GEN-E GA REPORT - Global Ecovillage Network

GEN-EUROPE
Report on activities
2005 - 2006
EDUCATIONAL
BURSARIES
GAIA
UNIVERSITY
CIFAL
FINDHORN
GAIA
EDUCATION
PROMOTION
OF MEMBERS’
COURSES
GEN+10
CONFERENCE
GENERAL
ASSEMBLY
SUPPORT
TO NETWORK
MEETINGS &
EXCHANGE
VISITS
INA&ACHIM
US EV TOUR
EDUCATION
WEEC
NETWORKING
GEN-EUROPE
2004 - 2005
ESF
ATHENS
ADVOCACY/
REPRESENTATION
SWEDISH
SOCIAL
FORUM
PERMACULTURE
MAGAZINE
WORLD FORUM,
GENEVA
8 PARTNER
PUBLICATIONS
ECO-FOOTPRINT
STUDY
SCHUMACHER
BR. PAPER
TAMERA
YOUTH
EDUCATION
INFORMATION
DISSEMINATION
EV AWARD
PERMACULTURE
CONVERGENCE
CZECH REP.
18 NEW MEMBERS
14 EMAIL
DISCUSSION
GROUPS
ASSISTANCE TO
GEN-SENEGAL
FEEDING INTO
EC POLICY
CONSULTATIONS
ESTONIA
ECOVILLAGE
GATHERING
GEN-EUROPE
NEWSLETTER
GEN-E FLYER
WEB-SITE &
MAILING LISTS
PUBLISHED
ARTICLES
1. INFORMATION
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DISSEMINATION
Permaculture Magazine
Eight European partner magazines
GEN-Europe newsletter
New GEN-Europe flyer & poster
Schumacher Briefing published
Published articles
Web-site
Mailing Lists
GEN press book
Ecological footprint study, Findhorn
PERMACULTURE
MAGAZINE:
Solutions for
Sustainable Living
• Readership of 40,000 (25,000 in UK, 12,000 in US, 3,000
elsewhere in Europe and internationally)
• GEN has 2 news pages, one announcements page and
one advertisements page and a growing number of fulllength ecovillage stories
•Full-length ecovillage articles and GEN news-stories:
http://www.gen-europe.org/
PERMACULTURE MAGAZINE
Short news stories
•Gaia University (3)
•Gaia Education (3)
•2005 GEN Europe GA
•Car-free ecovillage in France
•Meeting of RIVE (Italian EV network)
•Global EV Forum, China
•EV education in Brazil
•GEN+10 conference
•NextGEN (Youth Council)
•Portuguese Green Gathering
•Iberian EV network meeting
•Italian EV network meetings
PERMACULTURE MAGAZINE
Short news stories (Cont.)
•EVs and ‘sustainable contraction’ in Italy
•GEN at the World Environment Education Conference
•EV’s build permaculture parks in Oslo
•EV petition at the Scottish Parliament
•EVs and urban regeneration in Brazil
•Findhorn’s new currency and wind turbines
•Findhorn and the CIFAL training centre
•La Caravana wins formal recognition in Brazil
•EVs at the Danish Social Forum
•EVs and the post-Katrina clean-up
•Kakwa EV participates in official urban design event
in Canada
•Ecovillage Day in Vienna
•A new EV for Bristol, UK
PERMACULTURE MAGAZINE
Short news stories (Cont.)
•Loan for EV in Bolivia
•Tamera launches Monte Cerro peace project
•Kibbutz Lotan wins 2006 EV Excellence Award
•Findhorn footprint
•Strawbale building legalised in Germany (7 Linden EV)
•Estonian EV meeting
•GEN at Euro Social Forum, Athens
•Tamera offers peace journalism forum
•Lamas EV project, Wales
ECOVILLAGE ARTICLES PUBLISHED
•Max Lindegger – Ask the Ancestors: How Thai Farmers Can
Forecast the Weather (PM 46)
•Bea Briggs - Meetings as Ritual: how to design meetings for
productivity, success and satisfaction (PM46)
•Jonathan Dawson – Securing the Future: Making our savings
work for people and planet, Resurgence (236) and (PM47)
•Jonathan Dawson – Are Ecovillages a Solution to the Coming
Energy Famine (PM47) and (Communities Mag. 130)
•Rebecca Laughton – Walking Your Talk: the challenges of
balancing ecological principles with the realities of hard work
(Brithdir Mawr ecovillage) (PM47)
ECOVILLAGE ARTICLES PUBLISHED (Cont.)
