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Start Thinking in Circles
Increasingly, we are realizing that the way we live, eat, travel & consume doesn’t really make sense in the long term. The world provides for us in abundance, but we do live in a world of limited...
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Permaculture, Antidote to Throwaway Culture
If you are interested in sustainability, food gardening, or just wondering surely there is a better way we can take care of the earth, then you may have come across permaculture. Permaculture seems to...
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Mesmerizing Mycelium Brings a Plastic Free World Closer
Who wouldn’t be mesmerized by the beautiful mycelium creations that have been appearing recently? Mycelium is the underground root structure of mushrooms, and pioneers in bio design are growing them...
View ArticleSpeaking to Chris Monaghan from Metabolic, Amsterdam
Past June marked the opening of De Ceuvel, a unique sustainable urban development on a former ship wharf in the North of Amsterdam. Last summer I spent some time at De Ceuvel to explore this exciting...
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Visiting Ecovillage Feliz In Colombia
The beautiful Aldea Feliz is an eco village situated in a small green valley, close to San Francisco, Colombia. After the large and pro Findhorn Community in Scotland, this was the first small and...
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Gaia Education, Empowering Change Makers in Sustainability
‘We need to redesign our human presence in the world in the next 10 years’ These were the words of May East, for 10 years she has been one of the driving forces behind Gaia Education. Gaia Education...
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What Vipassana Taught Me About Ignorance And Healing
Vipassana meditation gave me new understanding of my own inner world, and left me thinking more deeply about o, so many things. How amazing it is that all of us humans have such similar internal...
View ArticleStewarding The Earth At Rio Muchacho Organic Farm
Coming to Ecuador I was determined to spend some time working on a permaculture farm. I read all the post on the Workaway and WWOOF website, but in fact it was my language school in Quito that...
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Interconnected at Plant Consciousness 2015, London
Bringing together the values of plant neurobiology, permaculture, deep-ecology, eco-psychology, sacred plant medicine, shamanism and herbalism. When I decided to join the Plant Consciousness event in...
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Leap And The Net Will Unfold
Leap and the net will unfold, a good friend said to me, and it was true. Not just in that moment when I decided to leave my permanent job to opt for the unknown because I just wasn’t happy anymore, but...
View ArticleDentro del Fuego Sagrado, Colombia, part 1
My friend Radan spent 6 months at community and natural healing center “Dulce Azul”, in the Amazonian forests of Colombia, and documented his experience in 6 movies. These short docus show a different...
View ArticleDentro del Fuego Sagrado, Colombia, part 2
My friend Radan spent 6 months at community and natural healing center “Dulce Azul”, in the Amazonian forests of Colombia, and documented his experience in 6 movies. Part 2 of these short docus will...
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Animystics, a Shamanic Gathering in Ireland
For many the idea of shamanism brings visions of Latin America, where seekers join plant ceremonies and sweat lodges, or of the mystics of Asia where spiritual traditions are very much alive. But as no...
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What I Saw at Vasilika Refugee Camp in Greece
In the last 3 months in Greece I have seen resilience, creativity, collaboration and kindness beyond belief. I enjoyed teas and meals in the tents of generous Syrian families, joined in snowball fights...
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I Wish All Schools Were Like Green School in Bali
It didn’t take very long after arriving at Green School before I was taken by its refreshing implementation of creating ‘a community of learners making our world sustainable’. Last Wednesday I joined...
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Summer Days at Glarisegg Community in Switzerland
In an unexpected turn of events, my travels brought me to Schloss Glarisegg community in Switzerland. When I came back to Europe mid July, I assisted on the Dutch Ecovillage Design Education course....
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How Schloss Tempelhof Builds a Community
A day’s travel from Schloss Glarisegg in Switzerland, and a short bus ride from the Southern German town of Crailsheim, is the Schloss Tempelhof community. Not in any way related to the Tempelhof...
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Sociocracy: A Deeper Democracy at Holma Folk High School
What if we had a method of governance that is more inclusive than democracy, a deeper democracy so to say? I have come across sociocracy as a method of governance in a variety of ecovillages, but also...
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We’re All in This Together, Changemakers Unite in Switzerland
In January 2018 I was honoured to assist for one month on the Ecovillage Design Education gathering at the Glarisegg community. This transformational education program for change makers of all...
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Simple and Beautiful Plastic Free Bathroom Upgrades
After traveling and living mostly outside of urban environments for nearly 1,5 years, it was a bit of a shock to move to Amsterdam. One thing that has been most painful is the supermarket experience,...
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