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Electronic Newsletter of the Ecovillage Network of the Americas
http://ena.ecovillage.org
Date: September, 2002
Issue #0005
Editor: Giovanni Ciarlo: mailto:giovanni@ecovillage.org
Dear Friends;
This newsletter of the Ecovillage Network of the Americas (ENA) is distributed to subscribers in North, Central, South America, the Caribbean and beyond. ENA is a grassroots sustainable community network, and part of the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) http://www.gaia.org. ENA's mission: To engage the peoples of the Americas in common effort to join the global transformation towards ecologically, economically and culturally sustainable human settlement. Our focus is to meet the needs of present and future generations for a safe and healthy planet to inhabit.
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The Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) participated in the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in South Africa, with Ecovillage and Sustainable Development Courses & Events.
See: http://www.ecovillage.org/WSSD
GEN is also a founding member of the EcoEarth Alliance, a Partnership Initiative launched at the WSSD, with 8 initial partner organizations/businesses *. The mission: to create and promote a sustainable, integrated, and community-based model of development in order to overcome poverty, restore the environment, and provide for basic human needs throughout the world.
See: http://www.ecovillage.org/ecoearth
* Partners:
The International Institute for Sustainable Future (IISF), Village Earth, The Sustainable Village, The Institute for Integrated Rural Development (IIRD), Earth Rights Institute, Global Ecological Restoration and Development Foundation (GERDF), Restore the Earth. For more details, see:
http://www.ecovillage.org/ecoearth
REGIONAL NEWS
For full contact information of regional representatives, go to:
http://www.ecovillage.org
Then, click the Contacts button.
BRAZIL
May East reports a good response to the Ecovillage Training Program, July 2002-January 2003, a collaborative effort of Centro de Vivencias Nazare, Findhorn Foundation, Associação OISCA Brasil, Universidade Holistica Internacional- Campus Sao Paulo and ENA.
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André Soares reports that the Living & Learning Center program: Build here now... began, with over 100 people from South America, Europe and beyond. They started their Ecoversity program -an 8 month training- on Sept 9th. They also started building a commercial kitchen to assist the work of a local women's co-op.
- CANADA
In May, Lee Davies, ENA Council representative for Canada participated in the Fellowship for Intentional Communities board meeting and associated consensus decision-making educational events attended by Canadian NGO's and government agencies. A meeting of the Ecovillage Network of Canada took place during the weekend of August 23rd, at the forming, biodynamic agricultural ecovillage, Whole Village in Alton, Ontario. A large group of young people attended, whose energy will be very positive in helping ENC move forward.
Great news for ecovillage development in Canada - OUR Ecovillage on Vancouver Island, British Columbia has received unanimous approval from the local municipality for zoning permission to proceed. They are working with the Cowichan Community Land Trust and the Land Conservancy of British Columbia as they make this ecovillage a reality.
- CARIBBEAN
This region is actively looking for candidates to represent the Caribe on the ENA Council. For information about this and future consensus workshops with ENA Council member Liora Adler, contact mailto:liora@aol.com
-EAST UNITED STATES
The ENA USA committee (U.S. Council reps and core volunteers) conducted a Call for Candidates to fill two open seats on the ENA Council for the East U.S. region.
Four excellent candidates came forward. We thank them for their enthusiasm and all the good work they are already doing for a sustainable world. The new ENA East USA Council Representatives are:
Manda Gillespie is Project Manager of EcoCity Cleveland in Cleveland Heights, OH. She manages EcoCity Cleveland's involvement with the Cleveland EcoVillage, an urban redevelopment project on Cleveland's west side that demonstrates the potential for cities to manifest ecological principles. The project brings together principles of green building, transit-oriented development, and the best of the New Urbanism movement. Manda writes and assists in the production of the EcoCity Cleveland Journal and educational resources; and manages development, membership, intern programs and volunteers. Manda lives with her partner, Sadhu Johnston, and her dog, Koh, in Cleveland's Ohio City neighborhood
Daniel Greenberg, Ph.D. has studied and directed community-based educational programs for over 12 years. Daniel wrote his doctoral thesis on "Education within Contemporary Intentional Communities", and has visited and corresponded with over 200 communities in the U.S. He directs college-level semester programs, and has developed curricula on sustainable community development, deep ecology, ecological auditing, and systems thinking. Daniel is the executive director of Living Routes, college-level programs in ecovillages around the world, and is a member of Sirius Community, where he lives with his wife, Monique Gauthier, and their daughter, Simone.
