Global Ecovillage Network (GEN)–Europe Conference July 9-13, 2014 at Zegg near Berlin Germany

Over time, GEN is becoming richer in fascinating tools, mutual support, interesting people, important connections and deep insights. Let’s celebrate what we have created as a strong network, carrying forth the power to live sustainably in a post-growth world.

This year we will focus on strengthening the bonds between the national and local networks as well as reaching out to the Global South in mutual support. Amongst other interesting presenters we are proud to welcome Anna Breytenbach, the „Animal Whisperer“ from South Africa. Experienced members from long-term communities will share and support your process in founding or strengthening your community initiative, we will look into the transition of traditional villages and urban neighbourhoods into living communities and more.

For more info and registration please go to our website at http://gen-europe.org/activities/gen-conference/gen-conference-2014/index.htm#c1325

GEN – Global Ecovillage Network

www.ecovillage.org
www.gen-europe.org
www.gen-africa.org
www.ena.ecovillage.org
www.genoa.ecovillage.org
www.casacontinental.org

West Coast Women’s Permaculture Gathering, Seattle area, September 18-21 2014 Fall Equinox weekend

Join Permaculture’s Finest Women for a Weekend in the Woods!

Welcome to the West Coast Women’s Permaculture Gathering September 18-21 2014! This is our 4th year and we are gracing the greater Seattle area! Join us at Camp Hamilton near Monroe/Duvall for a long weekend together sharing skills, ideas and collaborating! Contributing & Collecting in Collaboration!
Where ‘Full Steam Ahead’ melds with ‘Relax and Receive’ for Continuous Thrivability
Considering how much permaculture activity is brewing in our respective regions these days, from public food forests to natural buildings and successful kickstarter campaigns, the subject of permaculture is upfront and growing! We will take a central focus of taking permaculture beyond an interest or hobby to inspiring women with permaculture examples to find their path to right-livelihood and thrive! Thivelihood!! This years Gathering will feature exciting presentations, skill-building opportunities and our first ever Saturday Market Place to support your right-livelihoods, followed by our first ever Dance Party around the fire near the lake! Tickets are available for the entire three days, Saturday only, children at a reduced rate, child care is FREE with ticket for whole weekend. See ticketing page for details.Spend a weekend with strong, committed women who share Permaculture ethics and vocabulary. Come connect, learn, and laugh! In a breathtaking space, surrounded by nature and amazing women, you will be inspired and invigorated.

Presenters for 2014 include:
We have an amazing line up of extraordinary speakers!
Jessi Bloom – Best-selling permaculture author, green industry advisor, & owner of design/build N.W. Bloom
Marisha Auerbach – International advanced permaculture educator & consultant to environmental non-profits
EagleSong – Founder of RavenCroft Gardens and Healing From the Ground Up herbal apprentice program
Jacqueline Freeman – Biodynamic Beekeeper and owner of Friendly Haven Rise Farm in Venersborg, WA
Jeanette Acosta – Author and composer raised by traditional indigenous healers, designer and ethnobotanist
Emet Degirmenci – International urban and indigenous permaculture community design
Honored Guest Starhawk – The Fifth Sacred Thing,The Last Wild Witch & Earth Activist Training

Join this amazing opportunity to gather with other revolutionary women!

We are delighted to be creating this gathering and look forward to sharing it with YOU!
Help us spread the word, “Like” and share us on Facebook!

To get up-to-date announcements about the gathering and to be part of the biggest (maybe the only!) online group of permaculture women please sign up for the google group: http://groups.google.com/group/westcoastwomenspermaculture

“Ecovillages: Lessons for Sustainable Community” – Jan. 31st Book talk with author Karen T. Litfin at L.A. Eco-Village

WHEN:       Friday, January 31, 2014 at 7:30 pm (veggie potluck at 6:30pm)
WHERE:    Los Angeles Eco-Village, 117 Bimini Pl, LA 90004 (Directions)
FEE:             $5 to $10 sliding scale ( no one turned away for lack of funds)
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED: 213/738-1254 or crsp@igc.org

Come hang out with us for a veggie potluck at 6:30 pm and schmooze with others living in or interested in creating more eco communities in and around LA or the world!

