Community: the ecovillage podcast
Community is the GEN Europe podcast! It’s an exploration of the biggest questions and most inspiring stories of ecovillages and their inhabitants. It’s about what makes us stronger, more resilient, more hopeful, together. It’s about the people and places that are regenerating our planet, and the tools and strategies you can use to do the same, wherever your are.
From love and money to identity and the life-changing journeys some people have made to live in harmony with the earth, you’ll find it all on Community.
Explore all our past episodes
Episode 8: Food and Community – Growing Plants and People at Findhorn
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,…
Episode 7: In conversation with Tobias Jones
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…
Episode 6: Let’s Build an Ecovillage – lessons from a life in community
This week, Community visits Torri Superiore – a 30-year old ecovillage in a medieval town steeped in history in Northern Italy. Here we talk to Lucilla Borio, an expert in community building, who shares lessons from a life lived in community and gives her insights on where groups get it right – and wrong –…
Episode 5: The Ecovillage Explorer
From their food to their customs, few people know the ecovillages of Europe so well as Riccardo Clemente. Community resident, eco-architect, musician, former president of the Italian Ecovillage Network, GEN EU council member, and veteran ecovillage explorer, Riccardo will be taking us on an adventure this spring around European communities in our Meet the Ecovillages…
Episode 4: Aida Shibli – Identity, Community and Activism
Aida Shibli describes herself as a queer Palestinian activist, an ecovillager, and a mother. On this week’s podcast we talk about her journey from Palestine to Portugal, identity in community, and hope and healing in the darkest of times.
Episode 3: The Ecovillage Economy
How do ecovillagers make ends meet? When you start talking about ecovillages, it’s a question that sooner or later people are likely to ask you. In this episode of Community, we talk with researcher Dicte Frost about ecovillage economic models, personal and community resilience, and what it really means to make a living.
