Community is a podcast about living better together. From the Global Ecovillage Network in Europe, we tell the stories of ecovillages and the people who live in them.
At Work in the Ruins: Dougald Hine at the European Ecovillage Gathering 2024
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...
7 Mar 2025
“The Political Aspects of Community Building”: A’ida Al-Shibli in a conversation with Teodora Radulescu at the European Ecovillage Gathering 2024
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...
30 Jan 2025
The Power of Going Local: A Conversation with Anja Lyngbaek at the European Ecovillage Gathering 2024
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...
16 Oct 2023
Episode 12: Coming back to the power of life – the politics and spirituality of peacework with Sabine Lichtenfels
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...
14 Jun 2023
Episode 11: Building Community That Lasts with Les Pas-Sages
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...
21 Nov 2022
Voices of the Ecovillage Gathering: Camilla Nielsen-Englyst, Danish Ecovillage Network
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,...
21 Nov 2022
Finding meaning in a time of endings: Dougald Hine at the European Ecovillage Gathering
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.
31 Mar 2022
Episode 10: Voices from Ukraine with Maksym Zalevski and Steffen Emrich
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....
26 Nov 2021
Episode 9: Crowdfunding Community with Mas del Potro
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...
9 Nov 2021
Episode 8: Food and Community – Growing Plants and People at Findhorn
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,...
24 May 2021
Episode 7: In conversation with Tobias Jones
This week on Community, the ecovillage podcast, with guest producer Evan Welkin from Borgo Basino we’re in conversation with author and journalist Tobias Jones, who has documented his explorations into the good, bad and ugly sides of community through his writing. We talked about his experiences visiting European communities and founding a therapeutic woodland community...
26 Apr 2021
Episode 6: Let’s Build an Ecovillage – lessons from a life in community
This week, Community visits Torri Superiore – a 30-year old ecovillage in a medieval town steeped in history in Northern Italy. Here we talk to Lucilla Borio, an expert in community building, who shares lessons from a life lived in community and gives her insights on where groups get it right – and wrong –...
22 Mar 2021
Episode 5: The Ecovillage Explorer
From their food to their customs, few people know the ecovillages of Europe so well as Riccardo Clemente. Community resident, eco-architect, musician, former president of the Italian Ecovillage Network, GEN EU council member, and veteran ecovillage explorer, Riccardo will be taking us on an adventure this spring around European communities in our Meet the Ecovillages...
8 Mar 2021
Episode 4: Aida Shibli – Identity, Community and Activism
Aida Shibli describes herself as a queer Palestinian activist, an ecovillager, and a mother. On this week’s podcast we talk about her journey from Palestine to Portugal, identity in community, and hope and healing in the darkest of times.
22 Feb 2021
Episode 3: The Ecovillage Economy
How do ecovillagers make ends meet? When you start talking about ecovillages, it’s a question that sooner or later people are likely to ask you. In this episode of Community, we talk with researcher Dicte Frost about ecovillage economic models, personal and community resilience, and what it really means to make a living.
4 Feb 2021
Episode 2: The Love Revolution
Love: it’s everybody’s business. Or that’s what the founders of the pioneering Tamera community believed, and it’s a conviction that has lead to the creation of a peace research centre, the Healing Biotopes plan, and the Love School, where people from around the world learn what it means to heal love – and in doing...
3 Feb 2021
Special Episode – Bafut: War and Hope in Cameroon’s First Ecovillage
Bafut Ecovillage was a model of hope and good practices in challenging circumstances: providing education and ecologically sound livelihoods to youth and adults in Cameroon’s highlands. Then the war came. In this special episode of Community, we hear from Bafut co-founder and award-winning activist Sonita Mbah about her journey to community living and the devastating...
23 Sept 2020
Episode 1: A Journey of Transformation
Is it possible to change your life? In Episode 1 of Community, the ecovillage podcast, we set out to explore what changed the life and values of two very different people, following their journeys from a chemical container ship and a secure job in a multinational company to life in a rural ecovillage. You can...
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