Here a summary of the Rice is Life project by Greenpeace China.
A nice example of how to empower people – in this case by simply giving a camera to local farmers and explaning them how to use it… The photos are still being exhibited – even 5 years after the project was carried out. The [...]
Hello,
We are involved in an ecological housing project in Karlstad, Sweden.
Our city already has two ecovillages called Tuggelite (which was first in Sweden) and Mjölnartorpet. Since almost everyone keeps on living in their ecohouses it’s hard to move there. That is why we came up with the idea to create Ekoby3.0 (EcoVillage3.0).
So far we [...]
Together with Mira and four others we visited a co-housing/ecovillage project in Poncelle, Province of Luxemburg, Belgium this past weekend.
Imagine a little village in the least polluted areas of Belgium on a sunny day. You arrive around lunchtime and have lunch with Michel, who three years ago had the idea of starting up a co-housing [...]
WWOOF ‘willing/worldwide workers on organic farms’ is a worldwide network for people that are interested in organic farm projects.
You can contact a WWOOF network and against a small membership fee you receive a list of organic farms in your country of choice. You can then contact farmers directly and find a place to work.
Visit the website of The Urban Farmer
Ron Berezan and The Urban Farmer are helping people in Edmonton develop sustainable veggie gardens in urban areas.
Have you every heard about Permaculture design for self sustained communities?
Intro to the basic concepts: www.gburnett.unisonplus.net/Perma/
Great in depth resources: www.permaculture.info/
www.permaculture.org.au/ active Forum with lots of info.. Not only for Australians
Here two sites on Permaculture in Wiki-Style:
www.appropedia.org, permaculture.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
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