Then stay with us as Karen Litfin shares her adventures exploring 14 of the most prominent ecovillages throughout the world (including LAEV) on her year long personal journey seeking answers to how she might align her living patterns with her ecological values, as well as how societies throughout the world might benefit from the lessons of ecovillages in their midst, from the most advanced industrial societies to remote villages in the developing world.

Here’s what some are saying about Karen’s new book

“If you can’t take a year off to visit ecovillages around the world, this marvel of a book is the next best thing. It’s actually even better for the carbon it saves, the questions it asks, and the wisdom it shares. I am eager to share it with all my students and fellow teachers.”
Joanna Macy, author of Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in Without Going Crazy

“Ecovillages have for many years acted as micro-laboratories for building a low carbon, post-growth society. But what can we learn from them? How much of ecovillage life is scaleable and replicable? Karen Litfin set out to find out, and her learnings and insights are invaluable. We owe her road trip and her research a great deal, there is much wisdom and treasure here!”
Rob Hopkins, author of The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience

“Nature teaches us that nothing disappears when it dies, it merely becomes something new. Karen Litfin’s lucid and heartfelt book reveals the new life emerging in the cracks of failing systems. Through her eyes, we meet people everywhere who are building high-joy, low-impact communities. Litfin is the perfect guide: intellectually rigorous, spiritually awake and deeply caring. If you want to create a richer, gentler life for yourself and your community, read this book!”
Vicki Robin, bestselling author of Your Money or Your Life and Blessing the Hands that Feed Us

For more quickie reviews, info about the book, and Karen’s travels, go here: http://ecovillagebook.org/

ABOUT KAREN
Karen Litfin, Ph.D. is a professor of political science and environmental studies at the University of Washington. She grew up in Pittsburgh and Baltimore, received a B.A. and M.A. from University of Maryland, and then a Ph.D. from UCLA. Karen is a mother, an introspective activist, an avid bicyclist and hiker, and a second-rate gardener. In her research and teaching, Karen takes a “person/planet politics” approach, which entails integrating the intellectual, emotional, practical and contemplative dimensions of sustainability.

Karen’s first two books were Ozone Discourses: Science and Politics in Global Environmental Cooperation (Columbia University Press, 1994) and The Greening of Sovereignty in World Politics (MIT Press, 1998). You can find her scholarly articles on her faculty website. Unlike her earlier writings, Karen’s latest book, Ecovillages: Lessons for Sustainable Community, communicates her person/planet politics approach in language that is at once personal and engaging without sacrificing intellectual clarity and nuance. The book itself is an expression of Karen’s aspiration for wholeness.

Ecovillages traces Karen’s journey to fourteen ecovillages around the world to learn firsthand from those who are taking a “person/planet approach” to their own lives. In this inspiring and insightful book, Karen shares her unique experience of sustainable living through four broad windows—ecology, economics, community, and consciousness—or E2C2. Her aim was not to be a cheerleader for ecovillages but to truly learn from them, to transform her own life accordingly, and to share her gleanings with ordinary people who want the information about how to transform their lives and the inspiration to actually do so.

Dia de los Muertos Celebration at L.A. Eco-Village, Sat. Nov 2, 2013 from 7pm to midnight

What: Dia de los Muertos Celebration with Jimmy Lizama and friends

When: Saturday, November 2, 2013 from 7pm to midnight

Where: 140 Bimini Place, Los Angeles Eco-Village, 90004

It’s Daylight Savings on November 3rd! That means it’s darker earlier and
that means it’s probably a good time to talk about DYNAMOS

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_dynamo#Dynamo_systems)!

I won’t have anything bicycle to sell you on November 2nd, but I want to introduce all you
discerning bicyclists to the little place by having a space warming party!

Please grace us with your good vibes and honor our past ones on who can’t be
here in the flesh to party with us in this Dia De Los Muertos celebration.

Much love and respect.

-El Pinche Jimmy*

ABOUT JIMMY LIZAMA:
*Long time L.A. Eco-Village member, founder of the popular Bicycle Kitchen, well-known bicycle activist, bicycle messenger in the Downtown LA area, and TEDx alumni, Jimmy’s new venture is the Relampago* space in the heart of the Los Angeles Eco-Village where he will be creating custom made wheels and bicycle dynamos.

