[Sdpg] Newsletter of the Ecovillage Network of the Americas (ENA)
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ENA eNews
Date: August 2004 Issue # 0008
Editor: Giovanni Ciarlo: giovanni at ecovillage.org
This newsletter is distributed for free in North, Central, South
America, the Caribbean and beyond. ENA is a grassroots, sustainable
community network, and part of the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN).
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ENA's mission is: To engage the peoples of the Americas in common
effort to join the global transformation towards ecologically,
economically and culturally sustainable human settlement.
Our goals are to demonstrate how to meet the needs of present and
future generations for a safe and healthy planet to inhabit, and to
link like-minded projects in the Americas.
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NETWORK NEWS
~ A new chapter in the history of the ecovillage movement is opening
up. A new worldwide education program for sustainability created by the
Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) was born when 23 educators from
ecovillages on all continents met at Findhorn Ecovillage, Scotland the
last week of May. They came from Brazil, Mexico, the USA, Australia,
Africa and all parts of Europe. During a synergistic meeting, an
"ecovillage of ecovillages" was created, where silence, dance, chant,
dialogue, planning, meditation and love were woven together into a
beautiful tapestry. The ecovillagers agreed on a curriculum covering
all aspects of sustainability: its ecological, social, economic,
spiritual and cultural dimensions; and on a pedagogy developed in
ecovillages called Living and Learning.
For further information on:
- the Global Ecovillage Network, see: http://gen.ecovillage.org
- the new educational program, contact: Chair of the steering
committee, Ina Meyer-Stoll <ina at gen-europe.org>.
~ Rob Wheeler, Chair and Project Coordinator of the EcoEarth Alliance,
an UN Partnership Initiative between GEN and a consortium of UN
affiliated NGOs, had the good fortune to be interviewed on the
"Development Voices" webcast at the UN, along with many heads of UN
agencies and ministers during the Conference on Sustainable Development
(CSD-12) this past April. You can hear the program by going to:
http://www.un.org/webcast/developmentvoices
Or contact Rob Wheeler at: robineagle at worldcitizen.org
~ Please visit the Ecovillage eStore:
http://ena.ecovillage.org/store/index.html
Check out these inspiring books:
"Ecovillage Living: Restoring the Earth and Her People", edited by
Hildur Jackson and Karen Svensson.
"Creating a Life Together: Practical tools to Grow Ecovillages and
Intentional Communities" By Diana Leafe Christian.
"Introduction to Consensus" by Beatrice Briggs, including a 28-page
"Guide for Facilitators" - available in English and Spanish.
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REGIONAL NEWS
For full contact information of regional representatives go to:
http://ena.ecovillage.org/English/region/index.html
Click on the Region of interest in the map.
If you know of ecovillage projects or other relevant news in your
region please send a short paragraph to giovanni at ecovillage.org and we
will consider it for our next issue of ENA eNews.
BRAZIL
Contact: Vanessa Marinho
There was an inspiring ENA Brasil meeting at ABRA144 ecovillage in
Manaus/ Amazonas, and by consensus Vanessa Marinho was selected to
serve on the ENA Council as the Brasilian representative. A
representative from the south of Brasil will be selected during the
Social Forum January 05 in Porto Alegre.
Vanessa has been coordinating ENA-North Brazil for sometime. Before
settling in the Amazon bioregion, she traveled for almost a year in
Brazil visiting and recording communities and ecovillages. They live
the reality of an ecovillage in the middle of the Amazon. See:
http://www.abra144.org
eMail: comunidade at abra144.org
ECOVILLAGE NETWORK OF AMERICA- BRASIL
http://www.ecovila.blogger.com.br/index.html
http://www.enabrasilmissao.blogger.com.br/index.html
CANADA
Contact: Lee Davies
~ Visit the Ecovillage Network of Canada at: http://enc.ecovillage.org/
CARIBBEAN
Contacts: Felipe Bermúdez and Liora Adler
Our prayers for the people of the Caribbean who are enduring Mother
Nature's power, this hurricane season.
EAST USA
Contacts: Dan Greenberg and Manda Gillespe
~ Cleveland Ecovillage has hired a full time ecovillage coordinator
with an office at the neighborhood's local development corporation. The
new coordinator, Mandy Metcalf, can provide brief updates on the many
exciting things happening there for those interested in urban
ecovillage projects. MMetcalf at dscdo.org
~ Ecovillage Educators Faculty Training
In June 2004, twenty Living Routes
http://www.livingroutes.org/educators from Brazil, India, Mexico,
Senegal, Scotland and the U.S. came together for a week at the Findhorn
Foundation in northern Scotland to explore how to train leaders in
education for a sustainable future. The participants were faculty,
staff, and supporters of Living Routes, a Massachusetts, U.S. based
nonprofit that directs college-level programs in ecovillages around the
world. These ecovillages provide ideal "campuses" for students to learn
about sustainability while actually living in one. The next Faculty
Training is planned for Summer of 2005, at the Sirius Community in
western Massachusetts.
