Words and actions between people of different colour, gender, or religion are often charged with unconscious racism or sexism. GEN is creating communication tools to become aware of old patterns to be able to change them. Some people are our helpers by making us aware of our automatic prejudices. One of them is Elena Ball from Next GEN. The first time I learned about GEN I spent some months in Senegal moved by questions such as "Who am I?", "Where do I belong?", "What do I want to do in my life … Read more
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NextGEN in Togo Interratree - a locally owned ecovillage and education center
It has been an exciting year for NextGEN, the youth movement within GEN. Inspired youth from around the global have been busy connecting young people with the ecovillage movement and empowering them to build the world of the next generation. One of our latest initiatives towards creating this world is focused on constructing a locally owned ecovillage and education center in Togo, West Africa. Cynthia Tina, NextGENNA Representative, reports. NextGEN International Representative, Nick Joyce, … Read more
NextGEN in Togo: InTerraTree A locally owned Ecovillage and Education center
It has been an exciting year for NextGEN, the youth movement within GEN. Inspired youth from around the global have been busy connecting young people with the ecovillage movement and empowering them to build the world of the next generation. One of our latest initiatives towards creating this world is focused on constructing a locally owned ecovillage and education center in Togo, West Africa. Cynthia Tina, NextGENNA Representative, reports. NextGEN International Representative, Nick Joyce, … Read more
Lifeyanchuan China & Konahana Family Japan
Hola amigos, Os escribo desde la comunidad espiritual y intenciona de Lifeyanchuan, en China. Vine a conocerlo despues de conocer a su representante Conglong （linda) en Portugal. Quizas la conocieron en Suiza... Es realmente un proyecto especial, siendo china. Son 150 miembros viviendo en la tierra (en 3- ahorra 2- asentamiento）en la provincia de Ademas esta semana ha sido MUY historica en la comunidad por dos razones: 1. han tenido que cerrar uno de sus 3 asentamiento por presion … Read more
NextGEN – a positive future in Asia Working with the Next Generation to Create a Positive Future in Asia
Om Sunisa and Tom Deiters, representatives of NextGEN GENOA (Next generation of the Global Ecovillage Network of Oceania & Asia), and Gaia School Asia, are presently on a journey to the Himalayas, travelling across Sri Lanka, India, Ladakh, Nepal and Bangladesh to work with children and youth. Along the way, they are providing workshops for schoolchildren and village youth on connecting with Nature. Our workshops aim to encourage awareness, love, respect and care for Nature. We are … Read more
Earth Deeds Carbon Consciousness and Fundraising Possibilities for Ecovillages
Earth Deeds encourages carbon consciousness - and is, at the same time, a fundraising tool with the potential to engage and support ecovillages around the world. Earth Deeds offers online tools for measuring and then transforming environmental impacts through supporting sustainability projects. By Daniel Greenburg. Imagine Gaia Education programmes, GEN conferences, and other events, acknowledging their ecological impacts by supporting projects in their host communities. What are your … Read more
The SCOPE News Zimbabwe
The SCOPE programme in Zimbabwe is undergoing a process of launching the revamped, integrated land use design (ILUD) tool, after undergoing a re-strategising process that saw the organization shifting from just the ecological learning aspects to incorporate a phase which can be called 'grounding'. It involves the community elders imparting the historical, traditional knowledge to the young people. This phase is designed to build on the experiences and lessons learnt from implementing the ILUD/ … 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
GEN Conference, 7-12 July, 2013: Celebrating a Worldwide Movement
Three hundred participants from fifty-one countries came together for five days at Schweibenalp Centre of Unity, Switzerland, to celebrate and share, present projects and ideas, and explore new strategies of collaboration. It was a remarkable meeting of minds and hearts that revealed, in many ways, the new level that the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) has reached in its eighteenth year of existence. Never have the international connections, mutual support, and love between the ecovillages of … Read more
Conferencia del GEN Europa Comunidad de Schweibenalp, Suiza. 2013
GEN Europe Conference. Schweibenalp, Suiza. Julio 2013. Son muchas y muy variadas las emociones con las que uno regresa a casa tras la Conferencia del GEN Europe ( la Red Europea de Ecoaldeas) que este año se ha desarrollado del 7 al 13 de Julio en Suiza. Esperanza, inspiración, alegría, motivación, agradecimiento, cansancio pero sobre todo pasión, mucha pasión por una red que ha sido capaz de reunir a unas 350 personas venidas de todas las direcciones del espacio representado 51 … Read more
