Global Ecovillage Educators for a Sustainable Earth Information Newsletter_Summer

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Northern Summer/Southern Winter 2014
We Live our Lives through the Stories we Inherit
Giovanni Ciarlo, Gaia Education Chair of Management
We live our lives through the stories we inherit. Our stories
provide us with a sense of meaning, defining what we value
and desire the most, which in turn defines what we seek. The
stories we subscribe to set the conditions we live by. In our
times we live by stories given to us by international
conglomerates who have very little to tell us about ourselves,
with a lot of products and beliefs to sell us, mostly about how
to win while others loose.
But people are smarter than that, and we find ways to create
and tell new stories wherever we are. One of the most
powerful of those stories is that we can design our own lives
and communities, value what really matters to us, and learn
new skills that are important in order to achieve individual and
community wellbeing.
Our communities need new stories in order to thrive in the face
of immense adversity. But for this we need ways to help new
voices be heard, and new ways to hear them. We need to
master the internet, but we also need to make real human contact, experience first-hand what is
possible, and dream about the world we want. Young people also need new stories that bring them
in contact with the wisdom of our elders, their indigenous ancestors, and with Mother Earth herself.
These are regenerative stories that help us transition from one belief system to another, more life
affirming and founded on love.
Stories are compelling because they show us clearly who the heroes and villains are, they are set
in a framework of drama and tension. And so we need stories that criticize and stories that propose
real solutions to the problems we are facing, where WE are the heroes, but so are the farmers,
teachers, cooks, inventors, builders, merchants, organisers and everyday participants in a new
paradigm.
Gaia Education makes these new stories visible by showing us that we are the new heroes, and it
challenges the old story that tells us that there are no alternatives. The stories in this newsletter
are what defines our times and our communities, showing us that we are more powerful than we
can imagine, and that the new world we are creating is full of people like us, who are part of the
unfolding drama and tensions that define who we are.

Geese information 2014/2
Online Gaia Education
Design for Sustainability -
GEDS
The distance learning course GEDS is
based on the four core dimensions of
Gaia Education’s Ecovillage Design
Curriculum: the social, worldview,
ecological and economic dimensions
of sustainability.
Drawing on experience and
expertise developed in a network of
some of the most successful
ecovillages and transition settings
across the Earth, GEDS is offered by
Gaia Education in collaboration with
the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.
Whether you’re a student or
educator, involved in urban or rural
community development, a
permaculture enthusiast or an
interested business leader, GEDS is of
relevance to you.
Gaia Education Design
para a Sustentabilidade
Programa On-Line em
Português
Aprenda design para
sustentabilidade com experts dos
mais avançados laboratórios de
sustentabilidade, ecovilas e
iniciativas de transição do mundo!
Adquira visão sistêmica e
competência prática para o
redesenho de seu projeto e
organização através da comunidade
de aprendizado "Gaiana". Gaia
Education on-line em Português
oferece módulos em Design Social,
Econômico, Ecológico e visão de
Mundo enriquecendo as habilidades
de agentes de mudança social
atuando em contexto urbano ou
rural.
Educación a distancia
para la Sostenibilidad
El curso de educación a distancia de
Gaia Education Diseño para la
Sostenibilidad, GEDS, está basado en
las cuatro dimensiones
fundamentales del Programa de
Diseño de Ecoaldeas de Gaia
Education: las dimensiones social,
económica, ecológica y de visión del
mundo.
Basado en la experiencia y
conocimientos desarrollados en una
red formada por algunas de las
ecoaldeas y lugares de transición
más exitosos del planeta, el curso
GEDS se ofrece en colaboración con
el Campus por la Paz de la Universitat
Oberta de Catalunya- UOC.
Ofrecido en inglés como diploma
certificado por Gaia Education y en
español como curso oficial de
posgrado de la UOC, el curso en línea
GEDS se puede hacer desde cualquier
lugar del mundo y con suficiente
flexibilidad para adaptarse a tu estilo
de vida.
GEDS English
Oct 2014 – Sep 2015
geds@gaiaeducation.net
GEDS Posgrado Español
Oct 2014 – Jul 2015
geds@gaiaeducation.net
GEDS Português
Out 2014 – Jun 2015
geds-portugues@gaiaeducation.net

