EUTECH SDG Award goes to Boekel Ecovillage

ByFrancesca Whitlock

Ecodorp Boekel has been selected from among thousands of applications as a winner of the 2023 EUTECH Sustainable Development Goal awards, in the category of SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities.

Boekel, located in the Netherlands, is a highly ambitious ecovillage project with the SDGs at its heart. The project and its core group have been consistently recognised and awarded at local, national and international levels in the years since its launch and we are proud to have them as a member!

Read the full story below, and watch founder Ad Vlems’ TEDx talk on the start of the ecovillage here.

EU SDG Award 2023 gaat naar Ecodorp Boekel

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