•Max Lindegger – Aztek Terraces: an ancient civilisation
that is being revived in Mexico (PM47)
•Leila Dregger – A Seed of Hope in a Civil War (Tamera)
(PM47)
•Jonathan Dawson – An Ecovillager Visits BedZED:
reflections on the fertile edges between ecovillages and
developer-led eco-neighbourhoods (PM49)
•Jonathan Dawson and Camille Bierens de Haan- Entre
Écovillage et Projets d’Architectes: les éco-quartiers,
Revue Urbanisme, No. 348Paris
NINE PARTNER
FOREIGN LANGUAGE JOURNALS
(COMBINED READERSHIP - OVER 175,000)
TURKEY
SPAIN
FRANCE
DENMARK
RUSSIA
POLAND
ITALY
GERMANY
ESTONIA
BUGDAY
ECOHABITAR
PASSERELLE ECO
LOS NEWS
POTOK
WEGETARIANSKI SWIAT
ZIELONY BRIGADY
AAM TERRA NUOVA
KURSKONTAKTE
GREEN GATE
GEN-Europe provides €3,000 to these publications as a
contribution towards translation costs
NEW GEN-EUROPE
POSTER & FLYER
IN 9 LANGUAGES
GEN-EUROPE
NEWSLETTER
SCHUMACHER
BRIEFING
PUBLISHED
ECO-FOOTPRINT STUDY, FINDHORN
Ecological Footprints
Ecological Footprints
ECO-FOOTPRINT STUDY, FINDHORN
WEB-SITE
www.gen-europe.org
• Hits have about 215,000 per
month between July 2005 and
July 2006
• Site transferred to GEN’s own
server
• New leaflets and posters
published (pdf)
• Newsletter published
• Other updates like front page,
and pages on Education, Events,
Ecotourism and others
EMAIL LISTS
• 10 email discussion groups
hosted
EV Training (2)
Education
Staff
Old council
New council
Forum
Ang. Africa
Franc. Africa
Eastern Europe
GEN IS
• GEN IS team from
Europe, ENA and
GENOA
• Setup of new GEN
server for all IT services
• Focalising on
international website
and database
• Debugging database
• Developing new
modules: News,
Matchmaking and CSA
GEN international website
• gen.ecovillage.org
• New pages for United
Nations
• Various updates
Education pages and
others
• Site transferred to php
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NETWORKING
GEN+10 conference
Ina and Achim US ecovillage tour
Estonia ecovillage network meeting
Hungarian National Network Meeting
Mo Willett (Findhorn), peace work in Bosnia
Website & hosting of email lists
General Assembly
New members
GEN+10
FINDHORN
OCT 2005
NextGEN AT GEN+10
INA & ACHIM’S US ECOVILLAGE TOUR
ECOVILLAGE GATHERING,
ESTONIA, JUNE 2006
HUNGARIAN NATIONAL NETWORK MEETING
JULY 2006
GEN-EUROPE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
2006
NEW FULL MEMBERS
1. Balkan Ecovillage Network, Croatia
2. Vlierhof community, Netherlands
3. Viverde community, Austria
(Total number of full members: 37)
NEW SUPPORTIVE MEMBERS
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Axel Wannag, Norway, Independent
Irini Kourdaki, Greece, Independent
Alexander Sayassov, Ukraine, Independent
Gaia foundation “Elysium”, Malta, Green
Foundation
Culdees, Scotland, Eco Farm
Lorieneen, Scotland, Eco Farm
Enlinca, England, Cohousing
Casa da Ribeira, Portugal, Eco-Seminars
Vereniging Ecodorp, Netherlands Ecovillage
Network
Dorset Ecovillage, England, Ecovillage Initiative
Maxime Leloup, France, Independent
SUPPORTIVE MEMBERS (cont.)
