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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

The annual members meeting was attended by 95 participants, representing 28 countries on five continents!: from Europe - Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Scotland, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine;
together with participants from Australia, Brazil, India Senegal, South Korea and the US.  


There was a lot of time for presentations of projects and ecovillages.

...read reports, and see photos.


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:

Ecovillage
Award

The 2008 Award for European
Ecovillage Excellence has been
won by the Italian ecovillage, la
Commune di Bagnaia.

Sieben
Linden
Builds
Future

Sieben Linden is an Ecovillage in Germany, between Hamburg and Berlin. Set-up in 1997, now 80 adults and 30 children set-up a social ecological model settlement.

GEN Senegal
Rice

Fund-raising efforts during and following GEN-Europe’s annual gathering at Sieben Linden, succeeded in raising Euro 700 for the GEN Senegal programme.

Tibet
Stone
Tamera

The stone circle of Tamera, a piece of spiritual art at the ecovillage, has a new stone.
This year’s Summer University, saw a delegation of three Lamas, inaugurate a stone for Tibet.



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