Join Jimmy and friends and enjoy good food, great music, craft beer, dancing and other amenities. Please bring your good vibs to welcome the space into life, adding yet another dimension to the ever aspiring Los Angeles Eco-Village.

This is a fundraising and fun-raising event, so your donations are invited. Watch for details.

*Relampago Wheelery aspires to be a source for custom wheel builds, dynamo lighting, and a forum for the continuing dialog of why bicyles are so important to the health and future of Los Angeles.

“Just Doing Stuff” fair with Transition Town founder Rob Hopkins: Sun. Oct. 13, 2013 in Westchester, and Mon. Oct.14, 2013 in Pasadena

What: The Power of Just Doing Stuff: Transition Town Fairs

Where: Westchester Sunday October 13, 2013 AND Pasadena Monday October 14, 2013

More Info

Westchester event: Sunday 10/13/13 from 2:30pm to 7pm. Go here for details and to register:
https://sites.google.com/site/transitionlosangeles/home/rob-hopkins-1

Pasadena event: Monday 10/14/13 from 10:30am to 2pm. Go here for details and to register:
http://justdoingstuffpasadena.eventbrite.com

featuring award winning “Repair Cafe” and other activities, veggie potluck lunch (bring your own eating ware), speed dating mini talks, and more.
Transition groups (Los Angeles and Pasadena) host Rob Hopkins, founder of the international Transitiion Town movement. Rob gives a talk and hosts his renowned “The Power of Just Doing Stuff” fairs.

Los Angeles Green Festival at the LA Mart Downtown Los Angeles, Sat. & Sun. October 19-20, 2013

What: Los Angeles Green Festival

Where: L.A. Mart, 1933 S. Broadway, Downtown Los Angeles 90007

When: Saturday, October 19, 2013 from 10am to 6pm, and Sunday, October 20, 2013 from 11am to 5pm

Now in it’s third year, the Los Angeles Green Festival welcomed over 22,000 enthusiastic participants last year.

Plan to attend this year’s event and enjoy dozens of workshops, music, art, fashion shows, yoga, kids’ activities, organic beer and wine, visionary speakers, wide assortment of environmentally sensitive green products, and more.

And to get your free weekend pass to the Festival worth $25, go to www.greenfestivals.org/latickets13 and enter the code <lagreenfest2013>. Note this pass is only available on-line, not at the door.

ALSO FREE AT THE DOOR FOR
– Youth 18 and under
– Bicyclists using Clif Bar Bike Valet
– Green America and Global Exchange members
– Sierra Club Members
– 2 for 1 admission for Natural Solutions subscribers (must present magazine as proof of subscription)
– 2 for 1 admission for all Yoga Journal / Vegetarian Times readers (must present magazine as proof of subscription)

For more details, visit here.

Do take special note that the Festival location has changed this year to the:
LA Mart
1933 S. Broadway
Downtown Los Angeles 90007.

For more info on admission if you don’t get a free weekend pass, go here:
http://www.greenfestivals.org/la/admission

Visit the Los Angeles Eco-Village booth at the Festival
and
Please help spread the word to your local Los Angeles networks.

Green Festivals are sponsored by Green America and Global Exchange

Paul Glover: Author, Activist, Founder gives a Public talk at L.A. Eco-Village Friday, October 4, 2013 at 7:30pm

What: Paul Glover, Founder Ithaca Hours, Citizen Planners Los Angeles, Health Democracy; Author; Community Organizer and Activist gives a talk.

Where: L.A. Eco-Village (directions)

When: Friday, October 4, 2013; veggie potluck at 6:30pm; talk at 7:30 pm;

Join us for an exciting event with local currency pioneer, Paul Glover founder of Ithaca HOURS, a successful local paper currency in Ithaca NY. Launched in 1991, Ithaca Hours promotes local economic strength and community self-reliance by keeping the wealth circulating within the region. http://www.ithacahours.org/

Paul is also founder of the grass roots association known as Citizen Planners, publisher of Sensual Cities, in the 1970s which inspired a variety of other early sustainability oriented organizations in Los Angeles. He authored the little book Los Angles: A History of the Future which is available on-line http://www.issuu.com/metroeco/docs/lahof (free). Originally published in 1982, this little book envisions a permaculture city that is ecologically stable and locally managed on a human scale.

