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Sri Lanka’s Ecovillage Network
Open To World

Ecovillages Students
Exchange Inspiring Success
Sarvodaya, the 15,000 strong network of villages in Sri Lanka, is offering international visitors and groups personalised 1-4 week programmes to study and participate in their activities. A typical programme includes home stay in a Sarvodaya village for a few days and participation in Shramadana activities with villagers, to fulfil any needs of the community.
Individual visitors are free to choose their location. …
 The second half of 2009 saw some fun and inspiring exchange visits between the youth of the Findhorn (Scotland) and Kitezh (Russia) ecovillages. For most of the two-week stay they played a role-play game based on Russian ancient history during which they were sent on quests, sought the advice of the wise old Babajaga and had to make decisions in youth councils about their future. It was an engaging and dramatic time, when the students stepped out of themselves and saw themselves and each other with new eyes. …

Innovative Environment Course
at Kibbutz Lotan

Tamera’s Test Field
For A Model Solar Village
Kibbutz Lotan’s Centre for Creative Ecology, Israel, now offers students a unique study abroad experience through the semester programme, ‘Peace, Justice and the Environment’.
Participants are awarded 16 credits through the University of Massachusetts, and these are transferable to all US universities. The programme is run in collaboration with the organisation Living Routes. …		 In October 2009 Tamera, Portugal, inaugurated a Test Field for a SolarVillage; a model village for testing decentralised solar technology in everyday life. Based on the results, a SolarVillage – self-sufficient in energy and food production – will be built as the core of a research and training institute. Its inventor, said “Our dream is to build the first worldwide Solar University here.” He believes the poor regions on Earth could be the wealthy ones in the future; their richness in sunshine offers them the chance to become independent of petrol and nuclear energy. …

Sustainable Villages

Sieben Linden

Politicians At Ecovillage
In November 2009 the CLEAR Village Foundation organised a community design lab at the Institute of Advance Architecture of Catalonia. 85 people from 20 countries focused on how to create and regenerate sustainable village communities. Among the participants were representatives from Tamera, Cloughjordan and Findhorn. … Officials from Germany’s government have visited the Ecovillage at Sieben Linden. The visit followed a presentation about the community at a regional conference on the economic and demographic problems of Germany’s rural areas – which include an aging population, high unemployment, and the movement of young people to cities.
Sieben Linden is the only area in the region where these trends have been reversed. …

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