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Here you can download the econnection GEN magazine from 2010. The issue focuses on results of the GEN Europe general assembly and the conference in Damanhur and it is quite news-like with an aim to give a comprehensive overview of what happened at that year’s GA. |
Practice of Sustainability in an Ecovillage
Is there a solution to the self-destructive conduct of our society ? Ecological Footprint of Krishna Valley in Hungary
Ecovillages: A Model Life?
More people are turning to eco communities as a viable alternative to urban life. Are you nature-starved, lonely, and fed up with the materialism,...
Ecovillage Living in Russia
The Birth Of The Ecovillage In the spring of 2001 a group of environmental enthusiasts introduced the head of the administration of Maloyaroslavets...
Worldwatch Institute - Engaging Communities for a Sustainable World
...In the middle of this car-centric infrastructure—what some might call “sprawl”— lies a little green oasis: the Los Angeles Ecovillage (LAEV). This...
From Eco-Kooks to Eco-Consultants
After decades of being more or less off the radar—dismissed as kooks and freaks—ecovillage initiatives around the world are now increasingly...
Children and Cohousing - The Birth of an International Social Movement
Pioneer of the cohousing movement, Hildur Jackson, describes the positive implications of this 40 year experiment and how it all began. Do women...
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03.05.2012 Green Phoenix Congress 2012 - Models for a Culture of Peace
Center of Unity Schweibenalp, Switzerland, October 24th - 28th 2012 Connecting strategies and innovative models in urban and rural communities
03.05.2012 Traditional Transylvania
Provision: The Transylvania School of Self-Sufficiency opens this summer offering one week courses in self-sufficient living. Founders...
25.04.2012 First Ecovillage Day celebrated in Ecovillages all over the world
Sustainable communities and ecovillages around the globe joined on Earth Day, 22. April, this year. They invited their neighbours and the broader...