The olive oil industry supplies many families of the Mediterranean countries. Apart from the income generating extra virgin and virgin olive oil sold by local farmers to local and international markets, there are more products that can also be marketed as organic, green and chemicals free! Today, the products we use for cosmetics are full with synthetic chemicals and material that is not suitable for human use, in addition to many still using animal testing. The main ingredients are virgin … Read more
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Solar energy Electrifying isolated communities
Many remote communities around the world are lacking basic services of clean water, shelter, health and access to electricity. Rural communities depend on old roman cisterns to get their water and are using minimal technology in their livelihoods. Bedouin communities are also residing in remote areas that lack the proper infrastructure. Today, these communities are living without any safe and reliable electricity source. They depend basically on expensive and polluting electricity generators … Read more
Tizana Vervain
Vervain is a continual domestic herb original to the Old World. Numerous societies have historically used it for healing, and it was once a very common feature in herb gardens. Today, people grow it for both medicinal and ornamental use, and many health food stores stock dried forms for people who do not wish to grow their own. The leaves of this herb are saw-toothed and hairy, and it produces small white to purple flowers on delicate spikes. Gardeners can grow this plant in zones three through … Read more
Quranic Healing Meditation with Holy Quran
Some people believe that the best medicine to cure all illnesses is the Holy Quran. This is a result of a long time experience in treating people. Many cases that had incurable illnesses recovered after exposing them to the recitation of Holy Quran. That is because of the ability of Holy Quran in rebalancing the brain cells and increasing their capability in performing well.Each cell has a vibrating system that Allah has created to do its job and those cells do not understand the speech language … Read more
Maidat Ramadhan Charity Iftar
Ramdhan is the nineth month of the Muslim Calendar. In this month muslims fast from dawn until sunset Muslims refrain from consuming food, drinking liquids, smoking and sexual relations; and in some interpretations from swearing.According to Islam, the thawab (rewards) of fasting are many, but in this month they are believed to be multiplied. Fasting for Muslims during Ramadan typically includes the increased offering of salat (prayers) and recitation of the Quran.In this holly month, muslims … Read more
Dotmocracy Decision making
Dotmocracy is a simple method for recognizing points of agreement among a large number of people. Participants write down ideas on specially designed paper forms called Dotmocracy sheets and use pens to fill in one dot per sheet, recording their levels of agreement. The result is a graph-like visual representation of the group's collective opinion. Compared to surveys, voting, or typical meeting formats, Dotmocracy provides unique and valuable opportunities. In a Dotmocracy process, every … Read more
Pedal Power Cinema Activate your audience - spinning is out, screening is in
This is how we do it: We dismantle the back wheels, the outer tyres as well as the inner tubes and set up a v-belt instead. This v-belt drives a generator and the generator delivers electricity. This electricity is then forwarded to an inverter which converts the continuous current to an alternating current. And with this alternating current we can screen the movie. On a speedometer you can read the output power, meaning the voltage and electricity which is generated, so that you have a … Read more
Marshall Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication Non Violent Communication (NVC)
Our feelings, whether pleasant or unpleasant, arise from core basic human needs which are either met or not met. A feeling of frustration may arise, for example, when the core need for autonomy (freedom, choice) is not met in a given situation. A feeling of joy may arise when the core need for connection is met. Here are some of the fundamental, core needs we all have as humans on this planet: health safety (both emotional and physical), affection, understanding, … Read more
EU Funding for Mobility in Ecovillages Long Life Learning programme
This solution can be applied unfortunately only to European people and Ecovillages. . .sigh! There is a programme run by European Union called Long Life Learning programme. The programme is almost over as it is but don't worry, Leonardo and Grundtvig will stay as subprogrammes so we will still be able to use them :D! Through this programme you can fundrise experiences of formation in all Ecovillages in Europe and also in Green I.O. like Gaia, GEN and so on! Also you can find the way to … Read more
Permaculture example in Wisconsin Great example of Oak Savanna biome permaculture
Just wanted to make people aware of this local resource in the form of Mark Shepard's New Forest Farm, 106 acres in Viola, WI. It's an 18-year-old permaculture designed property which involves numerous species of plants (including chestnuts, hazelnuts, grapes, annuals, and mushrooms) as well as animals grazed in a rotating, managed paddock system (including steer, pigs, and poultry). Tours are offered and he has a book called 'Restoration Agriculture' which is very informative. I want to … Read more