The Gambia Host their First EDE!
Maurice Phillips & Geri Mitchell, Sandele EcoResort
This EDE, run between 21 February and 21 March 2014, was the
culmination of a long held dream that originated in 2007 when the
Secretary General of the Village Development Committee of Kartong
attended an EDE in Findhorn. It was soon recognised that sending a lone
participant to attend an EDE in a foreign land was not enough to build
resilience in a community struggling to survive in the face of multiple
challenges to the environment, culture, community and economy. The
dream was to hold an EDE in Kartong and build a critical mass of
expertise and support for the hero’s journey towards sustainability.
Years went by and strenuous efforts were made to secure funding for
an EDE with no results.
The breakthrough came when Sandele hosted Kosha Joubert (GEN
International & GEN Europe) and Robin Alfred for their honeymoon.
They gave up three days to assist us in hosting the Kartong village
elders and delegates from GEN Africa and GEN Senegal for a day long
workshop. This led to the signing of an accord to explore Kartong
becoming an eco village. The village gave a resounding ‘yes’ and the
running of the EDE was a perfect first step. Having experienced this
event, it is hard to imagine how a traditional village can make a
transition from where it is now without the groundwork of inspiring a
critical mass of people and giving them the space to dream, plan, do
and celebrate using EDE principles.
Kartong is a special place with a wealth of hitherto unrecognised assets
including unspoilt and deserted beaches and great tourism potential.
The two hoped for outcomes of the course were to provide proposals
of how the village can move towards becoming an eco village and a
plan for the tourism zone in the Kartong area. The impact started before
the course with the selection process. Non-Violent Communication
workshops and several women’s gatherings took place to ensure that
they were well supported during the course. Regular consultations with
the elders of the village were critical to the success of the outcomes
and our thanks go to those who gave (and continue to give) their great
support at village level.

At the graduation celebration the two
proposals were received to rapturous
applause and a commitment of support from
the village elders and government
representatives present. The EDE challenges
were many, but these were far outweighed
by the inspiration, fun and learning. The
greatest gift of course is the knowledge and
wisdom gained by our tribe of enthused
trainers who will be taking forward their new
found skills and expertise into the village of
Kartong.
As a footnote, we are delighted that our international participants brought so
much and reported that they gained so much. One is still unexpectedly with
us and another is planning to be back full time before long, confirming that
Kartong is a place that you can 'come but never leave'.
Since the EDE ended a great deal has happened. The EDE group is meeting
monthly and non-violent communication sessions are taking place. Kartong
EDE has become "Kartong Ecovillage Network” (KEN) and a decision has been
made for KEN to become an NGO.
A KEN Board of Trustees has been democratically appointed, a Facilitation Group continues to plan EDE
monthly alumni meetings and the Project Groups are meeting regularly with increasingly active plans of
action.
In early May the 'self-sufficiency' group (plus Geri and Vicky for the first day) went on a 10 day "walkabout"
to interesting villages in The Gambia and Senegal as part of their continuing education about eco-village
development. The group also met with GEN and NEXTGEN representatives in Dakar. The visits were funded
by a crowd funding initiative led by Rowena and the group returned much enriched from their experiences.
It is not all plain sailing. There is concern among some in the village about the appearance of a group that
is interested in development in areas that as yet not everyone fully understands. Meetings have been held
with key village groups and individuals and continuing consultation is a key principle within KEN. 16 EDE
members met on 10th May for a general session. Part of the time was spent discussing the impact the
group is likely to have and how best to react sensitively to local concerns.
Overall, KEN and the project groups are thriving and the EDE momentum is being maintained. The group
remains very strong and united and the enthusiasm to pursue a "developed Kartong" is very much alive
and well.

