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Almost Heaven Farms

  • Region: GENOA
  • Impact: Community
  • Areas of Regeneration:
    • Social
      • Diversity & Cohesion
      • Health & Healing
      • Lifelong Education
    • Culture
      • Defend & Protect
      • Nature Connection
      • Wisdom & Innovation
    • Integral Design
      • Alliance Building
      • Contextualised Design
      • Leading from the Future
      • Stakeholder Engagement
      • Whole Systems Thinking
    • Ecology
      • Ecosystem Restoration
      • Green Building
      • Renewable Energy & Transport
      • Seeds, Food & Soil
      • Water Cycles
    • Economy
      • Sharing & Collaboration
      • Social Entrepreneurship

We created a project called RTR or Resilience Through Recovery. This project is an integrated approach to helping different communities in Nepal sustainably recover from the recent earthquakes allowing them to be even more resilient and prepared to deal with future challenges.We envisage that the learnings from this project will have relevance for rural communities in many parts of the world who are faced with the need to become increasingly self-sufficient, and resilient during these times … Read more

CASA Latina and EmerGENcies Musurrunakuna-Mocoa-Colombia

  • Region: CASA
  • Impact: Community
  • Areas of Regeneration:
    • Social
      • Diversity & Cohesion
      • Leadership & Governance
      • Trust & Communication
    • Culture
      • Defend & Protect
      • Nature Connection
      • Wisdom & Innovation
    • Integral Design
      • Alliance Building
      • Contextualised Design
      • Whole Systems Thinking
    • Ecology
      • Ecosystem Restoration
      • Green Building
      • Water Cycles
      • Zero Waste
    • Economy
      • Social Entrepreneurship

Key challenges for people on the ground - both affected and responding:The Musurrunakuna people lost their territory for third time. This people of the Inga's lineage faced a third displacement by natural disaster (the 2 previous by land conflict and violence), which entails a great hit against community sovereignty and cultural survival.The situation of emergency in Mocoa has its origin in the lack of urban planning and historical non-favorable political leadership inside the city’s … Read more

Afristar Foundation Creating Sustainable Futures

    Afristar Foundation was founded in 2001 as a South African Benefit Company and registered as an NGO focused on the design and implementation of sustainable development programmes. The Afristar Foundation acts as an umbrella organisation that uses permaculture as a guiding methodology to engage in sustainable development initiatives nationally and in the broader region. The foundation tries to educate on, and provide services related to, how we can help establish a more sustainable future.The … Read more

    SAFECO Synergie des Associations Feminines du Congo

      • Areas of Regeneration:
        • Social
          • Health & Healing
        • Ecology
          • Water Cycles

      The vision of SAFECO is to contribute to a Congolese society where women and adolescent girls in general, and in particular indigenous peoples and women living with disabilities, live in peace, have access to quality health care, to clean water, to an improved livelihood, to quality education, equal rights, and where the rights of nature are respected. SAFECO's mission aims to improve the conditions in which women, adolescent girls, women with disabilities and indigenous women in our society … Read more

      EcoHabitar-Bioconstruction, Permaculture and Sustainable Living Magazine

        EcoHabitar is a magazine that publishes quarterly information on biconstruction, permaculture and sustainable living and does so in a way that has the least impact on the environment through taking into consideration the company's carbon footprint, transportation costs and ensuring that resources are sourced locally. It regularly publishes the Global Ecovillage Network news in Spanish and in so doing tries to enhance outreach regarding sustainable alternatives particularly within Spain. … Read more

        Agriculture for hope

          Limitation in the quantity of poultry birds produced per season (2 months ) as well as pigs, production of fruits and vegetables on the same piece of land over and over.The Result:Maximum efficienc , I have studied the market structure by so doing produce only as much as i can sell at onc. … Read more

          Better World Cameroon

          • Region: GEN Africa

          The High Value Agricultural Product (HVAP) program was designed within the remits of the Paris COP21 Agreements and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The hands-on trainings I offer to local farmers is improving livelihoods for women and promoting youth entrepreneurship (SDG 8). The HVAP products we grow is driving access to healthy food and ensuring healthy lives as they are highly nutritional and medicinal (target 3).The HVAP program strives to alleviate poverty within indigenous farming … Read more

          Algae production – Lasse Melgaard

          • Region: GEN Europe
          • Impact: Global

          Algae need lots of sunlight, abundant in many places throughout Africa, Asia and South America. They also need carbon dioxide, which is plentiful everywhere in our atmosphere, and some inorganic compounds added to the water on which you are growing your algae. These compounds depend on the type of algae you are growing, but spirulina and chlorella are the most popular and grown throughout the world. Scenedesmus is a common algae used for making biofuel. By growing algae, you are not only … Read more

          POST CATASTROPHE ECOSOCIAL REGENERATION PROJECT RAMBUCHE COMMUNITY

          • Region: CASA
          • Impact: Community
          • Areas of Regeneration:
            • Social
              • Diversity & Cohesion
              • Leadership & Governance
              • Trust & Communication
            • Culture
              • Art & Celebration
              • Nature Connection
              • Vision & Purpose
            • Integral Design
              • Contextualised Design
            • Ecology
              • Ecosystem Restoration
              • Green Building
              • Seeds, Food & Soil
            • Economy
              • Sharing & Collaboration
          • Stage:
            • Daring to Act

          Post Catastrophe Ecosocial Regeneration project for tropical regions with products and solutions in the four dimmensions of sustainabilty: ecological, social, economic and cultural … Read more