Why are there so many ecovillages in Denmark? How has the country ‘mainstreamed’ ecovillages? And what made hosting this summer’s ecovillage gathering there so special? Ecovillage veteran Steffen Emrich introduces a special series of interviews from the European Ecovillage Gathering. In this episode he’s in conversation with Camilla Neilsen-Englyst, powerhouse of the Danish Ecovillage Network, …

in this episode we explore some of the main themes of this summer’s European Ecovillage Gathering, and share writer and storyteller Dougald Hine’s moving keynote speech on the work worth doing when it feels like all is lost.

Today on Community we’re rebroadcasting an episode of GEN EU board member and veteran ecovillager Steffen Emrich’s podcast, All About Community. Steffen has been closely involved in the ecovillage response to war in Ukraine, and in this episode he speaks to GEN Ukraine president Maksym Zalevski about how Ukraine’s ecovillagers are facing the current crisis. …

Can you crowdfund a community? It’s one option many people have tried, with wildly differing results. On today’s episode we talk to someone who made it work: Roger Jove, co-founder of Mas del Potro, a young eco-social project in south-eastern Spain. He talks us through his journey from dream to reality, and why and how …

Food is an integral part of community: what we eat, how we grow it, and who we share it with. And an ecovillage’s approach to food can tell us a lot about its philosophy, too. Today on Community we visit one of Europe’s oldest and largest ecovillages, Findhorn in Scotland, to talk to food growers, …

This week on Community, the ecovillage podcast, with guest producer Evan Welkin from Borgo Basino we’re in conversation with author and journalist Tobias Jones, who has documented his explorations into the good, bad and ugly sides of community through his writing. We talked about his experiences visiting European communities and founding a therapeutic woodland community …