Home / alternative birth giving centers are places that offer low risk delivery and pregnancy care. They are special homes that give the mothers a natural, family centered experience during birth without the complications of hospitals labor wards and the risks of giving birth at home. They process is administered by a professional midwife in an environment full of family and friends support. Alternative home birth centers with traditional hospitals indicated that there is decreased in … Read more
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- Politics & Influencing
- Building Community & Embracing Diversity
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- Decision Making
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- Art, Ritual and Celebration
- Health & Healing
- Reconnecting with nature
- Personal Growth
Reveal Your Inner Sun! Self Care & Wellbeing tools: Learning how to honor our bodies, minds and spirits in the midst of a challenging life
Connecting to our own beings, seeing our inner light, keeping the hope for a better future, realizing and seeing every day as a new beginning and a new hope is the aspiration. Creating a healthy, safe and hopeful community that believes in peace, justice and equality is how we envision the solution to this challenge through taking people in a journey of self discovery to see their new way of being in creating a new future, based on values of inner freedom, love, and bliss, because that’s who … Read more
Sustainable and affordable housing in Pushkar Home for $1,500 USD!
We set out to design and build a model home for rural, sustainable and affordable housing. We have since used local waste and natural materials to construct this home/community centre. Here are some details of the build itself: The foundations of the house are twelve foot stone pillars, sunk three feet into the ground and cemented in place with rubble. To ensure structural integrity, we have used a cement-sand mix in all foundation work. The walls are made of glass bottles and bricks and … Read more
Ecovillage Pathways a NextGENNA Event
Ecovillage Pathways is an annual three-day event hosted at ecovillages throughout the U.S. and Canada. The event brings together a community of young changemakers, giving them a first-hand learning and living experience in ecovillages. NextGEN North America (NextGENNA) has developed a flagship curriculum, certified as “Inspired by Gaia Education.” Over the course of three-days participants are guided through various learning experiences related to the network of regenerative communities … Read more
DREAMWORK An effective social technology to build community, practice deep democracy and empower individuals and groups
Los Portales community has experienced for more than 30 years that sharing our dreams in a group creates a strong and deep feeling of connectedness whilst also helping us understand and live our singularity. Dream work allows people to find their unique and particular place in a group, to experience a strong sense of meaning in their life and to discover their personal task (personal myth). Dreams don’t only tell us that the power is within us, they also make us feel this, and they always … Read more
Self-built “Piggott” Wind Turbine
The Piggott Small Wind Turbine (SWT) is an open-source technology developed by Hugh Piggott, international expert in small wind energy with worldwide experience in building wind turbines and sharing his skills for 20 years. It is a solid, simple and efficient technology that has the advantage of being self-built, self-installed and self-maintained. It is therefore a reliable off-grid solution for electrification of rural areas that has been successfully used and replicated around the world. It … Read more
Ecosystem Restoration Camps A People Powered Movement to Restore the Earth
Sequestering the excess carbon in our atmosphere on a massive scale is one of the last remaining solutions to staving off the worst effects of climate change. By rehabilitating degraded ecosystems and helping farmers convert from industrial to regenerative agriculture, we can sequester enough carbon to create a safe level in the atmosphere. The camps will help to create action towards this solution by teaching large numbers of people how to restore degraded land, whilst giving them the … Read more
CAPACIDAD PRODUCTIVA NUTRICIONAL DE PERMATREE, Ecuador Análisis de las perspectivas nutricionales de futuro bosque comestible que rendirá sus frutos en el corto, mediano y largo plazo.
Se ha podido comprobar que 4,5 hectáreas alcanzan para abastecer de manera total la alimentación de 10 (diez) familias con alimentos integrales de origen únicamente vegetal (1,5 Has), distribuyendo de manera adecuada la variedad de cultivos. Además, estas dimensiones permiten desarrollar la producción de algún cultivo en particular con fines comerciales (3 Has), lo que proveería de sustento económico para cubrir las otras dos necesidades básicas: vestimenta y vivienda. En el caso del … Read more
Vision Quest Rites of passage for personal transition
Vision quest is a rites of passage usually undertooken by native americans and brought into a modern context. It is a very powerfull time for people to prepare for transistion (or confirmation), go out into solitude & wilderness and then come back into a community to share their gifts. Usually it is hosted by experienced guides or elders and in its full length it consists of 4 days preperation, 4 days/nights of solotime in nature and 4 days of integration. But the basic flow and the … Read more
Presencing The movement of letting go, listening into the silence and letting come
Presencing, described as a stage within the Theory U Process as well as other contemplative methods, is the capacity to connect to the deepest source of self, which allows the future to emerge from the whole rather than from a smaller part or a special interest group. Danish sculptor and management consultant Erik Lemcke describes his experience of this process as follows: “After having worked with a particular sculpture for some time, there comes a certain moment when things are changing. … Read more
