Community Resilience Podcast - Global Ecovillage Network

Welcome to Community Resilience, a podcast created in collaboration with the Ecovillage Resilience 2.5 degree project, facilitated by the Global Ecovillage Network. Join us for a listening trip around the world, as we hear from ecovillages and experts and explore resilience, adaptation, and transformation in our time of deepening polycrisis.

The Community Resilience podcast addresses the ups and downs of building an ecovillage, opening a space to learn from each other’s vulnerabilities. Whether you are just starting your journey with the ecovillage movement or are already deeply rooted, we hope you will find the words of wisdom harvested helpful in your journey to resilience.

Available Episodes:

BUILDING LOCAL RESILIENCE WITH MUGOVE WALTER NYIKA, GUDZA RAMUKA ECOVILLAGE

Our guest today has a long history with the Global Ecovillage Network as Ecovillage Design Education Instructor, Project Partner, Gen African Council Member, and 2019 winner of our annual Hildur Jackson Award for Exemplary Projects. I hope you enjoy our conversation on community resilience and the powerful act of connecting locally.

Listen to the episode | Read the transcript

Dive Deeper: Nhimbe Ilima

COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT WITH MACACO TAMERICE, DAMANHUR SPIRITUAL COMMUNITY

MACACO is a life coach, trauma worker, facilitator and spiritual healer who has found purpose and happiness by going through profound personal transformations and life choices. She has lived in Damanhur for nearly 30 years and served the ecovillage network as the president of GEN-Europe, Ecovillage Design Education Facilitator and GEN UN Ambassador. I will let her tell you the rest.

Listen to the episode | Read the transcription | Explore Damanhur

Dive deeper: The music of the plants

HOLDING HOPE IN TRANSFORMATIVE TIMES WITH BRUNO TAMBELLINI, PIRACANGA ECOVILLAGE, BRAZIL

Today we are traveling to the eastern coast of Brazil, in the state of Bahia, to Piracanga Ecovillage to hear about the great transformation this ecovillage has undergone in the past years on a social, structural and spiritual level.

Liste n to the episode | Read the transcription | Explore Piracanga