THE GEN CALL TO ACTION WHAT CAN YOU DO? BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE GOOD INTENTIONS THE WORLD AND CREATIVITY OF Find your way to a high quality, low impact GLOBAL CITIZENS AND lifestyle OUR WILLINGNESS TO BUILD IN WIDENING MAKE A DIFFERENCE CIRCLES Bring your compassion and authenticity ARE ONE OF THE into a collaborative search for healing and MOST UNDERUTILIZED right action RESOURCES WE HAVE. INTEGRATE THE MARGINALIZED GEN HELPS Allow the richness of diversity to unfold To hear more from UNLEASH PROVIDE HOPE AND GUIDANCE TO ecovillages THIS POTENTIAL. FUTURE GENERATIONS around the world, Empower youth to contribute actively to sign up for the GEN NEWSLETTER LIVE IN HEALTHY RELATIONSHIP TO To support GEN’s work THE NATURAL WORLD in the world, please donate and become a Develop and install regenerative energies, FRIEND OF GEN appropriate and If you have special skills to offer please sign up as a GEN VOLUNTEER BUILD AN ECONOMY THAT SERVES LIFE AND ENRICHES THE WHOLE If you already have an ecovillage project, Have the courage to share and to extend become active in your regional network and generosity enroll in the GEN DATABASE TRUST IN THE CAPACITY OF EACH If you would like to help promote the ecovillage GEN AMBASSADOR INDIVIDUAL TO CHANGE concept, become a Empower yourself and others For more information, please visit www.ecovillage.org Global Ecovillage Network or write to us at [email protected] Connecting Communities The Global Ecovillage Network is a for a Sustainable World registered charity: SC043796 and has consultative status in UN-ECOSOC www.ecovillage.org AN ECOVILLAGE IS AN INTENTIONAL OR TRADITIONAL COMMUNITY THAT IS CONSCIOUSLY DESIGNED THROUGH LOCALLY OWNED, PARTICIPATORY PROCESSES TO REGENERATE THEIR SOCIAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS.

Ecovillages embrace the concept of ‘luxurious simplicity’, celebrating and recreating low impact lifestyles that The Global Ecovillage Network was set up in The 4 dimensions of : expand a sense of care, responsibility and well being. 1995. It serves as an alliance between rural and Thousands of ecovillages around the planet are already urban, intentional and traditional communities. demonstrating how we can transition to a fully Ecovillages have some of the lowest carbon sustainable future. footprints in the industrial world. The community-based capacity for implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and Climate GEN has developed a set of trainings to facilitate Agreements can be unleashed by establishing this transition to resilience - learning journeys regional and national programs to support for change makers and design processes for ecovillage development. are integrated into a holistic approach. communities to chart their own pathways into the future. Gaia Education has grown from GEN to offer the Ecovillage Design Education (EDE) programme on all continents.

GEN has consultative status at the UN-ECOSOC (Economic and Social Council) commission.

GEN International works through five broad regional organizations:

THROUGH SHARING BEST PRACTICES, INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS AND HONORING DEEP-ROOTED TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND LOCAL CULTURES, WE ARE CREATING A POOL OF WISDOM FOR ON A GLOBAL SCALE.

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