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2011 GEESE Gathering – Key Developments & Outcomes
Board of Directors: Ross Jackson, Jane Rasbash, Jonathan Dawson, Potira
Preiss, Michyio Furuhashi
At the end of June this year, Gaia Education’s GEESE gath-
ered at Ross and Hildur Jackson’s farm, Duesomegaard,
in Denmark. The aim: to further envision and develop
Gaia Education’s strategy for the upcoming years. The
gathering was attended by sustainability educators in-
volved in Gaia Education from around the world – the
Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and
for the first time, Africa, were all represented in a group
that contained a natural gender balance.
With so much expansion and success having taken place
since the first EDE in 2005 (2,500 EDE Alumni from EDEs
across 23 countries) the 2011 GEESE Gathering came at
an important and exciting time for Gaia Education.
While there is much to celebrate, the gathering was guided by important
questions around the organisation’s continued sustainability as a non-profit
organisation; quality assurance of the EDE as its adapted to local needs
and run in communities around the world; partnerships with universities &
academia; and areas of collaboration between Gaia Education and her sister
organisation, the Global Ecovillage Network.
Product development continues to play a central role for Gaia Education.
Version 5 of the EDE curriculum was given focus and will be available by the
end of the year – warm appreciation and thanks to Giovanni Ciarlo for his
tireless effort in completing v5. Translations of this and other products remain
important in delivering to the growing Spanish-speaking network and other
emerging regions. Complementing the 4 Keys To Sustainable Community
Development Everywhere on the Planet, publications addressing Design and
Pedagogy are now also on the cards.
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With the Gaia Education network expanding and the organisation’s presence
as a leader in sustainability education growing, communications have become
increasingly important. Pathways towards a communications strategy that
embraces both a greater outreach and deeper in-reach were laid down and
resources dedicated towards realising this vision.
Other key developments from the 2011 GEESE Gathering:
y New and alternative technologies for communications
y Improved quality and monitoring & evaluation
of programmes
y Closer partnership with similarly aligned
organisations, including the UN Partnering
with GEN around thematic areas and
exploring joint funding possibilities
y Planning advanced EDEs and EDE masters courses
y Continued support of indigenous / traditional EDEs
y Refined and streamlined certification processes
Considering the organisation’s successful involvement in the UN Decade
of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014), Gaia Education’s
programme Director, May East, was unanimously voted in for a further term.
Additionally, new members volunteered to join Gaia Education, including
Kosha Joubert, Lua Bashala-Kekana, Giovanni Ciarlo, Toomas Trapido, Daniel
Greenberg, MarCelo Todescan, Adama LY, Deniz Dincel and Penelope Reyes.
Gaia Education & the Board would also like to thank all who sent questions
and joined the live video stream from Denmark. This was another first for
the organisation and you can be sure that there will be more of this to come
in the future!
Mitigating their Carbon...
Participants of the 2011 GEESE Gathering pooled funds and donated to two different carbon-friendly
projects from EDE alumni, one in Cambodia and one in India. Read more about these projects on GEESE NING.
http://geese-gaiaeducation.ning.com
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EDE Kathmandu, Nepal, June 2011
Max Lindegger
Dirty, smelly, noisy, busy. This is how I remember Kathmandu from previous
visits. It is still dirty, but less so. And it is still smelly, though with a different
hue as open sewers have mostly been replaced with the scent of incense –
sometimes pleasant, other times rather overpowering. There is a lot more
traffic, so much noisier and busier.
In 1991 I found what appeared to be a well organized monarchy, albeit
with plenty of cronyism and corruption. Nepal is now a political mess: 64+
political parties, ethnic groups, religions, all arguing over a new constitution.
The economy is only building bubbles and young people are leaving by the
thousands. Strikes are crippling transport and the queue at the passport office
was more than 100m. Talk about being patient! But there is a hint of hope.
Could it be that I spent my days with the participants on the positive edge?
Organiser BK Aryal attracted an amazing bunch of people. Mostly young
students though including farmers, NGO workers and business people, though
too few women.
I would like to congratulate BK and his team on the smooth organization and
their caring attitude towards participants amidst tough conditions.