~ Shaw Ecovillage, in Washington DC, has the mission - "to train youth
to be effective leaders and catalysts for meaningful and sustainable
change in Washington, DC's urban neighborhoods". Their goals are to
develop YOUTH LEADERS and to build SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES, and to
achieve meaningful change by addressing three critical aspects of urban
neighborhoods:
1. Economy--creating an economy to support individuals of all income
levels;
2. Environment-- a natural and built environment that is healthy for
all people and non-detrimental to the earth;
3. Social--a society that supports the interests and needs of all
residents.
Find out more at: www.shawecovillage.com
MESOAMERICA
Contacts: Giovanni Ciarlo and Laura Kuri
~ The emerging ecovillage, Huehuecoyotl in Tepoztlan, Mexico is taking
its vision of becoming a Living and Learning Center to new levels this
year as it embarks on a program of courses that offer college credit in
partnership with two education institutions in the US: Goddard College
of Vermont and Living Routes / University of Massachusetts. See:
http://www.huehuecoyote.org / http://www.LivingRoutes.org /
http://www.goddard.edu/academic/mexico.html
~ El Instituto de la Juventud, the Mexican governmental agency
responsible for youth programs, is working with the Youth Employment
Summit (YES) campaign of North America to bring together 1000
government officials, corporate leaders, youth leaders, development
agencies and NGOs in Veracruz, Mexico in October 2004. The summit is
focusing on themes related to youth employment worldwide - developing
entrepreneurial spirit, renewable energies, HIV/AIDS prevention, and
youth participation in civil society.
YES 2004 offers a stimulating opportunity for adult leaders to meet
with a new and dynamic generation poised to guide our grandchildren
into the future. Participants will represent several currents of
thought on matters of economic development, meeting in an
intergenerational atmosphere of exchange and learning.
See: http://www.yesweb.org/mexico
~ The site of Tonantzin Tlalli ecovillage, at Paraje Bonanza in the
district of Ejutla, Oaxaca, Mexico is a place of exceptional beauty. At
1540m above sea level and it is at the feet of the Cerro del Labrador
with its pristine protected forests of pine and oak. Tonantzin Tlalli
is a project of the Non Profit Group for the Promotion of Education and
Sustainable Development (GRUPEDSAC in Spanish). It relies on the
generous support of donors, in particular the WK Kellogg foundation.
For information: info at pacificos.org
MOBILE
Contacts: Alberto Ruz and Penélope Baquero
~ A video is now available documenting the Call of the Condor
Gathering in Peru last year. For information and to order, contact
Penelope: laranarcoiris at yahoo.com
~ After the Call of the Condor Gathering, the Caravana Arcoiris por la
Paz Living and Learning Center has been based in Iquique, in the
northern deserts of Chile, preparing for the next part of their
journey: South to Santiago, and then, to Tierra del Fuego. In the
meantime they have built two trailers, changed an engine, bought
another bus, remodeled both pre-existing buses, fixed the jeep, and
presented two multimedia shows: "Mandala", and "Maya". They also gave a
dozen workshops on femininity, permaculture for desert zones,
ecovillage design, consensus, dance and theater.
In November, the Caravan will participate in the First Social Forum in
Chile, and December 6th-12th they will be organizing with local
networks the LLAMADO DEL ARCOIRIS Bioregional Action Council. The
Caravan continues working together with the Brazilian groups hosting
the Chamado do Beija Flor, which is scheduled for September 2005,
somewhere near Alto Paraiso, Brazil.
See: http://www.lacaravana.org
NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA
Contacts: Enrique Hidalgo and Carlos Gómez (Pato)
~ International Volunteers Workcamp in the Darien Rainforest, Colombia
Organized by Fundacion Darien and SCI (International Civil Service, at
the Reserva Integral and Ecoaldea Sasardí (RIES), in the municipality
Acandi department of Choco, near Trigana Bay, on the Caribbean coast.
The Sasardi Reserve is located in a high biodiversity zone in the north
of Colombia, bordering Panama.
