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Just finishing the GEN (Global Ecovillage Network) Conference, which took place this year in Schweibenalp, Switzerland. Three hundred participants from fifty countries made the trip: representatives from ecovillages and other projects that are trying to improve conditions for people and nature in their regions through personal initiative. We are hearing moving updates from wounded places on our planet: from Congo, from Japan, from Colombia, from Egypt. Faced with violence, desertification, and environmental destruction, people are trying to build alternatives, through the creation of communities and with a new connection to the land.
The power of the young people of NextGEN is also very moving. In Asia, Africa, America, and Europe, with unbelievable vitality and willpower they are creating new possibilities for youth. Here we see a young global generation becoming visible, from whom we will hear much more: well educated, well networked, and highly motivated.
At the heart of the GEN movement are the experienced powers of long-established ecovillages—Findhorn, Damanhur, Sieben Linden, ZEGG, Tamera, and others. A ever-deepening friendship is beginning among them; and an exchange is beginning, about what holds a community together, about the vision of the founding generation, about the change of generations, and about the continuation of the work when the founding generation steps aside. What will administration, responsibility, and leadership mean in a future community? What does “deep democracy” look like, including in those areas where one's soul is heard, areas which would usually remain unconscious?
Through GEN, a movement is becoming visible, a movement which is gaining more and more power, and which is growing into a serious perspective for the future. It fills us with pride and joy to be part of this movement. As inspiration, we have selected a Power Text from Dieter Duhm.
More about GEN: http://www.ecovillage.org/ and http://www.gen-europe.org/
Example of a GEN-project: the Solution Library: http://www.solution.ecovillage.org/
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