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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 Bắc Cầu 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!

Become a Friend of GEN
GEN International Staff Interview series

Have you ever wondered who is behind the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) International? We are pleased to share with you the fifth interview of our GEN Staff Interview Series! Find out who we are, what drives us, and what we are currently working on! In this episode, we interviewed our Web Developr Rodrigo Braga

Watch Rodrigo Braga's interview - GEN International Staff
GEN Online Store Clearance Sale

Have you heard? EVERYTHING is on sale on our online store! Up to 70% off!
Ecovillage Design Cards & Mandala Mats & Books!

NOW is the best time to purchase our products as they are currently offered at their Lowest Prices Ever!
ecovillage.org/category/sale/

Access our Online Store Clearance Sale
What is a Community of Practice (CoP)?
As a wide and diverse network of communities and individuals, the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) holds a rich treasure of knowledge and experience amongst its members. To create more space for cross-learning within the network, sharing best practices, and refining our regenerative cultures, we plan to develop the model of “Community of Practices” (CoPs). Thao Kin, Networking Coordinator of GENOA, wrote an article explaining how the Community of Practice works. Read it at the GENOA website.
Help us choose the Hildur Jackson Award winner!
Together with Gaia Trust, GEN developed the Hildur Jackson Award, a €3,000 annual prize that supports and honors projects around the world that demonstrate regenerative best-practices in all dimensions of sustainability. The jury has had a challenging time deliberating, as we have received outstanding 25 applications from 18 countries and across all of the 5 regions.

Meet our 10 finalists for the 2021 edition, and help the jury choose the winner. Leave your comments on our website!
Know more about each project and leave your comment!
Upcoming Online Events
Fundamentals of Equity & Inclusion in Community
5-Week Online Course, starts August 27. FIC - Foundation for Intentional Community. Learn how to foster an inclusive community that is welcoming of people across identities of race, LGBTQ, gender, and disability. Let author and coach, Crystal Byrd Farmer, lead you and your group through the critical journey of making transformative change toward real inclusion. Click here to know more.
Cultivating Community programme: FROM I TO WE
28-29 August, GEN Europe. Sow the seeds of seeds of community with us. GEN Europe invites starting communities, established communities open to new members and individuals curious about living in communities and ecovillages to come together and immerse themselves in this co-creative event!
Click here to know more.
Regeneración - by CASA Latina
12-week programme, starts September 1. CASA Latina's Regeneration is both a training program and an online learning community to share knowledge and connect initiatives, projects and ventures that promote regenerative lifestyles to face the challenges of today's world. Do you have an idea to regenerate the world? CASA Latina is looking for you! Click here to know more.
Wisdom Symposium - How do we want to live together?
29-31 August.  The Wisdom Symposium is a completely free event! Impulse lectures, workshops on identity issues, ego understanding and development, dialogue forums, meditation-breath-attention techniques, vision work, silent moments, movement offerings, experience with one’s own voice and much more. Esther Hirsch, Operations Director of the Global Ecovillage Network, is one of the speakersClick here to know more.
Course - Renewable energies for sustainable development
Starts September 6. Gaia Education in partnership with UNITAR and University of Strathclyde. This course is open to those in the business, non-profit, public and academic sectors who wish to install renewable energy systems in both urban and rural settings or make their contribution to reducing carbon emissions through energy efficiency and the use of sustainable energy sources. Click here to know more.
Collective Trauma Summit 2021
September 19–28. A 10-Day Online Event with 45+ Experts to Explore How to Work With Individual, Ancestral, and Collective Trauma. A deep dive into how people are working with the emerging collective trauma issues of our time. Click here to know more.
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