EDE InanItah, Nicaragua: 9 March to 4 April 2014
David Casey
Imagine…
An urban community activist fresh out of Zapatista School… A second
generation Huehuecoyotl ecovillage activist and social permaculture
educator… A profound holistic community organizational consultant… An
evolutionary transformational tantra and personal development facilitator
and… A world class transformational festival organizer working together to
serve and inspire a group of young vibrant eco-village warriors of light.
Put them all together in the heart of a quaint regenerative loving
community held between lush volcanos, steeped in ancestral wisdom. Spice
it up a little more with space for raw authentic interaction, an abundance of
delicious home grown local food, an international panel of guest speakers
and field trips to visit with native elders and learn about sacred plants. And
of course, throw in a great sound system and a good dose of cacao and
ecstatic dance.
“This course inspired me in so many ways. I feel that the way I'm
going about almost everything I do in my day to day life I now see
differently.”
InanItah and Project Nuevo Mundo collaborated in the production of this
magical experience, set in the natural paradise of Isla de Ometepe,
Nicaragua. It is the only ongoing Ecovillage Design Education course in
Central America.
InanItah is an earth-based evolutionary spiritual community and transformational living and
learning centre inspired by the path of freedom and aliveness. Project Nuevo Mundo is a
sustainability education platform connecting people, places, and projects. Both organizations
share the mission of individual transformation and planetary regeneration. Participants ranged
from 18 to 34 years of age and came from North America, Europe, and Central America.
Students participated in a wide range of hands-on and embodied learning activities, as well as
more conventional theoretical lectures and panel discussions. They tasted different aspects of
ecovillage life through immersion into the maintenance of the gardens, kitchen and building
projects alongside course facilitators and InanItah family.

InanItah provides intimate family environment that excels in creating for transformation
through the power of love and transparent expression. Participants were embedded into the
social fabric of the community in sharing circle spaces.
“The raw openness of the emotional space was refreshing and allowed a lot of new
thinking and feeling.”
The course was blessed to feature a diverse array of special guests including Stephen Brooks
(Punta Mona, Costa Rica), Ron Sawyer (SARAR, Mexico), Zayda Acedevo Perez (Centro de
Prevencion de la Violencia, Nicaragua), Martijn Priester (Totoco, Nicaragua), Christopher Shanks
(Project Bonafide, Nicaragua), Brennan Bird (Peace on EarthBench) and Jillian Hovey
(Sustainable Living Network, Canada).
Topics included tropical, social and financial permaculture, ecovillage development in Central
America, social participation in municipal-level environmental issues, community support in
the development of urban youth, solar cooking technology, and design on the individual,
interpersonal and ecovillage scales. The integration of internal and
interpersonal awareness with the practical design education created
a highly transformational experience for students and facilitators
alike.
Facilitators contributed a spectrum of offerings, making this EDE a
unique blend of inner transformational work, practical design skills
and work where the two intersect in the fields of social permaculture
and holistic living centre design.
“The course was a transformational experience that made
me look at the world which we live in through different
lenses. It helped me re-evaluate our relationships with the
earth and one another.”
Check out this video from
the InanItah programme:
youtu.be/Fc4jb_xnBng

