Get ready to celebrate with an ecovillage convergence of events with music, food, and permaculture – you can’t get a better combination than that. All are welcome. … Read more
Africa
Gambia: What’s Happening With PECEN? The People’s Coast Ecovillage Network (PECEN): Event Report
The People’s Coast Ecovillage Network was founded as a result of two ecovillage and permaculture design courses in 2014 and 2015 that brought together villages in Gambia, Senegal, and Guinea Bissau, inspiring them to create a bio-regional approach to eco-development. … Read more
Egypt: GEN Strategy Meeting in Sekem GEN Africa and the United Nations
GEN leaders ask politicians at the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment: “How can we help you achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals by transitioning African villages to ecovillages?” … Read more
GEN Africa Cover Letter Summer Newsletter 2016
GEN Africa is sowing the seeds of hope and abundance on the African continent Dear Readers, It is a privilege and honour to have a special GEN International Newsletter entirely focused on GEN Africa and the fantastic community dynamics our network is implementing and supporting throughout Africa. Since its birth in December 2012 on the fertile banks of the River Nile, GEN Africa has been spreading its roots across the African continent, inspiring grassroots communities and their … Read more
Kenya: Ecovillage Construction Plans OTEPIC Peace Ecovillage: Construction Using Natural Materials
The OTEPIC Peace Ecovillage is using interlocking eco-bricks to create a honeycomb formation for a new conference hall, community house, and birthing center. … Read more
March 2015 Celebrating 20 Years of the Global Ecovillage Network
We stand at a critical moment in Earth's history, a time when humanity must choose its future. To move forward we must recognise 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. Established in Findhorn in 1995, the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) today connects more than 10,000 villages, urban neighbourhoods and intentional communities in more than 100 countries worldwide. Spanning all continents, … Read more
GEN-Africa Strategy Meeting Resilient communities as a seed of hope and abundance for Africa
Representatives from the GEN Africa Council, Advisory Board and from the national networks from different countries came together in Sekem, Egypt, from the 15th – 20th December 2015. … Read more
GEN at COP21, France "These are our friends that are being existentially threatened."
A GEN delegation of more than 15 leaders participated in the United Nations Climate Conference in Paris this December. Through our participation, we explored the questions: what role do ecovillages have in climate change and what do we seek to accomplish? … Read more
Hildur Jackson In Memory of a Life Well Lived
In this newsletter, we share in the celebration of Hildur, mother of GEN and Gaia Education, in memory of a life well lived, and in grieving of her passing. Hildur’s life was a song for justice and human dignity. Remembering her, it seems her voice was singing rather than speaking … Read more
Zimbabwe: How Permaculture Can Restore Ecosystems & Communities
Maddy Harland, publisher of the Permaculture Magazine (UK) tells the story of the Shona African community who healed their damaged ecosystems. They restored their springs, rebuilt their soil, regenerated their agriculture and alleviated poverty and malnutrition. Permaculture farming has proven effective all over the planet. In the rural Shona African community in Zimbabwe, five villages of 7,000 people have joined together to form the Chikukwa Project, named after their local chief. Twenty … Read more
