de proyectos. Las herramientas del oficio, los aspectos logísticos y prácticos y cómo empezar. No es necesaria experiencia previa ni haber recibido formación … Read more
EDE Azores – Portugal
- Date: 15 August – 18 September 2015
- Language:
- English
- Location: Azores, Portugal, Portugal
Ecovillage Design Education ::: 5 week community experience ::: We're a team of 12 friends inspired by this program that changes people's lives and invites us all to co-create a more beautiful world! We want to engage hearts and minds in learning, unlearning, experiencing, sensing and co-creating happy life in communities around the globe. One year and a half ago Rita heard a dream of bringing the Ecovillage Design Education to the Azores islands.... step by step we have been getting … Read more
Ecovillage Summit in Dakar, Senegal Results, Challenges, and Consequences
Update - GES Reports The Official Reports from the GES Summit are now available - read them here: GES Report - Supporting Documents Transition 2 Resilience - Participant Reports Fundraising & Program Development GES GEN-Africa General Assembly The Senegalese Ecovillage Network: The Past, Present and Future GEN Ecovillage Transition Strategy 2015 - 2020 From December 10-14, 120 people from 40 countries met for the first International Ecovillage Summit in … Read more
From Apartheid to Ecovillages TEDx - Findhorn by Kosha Joubert
In this 17 min TEDx Findhorn talk Kosha Anja Joubert reminds us of the future we dream of and how people all across the globe are building it now, following their inner values, focussing on life as a whole and rebuilding the connections that have been broken. We can regenerate the soil, replenish depleted water tables and reconnect in community. We can do this and so much more when we come together and marry our love for the planet with our need to make a living. We can serve life. This is … Read more
From Apartheid to Ecovillages TEDx - Findhorn by Kosha Joubert
In this 17 min TEDx Findhorn talk Kosha Anja Joubert reminds us of the future we dream of and how people all across the globe are building it now, following their inner values, focussing on life as a whole and rebuilding the connections that have been broken. We can regenerate the soil, replenish depleted water tables and reconnect in community. We can do this and so much more when we come together and marry our love for the planet with our need to make a living. We can serve life. This is … Read more
Community Schooling Community School, The Nature School, Local Learning - Allowing children to learn within their social environment
The Source Farm’s Nature School approach to education is to create a community school where the students can learn about their environment in a participatory way, as opposed to the chalk-and-talk style of conventional education. Nature School students spend a large amount of time outside of the classroom, learning from the natural world around them. We use a Montessori style of learning, which allows children to develop their critical thinking skills and to develop a relationship with the … Read more
Remembering the future gardens Gardening along the Coromandel Coast
To practise a different sort of gardening ,inwardly planting fields of sincerity ,outwardly being clever enough to catch the smallest of rains.... to gain knowledge through doing acts that involve touching matter of all shapes and sizes and which can lead one to be able to see clearly.... To Create models that speak for themselves, that sing songs self evident in their simple clarity. … Read more
Water Retention Spaces Creating jobs in rural areas
Better standards of life in rural areas by providing meaningful work that also improves local infrastructure … Read more
“SORBE” (Cementing locally) Drying harvest in a healthy environment
Food Quality Control … Read more
