GEN-News
edited for GEN by David Yekutiel
GEN-news feature news and short articles from the Ecovillage world worldwide and are published every two months.
They are issued since 2003 in Permaculture Magazine, and distributed to other printmagazines and websites.
Ecovillage articles
This page features articles on ecovillages, GEN and related topics as pdf downloads which have been published in different sources.
Ecovillages Newsletter
by Diane Leafe Christian
To encourage and inspire new and existing ecovillage projects with news about ecovillages and related projects worldwide.
A bimonthly newsletter both online and email version available.
Ecovillage Radio
by Russ Purvis
Talk show and interviews. Topics: ecovillages, local foods, accessible renewable energy, local governance, conflict resolution and issues related to sustainable living.
Regional Newsletters
The Americas - Europe & Africa - Oceania/Asia
Each of the three GEN regions produces its own kind of newsletters. The formats vary from printed newsletter, webnewsletter, email newsletter or as a GEN section in different magazines.
Global Ecovillage Network Magazine
In 2000 and 2001 the GEN magazine was produced with many insight stories of Ecovillages and the networks. These issues are downloadable in pdf format.
Publications
New Frontiers for Sustainability
By Jonathan Dawson
Paperback Book
Schumacher Briefings 12
In recent years, ecovillages - local communities which aim to minimise their eclogical impact but maximise human wellbeing and happiness - have proliferated worldwide. They incorporate a wealth of radical ideas and approaches which can be traced back to Schumacher, Gandhi, eco-feminism, and the alternative education movement. This Briefing describes the history and potential of the ecovillage movement.
The most complete record about ecovillages and sustainable living to date.
Ecovillage living is a happy, optimistic, colorful book about free people who are taking responsibility for their own lives, for their surroundings and for the global community. Without any support or funding they have created the basis of a new global culture.
"Living and Learning Centres" brochure
Many examples of a worldwide range of Living and Learning centres are shown in this threefolded brochure available also for download.
And We are Doing It! Building an Ecovillage Future
A book by JT Ross Jackson
Presents the personal life journey and vision of a very special human being, Ross Jackson, and his life partner Hildur Jackson. Ross rose from a modest background to achieve extraordinary success in the institutions of International business and finance. From his insider's understanding of the destructive nature of the institutions he came to master, he has lent his energies to the task of creating societies more responsive to the needs of people, community and nature ...