Course participants endured long hours and often met after hours to discuss
issues further in their own language, showing a special commitment to the
subject. The field trip was special. The training centre, which I was privileged
to officially open, is built from local stone and earth, bamboo and timber.
Electricity is connected, water is flowing past the building and crops are
planted. The views to the mountains are said to be stunning (cloudy on the
day we visited).
The Centre has already attracted the attention of locals. There is great
potential to demonstrate appropriate technology and new crops. An
experimental farm is planned, introducing new crops and cultivars to test
suitability to the location.
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Many subjects were covered and I tried to give a good overview of the EDE.
A couple of sessions were open to general questions and many subjects of
local importance could be addressed.
Next steps: The participants were very excited, wanting to take what they
learnt to their home regions. My concern is that the groups are not sufficiently
trained at this stage and their villages cannot afford “mistakes”. Further
training is obviously necessary and planned.
As always, there were some star performers on the course: people who have
the sparkle in their eyes, a track record of hard work and loads of enthusiasm.
These have the potential to lead and guide the EV concept in Nepal and deserve
our support. Women were under-represented and need encouragement.
Nepal as a country is at a difficult stage in their development. People are
suffering. Farmers are struggling. I feel committed to projects in Manila and
Cambodia but would support future courses with the potential for more
practical content.
I was sad to leave Nepal though rather exhausted and with many new friends
and much hope.
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Key CertifiCation Updates
y A minimum of 125 contact hours (previously this was 120 hrs)
y A minimum of 15 hours devoted to holistic and detailed design processes
y The addition of at least one team educator who has completed an EDE
y Report requirements & evaluation criteria have been further refined
y A new stream-lined re-certification process for organisations running a second EDE
For further information, please see www.gaiaeducation.net
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Dancing & Singing: Kibbutz Hukuk EDE – Israel, June 2011
Diana Leafe Christian
The EDE course I co-led in Israel hosted 23 participants
from all over the country. Sponsored by the nonprofit
Israel Permaculture Organization, it was held at Kibbutz
Hukuk near the Sea of Galilee.
Kibbutz Hukuk is a unique EDE venue because a
new group of ecological activists joined an already
established kibbutz. The new group has introduced
ecological values, practices and started onsite holistic
grammar and kindergarten schools.
The course was held at Liba, a lodging and seminar
center. Participants stayed in dorm rooms or in Liba’s
main seminar room and delicious organic Middle Eastern meals were served
in a shady pavilion outside. It felt very much like we were living in our own
community center for a month.
Our course was characterized by lots of singing, dancing, joy and laugher
— I didn’t know Israelis would be so much fun! Participants jumped up to
lead Israeli folk dances, played guitar and sang in the evenings. Each day
a different EDE participant — the “energy keeper” — spontaneously put on
lively dance tunes to make us all get up and dance.
Course material presented included the process of obtaining land from
the Israeli government (which owns all land), descriptions of traditional
communities in the Orthodox Jewish tradition and Kibutz Lotan’s income-
sharing economy, decision-making method and new-member policy.
Participants also learnt how regular meditation can help people who live in
community increase individual and group wellbeing and harmony.
New Hukuk residents led exercises demonstrating Re-evaluation Co-
counseling, used at Hukuk for emotional healing. Participants loved it!
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We also celebrated Shavuot, the Jewish agricultural holiday — a real-life
example of community celebration.
One of my favorite activities was the “Ecovillage Timeline Game”. Participants
worked with large index cards describing the many steps typically taken to
create an intentional community-style ecovillage. One task was to arrange
the cards in a logical order from ‘start’ to ‘finish’; the other task was to decide
how to organize themselves to do this!
Another highlight was the “Art and Celebration” sessions where participants
first practiced and later performed art and music presentations, highlighting
the importance of creativity and celebration.
Performances included a beautiful Hebrew poem about our course, a contact
improv demonstration (which our whole group joined) and the Ecovillage
Rap Song - complete with guitar, harmonica, rap mouth-sounds, spontaneous
lyrics in Hebrew and English, stylized rap gestures and even break dancing!
It was hilariously funny and we laughed and cheered until we were hoarse.
Five design groups presented their projects at the end of the course and in a
moving ceremony, complete with spontaneous singing and dancing, everyone
received an EDE certificate.
