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The European Ecovillage Network – www.gen-europe.org
"The movement to create ecovillages is perhaps the most comprehensive antidote to dependence on the global economy. Around the world, people are building communities that attempt to get away from the waste, pollution, competition and violence of contemporary life.
The Global Ecovillage Network links several of these communities worldwide."

Helena Norberg-Hodge
Director of the International Society
for Ecology & Culture (ISEC)


Announcements:


GEN-Europe Assembly

at Sieben Linden Ecovillage, Germany
July 2008

A wonderful opportunity to meet this year will be our General Assembly of members.

7th – 12th of July 2008 at Sieben Linden, Germany
Arrival day for the workshop: Mon, 7th July
Workshop: Tue 8th of July and arrival for assembly.
Core time for GA: Wed, 9th – Sat, 12th of July
Departure: Sun 13th of July.

We will have time for presentations of your projects/ecovillages. Please bring slides, videos, photos!
As usual we want to invite you to bring your local products to sell at our ecovillage market.

...read more.


Ecovillages in the media

Ecovillages have featured prominently in two recent distinguished publications.
The Worldwatch Institute’s State of the World Report includes a chapter of Sustainable Communities, with a heavy focus on ecovillages.

The current issue of The Ecologist in the UK carries a 6-page feature on ecovillages. ...read more.

Ecovillage online forum

The online forum features a

- General Forum
This is a board for General discussions of GEN-Europe.

- Ecovillage Advertisements
Here you can post any advertisements that have to do with Ecovillages!

- Internal working groups for GEN-Europe members.

forum.gen-europe.org

Schumacher Briefings 12:
Ecovillages - New Frontiers for Sustainability

by Jonathan Dawson
paperback, 10Euro

In recent years, ecovillages - local communities which aim to minimise their eclogical impact but maximise human wellbeing and happiness - have proliferated worldwide. They incorporate a wealth of radical ideas and approaches which can be traced back to Schumacher, Gandhi, eco-feminism, and the alternative education movement. This Briefing describes the history and potential of the ecovillage movement.

You can order the book at our office!
GEN-Europe


News:

Positive
Links

"Positive Energy" conference: “We knew we were going to inspire many positive on-the-ground solutions." What kind of follow-up support could be offered?

A Legal Code For Commu-
nities

Conacreis invites all those with ideas and/or experience in the field of legislation to brainstorm on the legal code for communities.

Tent
of
Nations

A seminar entitled Creating Knowledge for a Peace Research Village for Palestinians and a training in non-violence for Israelis took place in April 2008.

Perma-
culture
Edible
Lake

Tamera’s ecology team has been busy designing an edible landscape on its bank terraces.
It is designed as a model to cultivate natural food for several hundred people.



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