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🌟 Season Finale Alert! 🌟

Welcome to the season finale of the Community Resilience podcast! 🎙️✨

Today, we’re thrilled to bring you an extraordinary panel of project leaders from the Ecovillage Resilience project. After sharing their individual insights throughout the season, they’re coming together for the first time for an interactive discussion on what we've learned about Ecovillage Resilience.

Meet our inspiring guests:

🌿 Anna Kovasna - A guiding force with profound knowledge of ecovillage dynamics. Her dedication to building resilient communities has been crucial to our project.

📊 Allyson Quinlan - Her research has unveiled key findings by blending data analysis with powerful community stories, providing a comprehensive view of resilience.

🌍 Luea Ritter - Expert in adaptive strategies, Luea has helped ecovillages navigate climate change challenges with practical solutions and hands-on experience.

🌏 Trudy Juriansz - With her work spanning Oceania and Asia, Trudy’s insights into cultural influences on resilience have enriched our understanding and inspired actionable visions for the future.

In this episode, we reflect on our journey, discuss key findings, explore challenges and solutions, and envision the future of ecovillage resilience. 🌱💡

Get ready for an engaging discussion as we dive deep into the lessons learned and the path forward. You won’t want to miss it!

🔗 Tune in now and join us in celebrating the culmination of this incredible season.

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Dive into the latest episode of Community Resilience with special guest Dougald Hine!

Dougald Hine is a social thinker, writer and speaker. After an early career as a BBC journalist, he co-founded organisations including the Dark Mountain Project and a school called HOME ‘a gathering place and a learning community for those who are drawn to the work of regrowing a living culture. He has collaborated with scientists, artists and activists, serving as a leader of artistic development at (Rick-stee-art-en) Riksteatern (Sweden’s national theatre) and as an associate of the Centre for Environment and Development Studies at Uppsala University.

His latest book is At Work in the Ruins: Finding Our Place in the Time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics & All the Other Emergencies (2023). He co-hosts The Great Humbling podcast and publishes a Substack called Writing Home. I hope you enjoy our conversation and are inspired to dive deeper into the wise mind of dougald hine.

Join us as we explore his journey and ideas. 🔥🎧

In this episode, we take a moment to step back from our usual in-depth storytelling and instead, marvel at the framework that has allowed us to observe the ongoing exploration of resilience, adaptation and transformation in a >+2.5 degrees global warming scenario. This June, more than 20 members of our Community of Practice, along with the project stewards, will gather for a reflective wrap-up and celebration of our accomplishments, marking the end of the Ecovillage Resilience Chapter and looking ahead to the next phase of our journey. Learn more about the celebration and what is coming up next...

Welcome back to Community Resilience, a podcast created in collaboration with the EcoVillage Resilience 2.5 Degree Project, facilitated by the Global EcoVillage Network.

Meet Robin, the visionary behind Earthsong Eco-Neighbourhood, nestled in suburban Auckland, New Zealand. As the founder and development coordinator, Robin spearheaded the creation of this innovative cohousing development project, consisting of 32 homes and shared facilities. Earthsong isn't just a housing project, it's a commitment to environmentally sustainable design and deep community engagement. And Robin's story doesn't end there.

Today, she's a beacon of inspiration, dedicating her time to writing, teaching, and consulting to empower thriving connected communities. Through seminars, lectures, and workshops, Robin ignites the flames of the cohousing and community-led housing movement in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Robin continues to innovate, planning an eco-friendly social enterprise hub called Walk to Work Eco-Developments at the forefront of Earthsong’s land, weaving sustainability and community into the fabrics of everyday life.

If you're eager to learn more about cohousing and sustainable living, be sure to check out Robin's book, Cohousing for Life. Within its pages, she shares not only the structural elements of cohousing, but also the heartfelt narrative of Earthsong's collective journey. Join us as we delve into Robin's remarkable story, a testament to the power of community, sustainability, and the human spirit.

Check out the ‘Three Horizons Framework.’, mentioned by Robin as one of the usefuls tool for sharing with groups thinking about transformative change used in the Resilience Project journey.

Welcome back to Community Resilience, a podcast created in collaboration with the Ecovillage Resilience 2.5 Degree Project, facilitated by the Global Ecovillage Network.

Today, we travel to the Colombian Caribbean to speak with one of the pillars of our movement, Margarita Zethelias.

Margarita is an activist, a creator of life-changing experiences that spark the desire to learn, unlearn, and relearn. She is a biologist with an MSc in Conservation and Rural Development, and the founder and co-director of the Falun Natural Reserve in the Andean region, as well as the Ubuntu Center for Experimentation and Training in Sustainability in the Rosario Islands of Colombia. I am excited to welcome her to our show today and share with you her inspiring story.

Find more at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠ecovillage.org/ecovillage-resilience-podcast⁠⁠

Welcome back to Community Resilience, a podcast created in collaboration with the EcoVillage Resilience 2.5 Degree Project, facilitated by the Global EcoVillage Network. 

Today, we gather with Bill Hartzell and Devon Keller, from ⁠Hundredfold Farm CoHousing Community⁠ in the Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US. 

Bill Hartzell's initial venture into intentional community occurred when he became a resident of the Xanadu cooperative house at the University of Michigan in the late 1970s. 20 years later he and his partner Sandy joined the cohousing movement which was gaining popularity in Seattle, Washington, western USA. Taking their gained experience to the east coast ,to be with their aging parents, Bill and Sandy set out to create a cohousing community in rural Pennsylvania, where collaboration, land preservation, and sustainable practices were fundamental principles.

