"We stand at a critical moment in Earth's history, a time when humanity must choose its future. As the world becomes increasingly interdependent and fragile, the future at once holds great peril and great promise. To move forward we must recognize that in the midst of a magnificent diversity of cultures and life forms we are one human family and one Earth community with a common destiny. We must join together to bring forth a sustainable global society founded on respect for nature, universal … Read more
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Local Spotlight But Don’t We Need Economic Growth to Lift the Poor Out of Poverty?
As a group challenging the growth paradigm, one of the most common questions that we hear is, ‘But don’t we need economic growth to lift the poor out of poverty?’. While growth has been successful to this end in certain ways, there are also some unwelcome consequences of growth. We prefer to ask other questions, like ‘Do we need to target economic growth to help those in need?’ and even better, ‘How are people currently breaking the poverty cycle in sustainable and inspiring ways?’. … Read more
About Ecovillages
What is an Ecovillage? An ecovillage is a human-scale settlement consciously designed through participatory processes to secure long-term sustainability. Ecovillages are rural or urban, intentional or traditional communities with vibrant social structures, vastly diverse, yet united in their actions towards low-impact, high-quality lifestyles. Ecovillages are consciously designed through local participatory processes, integrating the four dimensions of sustainability (ecology, economy, … Read more
XVII Encuentro de Ecoaldeas 2014
Hace unos días, entre el 4 y 7, el universo y una familia que aprecio mucho me regaló la oportunidad de acompañarles y asistir por segundo año consecutivo al XVII Encuentro de Ecoaldeas de la RIE, realizado esta vez en el Cortijo los Baños-Al Hamam (Almería). Un lugar especial por su emplazamiento, instalaciones y personas que nos reuníamos de toda la península y de fuera de ella. Al igual que el año pasado, terminó marcándome y generando un cambio que tocó varios aspectos de mi ser. En … Read more
Editorial GEN Newsletter Giving Birth in Community
Is there a more crucial, more powerful and more challenging moment in a lifetime than giving birth? The way that we are born into this world, the way our parents conceive, give birth, and raise us, forms and influences us our whole lives. In previous times, women passed the knowledge about midwifery from generation to generation. However, the knowledge and the right to choose the way to give birth was taken from women a long time ago. In the name of 'modernization' and 'security', it was felt … Read more
Regaining Lost Power The Parents and Birth School in Tamera
Birth-giving is about opening. And opening is a process of trust. In Tamera, some mothers have founded a school for parents in order to use knowledge, transparency, awareness and experience to strengthen the forces of trust of parents, children and the community. Leila Dregger spoke with two midwives, and a young mother, on the art of regaining of lost power - and while she was writing the article, a new child was born to the community and the happy parents. "There is nothing greater and more … Read more
Three “Organized Urban Neighborhood” Urban Ecovillages in North America
Diana Leafe Christian reports about intentional communities in North American cities. She believes creating community in your existing neighborhood is a growing trend. In a few years we may have more organized-neighborhood projects to report on. … Read more
Urban Ecovillages USA Enright Ridge Urban Ecovillage, Cincinnati, Ohio
Like L.A. Eco-Village, Enright Ridge Urban Ecovillage (www.enrightecovillage.org) in Cincinnati, Ohio, was also created by neighbors in an already-existing neighborhood. Enright Avenue has 80 one-story to two-and three-story older houses and with 10 rental units along both sides of a three-quarter-mile-long narrow cul-de-sac street in a working class neighborhood. The homes range from small one-story dwellings to two-and three-story houses, most built in the late 1800s through about 1915. … Read more
USA: Urban Ecovillages N St. Cohousing, Central Valley, California
Another similar urban project is N St. Cohousing (http://www.ic.org/directory/n-street-cohousing) in Davis, a college town in California’s Central Valley. Unlike the urban examples described above, N St. neighbors live on all sides of a city block in a shady residential area, and each owns or rents their own house and lot. (While N St. is a cohousing community rather than an ecovillage, I include it because of it has many of the same sustainability aspects as an urban ecovillage.) Even though … Read more
La Casa dels Llacs Vivir En Comunidad
¿Te apetece colaborar con nosotros? Somos La Casa dels Llacs, una comunidad basada en la sostenibilidad y el crecimiento personal y espiritual situada en Breda, un pueblecito del Montseny que queda a medio camino entre Barcelona y Girona. Tenemos un huerto y estamos habilitando otro más grande para poder estar auto-abastecidos en este sentido. Además tenemos animales (gallinas, perdices, patos, ocas, dos cabras y dos ponys) y espacios preparados para los niños, ya que uno de nuestros … Read more
