youth in ecovillages

Resources

Whether this is your first time hearing about Ecovillages and Regeneration or you are already familiar with the movement and want to know more, here is a list of resources to help with your exploration.

I’m new in the Ecovillage Movement! Tell me where to start.

Visit the Global Ecovillage Network’s website. There, you’ll will find a lot of resources. We especially recommend you check out the Solution Library and the Climate Solutions sections.

Look at GEN’s Ecovillages Map, maybe there is an Ecovillage close to you that you can visit!

Watch “Communities of Hope”, a documentary about Ecovillages in Europe.

I already know the basics and now I want to discover more!

If you wish to dive deeper because you want to start an Ecovillage, learn more about the different Ecovillage tools or you are a youth worker and you want to bring sustainability closer to young people, here are some resources for you! To see them, just click on the category you’re interested in.

REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE

Permaculture

  1. Definition
  2. Permaculture Research Institute (Australia)
  1. Permaculture Magazine (UK)
  2. Water management

Regenerative Agriculture

  1. Biochar
  1. Green belt Movement
  2. Regenerative farming at TEDxCanberra
  3. Life in Syntropy
  4. Regeneration International
  5. Rodale Institute
  6. Savory Institute
OFF-GRID
  1. Bladeless wind turbine
  2. Billions in change
  3. Bowl-shaped roofs
  1. Cob house
  2. DIY Wind Turbine
  3. Greenhouse-wrapped home
  4. Earthship
  1. Eco-friendly wood stove
  1. Hemp and solar house in Morocco
  2. Human powered bike generator
  3. Off-grid Box
  4. Mushrooms can save the world
  5. Solar Powered Shipping Container Cabin with Greenhouse
  6. Smart solar blinds
  7. Solar Village
  8. Turbine charger
  9. Wind-mill
  10. World’s largest lithium battery
LOW TECHNOLOGY
  1. Appropriate Technology
  2. Biochar
  3. Biogas
  4. Biodiesel
  5. Creating water from air
  6. Catching water from air
  7. Geo-thermal greenhouse
  8. Low-Tech magazine
  9. Natural air-cooler
  10. Natural swimming-pool
  1. Potato battery
  1. 3D Printed Hemp Houses
  2. Portland’s free energy device
  3. Purifying water algae
  4. Sun tunnels
GARDENING

Forest Gardens

Gardening

Compost

Seeds

MATERIALS
  1. Bamboo water bottles
  2. Biodegradable cooler
  3. Edible six-pack rings 
  4. Mushroom plastic
  5. Ocean cleaning device
PODCAST AND DOCUMENTARIES

Documentaries

  1. Auroville (India)
  2. Borneo Death Blow
  3. Cobra Gypsies
  4. Communities of Hope
  5. Happen Films 
  6. Lakabe
  7. Tamera
  8. The Hardest Thing I’ve Ever Loved
  9. The man who planted trees
  10. Sunseed Desert Technology

Podcasts

Articles on NEXTGEN

NextGEN | Learning from the Powerful Model of the Ecovillage – July 14, 2015 by Johnatan Dowson on Kosmos Journal

News from NextGEN Youth projects are Flourishing and Taking Shape – September 15, 2014 by Leila Dregger on GEN International Website

The Story of NextGEN The Story of NextGEN: Youth Perspectives Impacting the Ecovillage Movement – March 21, 2015 by Ethan Hirsch-Tauber on GEN International Website

NextGEN Is there Justice in Acting and Speaking in GEN? – March 15, 2014 by GEN on GEN International Website

NextGEN Reports
NextGEN Annual Report 2019Download
NextGEN Annual Report 2018Download
NextGEN Annual Report 2017Download
NextGEN Annual Report 2016Download
NextGEN Annual Report 2015Download
NextGEN Annual Report 2014Download
NextGEN Annual Report 2013Download
NextGEN Annual Report 2012Download
Our friends, brothers ad sisters organizations
  1. Ecovillage Family
  2. Global Ecovillage Network
  3. GEN Europe
  4. GENNA (North America)
  5. GENOA (Asia and Oceania)
  6. CASA Latina
  7. GEN Africa
  9. Friend Networks
  10. Ecolise
  11. Transition Network
  12. Permaculture Network
  13. Sociocracy Network  
  14. Gaia Education
  15. RISE Ubuntu Network (RUN)

NextGEN’s Spotify playlist

To stay connected to NextGEN and our worldwide movement, you can check out our “NextGEN Earth Warriors” Spotify playlist! It is collaborative, which means you can add your favorite songs about Mother Earth here, and together we can cocreate an awesome culturally diverse playlist that we can listen to at any time to get inspired and keep making the world a better place!