On the last day participants gave me a beautiful thank-you gift — a fig tree
sapling that I planted just outside Liba. Planting a tree in Israel is a great honor
as it represents helping to build the country, a wonderful way to spend the
last day with these dear eco-activists I’d come to love.
This is an edited version of the article Dancing & Singing: The EDE in Israel by Diana Leafe Christian, available on Gaia Education’s GEESE NING website.
http://geese-gaiaeducation.ning.com/profiles/blogs/dancing-and-singing
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Recalling Ancient Futures: Indigenous Wisdom & the EDE
Jane Rasbash, Lua Bashala-Kekana, Adama Ly, Kosha Joubert, George John
The eco-footprint of a forest Karen village on the Thai-Burma border is far less
than the most cutting edge northern ecovillage. Elders here tell stories of a
wonderful cosmology; the untrained eye would not notice that the forest is
held sacred, providing food and medicine with centuries old herb gardens,
healing areas, burial grounds and sacred spaces.
For millennia, traditional and indigenous communities across the globe have
lived close to nature, their social, ecological and economic presence closely
entwined to that of Earth’s.
As the juggernaut of modernisation sweeps across Earth, these ancient,
sustainable ways are in grave danger. Climate change, desertification and
consumerism are just a few disasters along with complex political and
economic dynamics, displacing thousands annually. People are losing their
sacred connection to land and community, becoming self-depreciative
and believing their wisdom to be obsolete as they come into contact with
sophisticated modern media.
In contrast, the ecovillage movement celebrates these traditionally sustainable
ways. GEN’s draft guidelines to recognise traditional villages as ecovillages
and the eloquent EDE curriculum facilitates a re-valuing of traditional wisdom,
increasing self-esteem, self-determination and pride in cultural roots. Burning
questions around the pros and cons of modernization and what constitutes
development, sustainability and resilience in the longer term are explored in
the four dimensions.
AFRICA
“I had tears for a month… I could not believe what I had found… I recognised this as the answer...”
Congo’s Lua Bashala on meeting with the ecovillage concept & the EDE
Lua presented the EDE at the recent Congo GEN conference where it was
recognised by her people as ‘the way we used to live’. Her dream: building an
ecovillage in the Congo, with street children and war-rape survivors; creating
‘a light in the darkness that will expand into a bonfire’.
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This an edited version of the article Traditional Village as Eco-village by Jane Rasbash, available on Gaia Education’s GEESE NING website. http://geese-gaiaeducation.ning.com/profiles/blogs/traditional-village-ecovillage
Ecovillages are forming the core of Senegalese development policy. A pictorial
EDE mandala, devised by Marian Zeitlin, is being experimented with, inspiring
discussion in the 4 dimensions and breaking ground in its work with oral cultures.
Senegal’s Adama Ly is at the helm of supporting the emergence of GEN Africa.
Through the EDE and ecovillage ethos, this will lead to, among other things,
transitioning villages to ecovillages and maintaining African cultural identities
ASIA
Wongsanit Ashram’s four Thailand EDEs were predominantly attended by
regional community leaders. These EDEs have inspired emerging EDEs in
China, the Philippines, Bangladesh and more.
The first EDE with tribal people was held in Orissa, India. Kosha Joubert tells
of ‘inspiring images of women taking an oath over fire as they step into
leadership - pledging to safeguard their communities, their forests, their
children...’. Participants witnessed how the reintroduction of village technology,
communal land cultivation and seed banks are increasing solidarity, building
on traditional wisdom and moving towards eco-communities. Orissa alumni
are planning a local-language EDE and pilot ecovillages.
SOUTH AMERICA
An EDE has been certified and is being planned with a traditional community
in the Amazon region! EDEs in traditional communities are unique as they
are informed from the indigenous values particular to the area and harvest
the knowledge of the participants. This resurges and reconstructs a wealth of
sustainable social, cultural, ecological and economic practices and significantly,
serves as tool for empowerment.
A participatory EDE is a wonderful tool for merging and sharing traditional
wisdom & cutting edge sustainability. Creating a space for the 4 dimensions
to be enriched by the wisdom of all present, globally we are moving towards
resilience, sustainability and conscious pathways for future generations to
grow up happy, healthy and whole.
