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Our GEN liaison Jonathan Dawson
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PERMACULTURE MAGAZINE
and The Global Ecovillage Network
In PM38, we introduced a new alliance between Permaculture Magazine and the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN).
Part of Permaculture Magazine is now dedicated to GEN news pages of ecovillage events worldwide!
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The Global Ecovillage Network (GEN)
Ecovillages are urban or rural settlements which pioneer approaches to sustainability that integrate the ecological, the economic, the socio-cultural and the spiritual. They seek to create models of just, equitable, joyful and sustainable societies.
Though many of us do not live in ecovillages, the aims of the ecovillage movement resonate strongly with permaculture’s central ethics of ‘earth care’, ‘people care’ and ‘fair shares’. So whilst PM will remain the same solutions-based environmental magazine, it’s alliance with GEN will give you a broader and deeper view into a pool of knowledge from which we can all draw.
What is GEN?
The Global Ecovillage Network is a worldwide association of communities and individuals working to create a sustainable planetary culture. It does this by promoting networking and exchange activities within the ecovillage movement; and communicating the ecovillage experience to mainstream policy-makers, planners and professionals. GEN places a high priority on publicising the activities of its members in the fields of eco-building, waste management, organic agriculture, energy generation, community-level governance, sustainable transport, community currencies and local economic development.
GEN members include large networks like Sarvodaya (11,000 sustainable villages in Sri Lanka); EcoYoff and Colufifa (350 villages in Senegal); ecotowns like Auroville in South India and Nimbin in Australia; educational centres such as Findhorn in Scotland, the Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales, Earthlands in Massachusetts; permaculture design sites such as Crystal Waters in Australia, Cochabamba in Bolivia and Barus in Brazil; small rural ecovillages like Gaia Asociación in Argentina and Huehuecoyotl in Mexico; and urban rejuvenation projects like Los Angeles EcoVillage.
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GEN Europe & Africa
Sieben Linden 1
38486 Bandau
Germany
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Damanhur
Baldissero C.se (TO) 10080 Piemonte
Italy
Email: [email protected]
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GEN Oceania & Asia
59 Crystal Waters
Permaculture Village
Conondale, Queensland 4552
Australia
Tel: +61 7 5494 4741
Fax: +61 7 5494 4578
Email: [email protected]
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Ecovillage Network of the Americas
556 Farm Road
PO Box 90, Summertown
TN 38483-0090
USA
Tel: +1 931 964 4324
Fax: +1 931 964 2200
Email: [email protected]
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