The Global Ecovillage Network
Web-Site: http://gen.ecovillage.org/index
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: 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: 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: www.findhorn.org; E-mail:
[email protected]
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: 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.
http://www.newstatesman.com/nsjobs.htm
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.