Read the GEN draft guidelines on GEESE NING: http://geese-gaiaeducation.ning.com/profiles/blogs/recognition-of-traditional-and-indigenous-villages
Read more about the Orissa EDE on GEESE NING: http://geese-gaiaeducation.ning.com/profiles/blogs/ede-orissa-2011
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It took China 30 years to shift through the modern
industrialization process which Western countries spent
more than 200 years developing. Critics in China say it
is happening too rapidly, that the Chinese people have
not had enough time to build up an alternative belief
system while the traditional one is rapidly collapsing.
How should we, as a new generation of Chinese, love
our country and respond to countries that are asking
for sustainable development? From 2010 to 2011, PCD
(Partnership for Community Development), Guizhou
office, organized the EDE and began to encourage inter-
ested individuals and groups to design their own way of sustainable living.
In collaboration with the community-based Conservation and Development
Research Center, PCD started our first EDE in Guizhou in July 2010, ending
with the local economy week in August, 2011. Over 25 participants joined
us for the program, including local community workers and staff from
government institutes.
Learn from Mother Nature through the Dao De Jing
From overall evaluation to feedback, we are glad that lots of participants
expressed this as the “most touching training course” they had ever attended.
The training attempted to break through participants’ conventional ideas of
work and livelihood and explored how to look within to find one’s intrinsic
values, cultivate one’s inner strength and create a way of living where individual
beings can live harmoniously with Mother Nature. Most importantly, the
course was designed to integrate with Chinese traditional wisdom, using the
essence of Dao De Jing to learn the quality of leadership and local economy.
There were lots of experiences to share as most participants are either
working with rural communities or urban groups. Strong interaction with two
Going Beyond Conventional Livelihood Structures and Nurturing Core Strengths – EDE China, August 2011
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communities was built in, one is with ethnic culture, and one with planning to
start CSA and organic farming. The participants also had a chance to interact
with villagers on their design work on the village.
The first EDE curriculum has finished and we want to give special thanks to Pracha
who helped us to carry out this trial EDE and gave lots of recommendations to
us. We are looking forward to having another new attempt in the future, with
wider target groups in the public and building in more training of trainers.
Localisation of the EDE curriculum and methodology will also be in the process.
Many people asked, “Why does PCD introduce the EDE curriculum to China?” I
would say, what matters the most is the motivation of each participant in this
curriculum. One participant quoted a phrase from Thich Nhat Hanh, which is
worth sharing here:
“It is probable that the next Buddha will not take the form of an individual. The next Buddha may take the form of a community, a community practicing understanding and loving kindness, a community practicing mindful living. This may be the most important thing we can do for the survival of the earth.”
Deepen your knowledge of the 4 Dimensions with the nine-month virtual course GEDS – Gaia
Education Design for Sustainability. Commencing on 11 October 2011,
the closing date for the full course and the Social Dimension closes
24 September 2011.
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[email protected] to sign-up!
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EDE Alumni Case Study: Valle del Coz Coz
Deborah Rada Requena & Alexis Torres Peña
You can download the full case study PDF (81 pages) from GEESE NING!
http://geese-gaiaeducation.ning.com
profiles/blogs/case-study-valleycozcoz
Coz-Coz Valley is a bioregion in Araucania,
southern Chile, a traditional Mapuche
area. Alexis Torres and Deborah Rada,
students of the 2009-10 GEDS course,
have conducted a bioregional study for
the sustainability of this region, which
includes a proposal for the creation of 3
ecovillages and the implementation of
several social and economic initiatives.
Among the specific objectives of this pro-
ject standing out are the creation of an
ecotourism platform that makes possible
the link between eco-villages and tradi-
tional communities, the development of
the necessary infrastructure to carry out
activities on environmental education,
and the creation of a local seed bank to
ensure food sovereignty of the territory.
Valle del Coz-Coz es una biorregión
en el sur de Chile, en la Araucanía,
en plena zona mapuche. Alexis Torres
y Deborah Rada, estudiantes del
curso GEDS 2009-10, han realizado
un estudio biorregional para la
sostenibilidad de esta región, que
incluye la creación de 3 ecoaldeas
y la puesta en marcha de diferentes
iniciativas sociales, culturales y
económicas. Entre los objetivos de
este proyecto está la creación de una
plataforma ecoturística que permita
el enlace entre las ecoaldeas y las
comunidades locales, el desarrollo
de la infraestructura necesaria para
llevar a cabo una labor de educación
ambiental, y la creación de un banco
de semillas local para garantizar la
soberanía alimentaria del territorio.