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Eco Polis, Lithuania, Green business
Lorien, Belgium, Forming ecovillage
Falcon Blanco, Ibiza, Spain, Eco-Seminars
Murad Alkhuffash, Palestine, Permaculture
(Total number of full members: 36 + 6 - 9 pending
applications
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EDUCATION
Gaia University
Gaia Education
CIFAL Findhorn
World Environmental Education Conference, Torino
Assistance to GEN Senegal
Tamera Youth Education
Educational bursaries to members
Promotion of members courses
GAIA UNIVERSITY
DEGREE AND
MASTERS COURSES
LAUNCHED
GAIA UNIVERSITY
CENTRES OPENED AT
THE FARM (TENNESSEE)
AND LEBENSGARTEN
(GERMANY)
GAIA EDUCATION
LAUNCHED AT
GEN+10
CURRICULUM
LAUNCHED AND
ENDORSED BY UNITAR
AND UNESCO
GAIA EDUCATION
FIRST ECOVILLAGE DESIGN EDUCATION COURSE
TAUGHT AT UNIVERSITY OF ENVIRONMENT & PEACE
CULTURE, SAO PAOLO, BRAZIL
FURTHER COURSES FOR 2006 - 07 SCHEDULED IN
KEIMBLATT ÖKODORF, KIBBUTZ LOTAN, SIEBEN LINDEN,
CRYSTAL WATERS, FINDHORN, TAMERA AND INSTITUTO
TONANTZIN TLALLI (MEXICO)
CIFAL FINDHORN
FINDHORN
BECOMES UNITAR’S
13TH CIFAL
SUSTAINABILITY
TRAINING CENTRE A NETWORK WHOSE
AIM IS TO PROVIDE
TRAINING IN
SUSTAINABILITY
ISSUES TO MAYORS
AND URBAN LOCAL
GOVERNMENT
OFFICIALS
THE GEN TEAM AT THE WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL
EDUCATION CONFERENCE, TORINO, OCTOBER 2005
ASSISTANCE TO GEN SENEGAL
TAMERA YOUTH EDUCATION
TAMERA YOUTH USE €500 GRANT FROM GENEUROPE TO BUY BOOKS FOR LIBRARY
EDUCATIONAL BURSARIES
•Michelle Greenberg
•Maryse Verkaik-Anand
(Both received bursaries to attend Findhorn’s
ecovillage training programme)
PROMOTION OF MEMBERS’ COURSES
• Free advertising and announcements in
Permaculture Magazine
Website/database:
free advertising of
ecovillage related courses,
events and conferences,
which will be published on
all GEN websites
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http://gen.ecovillage.org/iser
vices
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ADVOCACY/REPRESENTATION
• Feeding into EC policy consultations
- mid-term review of EC’s 6th Environment Action
Programme
- consultation on treatment of animals used in
experiments
• Contribution to ecovillage petition to Scottish
Parliament
• Sustainable Contraction, Italy
• International Permaculture Convergence, Czech Rep.
• World Forum, Geneva
• European Social Forum, Athens
• Swedish Social Forum
• German Social Forum
• UN CSD
• EV award
ESF, ATHENS
MAY 2006
EUROPEAN PERMACULTURE CONVERGENCE
CZECH REPUBLIC
WORLD FORUM: Cities and Quality of life,
GENEVA, MAY 2006
GEN-Europe represented by Jean-Micel Pochat
2006 ECOVILLAGE EXCELLENCE AWARD:
Winner - KIBBUTZ LOTAN
EDUCATIONAL
BURSARIES
GAIA
UNIVERSITY
CIFAL
FINDHORN
GAIA
EDUCATION
PROMOTION
OF MEMBERS’
COURSES
GEN+10
CONFERENCE
GENERAL
ASSEMBLY
SUPPORT
TO NETWORK
MEETINGS &
EXCHANGE
VISITS
INA&ACHIM
US EV TOUR
EDUCATION
WEEC
NETWORKING
GEN-EUROPE
2004 - 2005
ESF
ATHENS
ADVOCACY/
REPRESENTATION
SWEDISH
SOCIAL
FORUM
PERMACULTURE
MAGAZINE
WORLD FORUM,
GENEVA
8 PARTNER
PUBLICATIONS
ECO-FOOTPRINT
STUDY
SCHUMACHER
BR. PAPER
TAMERA
YOUTH
EDUCATION
INFORMATION
DISSEMINATION
EV AWARD
PERMACULTURE
CONVERGENCE
CZECH REP.
17 NEW MEMBERS
14 EMAIL
DISCUSSION
GROUPS
ASSISTANCE TO
GEN-SENEGAL
FEEDING INTO
EC POLICY
CONSULTATIONS
ESTONIA
ECOVILLAGE
GATHERING
GEN-EUROPE
NEWSLETTER
GEN-E FLYER
WEB-SITE &
MAILING LISTS
PUBLISHED
ARTICLES
UP-COMING EVENTS
•The Yurt-University-Gyurufu, Hungary - Third Earth
Construction Study Camp, August 2006
•Austrotopia Festival, July 2006 (€400)
•10th anniversary RIVE (Italian Ecovillage Network)
Meeting (€500)
•Hungarian Ecovillage Network meeting (€400)
•Russian National Network meeting, July 2006 (€400)
•FestiForum, Sept/Oct 2006 (€700)
•NextGEN Council Meeting, Mexico, July 2006
•NextGEN Council Meeting, Tamera, 2007
•CIFAL launch/Moray Energy Day (Findhorn), September 2006
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