EDE Report: El Manzano, Chile: 2 to 26 February 2014
Hosted by El Manzano Ecoescuela in February 2014, the El
Manzano EDE included 27 participants from 11 different
countries in a vibrant multicultural learning space.
El Manzano is a small rural community of farming families in
the Bio Bío region of Chile who are step by step moving
towards local resilience as a viable and replicable local pattern
of human settlement.
The Ecosecuela exists as a regional centre of international
learning, community living, teaching, networking, researching
and consulting for ‘sustainability’.
This EDE Report covers their 3 week EDE programme which lead to
the design of 4 projects: a school, an ecovillage, a village in
transition and a green campus.
Download this & other Programme
Reports from www.gaiaeducation.net
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Breaking the Cycle of Food Insecurity: Gaia Education, CIFAL Scotland & Senegal’s
Guede Chantier Municipality Awarded British Government Grant
May East, Gaia Education Chief International Officer
Gaia Education, CIFAL Scotland and Guede Chantier Municipality have received over £200,000 from the British
Government to help thousands of people in Senegal fight malnutrition and boost their incomes. The partner’s
organisations will use the funding to build capacity of four communities in Saint‐Louis province to boost food
production, repair damaged farmland and improve their incomes. The four villages Guede Chantier, Diarra,
Moudouwaye and Lahel are home to 13,000 people who are almost entirely reliant on agriculture for their livelihoods.
However, years of drought and intensive farming have left the land degraded and unproductive.
The project will increase food production and income generation in the
long-term through the development of innovative farming and
agroforestry activities. It will directly benefit 3,349 community members,
especially women by increasing their economic, social, and agricultural
knowledge and skills. The project will develop 150 hectares of community
land to efficiently produce more food and increase local people’s resilience
and capacity to adapt to the effects of climate change.
The project begun this June and will run for 3 years until March 2017.
Gaia Education will be adapting the EDE and PDC curriculum to local
needs and supporting capacity building activities in sustainable
farming, agroforestry, the use and management of solar cookers, food
processing techniques and trading strategies.

Orissa Project Starts with the Mobilisation of 125 Families of Koraput
THREAD has conducted a series of awareness raising events with communities of the four Gram Panchayats of
Laxmipur Block of Koraput District, to kick-off the project awarded by the Scottish Government International
Development Small Grants Programme.
Food and livelihood scarcity are two pressing issues for these communities. The tribal communities do not own
the land they live on. Deforestation for the growing of crops has forced them into small plots of land that have
become exhausted from over farming and poor land management practices. Within the communities women
have a very low status, they are often expected to carry out agricultural labour as well has carrying out household
duties. Women also have little or no say in community matters or organisation. This project intends to work with
vulnerable indigenous communities while increasing the status of women within the communities of Laxmipur.
750 families from the four Gram Panchayats will benefit from the
introduction of 2 vegetable gardens and the initiation of a Grow Your
Own Food programme that will teach them how to grow their own
sustainable supplies of nutritious food. The first community garden has
been fenced and prepared and villagers are waiting for the rain to come
to start planting.
This project will introduce Ecovillage Design Education (EDE) developed
by Gaia Education drawing on expertise developed in a network of
some of the most successful ecovillages and transition settings across
the world.

Bangladesh Project sees 25 Houses adapted to Regional Climate Change Threats
Last year the Scottish Government awarded CIFAL Scotland, BASD, and Gaia Education £250,000 to carry out a climate
change adaptation and food security project on the Khulna and Bagerhat districts of Bangladesh. The funding is
providing training for community leaders in sustainable village development, including activities in horticultural and
organic vegetable production and canal fisheries projects.
A key activity of the successful first year was the adaptation of 25 houses to climate change using 12 Disaster
Adaptation Techniques.
The following Disaster Adaptation Techniques (DAT) are being implemented by the house-holders themselves.
 Raise and repair base of residence by 5 feet
 Raise toilet bases by 4 feet (3 rings 1 slab)
 Raise court yard by 3 feet
 4 corner pillars and strings
 Harvest and store rain water in 100 litre Earth Pitchers (3 pitchers per house)
 Raise floor of cow shelter by four feet and repair. Houses without cows or goats raised the compound
rather than the cow shelter.
 Install earth pitcher for emergency food, water and valuable materials
“These techniques originated over a consultation period of 2 years
when we identified 100 approaches inspired by what our forefathers
were doing to save their lives and materials during natural
calamities. From 100 techniques we selected 12 as the most suitable
to Banishanta, Sutarkhali and Mongla villages.”
Boniface Gomes, BASD Executive Director
As we enter the second year of activities selection of the next 25 houses
will commence. Watch this space!

