Findhorn, Scotland Findhorn offers holistic education programmes. These include an annual ecovillage training programmesme, permaculture workshops, courses in personal development, spirituality, arts and crafts. Findhorn is home to Britain’s oldest and largest organic community-supported agricultural scheme. It has its own currency and bank, uses renewable energy systems (solar, wind and biomass), recycles waste, including sewage treated in a reed-bed living machine system. It has many community-based enterprises and is creating a village of eco-sensitive houses. Findhorn is also home to the award-winning reforestation project, Trees for Life, and promotes an ethic of voluntary simplicity. |
ZEGG (Centre for Experimental Society Design), Germany
ZEGG actively promotes an ethic of peace and sustainable living. Zegg offers courses in ecological building and renovation, mud-construction, organic gardening, permaculture design, spiritual ecology, the arts, social communication, conflict resolution, social networking, strategies for peace, and environmentally sustainable enterprises. The Zegg annual summer camps offer courses on everything from child rearing to countering global consumerism and resolving planetary crises. |
Damanhur, Italy
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CAT – The Centre for Alternative Technology, Wales
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The Global Ecovillage Network is a registered charity: SC043796 and has consultative status in the UN – ECOSOC.
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Damanhur is a community with its own currency, a diverse social structure, many successful businesses, organic farms, photo voltec installations, and an experiential school for children. Damanhur offers courses in the healing arts, communication, personal and spiritual transformation, community building, and the plastic arts, especially mosaics, ceramics, painting, tiffany glass work, and weaving. Damanhur also runs work exchange programmes, especially on its farms.
CAT is a comprehensive eco-tech demonstration and education centre run by dedicated environmentalists with hands-on holistic experience and academic expertise. A wide range of courses cover solar water heating and installations, timber frame self-build dwellings, and wind turbine construction. CAT is also experimenting with alternative building methods, waste recycling, green oak building, and eco-design and eco-construction suitable for practising architects and professional builders who want to learn how to be more environmentally-friendly. Courses also include green woodworking, blacksmithing, working with living willow, and providing participants with traditional local knowledge. CAT is a premier outreach demonstration project.