GEN-EUROPE Report on activities 2005-2006
GAIA UNIVERSITY GAIA EDUCATION CIFAL FINDHORN EDUCATIONAL BURSARIES PROMOTION OF MEMBERS COURSES GEN+10 CONFERENCE GENERAL ASSEMBLY SUPPORT TO NETWORK MEETINGS & EXCHANGE VISITS INA&ACHIM US EV TOUR ESTONIA ECOVILLAGE GATHERING 18 NEW MEMBERS ASSISTANCE TO GEN-SENEGAL 14 EMAIL DISCUSSION GROUPS WEEC EDUCATION NETWORKING ECO-FOOTPRINT STUDY FEEDING INTO EC POLICY CONSULTATIONS ESF ATHENS ADVOCACY/ REPRESENTATION GEN-EUROPE 2004-2005 SCHUMACHER BR. PAPER INFORMATION DISSEMINATION TAMERA YOUTH EDUCATION GEN-E FLYER SWEDISH SOCIAL FORUM PERMACULTURE CONVERGENCE CZECH REP. EV AWARD WORLD FORUM, GENEVA PERMACULTURE MAGAZINE 8 PARTNER PUBLICATIONS GEN-EUROPE NEWSLETTER WEB-SITE & MAILING LISTS PUBLISHED ARTICLES
1. INFORMATION 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) Forum Education Ang. Africa Staff Franc. Africa Old council Eastern Europe New council
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
2. 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 1. Axel Wannag, Norway, Independent 2. Irini Kourdaki, Greece, Independent 3. Alexander Sayassov, Ukraine, Independent 4. Gaia foundation Elysium, Malta, Green Foundation 5. Culdees, Scotland, Eco Farm 6. Lorieneen, Scotland, Eco Farm 7. Enlinca, England, Cohousing 8. Casa da Ribeira, Portugal, Eco-Seminars 9. Vereniging Ecodorp, Netherlands Ecovillage Network 10. Dorset Ecovillage, England, Ecovillage Initiative 11. Maxime Leloup, France, Independent
SUPPORTIVE MEMBERS (cont.) 12. Eco Polis, Lithuania, Green business 13. Lorien, Belgium, Forming ecovillage 14. Falcon Blanco, Ibiza, Spain, Eco-Seminars 15. Murad Alkhuffash, Palestine, Permaculture (Total number of full members: 36 + 6-9 pending applications
3. 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
DEGREE AND MASTERS COURSES LAUNCHED GAIA UNIVERSITY
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)
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 CIFAL FINDHORN
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 GEN- EUROPE 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 http://gen.ecovillage.org/iser vices
4. 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
GAIA UNIVERSITY GAIA EDUCATION CIFAL FINDHORN EDUCATIONAL BURSARIES PROMOTION OF MEMBERS COURSES GEN+10 CONFERENCE GENERAL ASSEMBLY SUPPORT TO NETWORK MEETINGS & EXCHANGE VISITS INA&ACHIM US EV TOUR ESTONIA ECOVILLAGE GATHERING 17 NEW MEMBERS ASSISTANCE TO GEN-SENEGAL 14 EMAIL DISCUSSION GROUPS WEEC EDUCATION NETWORKING ECO-FOOTPRINT STUDY FEEDING INTO EC POLICY CONSULTATIONS ESF ATHENS ADVOCACY/ REPRESENTATION GEN-EUROPE 2004-2005 SCHUMACHER BR. PAPER INFORMATION DISSEMINATION TAMERA YOUTH EDUCATION GEN-E FLYER SWEDISH SOCIAL FORUM PERMACULTURE CONVERGENCE CZECH REP. EV AWARD WORLD FORUM, GENEVA PERMACULTURE MAGAZINE 8 PARTNER PUBLICATIONS GEN-EUROPE NEWSLETTER 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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