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Those who are willing must choose transition now (Español)

Liora and Andy will make a live appearance to El Manzano via skype conference. Students of the Permaculture Design Course will have the opportunity to think and listen together with two of the plantes finest ecosocial regenerationists, and to explore the role of higher education and action learning in mobilising our people to engage in action for sustainability.

If Money Rules the World Who Rule Money? (Español)

Margrit and Declan Kennedy will make a short appearance via live skype conference in El Manzano 26th of February 2010.

As a regional centre of the great re-capacitacion we exist to empower people in communities to redesign their life places. Redesigning money is at the heart of this process.

During the summer permaculture design course we will be exploring strategies for alternative economies and supporting students to apply solutions in their own communities. 

Getting Started in Permaculture (Español)

As we develop the Chilean branch of the Permaculture Research Institute, assiting people and communities to self organise for sustainability, we find ourselves working more and more in intensive design conversations. We are learning clearly that dreaming together is the first step, that by standing beside colleagues in conspiracy to design, we make sense together. Our consciousness is raised, and we can move on with a higher level of intention. What follows is a story from Enrique, participant in the a new community project Milenrama in the 5th region of Chile.

Welcome Anne y Glenn (Español)

Por Penny Livingston y James Stark (Español)

Facilitating Artistic and Ecological Action Locally (Español)

Participants from Five Continents in Attendance (Español)

Incredible Growth and Redirection (Espanol)

UNPRECEDENTED CHANGES AND CHALLENGES

“The changes and challenges we are currently facing are unprecedented. It is to the Earth and the emergence of a new humanity that I dedicate my service.”

WHAT WATERSHED DO YOU LIVE IN

Do you know what watershed you live in? What soil type the earth beneath your feet is composed of? The migration patterns of the animals in your area? Bioregionalism considers this type of awareness fundamental to creating societies rooted in regenerative living practices. Last month, the 10th Continental Bioregional Congress was held at The Farm, an intentional community and eco-village in Summertown, Tennessee. Gaia U graduates Gregory Landua and Jennifer English partnered with the Cumberland Green Bioregional organization to make this Congress a reality.

INTEGRACIÓN DE LA CULTURA Y LA ECOLOGÍA

The central theme of Gaia U Bachelors Associate Seda Saine’s work is the integration of culture and ecology. In his view, there is a very real cultural poverty created by the sense of separation from the natural world that most people in our society feel.

NEW ASSOCIATES: ´´WE ARE INSPIRED´´

Sixteen new associates and twelve returning associates participated in the most recent Gaia University orientation and end-of-year session, held at The Farm in Tennessee from September 28 - October 4. Most associates stayed on to attend the 10th Continental Bioregional Congress, which you can read more about below.

It has been said that we are the most useless generation that ever walked the earth (Hopkins, 2008). Our cosy western lifestyles have led us to reliance on the supermarket, and food transported thousands of kilometres around the planet. As we have chased economic growth at all costs, we have rejected a lifestyle where we had to take care of our own needs, and many of the basic skills that go along with resilient simple living. We forgot once common knowledge, common sense, like how to cook and preserve, to grow our own food, build our own homes, how to fix things when they break, how to live in community.

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