Bio: Paul Glover is founder of 18 organizations and campaigns, including Ithaca HOURS local currency, Citizen Planners of Los Angeles, Health Democracy, the Philadelphia Orchard Project (POP), and the League of Uninsured Voters (LUV). He is author of six books on grassroots economies, and a former professor of urban studies at Temple University. He also consults as Greenplanners.

Bring a veggie dish and join us for a potluck, starting at 6:30pm. Please bring your own non-throwaway eating ware.

Fee: $5 to $15 sliding scale (no one turned away)

Reservations please: crsp@igc.org or 213/738-1254

Note:
Paul will also be giving a talk at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena on Sunday October 6, 2013 sponsored by the Arroyo S.E.C.O. Network of Time Banks: Potluck from 6-7PM Talk from 7-8:00PM Go here for details:
http://www.asntb.com/2/post/2013/09/paul-glover-of-ithaca-hours-in-los-angeles.html

Time Bank Training – Stephanie Rearick Rolling Conference, July 28, 2013 from 10am to 2pm in Los Angeles at Fais DoDo

What:   Time Bank Training
Where:    Fais Do Do, 5257 W. Adams Blvd, Los Angeles 90016
When:      Sunday, July 28, 2013 from 10am to 2pm

More information:

Learn about:

Starting and coordinating a Time Bank
Recruiting leadership
Engaging stakeholders
Engaging organizations as partners
Community justice and Time Banking
Time Banking and other complementary currencies

About Dane County Time Bank: The Dane County Time Bank, established in 2005, is a network with over 2000 individuals and organizations who exchange time in order to build community, build capacity, and come together to help each other to build a better world.

More info on Dane County Time Bank here: http://danecountytimebank.org/home

About Stephanie Rearick: Based in Madison, Wisconsin, Stephanie Rearick is founder and Co-Director of the Dane County TimeBank and Project Coordinator of Time For the World. In addition to her work in timebanking and promoting ground-up economic and community regeneration, Stephanie is co-owner of Mother Fool’s Coffeehouse. She worked for Greenpeace for six years during her youth, helped launch Madison Hours, a local currency in 1995 and served for several years on the steering committee of independent local political party Progressive Dane.

You can learn more about Stephanie at these sites:

Her personal website: http://stephanierearick.com/
Speaking at the Economics and Peace Conference: http://vimeo.com/8240630
Lyon presentation on Human-Scaled Economic Development. http://vimeo.com/22087213

FB invite: https://www.facebook.com/events/266583910146318/

Fee for Time Bank Event: FREE but reservations are required. Donations gladly accepted*

RSVP to Time Bank Training here: Autumn Rooney <autumnrooney@mac.com>

Lunch will be provided by Large Marge Sustainables! http://www.largemargesustainables.com/

* Any Donations received will be put towards the future Arroyo S.E.C.O Network of Time Banks Community Revolving Loan Fund and Local Economy Incubator. We need to raise $5,000 in order to receive matching funds for the Community Revolving Loan Fund.

More about the Loan Fund and More about the Incubator

Special thanks to:
The Metabolic Studio http://www.metabolicstudio.org/
Fais Do Do http://www.faisdodo.com/
Large Marge Sustainables http://www.largemargesustainables.com/
The Living Economy Salon http://livingeconomysalon.com
CRSP Institute for Urban Ecovillages: www.laecovillage.org

Stephanie is also a professional musician. and will perform new tracks from Dreamworld on:
Friday, July 26th at 7PM at Pop Hop, 5002 York Blvd Los Aangeles 90042
http://www.thepophop.com/
Consider donating to her Dreamworld Sharing Economy Tour fund!
http://www.razoo.com/story/Sharing-Economy-Tour

The Eleventh International Permaculture Conference & Convergence (IPC11) in Cuba in Nov 11 – Dec 4, 2013

What: The 11th International Permaculture Conference & Convergence

Where: Cuba

When: November 11 through December 4, 2013: various events

Details here: The Eleventh International Permaculture Conference & Convergence (IPC11), Cuba (Nov/Dec 2013)

