Come with us to visit the 2013 Global Ecovillage Network Conference at the Schweibenalp community in Switzerland! The gathering brought together 300 people from 51 countries, leaders from the EcoVillage and sustainable communities movements around the world. For more Information: www.gen.ecovillage.org. - Video produced by The Común Tierra Project, that documents EcoVillages in Latin America. http://comuntierra.org https://youtu.be/m2YIcIqn5OI … Read more
Europe
ECOLISE: Nota de Prensa
Nos envían esto desde ECOLISE, que somos nosotras mismas junto a varias organizaciones europeas similares en asociacación con las redes de Permacultura y de Pueblos en Transición Europeas; hace unos meses llenamos unos papeles para formar parte de la iniciativa que busca fomentar la creación de un lobby que defienda nuestros intereses en Bruselas, que es donde tenemos la oficina, NUESTRA oficina, tuya y mía también... (lo digo por si hace falta cama en bruselas de emergencias que nunca se … Read more
Ecovillages and Food Sovereignty Results of the Survey
17 projects took the time to answer the questions on food sovereignty. The answers came from the USA, from Africa, from Asia and Europe. Thank you all very much. Of course this survey can never be representative in a scientific way, but it helps us to have an overview on the state and intention of the ecovillages on growing their own food. All of the projects that answered, grow their own food, even those with less than 2 hectares. Four of them produce so much food that they can sell it … Read more
Ecovillage in the Philippines: Fasting for the Climate
One of the biggest contributors to the global use of fossil fuels is food production. Each calorie of processed food requires an average of 10 calories of fossil fuels to produce, process, package, and transport goods from the farms and factories, all the way to the shops and dining tables of the world. Bahay Kalipay and Maia Earth Village in Palawan, Philippines invite intentional communities and ecovillages, to join the Global ‘FastfortheClimate’ movement. Sarah Queblatin and Pi … Read more
Erasmus+ y la RIE
NOTA INFORMATIVA Retraso en la resolución de la Convocatoria de proyectos de KA1 (Movilidad para el aprendizaje) Debido a una serie de problemas técnicos habidos con las aplicaciones informáticas que utilizamos todos los países del Programa, ajenos al OAPEE, no estamos aún en condiciones de notificar los resultados del proceso de selección de propuestas de la Acción Clave 1 (KA1, Movilidad para el aprendizaje), cuyo plazo de presentación de solicitudes finalizó el pasado 24 de … Read more
Become a Friend of GEN The Friends of GEN/Supportive Membership-Campaign!
At the coming GEN-Europe Conference from July 9 - 13, a new initiative of GEN will be launched: The Friends of GEN/Supportive Membership-Campaign! Often, when people get in contact with GEN, either through real life encounters or through the Internet, they are eager to be part of the movement, to stay in touch, or just to show their appreciation and willingness to support by giving a one-off donation. Moreover, what we have noticed is that a lot of people already donate regularly, and it is … Read more
Solar Dryers in Palestine Decentralized and Organic Food Technology in the Westbank
To have peace in Israel-Palestine, the mentality of scarcity needs to be replaced with an awareness of abundance, because the conflict is based on the fear that there is not enough for everyone: not enough land, not enough water, not enough energy. In the frame of the Global Campus, in the process of founding GEN Palestine, Aida Shibli made another step in food sovereignty in organising seminars to create abundance on a farm of the Westbank. Frederick Weihe reports. If we want to support the … Read more
São Paulo, Brazil Community Gardens in the Largest Metropolis of the Southern Hemisphere
Public parks, abandoned lots, pavements and even churches: in São Paulo every piece of land has the potential of turning into a community garden. After all, where food is planted citizenship grows! Henny Freitas reports. Imagine an avenue where over 1.5 million people transit every day, and where more than 4,200 cars and 200 buses go by per hour at peak times. What you have just imagined is the main financial road of São Paulo: Avenida Paulista. Now imagine a community garden in the midst of … Read more
“Land Awakening” Exploring Our Relationship with the Land.
“LAND AWAKENING” is an independent feature documentary film. While volunteering at organic farms in the Mediterranean, Mexican-Canadian filmmaker and director, Raúl Álvarez, embarked on a personal journey to learn about organic agriculture, and other technologies, to grow and gather food, creating an inspiring film about the goodness and generosity of the Land, but also about his own life transformation. In the GEN Europe conference 2013, Raúl already showed his results. Now the documentary is … Read more
Network news and info Stay in touch with our global network
Five vibrant regional networks, together covering the whole globe, form the Global Eco village Networks. We constantly update information about global and regional activities and news. Here on GEN sites we are dedicated to dynamic networking, as well as on our global representative site and on the sites of each region. We also publish and offer the GEN Newsletter. … Read more
