AMALURRA CATALUÑA, CAN CASES. ENCUENTRO DE VERANO. AGOSTO 2013 Jueves 29 de Agosto de 1013 Facilita Mabel Agenda 1. Gen Europa: logo. 2. Tejiendo la red. 3. Urgencias preparación encuentro. 4. Método toma de decisiones. 5. Incubadora. 7. Recopilación y archivos info RIE. 8. Incorporaciones. 9. Reunión invierno. 10. Gastos encuentro. 11. Jovenes-mayores.1 12. TV.Bio 13. Coordinación Libre. 14. Incomodidad proyectos/ecoaldeas. 15. Web 16. Dinero RIE. 16. … Read more
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Led Comunidad para el Desarrollo Local ( CLLD )
Os paso calentito este documento que acabo de recibir y que puede suponer una buena oportunidad de financiamiento para proyectos ecoaldeanos y otros. Lo he traducido con el googletraductor porque creo que se entiende bastante bien. Podríamos incluso pedir a algun voluntario que hiciera un seguimiento de dicho financiamiento europeo para esta al tanto y no ser siempre los ultimos en enterarnos.... CLLD : una oportunidad de financiación de la UE a las iniciativas locales de base … Read more
2nd Festival of Eco-practices in Russia
The 2nd Festival of Eco-practices took place on August 9 -12 on the Festival Field of the Union of Kin-domains Blagodat , Yaroslavl oblast, Russia. This festival was initiated by Russian Ecovillages and Eco-initiative Network (www.gen-russia.ru), where also the first festival had taken place in the last year. The event is conceived by the organizers as a platform for exchange of practical experience in the field of environmentally friendly technologies and practices relating to all aspects of … Read more
GEN Europe Conference 2013 Schweibenalb, Suiza
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. https://youtu.be/m2YIcIqn5OI … Read more
Becas para jovenes ecoaldeanos!!!!
Estimado promotores potenciales, Me dirijo a usted otra vez porque teníamos algunos contactos sobre la juventud Dream2Act en el proyecto de acción, en los últimos días. Como saben, el dedline para el sumbission del proyecto es el 1 de octubre. Necesitamos saber el número final de los promotores para concretar el proyecto y enviarlo. Sé que va a ser ocupado, pero espero que encontrar algo de tiempo para dedicar a estos documentos simples. Sólo para que quede más corto para usted: El … Read more
Peace Communities to Resist Violence Colombia: Peace Communities to Resist Violence
In Colombia, 3.5 million people have become refugees in their own country, and former farmers have ended up in the slums of the cities. San José de Apartadó is a village that resists the violence. Ecovillages from Europe and Colombia have helped them. Leila Dregger reports. Jesus Emilio, 47, is a farmer. He has fought peacefully for 15 years to stay on his land and to cultivate bananas and cacao, the way his family has always done. However, a civil war has been going on in his country for a … Read more
Fall and Rise in Scotland The Fall and Rise of the Scottish Community
Ecovillages and community based organisations have a different history, but they can lead to a similar effect - the economical and ecological revitalization of regions. The example of Scotland shows how this can happen and why also the government has joined in to support this process. After a decline in the 20th century, communities in Scotland are thriving again. At the ICSA conference in Findhorn, Alex Walter described the rise of Scottish communities, and some of the opportunities that … Read more
NextGEN Gets Award for Excellence NextGEN Receives Award for Ecovillage Excellence at the GEN Europe Conference, 7-12 July 2013
For the first time, the Ecovillage Excellency Award was voted for publicly by all participants of the 2013 GEN Europe conference at the Schweibenalp Centre of Unity in Switzerland. With a large majority, the winner was NextGEN. Parallel to the GEN conference, international representatives of NextGEN were present and participated in the birth of the international co-ordination team. One of them was Linda Kabaira from Zimbabwe, NextGEN Africa. Over 40 young people met to share and find ways to … Read more
Empowering Global Co-Evolution 12 Helpful Attitudes for Empowering Global Co-Evolution Through GEN
´Gaia’s non-linear influence of coincidence can be trusted´, says Clinton Callahan, speaker and workshop facilitator at the 2013 GEN Europe conference. This is one of twelve attitude shifts, he has found so far, that can strengthen a person's ability to contribute, both locally and globally, to human co-evolution through the Global Ecovillage Network. Draft notes of a deepening conversation. 1. COINCIDENCE HAS CONSCIOUSNESS Human beings are Gaia’s biology experiment trying … Read more
Network Meeting in Europe Network Meeting for Communities from Germany, Switzerland and Austria
Communities are models of sustainable living in both cities and rural areas. The Global Ecovillage Network offers a network meeting as a platform to get to know each other, to exchange knowledge and to connect. The next meeting will take place from the 8th -10th of November, 2013, in the ecovillage Schloss Tempelhof. All over the planet, more and more ecovillages and communities are emerging. In times of climate change, economical crisis, and isolation in cities and in rural areas they are … Read more