Community

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Community

Community is a podcast about living better together. From the Global Ecovillage Network in Europe, we tell the stories of ecovillages and the people who live in them.

  1. JAN 30

    The Power of Going Local: A Conversation with Anja Lyngbaek at the European Ecovillage Gathering 2024

    In this compelling episode, we sit down with Anja Lyngbaek, Programmes Director of Local Futures and a passionate advocate for localization. Drawing from her extensive work with communities worldwide, Lyngbaek presents a powerful case for slowing down our current economic trajectory and reimagining our relationship with growth. At the heart of her talk at the...

    58 min

  2. 10/16/2023

    Episode 12: Coming back to the power of life – the politics and spirituality of peacework with Sabine Lichtenfels

    On today’s episode, we speak to Sabine Lichtenfels: activist, peaceworker, theologian, and co-founder of Tamera Ecovillage. We discuss Sabine’s journey into community, the politics and spirituality of peacework, the meaning of Tamera’s stone circle, and how to maintain hopeful in times of war: by “coming back to the power of life”. To learn more and...

    42 min

  3. 06/14/2023

    Episode 11: Building Community That Lasts with Les Pas-Sages

    How do you build a community that lasts 100 years? Les Pas-Sages wants to help community groups do just that, by demystifying complex concepts and providing clear and simple explanations of the legal, financial, and most importantly human mechanisms involved in setting up and maintaining housing cooperatives and other communities. In this episode, we talk...

    42 min

  4. 11/21/2022

    Voices of the Ecovillage Gathering: Camilla Nielsen-Englyst, Danish Ecovillage Network

    Why are there so many ecovillages in Denmark? How has the country ‘mainstreamed’ ecovillages? And what made hosting this summer’s ecovillage gathering there so special? Ecovillage veteran Steffen Emrich introduces a special series of interviews from the European Ecovillage Gathering. In this episode he’s in conversation with Camilla Neilsen-Englyst, powerhouse of the Danish Ecovillage Network,...

    22 min

  5. 11/21/2022

    Finding meaning in a time of endings: Dougald Hine at the European Ecovillage Gathering

    in this episode we explore some of the main themes of this summer’s European Ecovillage Gathering, and share writer and storyteller Dougald Hine’s moving keynote speech on the work worth doing when it feels like all is lost.

    39 min

  6. 03/31/2022

    Episode 10: Voices from Ukraine with Maksym Zalevski and Steffen Emrich

    Today on Community we’re rebroadcasting an episode of GEN EU board member and veteran ecovillager Steffen Emrich’s podcast, All About Community. Steffen has been closely involved in the ecovillage response to war in Ukraine, and in this episode he speaks to GEN Ukraine president Maksym Zalevski about how Ukraine’s ecovillagers are facing the current crisis....

    17 min

  7. 11/26/2021

    Episode 9: Crowdfunding Community with Mas del Potro

    Can you crowdfund a community? It’s one option many people have tried, with wildly differing results. On today’s episode we talk to someone who made it work: Roger Jove, co-founder of Mas del Potro, a young eco-social project in south-eastern Spain. He talks us through his journey from dream to reality, and why and how...

    25 min

  8. 11/09/2021

    Episode 8: Food and Community – Growing Plants and People at Findhorn

    Food is an integral part of community: what we eat, how we grow it, and who we share it with. And an ecovillage’s approach to food can tell us a lot about its philosophy, too. Today on Community we visit one of Europe’s oldest and largest ecovillages, Findhorn in Scotland, to talk to food growers,...

    28 min
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Community is a podcast about living better together. From the Global Ecovillage Network in Europe, we tell the stories of ecovillages and the people who live in them.

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  • Creator
    GEN Europe
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2025
  • Episodes
    16
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2020 GEN Europe
  • Show Website
    Community

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