Gaia Education Launches Fundraising Initiative
The Challenge
Our communities are too often controlled more by
politics, strong personalities and rhetoric than by
people empowered with the practical knowledge,
skills, and real solutions. This is a dysfunctional model
of community building, and the Earth’s systems are
showing the dangers of this approach, bringing us
closer to system collapse in the environmental, social,
economic, and spiritual realms. We are constantly
hearing about education reform, but seldom do we
hear about an integrated system approach to
sustainability. This way of thinking has brought us to
facing the limits of our common resources and our
planetary boundaries.
The solution
We believe that people have the power to dream and change society, making the
impossible possible, and save the Earth and humanity from certain catastrophe. For
this, we need to act with wisdom and care. Gaia Education empowers people in local
communities everywhere to push back on destructive practices, and learn collectively
how to create living communities that meet the needs for wellbeing and personal
growth they seek for themselves and future generations.
Your Donation
Gaia Education exists to help people build a better future in their own communities
and local organizations - together. Help us do just that by giving generously to Gaia
Education. If you would like to know what your donation supports look at our many
programs and their locations. These are life-changing experiences through education, and most of them are taking
place where people need them the most, in traditional and local environments, academic centres, sustainability
research sites, youth groups, and urban settings.
Visit www.gaiaeducation.net/index.php/partners/support-gaia-education.html to pledge your support now or
contact us at give@gaiaeducation.net for further information

Gaia Education: Bidding Michael Farewell, Welcoming Graham!
Giovanni Ciarlo, Gaia Education Chair of Management
It is with much gratitude that Gaia Education would like to recognise the invaluable
contribution Michael Shaw has made to our work by serving on the Board of Directors.
Michael has given generously of his time & expertise, and been a steady and supporting
presence since the beginning of our flight, bringing a professional perspective to our
international programmes and our ecovillage design curriculum. His knowledge of
ecosystems, renewable energy and water recovery processes has been key in especially
the ecological dimensions. Michael has contributed articles, graphics, technical
knowledge and vision to all that we do. For that we will forever be grateful!
Michael is stepping down from the Board but will continue to mentor, advice and
develop international projects and programmes with Gaia Education and our partners.
We would also like to welcome Graham Meltzer to the Gaia Education Board. Graham
enthusiastically joined the Board on June 1st 2014. He brings broad experience in
organisational development and management and has already started providing insights and helpful organisational
advice to the Board and the management team. Welcome, Graham!!
Graham Meltzer: A Deep Passion for Communal Living
Graham Meltzer
I have a deep and abiding passion for communal living, having lived 2 years on
Kibbutz, 8 years in Australia’s largest commune and 8 years at Findhorn. I am a
longstanding Board member of the International Communal Studies Association. In
Australia I worked as an architect, academic and photographer. My academic research
focused on cohousing – looking specifically at the link between social cohesion and
effective environmentalism. I currently work on the Conference Team of the Findhorn
Foundation and teach in the EDE as well as undergraduate and postgraduate courses
in Sustainable Community Design run by the Findhorn Foundation College. I have spent
a lifetime reinventing myself every 7 or 8 years as I strive for ever-increasing
congruence between lifestyle and values, which I believe is key to human wellbeing
and fulfilment. Having spent the last 8 years landing and grounding at Findhorn, I see
the coming period as one of more outwardly focussed, inspired activism in the world.
Joining the Gaia Education Board, I believe, is an important first step.