-MESOAMERICA
Since 1994 BELRIV (Belize River Valley Development Program) has organized self-financed, holistic, decentralized, planning, training, production and research programs, and prepared a development agenda for its region.
BELRIV has implemented projects in health, sustainable production, provided information, environmental education, made micro credit available for sustainable activity from pooled savings, and promoted cultural retrieval and capacity building of local leadership and organization.
POBox 1577, Belize City, Belize
mailto:belriv@btl.net
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The 20th anniversary of Ecoaldea Huehuecoyotl in Mexico, the "arts and ecology", was the subject of the summer Ecovillage Column in Communities Magazine http://www.fic.org.
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Sustainable Development Course
Date and location: From October 7 to November 1st, 2002 -Costa Rica
Organizers: Asociación para el Desarrollo de la Conciencia Ambiental y Humana (ASODECAH)
Information: Greivin Fallas mailto:asodecah@racsa.co.cr
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Land for Tierramor:
Since the 25th of June, 2002 Holger Hieronimi, Marina Ortiz and their growing family are, along with eleven other adventurous people, co-owners of a 9000 m2 parcel of land located on the outskirts of the town of Eronguaricuaro in Michoacan, Mexico where they intend to develop a small Ecovillage project. They specialize in eco-design, organic agriculture, permaculture, flower therapy, holistic health care and astrology.
mailto:tierramor@laneta.apc.org
http://www.tierramor.org
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For a report on outcomes of the "VIII Consejo de Visiones: Guardianes de la Tierra" gathering in Chiapas, Mexico earlier this year go to: http://www.laneta.apc.org/rem
-MOBILE
June 3-9, La Caravana and two Ecuadorian women's groups hosted the Women's Peace Village, in Paute, Azuay, Ecuador. They united 140 women leaders from diverse organizations from all parts of the country, for a week long gathering,with training in Consensus (from Bea Briggs and Liora Adler), councils, workshops and multicultural activities. Gabo from Mexico led the group of women doing the documentary video recording, which will be available after editing. A written report of this project is being compiled and should be available later this year. Read a full account: http://www.lacaravana.org
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On Saturday June 15th, after trying many alternative therapies without success, ENA Council Member Alberto Ruz underwent a delicate surgical intervention to decompress cervical vertebrae. The surgery went well, Alberto is recovering, and appreciates the love and prayers of his many friends in the network. mailto:albertoruz@lacaravana.org
-NORTH SOUTH AMERICA
Colombia - Claudio Madaune and Luisa Giraldo continued travels in spring/summer 2002. They visited Los Angeles Eco-Village, where Claudio gave a slide show and talk in April. Leaving the USA, they visited El Poncho Ecocenter in Bolivia, and working with Enrique Hidlago gave presentations at universities in Cochabamba, attended conferences and gave two permaculture courses. They are back at La Reserva Sasardí in the Colombian Darien forest.
-SOUTH SOUTH AMERICA
Gaia Association, Argentina has completed installation of independent, cost effective and efficient systems to provide basic needs in an ecological manner. The use of a barrel drum allows cooking with all the benefits of an adobe stove, and increased efficiency, which allows for its use in micro-industries such as family bakeries, neighborhood co-ops or communal dinning halls. These thermal mass stoves are the most efficient traditional methods available, since they accumulate heat in the materials, optimizing the temperature exchange and achieving fuller combustion. Gaia has developed an improved model that gets the same results as traditional thermal mass stoves, at a lower cost and simpler construction methods using cob. We call these stoves "COBOSAURIOS" and they only need two days of work for completion with a cost of aprox $40. http://www.gaia.org.ar
Asociación Gaia is taking the opportunity in the economic and social crisis in Argentina to highlight the solutions available through ecovillage living. They have organized Gaia Living and Learning Center Programs, for details:
http://www.gaia.org.ar/actividades.htm
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Uruguay - Lucia Battegazzore and Luciano Davyt organized the first regional networking gathering in Uruguay in April. The meeting was in Perez Castellano Organic Garden, 100 km away from Montevideo. They began on Saturday 20 April, with 35 people and 10 children. Camping near a native forest/natural reserve, (one of very few in Uruguay) they had introductions, shared stories of their work and learned about ENA and GEN around a campfire, and celebrated the gathering. Sunday more people came and participated in workshops (land use, seeds, educational program development, human relationships, etc.), and games and dances. The group agreed to meet again in Heliopolis in the Spring with more people, and agreed to stay in contact meanwhile by email, web pages, etc. It was a rich, diverse gathering with different generations, rural communities and city communities all represented.