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The First Flight of GEESE in Curitiba: Sowing the Seeds – Brazil, March to August 2011
Weavers: Claudia P. Sant’Anna, Maria Edite F. Faganello, Luciane S. Sato
The first EDE in Brazil’s Paraná happened in Curitiba, in
the period from March to August 2011. The group was
composed of 32 people – 13 women and 19 men – with
various ages and areas of knowledge and expertise. Gaia
Curitiba has been enriched with several partnerships
– public and private. The classes took place at Federal
University of Paraná, Faculdades Integradas Espírita and
Agroecology Reference Center of Paraná – CPRA.
The group process was conducted using participatory
methods in order to co-create a living space for
everyone during the course and beyond. We chose this
path because we believe that the major challenge is
to educate for coexistence, for the understanding of
interdependence, care, compassion and cooperation.
With this intention, we created the “methodological sewing” of the group
process. All the time, the group was challenged to rethink and re-create their
individual and collective way of relationship with oneself and with others,
understanding and experiencing the interdependence of all beings – human
and nonhuman – and the natural world.
In addition to the usual procedures (e.g. internships and practice of villages) we
created opportunities for the establishment and strengthening of a “common
thread” in the group. This enabled them to weave their own network of
conceptual, affective and practical connections about what they learned in
theoretical classes. The experience allowed space for the heartbeat/breath
of the group and for the expansion of the perception that interpersonal
relationship is the great exercise in learning social and sustainable skills.
In this sense, one of the important proposals was the self-managed
groups – when students were grouped voluntarily to take care of one
of the aspects of the group field: Window of Celebration, the Keepers
of Communications, Food, Environmental Harmonization, Heart & Time,
Transportation & Lodging Solidarity and the Creative Wall of Money.
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“Gaia has transformed my life because it makes me understand the deep connection of feeling, thinking and acting! In my search for internal con-sistency with my outward actions and expanding my sense of belonging and connectivity with everything and everyone! Co-create and talk is better to do and discuss! In the process of self-management and circular leadership, the constant learning and cooperative practice, we are di-rectors and all responsible for universal transformation.”
Goose Diego H. S. Batista
We are very grateful to be part of the weaving in this very special process
to anchor Gaia Education. Sincere thanks to the GEESE who accepted the
invitation and chose to co-create with us so many new worlds.
Gaia has intensified my look.The perception of things.
It did listen.It opened my heart.
Gave meaning to the feelings.Thirst for change.
Join to live.The seed germinated and now deposited
grows and grows and grows and grows and expands out and...Driven by the lightness of flying goose spreads throughout the world.
Goose Genevive de O. Moreira
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Gaia Education in the USA: From Downtown Albuquerque to an Ecovillage in Rural Missouri
Zaida Amaral
The first Gaia Education course in the United States took
place in an urban area – Albuquerque, New Mexico -
between 2007 and 2008. The next one, to be held in
2012 in rural Missouri, is a direct result of the first. But
the seeds for the US courses were actually planted far
away, in the megalopolis of São Paulo, Brazil!
Inspired by the urban EDE held in São Paulo in 2006 and
with the encouragement of May East, local organizers
in Albuquerque started planning another urban course,
with Chris Mare serving as the official GEESE. An informal
partnership was created with the University of New
Mexico’s Sustainability Studies Program and the course
was presented in collaboration with the University Continuing Education.
A very vibrant and successful course took in the diverse western United
States, with a total of 30 students from the ages of 18 to 85. Participants
included university students and staff, business owners, staff from several
nonprofits, and members of Hummingbird Community, an ecovillage in
Mora, New Mexico.
The course used the format pioneered in São Paulo: students gathered every
other month for classes and activities spread over two weekends and five
weekday evenings. A design studio practice was chosen for each of the
four dimensions. Students divided into village groups and worked on real
projects related to the city of Albuquerque, culminating in a final design
studio presentation.
