Hola os paso aquí la demanda para cubrir dos puestos de managing directors en los que es necesario el uso del inglés, por lo que no os lo traduzco porque si no lo entendéis, es que no podéis optar al puesto.... Please find attached the description of the positions of Managing Director opening up in GEN-International. Please spread to anyone whom you feel would be in an excellent place to serve the GEN-Networks in this role. We will be taken a decision in a GEN-Board meeting during … Read more
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Oportunidad de trabajo: GEN Busca Managing Directors.
Hola os paso aquí la demanda para cubrir dos puestos de managing directors en los que es necesario el uso del inglés, por lo que no os lo traduzco porque si no lo entendéis, es que no podéis optar al puesto.... Please find attached the description of the positions of Managing Director opening up in GEN-International. Please spread to anyone whom you feel would be in an excellent place to serve the GEN-Networks in this role. We will be taken a decision in a GEN-Board meeting during … Read more
Informacion Life -Ecolise
Hola compas Contaros que participamos como RIE en un proyecto LIFE europeo. De momento una vez mas, solo es un proyecto. Nos ha caido un poco con prisa y de sopeton. Os cuento. Estamos en la Ecolise, esa organizacion creada para ser una especie de Lobby en la que estamos las redes de Ecoaldeas, de TRansición y algunas de Permacultura.La cosa es que nos llamaron la semana pasada,a traves de Juan del Rio de TRansicion para hacer una parte para Iberia dentro de ese proyecto. Nos pareció a Alf y a … Read more
Local Spotlight But Don’t We Need Economic Growth to Lift the Poor Out of Poverty?
As a group challenging the growth paradigm, one of the most common questions that we hear is, ‘But don’t we need economic growth to lift the poor out of poverty?’. While growth has been successful to this end in certain ways, there are also some unwelcome consequences of growth. We prefer to ask other questions, like ‘Do we need to target economic growth to help those in need?’ and even better, ‘How are people currently breaking the poverty cycle in sustainable and inspiring ways?’. … Read more
About Ecovillages
What is an Ecovillage? An ecovillage is a human-scale settlement consciously designed through participatory processes to secure long-term sustainability. Ecovillages are rural or urban, intentional or traditional communities with vibrant social structures, vastly diverse, yet united in their actions towards low-impact, high-quality lifestyles. Ecovillages are consciously designed through local participatory processes, integrating the four dimensions of sustainability (ecology, economy, … Read more
Editorial GEN Newsletter Giving Birth in Community
Is there a more crucial, more powerful and more challenging moment in a lifetime than giving birth? The way that we are born into this world, the way our parents conceive, give birth, and raise us, forms and influences us our whole lives. In previous times, women passed the knowledge about midwifery from generation to generation. However, the knowledge and the right to choose the way to give birth was taken from women a long time ago. In the name of 'modernization' and 'security', it was felt … Read more
Three “Organized Urban Neighborhood” Urban Ecovillages in North America
Diana Leafe Christian reports about intentional communities in North American cities. She believes creating community in your existing neighborhood is a growing trend. In a few years we may have more organized-neighborhood projects to report on. … Read more
USA: Urban Ecovillages N St. Cohousing, Central Valley, California
Another similar urban project is N St. Cohousing (http://www.ic.org/directory/n-street-cohousing) in Davis, a college town in California’s Central Valley. Unlike the urban examples described above, N St. neighbors live on all sides of a city block in a shady residential area, and each owns or rents their own house and lot. (While N St. is a cohousing community rather than an ecovillage, I include it because of it has many of the same sustainability aspects as an urban ecovillage.) Even though … Read more
Sieben Linden: Sport is Fun! Fitness and Games for a Healthy and Happy Lifestyle in Ecovillages.
Sieben Linden ecovillage (Germany), can be proud of the number of inhabitants practicing a healthy and active lifestyle, starting with yoga and finishing with barefoot jogging, and hard-core fitness. Yet, there is a great space for improvement in terms of community infrastructure and awareness levels. In this article, Arturs Polis and Nadine Koch are interviewing Nadine Koch, in order to explore the importance of a physically active lifestyle in the ecovillage context, drawing from the … Read more
Ecovillage Excellency Award, 2014, Goes to Taneeb Farm/Global Campus, Palestine, and Aurora Community, Romania
Since this year the Ecovillage Excellency award is split into a European and an international project, with each of the projects receiving 1500 Euros. The international project will be awarded at the Ecovillage Summit in December, in Senegal, Africa. The audience of the GEN Europe conference this year decided to award the European prize to the Taneeb Farm in Palestine, and Aida Shibli´s initiatives for the Global Campus, Palestine. However, since the fresh and thriving Aurora community in … Read more
