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Cameroon: Come Learn With Us Opportunities for Education and Engagement
International Summer Training Camp, August 2016 – Bridging cultural boundaries to share, learn, and cultivate peace and tolerance at a global level. … Read more
Cameroon: Green Entrepreneurship Green Entrepreneurship in Bafut Ecovillage
The Bafut Ecovillage celebrates four years of sustainable community development, achieved through adaptive governance among the people and designing a model of cultural and social development based on a green economy. … Read more
Tamera’s first LGBTQ Intro Week Report from Tamera's first LGBTQ Introduction Week
“Queerness is that thing that lets us feel that this world is not enough – the rejection of a here and now and an insistence on potentiality or concrete possibility of another world.” ~ Jose Esteban Munoz by Dara Silverman Tamera Healing Biotope's first LGBTQ Introduction Week coincidentally began on the same day as the massacre which claimed nearly 50 lives in a gay club in Orlando, Florida and concluded on the day of the Pride Parade in Lisbon - an unforeseen timing, which embedded … Read more
Zimbabwe: Facing Climate Change Best Practices for Facing Climate Change Head On
Climate change is affecting every country on every continent. Zimbabwe’s green schools offer a best practice model in growing eco-sensitive food systems as a means of providing healthy food, increasing biodiversity in the face of drought, and mitigating climate change. … Read more
Zambia Upcoming Ecovillage Development Training: August 2017
The first ever Ecovillage Design Education course will be held in Zambia. The course will be jointly facilitated by the Regional Schools and Colleges Permaculture (ReSCOPE) Programme and the Global Ecovillage Network. … Read more
Zambia: Greening Schools GEN International and the ReSCOPE Programme Partner
The Greening Schools for Sustainable Community Development Project is working with four schools to produce resilience plans based on ecovillage design best practices. … Read more
Zambia: Resilient Development Ecovillage Best Practices from ReSCOPE
Using schools as an entry point into creating more sustainable communities, we build on the four pillars of inclusiveness, genuine participation, integration, and local ownership. … Read more
South Africa: Strategy Meeting GEN South Africa’s 2016 Strategy Meeting (April-May 2016)
GEN South Africa met this spring for a strategy meeting, promoting sustainability and clear channels of communication across the region with the long-term goal of developing a path for building and sustaining national initiatives. … Read more
Kenya: Honoring Animals Kenya’s OTEPIC Peace Ecovillage: Respecting Animals in Ecovillage Culture
We believe that all animals deserve respect and protection. Saint Francis of Assisi taught that animals are our brothers and sisters. With this understanding, we do not discriminate by artificial designations of what animal is a “pet” and what animal is “food.” To us, all animals are family. … Read more
Ghana: Country’s First EDE February-March 2016
GEN Ghana held its first ecovillage design education course (EDE) this spring. Sponsored by the Danish Ecovillage Network and Danish Civil Society Fund, the partnership seeks to develop sustainable solutions and ecovillage models in Ghana and Denmark. … Read more
