RESILIENCE
Resilience reflects the capacity of a social-ecological system to sustain it’s well-being in the face of disturbance and change, by buffering shocks and adapting and transforming in response.
RESOURCES FOR BUILDING RESILIENCE TO CLIMATE CHANGE
How can individuals and communities apply all the learnings about building resilience to climate change in their own practices?
Explore the Weaving Resilience course which provides the context, frameworks and tools. Tune into the podcast for a narrative journey of what’s happening on the ground.
Get to know what’s next for GEN as we step into the new phase of this work.
WHAT WE KNOW – ECOVILLAGE RESILIENCE TO CLIMATE CHANGE
Discover the main patterns, strengths and learning edges of ecovillages navigating the challenges of the times we’re in.
COMMUNITY RESILIENCE TRACKER
Explore your own community through the lens of six attributes of resilience, and what good practice for communities could look like
The biggest pattern that we saw when exploring our strengths in reslience was continuous adaptation. We have been able to always change when it was needed.
– Macaco Tamerice, Damanhur, Italy
INNER RESILIENCE
Learn about what ecovillages are doing to nurture emotional and psychological resilience on both the personal and collective levels.
ECOVILLAGE CASE STUDIES
Get a taste of the inspiration being woven by ecovillages across the network. Through specific examples of the challenges they’ve faced and the learnings they’ll apply going forward, travel the world through the lens of building resilience.
STORIES OF RESILIENCE
Travel the world, and across time, through personal accounts from ecovillagers.
ECOVILLAGE RESILIENCE REPORT
In 2022 – 2024, 20 ecovillages from 18 countries engaged in a research and learning experiment, exploring the resilience of ecovillages and what GEN and ecovillages can nuture today, to be more resilient tomorrow. Read the full report of our activities and what we learnt!
VISIONS & PATHWAYS: ECOVILLAGES IN 2040
Find inspiration in the visions and models for locally appropriate, community-led and holistic action for mitigation / adaptation.
Awaken hope through the lens of the future ecovillagers are planning for.
“The community is realising we can regain control of our issues and of our future by engaging in a collaborative way together with the issues that are affecting us. We are inspired to share this to influence more communities.”
– Mugove Nykia, Gudza Ramuka, Zambia
