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Be blessed, Paulo Mellett GEN´s Friend and Cooperation Partner Paulo Mellett Changes Dimension
After a malaria infection from his last trip to Ghana, and four months in intensive care in his last home place in Brazil, Paulo Mellet died on June 23rd 2014. For all people who knew and cooperated with him it is very sad to have lost this amazing person, global peace worker and friend. Together with "Slush" he supported a big network of change-makers all over the world, many of them connected to the Global Ecovillage Network. We still cannot fully comprehend yet that he has passed … Read more
News from NextGEN Youth projects are Flourishing and Taking Shape
The process that started with the NextGEN-Europe Conference of 2014, has been moving forward ever since, leading to the development of multiple new project ideas. It has been a repeated pattern in our group that, after being highly inspired in events such as the amazing NextGEN-Europe Conference, the level of inspiration and commitment then slowly decreases over time after the young people return to the reality of their daily lives . However, so far it seems that this time we have crossed the … Read more
Micro Biogas Systems for Ecovillages The Community Biogas Wave - an Offer to European Ecovillages by Thomas Culhane
In 2012, Thomas Culhane – who prefers to be called TH – was invited to Tamera to teach the building of small scale biogas digesters to participants of the Global Campus. Since then, the digester in Tamera has been used throughout the years, to provide energy every day for cooking for a large part of the community. The enthusiasm for biogas has spread to other places such as: Favela da Paz (Sao Paulo), the Peace Community San José de Apartadó in Colombia, and OTEPIC (Kenya). During … Read more
Giving Birth in the “Tribe” Germany: Giving Birth in the "Tribe of the Likatians"
The Tribe of the Likatians ("Der Stamm der Likatier"), is a intentional community of some hundred people in the city of Füssen in Southern Germany. Due to their philosophy, the love between mother and child is a role model for all relations amongst people, and in the community. This is why birth- giving, and the raising of children, is regarded as the most significant event in tribal life. For Stanislav Grof - with his research on perinatal psychotherapy - and the Tribe of the Likatians, … Read more
GEN Events in Fall 2014 Announcements and Events:
Oct 31 - Nov 7: Global Ecovillage Network Oceania & Asia (GENOA) International Conference "Ecovillages for Sustainable Development" - A Model for Climate Change Adaptation. We will be hosting our first international conference in India this year “Ecovillages for Sustainable Development - A Model for Climate Change Adaptation", from October 31st ~ November 7th, 2014, in Orissa, India. The GENOA International Conference 2014 aims at supporting community-based climate change action, as well as … Read more
Gaia Education: Registration for the transformative Gaia Education Design for Sustainability 2014/2015 on-line is now open!
The programme draws on the experience and expertise developed in a network of some of the most successful ecovillages and community projects across the Earth. … Read more
A Voice from Kenya Join the Real Food Revolution!
Come together locally, cultivate abundance, grow your own food without chemicals, share and exchange with your neighbors, generate income with the surplus, save the seeds, recycle your waste and make compost, learn to treat water as a living being, cook with solar energy (or biogas), plant trees, build sustainable models, and join the global food revolution. Philip Munyasia – Kitale, Kenya www.otepic.org … Read more
Colombia: The victory of a Afro Colombian community in the fight for their territory
On May 8th, something historic happened. The government of Colombia finally acknowledged that a black community owns the Caribbean islands it inhabits. After waiting for eight years, the community of Isla Grande and Isleta, in the Rosario Islands, managed to obtain a title that gives them Collective Land Tenure. They never thought they would have to go to the high courts, or that would become an example of the demands of basic rights of ethnic groups, but they did! By Paula Rangel Garzón1, … Read more
GEN International Newsletter June 20 Editorial: Ecovillages and Food Sovereignty
Welcome to the GEN Newsletter on Food Sovereignty! The agro-industry, coupled with rising food prices and food speculation, directly contributes to the current global ecological and economical crises. Currently, 800 million people in our world do not have enough to eat, and 66 million primary school-age children attend classes hungry. (http://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats) Being deprived of land, of water, of their own seeds, and of the right to trade locally, communities all over the world … Read more
“Land Awakening” Exploring Our Relationship with the Land.
“LAND AWAKENING” is an independent feature documentary film. While volunteering at organic farms in the Mediterranean, Mexican-Canadian filmmaker and director, Raúl Álvarez, embarked on a personal journey to learn about organic agriculture, and other technologies, to grow and gather food, creating an inspiring film about the goodness and generosity of the Land, but also about his own life transformation. In the GEN Europe conference 2013, Raúl already showed his results. Now the documentary is … Read more