The relationship with the University of New Mexico established an ongoing
influence on their Sustainability Studies curriculum – the department now
includes Jonathan Dawson’s book, Ecovillages: New Frontiers for Sustainability,
in the syllabus and every semester it offers a class on ecovillage design,
based on the Gaia Education program.
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Next Gaia Education in USA 2012 – Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage
The lead teacher for the New Mexico course is now bringing Gaia Education
to her community. Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage is a 55-member project in
the rolling hills of northern Missouri with the goal of becoming a 500-
1000 person village. The community operates by consensus, hosts dozens
of natural building and organic gardening interns each year and has a
unique structure of co-operatives that make it a fascinating experiment in
flexible cooperation. Two neighboring communities create a larger pool of
ecologically sound cooperative action.
The Gaia Education course will be
taught by a core staff of community
founders (Laird Schaub of Sandhill
Farm, Alyson Ewald of Red Earth
Farms, Tony Sirna and ecovillage
educator Ma’ikwe Schaub Ludwig of
Dancing Rabbit) and a dozen other
ecovillage residents, highlighting
the living lessons of three sustain-
able cooperative communities.
The 37-day residential intensive will
be the ideal training for someone
wanting to start or strengthen an
ecovillage project in the US, or
find ways to export the lessons of
cooperation to any sustainability
project they are passionate about.
LINKS
http://sust.unm.edu
http://www.hummingbirdcommunity.org
http://www.dancingrabbit.org
http://www.sandhillfarm.org
http://www.redearthfarms.org
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May East: 100 Global Sustain Ability Leaders
The Board of Gaia Education
We are thrilled to announce that ‘Mother Goose’, Programme Director of
Gaia Education, May East, has been honoured for her work as one of 100
Global Sustain Ability Leaders. We would like to thank her and acknowl-
edge her huge contribution towards ensuring our future generations have a
more sustainable, equitable and beautiful planet.
¡Pronto disponible en español!
Economía de Gaia – una de las 4 Llaves para Comunidades Sostenibles
Economía de Gaia – una de las 4
Llaves para Comunidades Sostenibles
estará pronto disponible en español.
Traducida por Carlos Gómez se podrá
descargar gratuitamente en breve
desde www.gaiaeducation.net.
Las versiones en inglés de las llaves
social y económica, Beyond You and
Me, Gaian Economics, también se
pueden descargar gratuitamente
desde el portal de Gaia Education, o
comprar en formato impreso desde
www.green-shopping.co.uk o desde
cualquier librería.
Llave EconómicaEditores
Jonathan Dawson Helena Norberg-Hodge
Ross Jackson
Economía de GaiaVivir bien dentro de los límites del planeta
La llave económica del EDE
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para las comunidades sostenibles del planeta
Gaia Education has partnered with the Earth Day Network to pledge all certified Gaia
Education programmes to the Earth Day 2011: A Billion Acts of Green® campaign.
By simply participating in one of our programmes, you will be contributing to this
inspired initiative. You are also invited to trump up even more acts of green by
Supporting & Promoting Earth Day 2012.
Please go to http://act.earthday.org/act/1314794404/support-promote-earth-day-2012 to pledge your support.
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Current & Upcoming EDEs Around the World
It started a dream... Dreaming Mallorca... A promise, a Spanish fashion
designer and sustainability activist, a 13th century former monastery...
Spain’s Son Rul-lan EDE, on the island of Mallorca, is currently underway.
Read more about the unfolding adventure of this incredible journey on
GEESE NING. http://geese-gaiaeducation.ning.com/profiles/blogs/dreaming-mallorca
Other EDEs currently underway include Estonia’s first EDE and 3 EDEs in
Brazil: Gaia Rio, Gaia Brasilândia and Ecobairro Salvdor.
Scotland, Findhorn
1st – 28th October 2011
www.findhorn.org
UOC Online Programme
English: 11th October 2011 – 16th July 2012
Spanish: 19th October 2011 – 12th July 2012
www.gaiaeducation.net
Siddharthvillage, Orissa, India
Oriya: 15th October – 12th November 2011
English: 10th February 2012 – 10th March 2012
www.siddharthvillage.com
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand
16th January 2012 – 4th March 2012
www.wongsanit-ashram.org