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Welcome back to Community Resilience, a podcast created in collaboration with the Ecovillage Resilience 2.5 Degree Project, facilitated by the Global Ecovillage Network. I'm your host, Eva Goldfarb, inviting you to gather around the fire as we explore resilience, adaptation, and transformation in our time of deepening polycrisis. Today, we gather with Michael Würfel of Sieben Linden Ecovillage, situated in the community Bietzendorf in the Altmark district, Salzbüttel, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, near Frankfurt.



Michael Würfel is an author, videographer, community weaver, and karaoke superstar. He has lived in Sieben Linden Ecovillage for 15 years, in and around projects involving public relations, management, facilitating seminars for potential new members. In addition to creating and publishing Eurotopia, a wonderful compilation of ecovillages around Europe, Michael is a documentary filmmaker with a theme of community.



Please note that English is a second language for most of our guests. We do offer transcripts and our show notes at ⁠ecovillage.org/community-resilience⁠.

Today we are joined by Yuluka Kankurua, President of CASA Latina and Latin America’s regional representative in the Resilience project. Yuluka lives in Aldeafeliz, a 17 year old Ecovillage in the center of the Colombia.

She is a part of CASA Colombia, CASA Latina and now the Network Stewardship Circle (NSC) of GEN. Yuluka is a sociocracy trainer and also a promoter of the rights of Mother Earth. She has written a short book about the pedagogical strategy used to promote the Rights of Mother Earth called “Community Living Aulas for the Mother Earth Rights,” available to download at the CASA Latina Site.

Please remember that english is not the first language for many of our guests. Thank you Yuluka, for your help translating the materials into spanish. You can find these resources in our show notes at ecovillage.org/resilience-podcast

Today we speak to Rob Wheeler, the Ecovillage Resilience Project partner for The Farm Ecovillage and Education Center. In addition to his work locally, Rob has participated actively in the UN’s primary conferences and processes on climate and sustainable development for the past 25 years. He is the North American Representative on the Facilitating Group for Action for Sustainable Development which works with the UN on the Global Week of Action for achieving the SDGs. Rob serves on the Advisory Council for Ecosystem Restoration Communities and is the Founder and CEO of Sustainably Wise - which will be a web portal that will assist all interested people and stakeholder groups to help achieve the SDGs and to transition as rapidly as possible to a fully sustainable world. Rob is the Global Ecovillage Network’s main representative in the United Nations and a newly elected board member.

Dive deeper by exploring the Resilience Attributes mentioned by Rob:


Diversity



habitat diversity


food production/crops diversity


livelihood diversity


diversity of perspectives 





Redundancy



multiple reinforcing options


backup alternatives for responding to shocks





Connectivity & Modularity



connections with other ecovillages (shared learning/resources)


connections with surrounding communities (sharing information/resources)


landscape connectivity e.g., ecological corridors


connectivity that promotes recovery after disturbances/shocks


modularity to buffer disturbances (disease spread/economic impacts)





Inclusivity and equity



degrees of equity


how to gauge levels of trust


evidence of collective action


fair opportunities


reciprocity/exchange for mutual benefit





Adaptive learning & decision making



monitoring change


experimentation


processes for learning 


evidence-based strategies


polycentric governance





inhibiting top-down approaches

Learn more about them at: https://ecovillage.org/resilience-tracker-tool-release/



Join us as we explore the ways in which many forms of nurturing resilience are being developed. Find more at: ⁠ecovillage.org/ecovillage-resilience-podcast⁠⁠

Mugove is a natural farmer and a community development facilitator, focused on the building resilience and food sovereignty in African communities. His mission is to use his life skills, land use design skills, and passion for the environment and community to listen, encourage, and inspire people to look after themselves and the environment, especially the next generation, as the custodians for the future. Over the last three decades, he has played a central role in the development of the integrated land use design process as a tool for inclusive and participatory whole school land design and community engagement.

Mugove has worked with communities and organizations across the African continent and facilitated the founding of the Regional Schools and Colleges Permaculture Program, or RESCOPE, in 2006, which now shares green technologies and permaculture techniques in Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Today, Mugove serves the movement as a general coordinator for RESCOPE and the development facilitator for the Gudza Ramuka Ecovillage in Zimbabwe. I hope you enjoy our conversation on community resilience and the powerful act of connecting locally.Please note that English is a second language for most of our guests. We do offer transcripts and our show notes at ecovillage.org/community-resilience.

Welcome back to Community Resilience, a podcast created in collaboration with the Ecovillage Resilience 2.5 degree project facilitated by the global ecovillage network.



Today we're receiving Macaco Tamerice, who has lived in Damanhur for nearly 30 years and served the ecovillage network as the president of GEN-Europe, Ecovillage Design Education Facilitator and GEN UN Ambassador. Macaco is a life coach, trauma worker, facilitator and spiritual healer who has found purpose and happiness by going through profound personal transformations and life choices.



I hope you enjoy our conversation on the lifecycles of Damanhur, the interplay between inerfreedom and community, and take from our conversation ideas for building resilience in your community.



Learn more at: ⁠⁠ecovillage.org/ecovillage-resilience-podcast

Welcome back to Community Resilience, a podcast created in collaboration with the Ecovillage Resilience 2.5 degree project facilitated by the global ecovillage network.

Today, we are travelling to Piracanga Ecovillage, located on the eastern coast of Brazil in the state of Bahia, nestled between the forest and the beach. Piracanga has undergone great transformation in the past few years on social, structural and spiritual levels. It is an honor to have them with us in the resilience project, and we hope you enjoy hearing from them as much as we do.

Today’s podcast guest is  Bruno Tambelini, permaculturalist, EDE instructor, social entrepreneur and founder of the Inkiri Institute at Piracanga. For four years, he has dedicated  himself to the development of the Viva Inkiri University - a project that has trained more than 400 young people between 18 to 28 in socio-emotional skills - while creating local impact through regenerative culture training.

Join us as we explore the ways in which many forms of community nurture seed of hope, passing on the ways in which they have learned to be resilient.

Learn more at: ⁠ecovillage.org/ecovillage-resilience-podcast