“We at Ethical Markets are inspired by all this good news from our friends at the Ecovillage Network. The spirit of Hildur Jackson lives for us all to experience!
~Hazel Henderson, Editor“
Celebrating with you our first Ecovillage Design Education (EDE) live Online Programme!
GEN’s first live online Ecovillage Design Education (EDE) programme was born out of the experiences of long existing communities and cutting edge educators or transformative and participatory learning in order to share how to create a new way of living with low environmental impact and high quality of life.
Coordinated and facilitated by two experienced EDE trainers: Taisa Mattos and Macaco Tamerice, with well-known guest trainers from the Ecovillage Movement, from 14 different countries, the first group was composed of 70 participants from all over the world, including very diverse backgrounds and extreme timezones. The oldest one was 72 years old and the youngest one 21. You can read more about our first live online EDE programme here.
If you are inspired by our first online EDE and interested in future offerings and the second EDE hopefully to be launched in March 2022, please provide your information in the Future Ecovillage Design Education (EDE) Offerings form here and we will be in touch when the next cohort is available.
Additionally if you are interested in the projects of the EDE design groups, keep an eye on our Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn pages where they will be shared soon!
Permaculture and Ecovillages
Permaculture teaches us to observe nature’s patterns to design regenerative systems that work with one another to create solutions.
Soon we will launch our first GEN Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course starting this autumn. If you are interested in participating, simply leave your information below to be notified as soon as we open up for registrations 🙂
REGISTER YOUR INTEREST FOR OUR FIRST ONLINE PDC
Friends of GEN – Building the New Normal
Every day ecovillages and communities around the world are building a more authentic, connected and regenerating way of life. They want this to be their normal, and rather than wait for the world to catch up, ecovillagers go ahead and build it themselves. They know in their hearts that it is not only possible – it is also destined to be.
Friends of GEN Building a New Normal is a campaign to celebrate the many people seeded around the planet who are building their own “new normal” through the very lives they live. Each one forms the bedrock of the Network, the Movement we are – saplings of regenerative planetary cultures. This campaign is a statement, a challenge, as well as an invitation to take action or join hands. We flourish together.
We want to thank our new Friends of GEN who are now supporting ecovillages to build a new normal: Yves, Jimmy, Nancy, Eluned, Sophie, Morris, Jiivanmukta and Benno.
Thanks to your support, we are able to share with everyone the stories of Émilie and the Xóm B?c C?u Eco-community in Vietnam, Ena and Zegg Ecovillage in Germany, & Camila from Aldeafeliz Ecovillage in Colombia.
Support the ecovillages on the ground build the new normal!