ECOLISE, a Meta-Network of European Community-led Initiatives on Climate Change
& Sustainability is Born!
The ECOLISE network brings together a range of
partners from across Europe, including the Transition
Network, the Global Ecovillage Network, Permaculture
UK, Gaia Education, ICLEI (local governments for
sustainability) and others.
This unique convergence of transition towns,
ecovillages, permaculture initiatives, eco-
municipalities aims to support exchange and
cooperation between initiatives and to promote a
more supportive environment for the emergence of
new initiatives in communities across Europe. Watch
this space!
www.ecolise.eu
GaiaEducation Webinars: Catalysing Carbon Consciousness
Webinar Date: July 15, 2014 at 11:00 AM EST
In this free webinar, Daniel Greenberg, Gaia Education Board Member & CEO of Earth Deeds,
will offer an overview of climate change & the pros and cons of current responses, how
carbon onsetting differs from “carbon offsetting” & introduce carbon consciousness as an
alternative to carbon neutrality. The presentation will include:
1. Measuring and reducing our travel-related carbon footprint
2. Teamfund to acknowledge the costs of these impacts, and
3. Contribute these funds to a sustainability project connected to your program
Register your participation here: www.fuzemeeting.com/webinar/register/1019587

An Update from Hildur Jackson
Hildur Jackson
Dear all friends around the world
Ross and I are just back from the 4 days People’s
Summit on Bornholm, a small Danish island. 80,000
persons managed to get to the island by bus, train,
car and boat or plane. We were part of launching
Alternativet (The Alternative), a new, open source
Danish party, and their new party programme which
Ross and our son Rolf have been active in
formulating. It is like our curriculum which now
needs to get to all of society. You have all been
showing that sustainability is possible. Thank-you.
We still need many signatures to be able to run for
parliament. They have adopted Ross’s economic
ideas.
My granddaughter was there to help me but mostly
I drove the wheelchair up and down the steep hills
and on the rough cobblestones of the harbour area.
Gave me a lot of exercise! I enjoyed meeting friends and listening to people - so much better than
sitting here and getting depressed!
During Pentecostal we were in our summer cottage with our son and 2 small grandchildren and I
managed to walk to the beach and even swim - and enjoy the sight of the children running in the
shallow, warm water. So life is good and full of family, friends and fun! I hope the medicine I get can
continue to suppress the cancer and I get morphine so that I do not have pain. In 3 days we will
have our yearly Gaia Trust meeting with both May East and Kosha Joubert present. Our Fællesgrønt
now provides us with the first potatoes. It feels so rich! Everything is standing in beautiful rows and
we need to water as it is very dry.
I send you all my love and appreciation,
Hildur

Lifestyle Changes as Environmental Strategy
By Ditlev Nissen, President of LØS, the National Association of Ecovillages in Denmark
An ecovillage is a settlement that includes all aspects of life: All ages, culture, working life, local
production etc. They strive to integrate human activity into the surrounding natural environment in
a gentle way. They seek to bring down the energy consumption and the
environmental impact. The goal is working towards a healthy development
that ensures good living conditions for future generations. Ecovillages are
living laboratories for a sustainable future.
The progress occurs in the shape of a spiral. From the individual's desire
for a good life in a sustainable setting, to unfolded the vision in
cooperation with others. Buying land, making a local development plan,
preparing the building sites and building houses. Families with young
children get involved with kindergartens and schools. The operation and
self-governance is based on voluntary efforts. Self-sufficiency and
enterprises hatch and grow into workplaces. It is about living and learning.
Certain communities suffer from conflicts; others grow through them.
Often the communities, which are impaired by conflicts, are the ones that
solely focus on the ecological and financial dimension. Communities that
also accommodate the social and spiritual dimension seem to grow
through conflicts.
A survey from 2009 shows that that CO2 emissions in 3 Danish ecovillages
are 60 % below the national average. Studies from Germany show that
the CO2 emission of Sieben Linden is 30 % of the German average. Studies
from Scotland show that the ecological footprint of Findhorn is 50 % of the
British average. The Danish ecovillages encourage the universities to start
an interdisciplinary action-research project, to investigate and develop the
effects of ecovillages in relation to energy consumption, environmental
impact, lifestyle changes and new forms of welfare. What can the World
learn from more than 40 years of citizen run social experiments?
After 20 years with ecovillages, the municipalities begin to discover that ecovillages bring resources
to the local area. For example Dyssekilde Ecovillage is the 5th subject in the business strategy of
the council of Halsnæs. The council of Odsherred has set up an office for settlements with the
purpose of attracting green communities to the municipality.
In 2013 LOES has established an educational board, which offers courses in inspired by Ecovillage
Design Education. And people from 3 Danish ecovillages have created a social-economic business
making courses for unemployed.
Ditlev Nissen presented his
article Lifestyle Change as
Climate Strategy at the Living
Knowledge Conference at
Aalborg University,
Copenhagen, in April 2014.
The theme for the conference
was “An Innovative Civil
Society: Impact through Co-
creation and Participation”.
Ditlev is a member of the
Gaia Education’s GEESE.
To download the document
go to
http://www.slideshare.net/
GaiaEducation/lifestyle-
change-as-climate-strategy

