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Leila Dregger

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GEN +20 Summit Developing the New Story of Community

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July 31, 2015

This year's Global Ecovillage Network Summit at Findhorn Ecovillage in Scotland, marked the organisation's tremendous growth and development since its emergence 20 years ago. Returning to the place where GEN was launched into the world in 1995, the founders Ross and Hildur Jackson were joined by other GEN legends, Declan Kennedy, Robert Gilman, Jan-Martin Bang and Helena Norberg-Hodge, in bearing witness to how their offspring has now developed contacts with communities on every inhabited … Read more

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We are all Greece! A Declaration of Action and Solidarity

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July 31, 2015

We are the 280 participants of the Global Ecovillage Network GEN+20 Summit.From 5 continents and 50 countries, we are all engaged in building ecovillages: resilient communities that are models for sustainability and autonomy throughout the world.With concern, compassion and anger we witness the situation in Greece; families who cannot feed their children, unemployed youth, impoverished retired people, hospitals without medicine and countless homeless people… none of whom are responsible … Read more

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A Letter from Greece Taking Action in Times of Crisis

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July 31, 2015

Skala Ecovillage is becoming a place of hope for people who are working on a perspective in the middle of the chaos. Anna Fillipou reports about the situation in the country.«Nothing is like before» one of the signs of May ’68 seems to be written for Greece also today. The questions that everybody, who follows what is happening in Greece the last days are: “Was it really necessary this humiliation of the Greeks?", or as, Mat O'Bryan from Washington Post says: "Germany doesn't want to save … Read more

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Not in our name! German austerity policy for southern Europe

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July 28, 2015

Or: go on holidays in Greece, Mrs. Merkel!Open letter to the German GovernmentWe, the German participants of the international GEN+20 Conference, distance ourselves from your policies. The Global Ecovillage Network unites more then 10.000 villages and communities of all continents. In Germany there is a growing network of ecovillages, communities and transition towns. In cooperation with people and organizations from many countries we generate knowledge and expertise for the regeneration … Read more

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We are all Greece! A Declaration of Action and Solidarity

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July 28, 2015

We are 280 participants of the GEN+20 Summit (Global Ecovillage Network), from five continents and 50 countries, working and engaging ourselves in building resilient communities, ecovillages, models for sustainability and autonomy throughout the world.With concern, compassion and anger we witness the situation in Greece; families who cannot feed their children anymore, unemployed youth, impoverished retired people, hospitals without medicine and countless homeless people , all of whom are … Read more

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