Jeff McGregor and I share ideas and reflections about transitioning towards an economic paradigm that is more accommodating to the creation of ecovillages and living off the land. Share your thoughts and comment below!

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Interview guest: Michael Ney, editor of Eco Village Voice (description below) // Contact: [email protected] Guest Links: Eco Village Voice: https://ecovillagevoice.com/ Crystal Waters Documentary: https://bit.ly/cwdoco01 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Signup with Ecovillage Library at: ecovillagelibrary.org  If you'd like to donate to Ecovillage Library, follow the link: paypal.me/ecovillagelibrary or you can also support the Ecovillage Library Podcast on Patreon here. Musical credit: Michael Kinney at instagram and YouTube ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After attending a Rudolf Steiner high school in Sydney, Michael began his professional life with backstage theatre work - soon specialising in lighting design. After several years working in various theatres and a course in television production, he later branched out into stills photography and was a regular contributor at Nature & Health and also Simply Living magazines. In the 1980's ... before the arrival of computers, he also worked in television production, ran his own commercial photography studio, and created audio-visuals. Over the past 3 decades Michael Ney has successfully produced many creative projects, including documentaries, corporate videos and also multimedia CD-ROMs, websites and multimedia theatre. Now, he recently completed a year's work on a documentary about Crystal Waters Ecovillage, where he lives and is starting a new online publishing venture called Eco Village Voice. Eco Village Voice is an online community with a quarterly magazine including free preview articles, an integrated video channel, podcasts, webinars, and forums for ecovillages and intentional communities. You may purchase Issue #1 here - https://gumroad.com/l/mobwC - it's $4.99 AUD. You may like to sign up to the free monthly newsletters: https://ecovillagevoice.com/newsletters.htm Along with new podcasts, Issue # 2 will be released mid May and webinars coming in June. Being a paid member of the online community has many benefits. See various options at: https://ecovillagevoice.com/ecovillagevoice-signup

Why have we seen massive rural to urban migrations during this past century? What does it take to improve the quality of life in the rural sector and transition towards a village economy? Share your thoughts and comment below!

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The making of charcoal has been a versatile utility for humans for as long as history has been recorded. Charcoal is made from any kind of wood and its manufacture may promote a socially desirable development provided that its organization is well planned and conducted in an ecologically conscious manner. Special thanks to Appropriate Technology Library and to the original Peace Corps volunteers who documented their on-the-ground experience to make this knowledge available. 

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Adelaide Merle is one of the authors of the Yelema Project Case study: click here. Sobata is a traditional village in Guinea, West Africa. The community can grow food only three months of the year, during the rainy season – and the rest of the year is getting drier and drier with climate change. The people of Sobata dream of transforming their community into a thriving ecovillage by helping to restore and regenerate the natural cycles in their bioregion, as well as by increasing their resilience to some of the inevitable effects of global climate change. Support the project: click here.

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Interview guest: Vera Franco (verafranco.org) facilitator for greater consciousness and presence in communities; businesses; next cultures; and learning environments, centered on authentic adulthood initiatory processes.  Contact Ecovillage Library Podcast at: [email protected] or leave a voice message! If you'd like to donate to Ecovillage Library, follow the link: paypal.me/ecovillagelibrary or you can also support the Ecovillage Library Podcast on Patreon here.  Musical credit: Michael Kinney at instagram.com/mkinney1 and https:/.youtube.com/channel/UCF7b4Wi2qeNBb3-AusWWvqg

Interview guest: Clarissa Wei (clarissawei.com) is senior reporter at Goldthread, a digital imprint of the South China Morning Post. She has previously written for National Geographic, the Los Angeles Times, NPR, CNN, BBC, VICE, USA Today, Bon Appétit, Eater, CBS Los Angeles, Food Network, Saveur, among others.  Contact Ecovillage Library Podcast at: [email protected] or leave a voice message! If you'd like to donate to Ecovillage Library, follow the link: paypal.me/ecovillagelibrary or you can also support the Ecovillage Library Podcast on Patreon here. Musical credit: Michael Kinney at instagram.com/mkinney1 and https:/.youtube.com/channel/UCF7b4Wi2qeNBb3-AusWWvqg 

Interview guest: Cynthia Tina (cynthiatina.com), founder of Ecovillage Tours, is based out of Vermont and Slovenia.  Contact Ecovillage Library Podcast at: [email protected] or leave a voice message and get featured in the next podcast episode! If you'd like to donate to Ecovillage Library, follow the link: paypal.me/ecovillagelibrary or you can also support the Ecovillage Library Podcast on Patreon here. Cynthia is the Communications Director at the Foundation for Intentional Community and Vice President on the Board of Trustees of the Global Ecovillage Network. She advises the youth leadership organization NextGEN North America, which she co-founded in 2013. She consults with projects in the fields of sustainable community development and online social change networks. Her expertise is marketing strategy, branding, digital design, and process facilitation. In 2019, she founded Ecovillage Tours with the desire for more people to travel with her to amazing ecovillages, experiencing ways of life that are both sustainable and fun! She has a B.A. degree in Sustainability with certifications in ecovillage and permaculture design, as well as yoga teacher training. 

Interview guest: Lilian Enders Ribeiro, founder of 7 Irmas, is based out of Sintra, Portugal.  Lily is a visual artist, mother of two, and focuses on the versatility of the hemp plant through the production and transformation of products based on home-grown hemp. Check her out here: https://www.instagram.com/7_irmas http://www.quinta7nomes.com/canhamo.html  Contact Ecovillage Library Podcast at: [email protected] or leave a voice message and get featured in the next podcast episode! (anchor.fm/ecovillage-library) If you'd like to donate to Ecovillage Library, follow the link: paypal.me/ecovillagelibrary or you can also support the Ecovillage Library Podcast on Patreon here.

How to Read Water: Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea combines elements of natural navigation history, techniques for observing the weather and the way flora and fauna give clues about any kind of water, and personal narrative to encourage readers to become engaged noticers.

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