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Spiral Wetlands A grey water treatment design

Region: CASA
Impact: Global

Areas of Regeneration:
- Social
  - Health & Healing
- Culture
  - Defend & Protect
  - Nature Connection
- Integral Design
  - Whole Systems Thinking
- Ecology
  - Ecosystem Restoration
  - Green Building
  - Renewable Energy & Transport
  - Water Cycles
  - Zero Waste
- Economy
  - Responsible Consumption

The proposed solution describes a natural grey water treatment system based on aquatic plants in a spiral design which requires little space to implement and meet the quality of treatment required by legislation. … Read more

Easy Dry Toilet Accessible and safe technique for maintenance and use of humanure and urine from a dry toilet

Region: CASA
Impact: Global

Areas of Regeneration:
- Social
  - Health & Healing
- Culture
  - Nature Connection
- Integral Design
  - Whole Systems Thinking
- Ecology
  - Ecosystem Restoration
  - Renewable Energy & Transport
  - Seeds, Food & Soil
  - Water Cycles
  - Zero Waste

The solution offers an easy to implement technique, based on accessible resources (ashes and lime), that promises to neutralize pathogens, control insects while providing a quick way to generate compost from humanure and solve sanitation issues anywhere in the world. … Read more

Educating for transitions: ecovillages as transdisciplinary sustainability “classrooms”

Region: CASA
Impact: Community

Areas of Regeneration:
- Social
  - Lifelong Education
- Integral Design
  - Alliance Building
  - Leading from the Future
  - Stakeholder Engagement

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the pedagogical tools that can enhance transdisciplinarity in higher education and stimulate sustainability transitions, based on the case study of a partnership between the University of Brasilia and an ecovillage in Brazil. Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative study was carried out, based on professors’ experience, students’ reports and registration data. Emergent themes were discussed based on the concepts of sustainability transitions, … Read more

Tesis de Economía Ecológica: “Opciones de subsistencia en comunidades ecológicas” "El caso de la Ecoaldea Findhorn, Escocia"

Regions: CASA, GEN Europe, GEN International
Impact: Community

Areas of Regeneration:
- Culture
  - Vision & Purpose
- Economy
  - Banking & Exchange
  - Social Entrepreneurship

Los resultados muestran que, mientras que las necesidades básicas son exitosamente satisfechas y hay una alta satisfacción en los trabajos, el sentimiento de sus miembros respecto a su situación económica, especialmente a lo que necesidades secundarias se refiere, es ambiguo. Además, los entrevistados más jóvenes tienen incertidumbres acerca de su futuro financiero. Por otro lado, la cosmovisión de los miembros muestra ausencia de ambiciones financieras y monetarias. La suya es una filosofía de … Read more

Ecological Economics thesis: “Livelihood options in ecological communities” "The Findhorn Ecovillage case, Scotland"

Regions: GEN Europe, GEN International
Impact: Community

Areas of Regeneration:
- Culture
  - Vision & Purpose
- Economy
  - Banking & Exchange
  - Social Entrepreneurship

Results indicate that, while basic needs are successfully met and there is high job satisfaction, the feeling of members about their economic situation, especially regarding secondary needs, is ambiguous. Also, the youngest interviewees have uncertainties about their financial future. On the other hand, the worldview of the members shows a lack of financial ambition and monetary goals. Theirs is a philosophy of voluntary simplicity. In this way, the presence of social capital seems to counteract … Read more

Tesis sociológica: Formas de organización social de la Ecoaldea “X”

Region: CASA
Impact: Community

Areas of Regeneration:
- Social
  - Diversity & Cohesion
- Culture
  - Vision & Purpose

El uso teórico común que se le da a la comunidad (como una forma de organización represiva) podrían mermar la imagen y el prestigio de las ecoaldeas a los ojos de la comunidad académica. Por lo tanto, clarificar, mediante investigación científica y datos empíricos, que las ecoaldeas no tienden a ser represivas sino todo lo contrario, podría posicionar a las ecoaldeas como una buena manera de organización, no solo desde la obvia y ya provada perspectiva ecológica, sino que también desde una … Read more

Sociological thesis: Organizational forms of the “X ecovillage”

Region: GEN International
Impact: Community

Areas of Regeneration:
- Social
  - Diversity & Cohesion
- Culture
  - Vision & Purpose

The common theoretical use of community (a repressive way of organization) could erode ecovillages’ image and prestige in the eyes of the academic community. Therefore, clarifying, through scientific research and empirical data, that ecovillages tend not to be repressive but all the contrary, might position ecovillages as a good way of organization, not only from the obvious and already proven ecological perspective but also from a social view. … Read more

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

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