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Meet the holistic entrepreneur who created an enchanting sober festival & found inspiration in Gaia Education
In this week's blog, we catch up with a cool, wise, and beautiful soul, Felicitas Vallot. To shine a spotlight on her experience studying with us, why she co-created a sober festival, and what small steps we can all take to better connect to ourselves, each other, and the planet.
Felicitas is an entrepreneur and consultant for holistic wellbeing experiences and healing spaces. She grounded her work through her Business Studies (BSc.), Medical Anthropology (MA), Yoga, Buddhism, Community Buildi…
Fancy a Cup of Conscious Coffee?
Sip a cup of cosmic coffee to open your mind & shift your worldview.
If your regular flat white or espresso hasn't been hitting the spot lately, maybe it's time you headed down to Cosmo Café! A Gaia Education Alumni project, based in Landau Germany - the café was created to be a melting pot for regenerative ideas and aims at bringing the community together. And we know how much better food & drink tastes when enjoyed in the company of like-minded folk!
Kevin who is one of the masterminds beh…
Learn How to Rewild Urban land with Tiny Forrests!
GEN Ecovillage Summit – Living Solutions for a Regenerative World
The Global Ecovillage Network will host its Ecovillage Summit in April. Join us and 35 ecovillages & speakers for 7 days of connection and hope. You can sign up today for the Summit at summit2021.ecovillage.org
Last year, GEN hosted its second online summit with more than 20,000 participants from around the globe to build communities for the future. This year, GEN will showcase how ecovillages contribute to the mitigation of climate crisis and function as resilient communities of practise b…
Free ‘Local Water Solutions for Global Challenges’ Course – New Cycle Starting 22 March
Launching a new cycle of our free online course, in partnership with UNITAR and the University of Strathclyde, covering a number of water-related challenges that must be addressed to achieve sustainable water solutions at the local level.
The Impact of Stories in Understanding the World Around Us
Mother Jungle is an organisation founded by Sanne von Oort, a graduate of Gaia Education’s Design for Sustainability programme. The ethos of the organisation lies in the importance of indigenous storytelling in biocultural conservation efforts and supporting intergenerational communication.
Shifting Direction
Today, every economy in the world is being induced to enlist in a single, highly-centralised economy, one which depends on vast homogenised markets and ever-increasing trade. Although the globalisation of this economic model is exacerbating a wide range of social, economic, and environmental problems, governments continue to subsidise the global economy’s physical infrastructure, and to rewrite trade treaties, laws and regulations to facilitate its spread.
A number of concrete ste…
Networking with Nature: Implementing the Bioregional Approach
Living with a bioregional awareness does not require that we begin by mapping our entire bioregion. We can start small, with our own home and immediate surroundings. Here are some ideas on how to get started.
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Make a seasonal wheel, a circle bisected by twelve angles (one for each month of the year). Record the cycles of plants, animals, weather and cultural events within and around the circle. Note the date or week when a bird began building a nest near your house, when the chicks hatch…
Becoming Regenerative Designers
We enter this new season and look back at 2020, remembering that millions of people in every region of the world have been personally affected by economic loss, health challenges or the loss of loved ones due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our hearts and prayers go out to all of you in these difficult times. Stay strong, we will get through this together.
As we adapt to a new reality, we see before our very eyes what it means to live in a time of transformation and the urgent need for regeneration. …