Author: Abdul Otman

Abdul Otman

Training for future – EDE Tonndorf, July 2022 – Ecovillage Design Education

EDE – Ecovillage Design Education is a certified 4-week intensive educational program created by Gaia Education, held each year all around the world. This year’s EDE Schloss Tonndorf 2022 was a truly unique expe...
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Funding community-led climate action through CLLD & Smart Villages

Resourcing regeneration activities is a major challenge for community-led initiatives. At the same time, reaching out and engaging with new audiences has never been more important. The next 10 years will be critical in t...
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Communities for Future at COP27

UN Climate Change Conference COP27 – Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt – November 6 – 18, 2022   Join Communities for Future in our mission to bring the voice and power of community-led climate action, transf...
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Our community Vestigium

Vestigium responds to the need of the community through its members and users… Vestigium Association (lat. footprint) is an ecological-creative association for improving the quality of our community by approaching and ...
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European Day of Sustainable Communities 2022… From “Fridays for Future” to “Communities for Future”?

Reflections on EDSC 2022 by Duncan Crowley 2022 is the 6th year of ECOLISE’s flagship project, the “European Day of Sustainable Communities” (#EDSC2022). Having won the 2019 Lush Spring Prize and launched Communi...
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Communities and local authorities in collaboration

Ecovillage Transition in Action ERASMUS+ project is completed after an extra year of post-Covid hiccups! We’re proud of the key outputs: a handbook, a toolkit, and a navigation tool. So, what are these outputs all...
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Why communities need to engage in politics in general, and the European Green Deal in particular

A perspective from ECOLISE’s policy domain by Nina Klein Community-led initiatives are already active in environmental action on the ground – and have been for decades. Very often this action was done in niches, ...
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Bringing the EU Green Deal to local levels with the combined power of Local Action Groups and communities

As part of EU Green Week, ECOLISE and ELARD hosted an event on 30 May 2022 centered around the question: how can we make the European Green Deal happen locally? Guest speakers from the EU Commission and representatives o...
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Educators publish transformative learning resources

A suite of learning resources to support the socio-ecological transition has been published by a collective of experienced educators from across Europe. They resources include: Guides to Blended Learning and Communities...
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