Join us for a listening trip around the world, as we hear from ecovillages and experts and explore resilience, adaptation, and transformation in our time of deepening polycrisis.
Whether you are just starting your journey with the ecovillage movement or are already deeply rooted, we hope you will find the words of wisdom harvested helpful in your journey to resilience.
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Whether listening to Dougald live or online, his powerful storytelling holds great warmth, a balm for the souls awakened to these times of endings. Dougald Hine is a social thinker, a writer, and a speaker. After an early career as a BBC journalist, he co-founded organizations including the Dark Mountain Project and a school called HOME, a gathering place and a learning community for those who are drawn to the work of regrowing a living culture.
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Luea’s work is all about fostering long-lasting, transformative change by supporting people to share and learn together. Luea invites experimentation at the cutting edge of collective potential and wisdom, weaving transformative change processes, creative practices, trauma, and healing work with leadership and organizational development. Join us to hear the insights she both brought to and gained from working with the Ecovillage Resilience Project.
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Today we are joined by Looby Macnamara, a renowned author, designer, gardener, song leader, mother, and artist. With over 20 years of experience in permaculture, she has pioneered approaches, blending systems, thinking, cultural awareness, design, and nature connection.
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Join a conversation with a Allyson, Senior Research Fellow at the Resilience Alliance, and Ecovillage Resilience project co-developer. She has co-authored several foundational resilience assessment guides and has extensive international experience leading applied assessment projects in a range of systems. Learn about the methodology and systems design behind this inspirational project.
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Join us as Trudy and Kin share their experiences and challenges both in their journey with the Resilience Project, but also in their endeavors of creating community and stewarding the region of GEN Oceania & Asia. Whether you’re interested in community building, sustainability, or simply looking for inspiration, this conversation is sure to resonate with you.
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Today we meet Alfusainey, a dynamic leader and passionate advocate for sustainable development. Trained in Permaculture Design and Ecovillage Development, Alfusainey is the operations director at Sandele Foundation and played a pivotal role in the establishment of the Peoples Coast Ecovillage Network, which proposes a transformative development model for the coastal zone from Carfontine, Senegal to Kachuma, Gambia.
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Dive Deeper: Explore the Sandele Foundation & People’s Coast Ecovillage Network
In this episode Tanya recounts her inspiring journey with the Resilience Project, the challenges and opportunities she’s encountered, and how she’s contributing to a global movement for sustainable living. Emphasizing the importance of community, meaningful conversations, and practical solutions for a regenerative future.
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Diver Deeper: Explore the ecovillave Map of Regeneration
Today, we have the honor of hosting two remarkable guests from Togo, whose dedication to community health, environmental conservation, and sustainable development serves as an inspiration to us all.
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* Episode also available in French
In this episode, we take a moment to step back from our usual in-depth storytelling and instead, marvel at the framework that has allowed us to observe the ongoing exploration of resilience, adaptation and transformation in a >+2.5 degrees global warming scenario.
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Dive Deeper: Explore the work of Lyla June Johnston & Gerald Vizenor
Meet Robin, the visionary behind Earthsong Eco-Neighbourhood, an innovative cohousing development project consisting of 32 homes and shared facilities nestled in suburban Auckland, New Zealand. Earthsong isn’t just a housing project; it is a commitment to environmentally sustainable design and deep community engagement.
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Dive Deeper: Cohousing For Life
Meet Margarita – an activist and a creator of life-changing experiences that spark the desire to learn, unlearn, and relearn. She is a biologist with an MSc in Conservation and Rural Development and the founder of the Ubuntu Center for Experimentation and Training in Sustainability in the Rosario Islands of Colombia.
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Today we travel to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US to hear from a founding and new member of the cohousing community at Hundredfold Farm. Together, Bill and Devon offer insight to how old memories and new memories can come together to build resilience and community.
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Michael Werfel is an author, videographer, community weaver, and karaoke superstar. He has lived in Sieben Linden Ecovillage for 15 years, in and around projects involving public relations, management, facilitating seminars for potential new members.
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Today, we are joined by Yaluka Kankurua, president of Casa Latina and Latin America’s regional representative of the Resilience Project. Yuluka lives in Aldea Feliz, a 17-year-old ecovillage in the center of Colombia. Yuluka is a sociocracy trainer and also a promoter of the rights of Mother Earth.
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Today we speak to Rob Wheeler, the Ecovillage Resilience Project partner for The Farm Ecovillage and Education Center. In addition to his work locally, Rob has participated actively in the UN’s primary conferences and processes on climate and sustainable development for the past 25 years. Rob is the Global Ecovillage Network’s main representative in the United Nations and a newly elected board member.
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Our guest today has a long history with the Global Ecovillage Network as Ecovillage Design Education Instructor, Project Partner, Gen African Council Member, and 2019 winner of our annual Hildur Jackson Award for Exemplary Projects. I hope you enjoy our conversation on community resilience and the powerful act of connecting locally.
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Dive Deeper: Nhimbe Ilima
MACACO is a life coach, trauma worker, facilitator and spiritual healer who has found purpose and happiness by going through profound personal transformations and life choices. She has lived in Damanhur for nearly 30 years and served the ecovillage network as the president of GEN-Europe, Ecovillage Design Education Facilitator and GEN UN Ambassador. I will let her tell you the rest.
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Dive deeper: The music of the plants
Today we are traveling to the eastern coast of Brazil, in the state of Bahia, to Piracanga Ecovillage to hear about the great transformation this ecovillage has undergone in the past years on a social, structural and spiritual level.
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We kick off our listening journey with Anna Kovasna, catalyst for the Ecovillage Resilience +2.5 degree project and resilience researcher.
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Dive deeper: Donella Meadows | Lyla June Jonhson | Robin Wall Kimmerer | Cascade Institute | Post Carbon Institute | resilience.org. | Stockholm resilience center | Resilience Alliance
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A residential project: people live here as their primary home.
An institution, business, network, or project that isn’t a residence (e.g. a learning center, farm, or network with no one living there full-time).
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