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Road to Unite Baltic Ecovillages North-East Europe: Ecovillage Road to Unite Baltic Ecovillages
The website ecovillageroad.eu is a tool to gather valuable knowledge created by the ecovillage movement around the Baltic Sea and to make it accessible to a broader public. By Jesus Pacheco, Suderbyn Ecovillage, Sweden. "Human-scale, full-featured settlement in which human activities are harmlessly integrated into the natural world in a way that is supportive of healthy human development and can be successfully continued into the indefinite future." The above quote is a widely used … Read more
Seeds of Hope Colombo, Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka has been through over 400 years of colonization. Primary forests were cut down to make way for plantations. 30 years of war have left the people yearning for a peaceful, just society. In Colombo - a tropical city full of concrete, traffic, and people - a small ray of hope is beginning to shine from out of the smog. GENOA member, Trudy Juriansz, reports about the Good Market, and another initiative that, although still small has the effect of creating hope for Nature and the people of … Read more
Matthew Slater from Community Forge Self sufficiency, Exchange, and Economic Development
Matthew Slater is co-founder of Community Forge (http://communityforge.net/), and has been building LETS and Timebanking software systems for five years. In this article he explores how ecovillages might benefit from improved economic cooperation. To many ecovillagers, self sufficiency is an obvious principle - but what do we really mean by that? Would not a truly self sufficient being be able to subsist indefinitely in the vacuum of space? Do we mean that communities should not sell their … Read more
GEN Elders A New and Necessary Aspect of GEN
In most Eco-Villages, the number of people aged 60+ is growing, and will continue to grow during the coming years. It is important for us all to embrace this part of life and give it its due value and appreciation. Elders in our western society are no longer valued the way they are in traditional cultures around the world. When this happens, the fulfillment and depth of the autumn and winter of a lifetime, the sharing of wisdom, experience, skills, and the slower, peaceful way of living of the … 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
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
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
From Economy to Community Archipelago SCEC
In 2005, a group of people from all over Italy started to meet on the Internet with the intention of discussing the outcomes of some previous local currency experiences. They predicted the impending financial crisis and wanted to create a system that helped to make the regions and communities economically sustainable. This led, two years later, to the birth of the SCEC - Italian acronym for “solidarity that walks”. Ethel Chiodelli reports. SCEC is not exactly a local currency, but rather a … Read more
