Sustainable living in a woodland community in the Wray Valley, Devon, UK. Under threat after 16 years. Appealing for a permanent right for planning permission. A great place, project and inspiring example.
Plenty about low-impact living, permaculture, integration with the local community and nature. And 'wild' education for the youngsters on site (and visitors)!
See the film. Visit their site.
The Joe Strummer Foundation
Set up by family and close friends a year after Joe’s (from the Clash) passing. The Joe Strummer Foundation continues to give opportunities to musicians and support to projects around the world that creates empowerment through music.
They say that their objectives are specifically:
The prevention or relief of poverty, particularly of young people, anywhere in the world by providing: grants, items and services to individuals in need and/or charities, or other organisations working to prevent or relieve poverty.
To promote, improve, develop and maintain the education of the public in the art, culture and science of music in all its aspects for the public benefit, in particular young musicians, including by the provision of funds for the purchase of musical instruments and studio rehearsal.
To promote, improve and advance the arts, including music, for the public benefit including by the presentation of exhibitions, public events and concerts.
Summerhill was founded in Dresden, Germany in 1921 by A.S. Neill.
To quote from the site: “Today many educationalists and families are becoming uneasy with this restrictive environment. They are beginning to look for alternative answers to mainstream schooling.
One of these answers is democratic or 'free' schooling. There are many models of democratic schools in all corners of the globe, from Israel to Japan, from New Zealand and Thailand to the United States.
The oldest and most famous of these schools is Summerhill, on the east coast of England.”
Sunseed offer educational programmes in green energy, permaculture, desertification and we are a hands-on practical centre for low-impact living and environmental education in Andalusia, Spain.
Svanholm is an intentional community located near the village of Skibby, 60km from Copenhagen on the isle of Sealand in Denmark. Looks like an amazing central building.
They say that their community is: “based on common ideals concerning ecology, income sharing, communal living, and finally, Self Government.”
Well-established small, intentional arts community in Los Angeles in the USA. They say: "Synchronicity LA is a cooperative community house in the heart of the Los Angeles. We are a house of 11 artists: musicians, social workers, teachers, scientists, engineers, filmmakers, cooks, historians, and more."
Links to their main site and an interesting university commentary about the intentional community.
Collective cultural arts and social centre in an old tobacco factory in Madrid, Spain.
Links to their official site and to an interesting article by Duran and Moore about the evolution of the space, its ideas and more.
It is also the hub site for: Terra Nova and the Global Campus. The Global Campus training is designed to support the base stations in questions of food self-sufficiency, energy autonomy, water management, community building and the study of peace knowledge.
The website describes it as: “Tamera is a School and Research Station for Realistic Utopia
The project was founded in Germany in 1978. In 1995 it moved to southern Portugal. Today 170 people live and work on a property of 330 acres.
The founding thought was to develop a non-violent life model for cooperation between human being, animal and nature.”
Tatiana is the founder and facilitator behind a number of projects and spaces including the Russian House in California and Shiram Community in Russia. This provides the link to her Path – her Trace towards Global Enlightenment. Thought provoking and challenging.
Links to the Global Enlightenment site and the Eco-School: Yes! Project: “The project is based on the concept of creating rural economy on the principles of deep ecology and daizma.”
Professor David Hicks’ site which focuses on the need five strands to be developed in education:
GLOBAL ~ Making sense of the world
FUTURES ~ Preparing for the future
SUSTAINABILITY ~ Thinking and acting sustainably
TRANSITION ~ Creating a post-carbon society
IDEOLOGY ~ Exploring values and beliefs