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Today, we’re bringing you a very special recording from the annual European Ecovillage Gathering held in Ängsbacka in 2024, where we had the privilege of hearing from Dougald Hine, an author, visionary thinker and co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project. Through the Dark Mountain project, he has sparked a movement that critically re-examines the dominant...

In this powerful episode, we explore how to confront systemic injustices and work toward a more just and peaceful world, examining the essential role of love and compassion in addressing global challenges. Our featured guest is A’ida Al-Shibli, a peace activist, Tamera community member, and Indigenous Palestinian Bedouin woman, who delivers a compelling keynote interview...

In this compelling episode, we sit down with Anja Lyngbaek, Programmes Director of Local Futures and a passionate advocate for localization. Drawing from her extensive work with communities worldwide, Lyngbaek presents a powerful case for slowing down our current economic trajectory and reimagining our relationship with growth. At the heart of her talk at the...

On today’s episode, we speak to Sabine Lichtenfels: activist, peaceworker, theologian, and co-founder of Tamera Ecovillage. We discuss Sabine’s journey into community, the politics and spirituality of peacework, the meaning of Tamera’s stone circle, and how to maintain hopeful in times of war: by “coming back to the power of life”. To learn more and...

How do you build a community that lasts 100 years? Les Pas-Sages wants to help community groups do just that, by demystifying complex concepts and providing clear and simple explanations of the legal, financial, and most importantly human mechanisms involved in setting up and maintaining housing cooperatives and other communities. In this episode, we talk...

Why are there so many ecovillages in Denmark? How has the country ‘mainstreamed’ ecovillages? And what made hosting this summer’s ecovillage gathering there so special? Ecovillage veteran Steffen Emrich introduces a special series of interviews from the European Ecovillage Gathering. In this episode he’s in conversation with Camilla Neilsen-Englyst, powerhouse of the Danish Ecovillage Network,...

in this episode we explore some of the main themes of this summer’s European Ecovillage Gathering, and share writer and storyteller Dougald Hine’s moving keynote speech on the work worth doing when it feels like all is lost.

Today on Community we’re rebroadcasting an episode of GEN EU board member and veteran ecovillager Steffen Emrich’s podcast, All About Community. Steffen has been closely involved in the ecovillage response to war in Ukraine, and in this episode he speaks to GEN Ukraine president Maksym Zalevski about how Ukraine’s ecovillagers are facing the current crisis....

Can you crowdfund a community? It’s one option many people have tried, with wildly differing results. On today’s episode we talk to someone who made it work: Roger Jove, co-founder of Mas del Potro, a young eco-social project in south-eastern Spain. He talks us through his journey from dream to reality, and why and how...

Food is an integral part of community: what we eat, how we grow it, and who we share it with. And an ecovillage’s approach to food can tell us a lot about its philosophy, too. Today on Community we visit one of Europe’s oldest and largest ecovillages, Findhorn in Scotland, to talk to food growers,...