The core mission of the Ecovillage movement is to strive towards a more regenerative lifestyle. We live in communities where we pay attention to the materials we use to build our homes, the food we grow and consume, the clothes we wear, the way we make decisions together, the traditions we uphold, etc. However there …
No name kitchen invitation for cooperation
Hi, I ́m Natalia from No Name Kitchen. We are an organisation that is working with people on the move providing food, clothes and health care. We also co-founded the Border Violence Monitoring Network. We are based in Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Greece and Ceuta. And now we are starting a project to make it easier …
Volunteering for Sustainability
Ecovillagers and allies build capacity through an Erasmus+ training on the new European Solidarity Corps programme. Learning never stops in GEN Europe, with members of the network regularly and energetically designing and hosting trainings to upskill ecovillagers. This time around, “Volunteering for Sustainability” took place between the 16th and 20th of November 2019, at the …
REDES – Ecovillage Emergence in the Sahel
GEN Ambassador Alfonso Flaquer reports from a trip to the ecovillages of Senegal GEN Ambassador and Elder Alfonso Flaquer has long been connected with the ecovillage movement throughout Africa. With the Iberian Ecovillage Network, RIE, he participated in a recent visit to various projects and shares his impressions here. I have just returned from Senegal …
Communities aligned with their dreams
Tools for ecovillage creation at the CLIPS incubator training We need a future when we don’t have to imagine. We just open our eyes. Los Portales community close to Sevilla shows an example of a present worthy of being a common future. No, the modest houses and the arid land around Sevilla are no heaven …