The Global Ecovillage Network
Web-Site: http://gen.ecovillage.org/index.html
The Global Ecovillage Network is a global confederation of people and communities that meet and share their ideas, exchange technologies, develop cultural and educational exchanges, directories and newsletters, and are dedicated to restoring the land and living "sustainable plus" lives by putting more back into the environment than we take out.

Network members include large networks like Sarvodaya (11,000 sustainable villages in Sri Lanka); EcoYoff and Colufifa (350 villages in Senegal); the Ladakh project on the Tibetian plateau; ecotowns like Auroville in South India, the Federation of Damanhur in Italy and Nimbin in Australia; small rural ecovillages like Gaia Asociaci?n in Argentina and Huehuecoyotl, Mexico; urban rejuvenation projects like Los Angeles EcoVillage and Christiania in Copenhagen; permaculture design sites such as Crystal Waters, Australia, Cochabamba, Bolivia and Barus, Brazil; and educational centres such as Findhorn in Scotland, Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales, Earthlands in Massachusetts, and many more.



GEN's main aim is to support and encourage the evolution of sustainable settlements across the world, through:
- Internal and External Communications services; facilitating the flow and exchange of information about ecovillages and demonstration sites;
- Networking and project coordination in fields related to sustainable settlements; and
- Global cooperation/Partnerships (UN Best Practices, EU Phare, EYFA, Ecosoc)

Under-represented Nations and Peoples organisation
Web-Site: http://www.unpo.org/
UNPO is an international organisation created by nations and peoples around the world, who are not represented as such in the world´s principal international organisations, such as the United Nations.

 

The Alliance for a Responsible and United World
Web-Site: http://www.echo.org/
Inventing new forms of collective action in order to influence jointly the future of an increasingly complex world.

 

The Boulder Institute for Nature and Human Spirit
1314 8th Street, Boulder, Colorado 80302 USA
Tel: (303) 939-8398; Fax: (303) 447-2253
The programs of the Boulder Institute promote just and sacred relationships between people and the last. To this end, the Institute sponsors a variety of educational events, leadership and professional training, spiritual retreats, and wilderness journeys. It seeks to create modes of activiism in which a spiritual, moral witness can be brought to bear upon the political, social and environmental problems of our time.

Findhorn Foundation
The Park, Findhorn, Forres IV36 3TZ, Moray, SCOTLAND
Tel: 44 (0)1309 690311; Fax: +44 (0)1309 69130
Web-site: http://www.findhorn.org/; E-mail:
A Centre for Transformation and Education. The Findhorn Foundation is at the heart of an international community based on spiritual values. It is a place where daily life becomes active service through awareness of ourselves, each other, nature, our environment and our times.

The International Society for Ecology and Culture
- UK / international
Web-site: http://www.isec.org.uk/
ISEC is a non-profit organisation concerned with the protection of both biological and cultural diversity. Our emphasis is on education for action: moving beyond single issues to look at the more fundamental influences that shape our lives.

Schumacher College
United Kingdom
www.gn.apc.org/schumachercollege/
Schumacher College was founded in 1991 upon the twin convictions that the world view which has dominated Western civilisation has serious limitations, and that a new vision is needed for human society, its values and its relationship to the earth.


Through interdisciplinary studies, the College aims to explore the foundations of that new vision. At the College, a unified residential education involving physical work, meditation, aesthetic experience and intellectual inquiry creates a sense of the wholeness of life. We also work with a number of funding agencies in Europe and UK and have close links with the Greens in New Zealand and Austrilia.