The result of their efforts is the Hundredfold Farm Community. Today, we are joined by Bill and one of Hunderdfold’s newer community members, Devon Kehler. Devon has been drawn into various expressions of communitarianism from a young age. The principle of interdependence is what keeps Devon steadfast in their commitment to communal living. At Hundredfold Farm, Devon is nurturing their skills and creative practices in facilitation, collaborative leadership, and gardening. How Devon shows up in community is deeply shaped by feminist mentoring, the power of queer kinship and a 20 year partnership with their beloved, Anna.

Together, Bill and Devon offer insight to how old memories and new memories can come together to build resilience and community.

Find more at: ⁠⁠⁠ecovillage.org/ecovillage-resilience-podcast⁠⁠

Welcome back to Community Resilience, a podcast created in collaboration with the Ecovillage Resilience 2.5 Degree Project, facilitated by the Global Ecovillage Network. I'm your host, Eva Goldfarb, inviting you to gather around the fire as we explore resilience, adaptation, and transformation in our time of deepening polycrisis. Today, we gather with Michael Würfel of Sieben Linden Ecovillage, situated in the community Bietzendorf in the Altmark district, Salzbüttel, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, near Frankfurt.

Michael Würfel is an author, videographer, community weaver, and karaoke superstar. He has lived in Sieben Linden Ecovillage for 15 years, in and around projects involving public relations, management, facilitating seminars for potential new members. In addition to creating and publishing Eurotopia, a wonderful compilation of ecovillages around Europe, Michael is a documentary filmmaker with a theme of community.

Please note that English is a second language for most of our guests. We do offer transcripts and our show notes at ⁠ecovillage.org/community-resilience⁠.

Today we are joined by Yuluka Kankurua, President of CASA Latina and Latin America’s regional representative in the Resilience project. Yuluka lives in Aldeafeliz, a 17 year old Ecovillage in the center of the Colombia.

She is a part of CASA Colombia, CASA Latina and now the Network Stewardship Circle (NSC) of GEN. Yuluka is a sociocracy trainer and also a promoter of the rights of Mother Earth. She has written a short book about the pedagogical strategy used to promote the Rights of Mother Earth called “Community Living Aulas for the Mother Earth Rights,” available to download at the CASA Latina Site.

Please remember that english is not the first language for many of our guests. Thank you Yuluka, for your help translating the materials into spanish. You can find these resources in our show notes at ecovillage.org/resilience-podcast

Today we speak to Rob Wheeler, the Ecovillage Resilience Project partner for The Farm Ecovillage and Education Center. In addition to his work locally, Rob has participated actively in the UN’s primary conferences and processes on climate and sustainable development for the past 25 years. He is the North American Representative on the Facilitating Group for Action for Sustainable Development which works with the UN on the Global Week of Action for achieving the SDGs. Rob serves on the Advisory Council for Ecosystem Restoration Communities and is the Founder and CEO of Sustainably Wise - which will be a web portal that will assist all interested people and stakeholder groups to help achieve the SDGs and to transition as rapidly as possible to a fully sustainable world. Rob is the Global Ecovillage Network’s main representative in the United Nations and a newly elected board member.

Dive deeper by exploring the Resilience Attributes mentioned by Rob:

• Diversity

• habitat diversity

• food production/crops diversity

• livelihood diversity

• diversity of perspectives 

• Redundancy

• multiple reinforcing options

• backup alternatives for responding to shocks

• Connectivity & Modularity

• connections with other ecovillages (shared learning/resources)

• connections with surrounding communities (sharing information/resources)

• landscape connectivity e.g., ecological corridors

• connectivity that promotes recovery after disturbances/shocks

• modularity to buffer disturbances (disease spread/economic impacts)

• Inclusivity and equity

• degrees of equity

• how to gauge levels of trust

• evidence of collective action

• fair opportunities

• reciprocity/exchange for mutual benefit

• Adaptive learning & decision making

• monitoring change

• experimentation

• processes for learning 

• evidence-based strategies

• polycentric governance

• inhibiting top-down approaches

  Learn more about them at: https://ecovillage.org/resilience-tracker-tool-release/

  
  

  Join us as we explore the ways in which many forms of nurturing resilience are being developed. Find more at: ⁠ecovillage.org/ecovillage-resilience-podcast⁠⁠

  
  

  
  

Mugove is a natural farmer and a community development facilitator, focused on the building resilience and food sovereignty in African communities. His mission is to use his life skills, land use design skills, and passion for the environment and community to listen, encourage, and inspire people to look after themselves and the environment, especially the next generation, as the custodians for the future. Over the last three decades, he has played a central role in the development of the integrated land use design process as a tool for inclusive and participatory whole school land design and community engagement.

Mugove has worked with communities and organizations across the African continent and facilitated the founding of the Regional Schools and Colleges Permaculture Program, or RESCOPE, in 2006, which now shares green technologies and permaculture techniques in Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Today, Mugove serves the movement as a general coordinator for RESCOPE and the development facilitator for the Gudza Ramuka Ecovillage in Zimbabwe. I hope you enjoy our conversation on community resilience and the powerful act of connecting locally.
Please note that English is a second language for most of our guests. We do offer transcripts and our show notes at ecovillage.org/community-resilience.