Gaia Education Partners
Introducing you to some of our long standing and some of our newly formed partnerships with organizations working
on sustainable solutions and local community empowerment.
www.gaia.org gen.ecovillage.org www.nextgenna.org
outreach.un.org/ngorelations www.ecolise.eu www.transitionnetwork.org
www.earthdeeds.org permanent-publications.co.uk www.ecohabitar.org
Gaia Education Partner Feature: LOCAL FUTURES
Such is the case with Local Futures, an organization started by one of Gaia Education’s own GEESE
founding member Helena Norberg-Hodge. Her work has focused on ways to empower local
traditional communities to strengthen their economies and cultures in the face of globalization. Her
widely acclaimed movie “The Economics of Happiness” has sparked an International Alliance for
Localization. It is now also the theme of conferences taking place in many places around the world.
For a critique of the global economy & solutions to a new economic story, see Local Futures latest video:
www.localfutures.org/global-to-local/international-alliance-for-localization/the-international-alliance-for-
localization

GEN-Europe Conference: ZEGG, Germany 9 to 13 July 2014
GEN-Europe
You are warmly invited to join us and get an updated and personal connection to what is
happening throughout the European and Global networks of GEN at the moment.
GEN-movements are breathing and unfolding all over the world – and from all regions of
Europe, practitioners will be coming to join and inspire us. Ecovillages act as research and
training centres for sustainable development within wider society. Alongside the
abundance of networking opportunities and the flow of inspiration within and between
participants, the hosting ecovillage of ZEGG will serve as a living example and field of
practice for the themes of this year’s conference. This year we will focus on strengthening
the bonds between the national and local networks as well as reaching out to the Global
South in mutual support. Amongst other interesting presenters we are proud to welcome
Anna Breytenbach, the "Animal Whisperer" from South Africa. Experienced members from long-term communities will
share and support your process in founding or strengthening your community initiative; we will look into the transition
of traditional villages and urban neighbourhoods into living communities and more. Let’s celebrate what we have
created as a strong network, carrying forth the power to live sustainably in a post-growth world. For more information:
http://gen-europe.org/activities/gen-conference/gen-conference-2014/index.htm#c1325
GENOA International Conference: Orissa, India 31 Oct to 7 Nov 2014
GEN Oceania & Asia
We are happy to announce that GENOA (Global Ecovillage Network, Oceania & Asia) will hold
an International Conference in Orissa, India in November 2014. This is the first regional
conference that GENOA organizes and the theme of the conference is Ecovillages for
Sustainable Development: A Model for Climate Change Adaptation.
Please join this conference or share this information with your Asian or Oceania friends and
networks.
This special event includes
1. NextGEN Gathering: October 23rd - 30th
2. GENOA Conference: October 31st to November 2nd
3. Exposure Trip to indigenous villages: November 3rd
4. Inner Dance Retreat: November 4th - 7th
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