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GEN's activities at UN level in 2000:
February 2000:
Global Ecovillage Network-Europe (GEN-E) in partnership with the Findhorn Foundation hosted 47 participants for Ecovillage Training from the following countries: Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Ghana, Australia, Brazil, Taiwan, Philippines, El Salvador, Russia, Japan, South Africa, Switzerland, Turkey, Austria, Germany, Ireland, UK, Canada, Alaska, and USA.
Ecovillage Training promotes the transference of tools and techniques for creating sustainable community in the fields of building green, sustainable economics, organic food production, conflict facilitation, holistic health, global communication, fundraising, eco-restoration and conservation. The Findhorn program has the institutional endorsement of the United Nations Institute of Training and Research (UNITAR).
During 2000:
GEN in partnership with the Ecovillage Training Center in the United States hosted participants from UK, Canada, Costa Rica, France, Bangladesh, Congo, Uruguay, Brazil, Germany and the USA for training along the lines of the Findhorn UNITAR program. This was the sixth annual program of this type at the Ecovillage Training Center since 1994.
August 2000:
A delegation of eight members represented GEN in the 53rd Annual DPI/NGO Conference at the UN Headquarters, New York. Theme of the Conference: “Global Solidarity: The Way to Peace and International Cooperation”. GEN sponsored the midday side-event “Ecovillages: Providing a Model for Sustainable Living and Global Solidarity.”
October 2000:
UNESCO agreed to institutionally endorse the international conference “Spirit of Learning: Soul in Education,” under GEN auspices, which intended to strengthen the international collective effort toward an education containing universal values. We were authorised to use the International Year for the Culture of Peace logo in our printed materials and we were very pleased to host amongst our presenters Ms Ibtissam Al Bassam, Director of Teachers Section at UNESCO, and Mr. Alfredo Sfeir-Younis, Director of the World Bank in Geneva.
October 2000: The Ecovillage Network of the Americas, a charter member of GEN, provided training workshops in natural building, appropriate technology and sustainable village design to war refugee populations in rural Colombia.
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