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-IV Congreso Pampeano de Medio Ambiente para Adolescentes"
Date and place:18 & 19 October, 2002. Argentina
Informes: Fundación Chadileuvú
mailto:chadileuvu@cpenet.com.ar
-WEST UNITED STATES
The term Low income housing is usually not paired with the words eco-friendly, at least not in the United States, and especially not in Los Angeles, the home of cars and smog. But that could be changing. That is if Lois Arkin, and the Global Ecovillage Network have anything to say about it. They've turned a forty-unit apartment building in LA into a place where neighbors plant vegetables together, create and install solar panels, agree not to own cars, and even use odorless composting toilets. The radio program Living on Earth profiles this new kind of eco-village. Hear it on RealPlayer at:
http://realserver.bu.edu:8080/ramgen/w/b/wbur/livingonearth/today/wed1.smil?mode=compact
4. RESOURCES
For extensive listings, see: http://www.ecovillage.org Click on Resources.
The Sustainable Village (TSV) distributes over 10,000 appropriate technology products, as well as acting as an agent for large organizations, and organizing training workshops in developing countries for micro-enterprise development. See: http://www.sustainablevillage.com
Village Alliance, is a graphics division for web and print services, see: http://www.villagealliance.com
In all these areas, TSV uses 100% of profits to donate/invest/help under-funded NGO's.
SUPPORT ECOVILLAGES AND THE NETWORK!
Purchase appropriate technologies from The Sustainable Village, and web and print work services from Village Alliance, and mention that you were referred by the Ecovillage Network of the Americas.
mailto:info@sustainablevillage.com
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Where are the resources which tie together the rapaciousness of the corporations and the destruction of the world ecology? The internet stores much information in audio format.
Information comes from alternative radio programs such as:
Democracy Now http://www.democracynow.org/
Radio Nation http://www.nationinstitute.org/radionation/
Alternative Radio http://www.alternativeradio.org/
Independent Media Center http://www.indymedia.org/
Wings - Women' International News Gathering Service http://www.wings.org/
For print resources look up:
The Ecologist Magazine http://www.theecologist.org/
World Watch Magazine http://www.worldwatch.org/
The Nation Magazine http://www.thenation.com/
Jim Hightower Lowdown monthly http://www.jimhightower.com/
YES! A Journal of Positive Futures http://www.futurenet.org/
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The International Institute for Facilitation and Consensus is a consulting group specializing in facilitation training and services. IIFAC grew out of work of the founding partners, Beatrice Briggs, Marisela Vera, Paola Willis and Beatriz Padilla, Visit them on the Internet at: http://www.iifac.org
or mailto:briggsbea@aol.com
CALENDAR
For extensive events listings: http://www.ecovillage.org Click on Calendar.
February 22 and March 21, 2003, the Findhorn Foundation will host its internationally acclaimed annual Ecovillage Training Programme for the 5th consecutive year. This Training Programme has drawn 100 people from 39 different countries, covering every continent on the planet.
For information, visit: http://www.findhorn.org/evt
Contact Hannah Morjan Tel: (44) 01309 692130; mailto:hannamorjan@findhorn.org) or Bookings Office Tel: (44) 01309 691 653, mailto:bookings@findhorn.org
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MORE REASONS FOR GIVING TO ENA:
# 2. SPREAD LOVE.
By giving to ENA you support the efforts of those dedicated to building communities demonstrating kindness in the way people treat one another in their personal and work lives, and in the way they treat the planet. Join us in that mission! We care deeply about encouraging people of the Americas to think about, openly discuss and enhance strategies for the creation of Ecovillages and sustainable lifestyles in their regions. In order not to exclude anyone with interest, ENA does not charge a membership fee to be involved, nor subscription fee for our publications. If you have the means, we ask that you make a donation so we can continue to reach out to all. Go to:
http://www.ecovillage.org
Then click on Get Involved! Print out a donor form, make your contribution payable to ENA, and mail to:
ENA c/o Kailash (treasurer)
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