For details, contact:
Claudio Madaune: ecoaldeasnsa at ecovillage.org Tel: (57) 48242556
FUNDACION DARIEN: fundarien at epm.net.co Tel: (57) 4 - 8243610
SERVICIO CIVIL INTERNACIONAL (SCI): sciint at sciint.org
http://www.sciint.org
~ ENA-Colombia has received an invitation through Project Counseling
Service - PCS to lead an 80 hour Permaculture Certification course
directed to grassroots community leaders and various NGOs working on
the frontlines with displaced populations of the Colombian region known
as Magdalena Medio.
For information: pato at ecovillage.org
~ The Planetary Community of Janajpacha, formed 15 years ago, between
the Andes and the Rainforest of Bolivia practices Mandala building
techniques from ecological indigenous architecture. They also focus on
fundamental themes of self-sufficiency, eco-construction, appropriate
technology, and new communal leadership models in urban and rural
settings.
eMail: contacto at planetadeluz.com or info at chamalu.com
http://www.chamalu.com
SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA
Contacts: Lucia Battegazzore and Silvia Balado
~ Check out the new Gaia Argentina Living & Learning Center Education
programs.
Contact Asociación Gaia - Instituto Argentino de Permacultura
http://www.gaia.org.ar
eMail: gaia at gaia.org.ar
~ In Lomas de Solymar, Uruguay, Lucia and Luciano Battegazzore have
been very busy this year organizing monthly Ecovillage meetings on
topics ranging from alternative economics to consensus decision-making.
The program aims to develop the ecovillage concept, concluding with a
participatory workshop and discussion groups focused on useful
information for the design and development of ecovillages and
self-sufficient communities.
http://www.permacultura.info/talleres
eMail: 7generaciones at ecovillage.org
~ The organizing team of the National Ecoclubes Office in Santiago,
Chile invites all interested people to the VI National Gathering of
Ecoclubes, November 12-14, 2004.
http://www.iepe.org/ecoclubes and http://www.ecoclubes.org
eMail: ecoclub_chile at yahoo.com, ecoclubesdechile at latinmail.com
WEST USA
Contacts: Lois Arkin and Jeff Clearwater
~ Read the Los Angeles Times article on urban permaculture in LA:
"It's kind of easy being green" at LA Eco-village (LAEV) by Susan
Carpenter, Times Staff Writer.
Go to:
http://www.latimes.com/features/lifestyle/la-wk-
cover22jul22_b%2C1%2C3910643.story?coll=la-home-style
~ ECOVILLAGE NETWORK OF LOS ANGELES: MEET-UP TO GET STARTED
If you are planning to start an urban ecovillage in Los Angeles, come
to this first gathering: Sunday, September 12, 10 am - noon, no fee.
TOURS OF LAEV ARE ALSO AVAILABLE upon request.
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED. Fee: $10 (sliding scale ok)
Contact Lois: crsp at igc.org or phone 213 738-1254
~ ECOVILLAGES: TRANSLATION TO THE MAINSTREAM
5 day conference September 20-25 at Hollyhock, Cortes Island, British
Columbia, Canada. Lois Arkin (L.A. Eco-Village/CRSP) and Diana
Christian (Earthhaven Ecovillage and editor or Communities Magazine)
and many others from the ecovillage movement are presenting.
See details at http://www.ecovillage.org/conference/index.htm
~~~
RESOURCES and CALENDAR
For extensive listings, see: http://ena.ecovillage.org/English
Click on Resources or Calendar
~ The Ecovillage Training Center at The Farm in Summertown, TN has a
continuous schedule of courses on ecovillage design, appropriate
technologies and more. For schedules and full list of courses, see:
http://www.thefarm.org/etc/
~ Earthaven Ecovillage in North Carolina offers a wide variety of
trainings on ecovillages, permaculture and sustainability. Visit:
http://www.earthaven.org
~ Sustainable Resources 2004: An International Forum Connecting People
with Hands-on Solutions to World Poverty, September 27 - October 5,
Boulder, Colorado.
Sustainable Resources 2004 will consist of a combination of keynote
lectures, technical and non-technical presentations, case studies,
cooperative problem solving, workshops on the major issues facing
developing communities: water, sanitation, infrastructure, energy,
shelter, health and hygiene, economic development, security, strategy,
whole systems design, food and nutrition, social and cultural concerns,
communications, and environment. http://www.sustainableresources.org
eMail: info at sustainableresources.org
~ The web site http://www.pathtofreedom.com offers many interesting
examples of how we can live a simpler, sustainable life style without
sacrificing our comfort.
~~~
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