Community Projects, Conferences, Courses/Workshops, Presentations/Demonstrations, Social Gatherings — by Roberto Perez Rivero

IPC11 Cuba 2013 — Key Events and Dates

Pre IPC International PDC — 11-24 November, 2013
Cueva de los Portales camping Site, Pinar del Río, Cuba
With a Highly qualified team of Professors from USA, UK, Canada and Cuba.
Conference Dinner and Gala
– 24 November, 2013
Havana, Cuba
International Permaculture Conference
– 25-27 November, 2013
At the Pabellón Cuba, in Vedado, Havana, Cuba
With many important Permaculturists already confirmed to present.
Visit to Urban Permaculture sites –
28 November, 2013
Havana, Cuba
Convergence –
29 November – 3 December, 2013
To be celebrated at Los Cocos Camping Base, Mayabeque Province, Cuba
There is still space for presentations at the Convergence, please contact us.
Permaculture Tours –
From December 4th, 2013
Three choices that include the provinces of Matanzas and Sancti Spíritus and the best preserved traditional Spanish Villa in Cuba, Trinidad.

Contacts

For all the information, including prices and payments, in English and Spanish, please check www.ipc11cuba.com.

For direct contact with the organizing group in Cuba, email to: ipc11cuba (at) fanj.cult.cu

There is an early bird discount of 10% for those that register before July 31!

Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) Conference – Switzerland July 7 – 12, 2013

What: Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) Conference
Where: Schweibenalp, Switzerland
When: July 7 – 12, 2013

More Details here: http://gen-europe.org/activities/gen-conference/index.htm

Celebrating Community – Lessons from our living history:

Hearing from founders and elders of our movement about successes, lessons learned and growing edges relating to GEN.

NextGEN – International perspectives from the next generation:

Allowing ourselves to be inspired by the enthusiasm and intelligence of youth and young adults that are building pathways to our future.

Political Influencing – Policies for civil society engagement:

Learning how top-down and bottom-up approaches can combine to support and implement ecovillage strategies for the transition of our societies to a more sustainable way of living.

Villages in Transition to Resilience:

How traditional and indigenous village networks can use the ecovillage approach to become strong vehicles for the regeneration of social and natural environment.

Alternative Technologies:

Hands-on experience and the theoretical background to innovative technologies that make a real difference.

Workshops:

Beyond Consensus – Exploring Sociocracy and Holacracy
The Art of Recycling – Creating Beauty from Waste
Empowered Fundraising – Allowing funds to flow into Sustainability
Sustainable Economies – alternatives to the prevalent growth model

The conference will provide a multitude of opportunities to get to know the other participants and for informal exchange. Each participant will also be a member of a Home Group where they can touch base and deepen their experience each day.

The conference will be facilitated by Macaco Tamerice, Zoltan Hosszu, Robin Alfred and Kosha Joubert. Interesting speakers will present their work and projects.

NextGEN Meeting

Parallel to annual GEN Conference meeting of young people involved in NextGEN will take place in Schweibenalp. The aim of the meeting is to enable young people to come together and create heart-to-heart connections which will improve cooperation in the future projects. NextGEN meeting will be longer as GEN Conference itself and will start already on Saturday the 6th of July in the evening. It will last until Sunday 14th of July. Read more here. If you are interested in the youth meeting please contact lara(at)gen-europe.org for further information.

Please find the conference schedule here.

Our hosting partner community
Center of Unity Schweibenalp

We are a community of about 20 people. Creativity, compassion, open communication, sincere encounters and zest for life are important to us. What connects us all is our vision, living and working together.
The Business on Schweibenalp is affiliated to the “Association Center of Unity” as a seminar business and employs members of the community and external staff. We see ourselves as a model business that links the events and workshops held here, with the community and the Alpine Permaculture project as well as being a pioneer in holistic management.

Our charming and renovated Guest House with its 100 beds was built in the early years of the Swiss mountain tourism and is surrounded by an area of about twenty hectares.

Prices

Conference Fee

Regular	500 €
Reduced	350 € ( for students, unemployed, people on low income )

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