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Projects
2008 General Assembly of Members
GEN-Europe
at Sieben Linden Ecovillage, Germany
7 – 12th of July 2008
- International Experience Week
- Workshop "Deep Ecology"
- Booking
- Travel Refunds
- Travel Information
- Invitation as pdf download
Dear members and friends of GEN-Europe,
You are cordially invited to the next GEN-Europe’s General Assembly (GA) at the Sieben Linden ecovillage in Germany (see more on their website www.oekodorf7linden.de).
This year again we have many issues to discuss, and to decide the next steps for GEN-Europe’s future activity. So please do send one representative of your ecovillage or project to join the assembly!
Major questions/issues are:
• Spreading the responsibilities for the GEN-E offices
• Changes within the staff team and council
• Election of new council members (at least two members are going to resign their seats in summer 2008)
• Selection of the Excellence Award 2008
• Cooperation with NextGEN
• Discussing possible ways of funding for GEN-E or/and finding ways of living without funding
Draft overview of the daily schedule:
Sun, 29th June
– Fri, 4th July
International Experience Week for volunteers (see info below)
Mon, 7th July Arrival day for the Deep Ecology workshop*
Tue, 8th Deep Ecology workshop with Gabi Bott (30, - €)
(see info below);
Arrival for GA
Wed, 9th
– Sat, 12thCore time for GA, office and financial reports, open space,new council meeting (Sat, 12th)
Sun, 13th Departure
Please pay attention:
you arrive on Mon 7th if you are going to attend the workshop. For those who want to attend GA only, the day of arrival is Tue 8th. GA starts on Wed 9th!
To meet your needs best, members are invited to suggest subjects they want to discuss on the GA. Please send your ideas to ina@gen-europe.org until June 25th 2008 latest
We will have time for presentations of your projects/ecovillages. Please bring slides, videos, photos!
As usual we want to invite you to bring your local products to sell at our ecovillage market.* * *
Before the GA the interested persons can come for attending the Experience week and the Deep Ecology Workshop organized by the host Sieben Linden Ecovillage.
International experience week (29.06.08- 04.07.08)
This week is especially designed for international guests. We will work together with 7 Linden inhabitants on the place, in the garden, strawbale buildings and what ever is to be done. There will be a lot of space for information about Sieben Linden and for answers to your questions. We will also have time to get to know each other and create a glimpse of community.
Costs: euros 80, with your own tent
The costs for the days in between Friday and the start of GA are the same as for the GA - but Elke can check if they need people to help building up the infrastructure and if they can make special price for these days.
One-day workshop on “Deep Ecology” with Gabi Bott
Acting from the Heart
Discovering the Deep Ecology within us
An Introduction in Deep Ecology Methods by Gabi Bott
The problems we are facing in our world today can not be solved with the same thinking- and behaviour- patterns out of which they arose.
Deep ecology is as old as human life on earth. Whenever human beings interact with their environment in a holistic way, deep ecology is alive.
The Norwegian philosopher and environmental activist Arne Naess coined the term „deep ecology" in the early 1970s. He invited us to look deeper and beyond the superficial answers at social and ecological issues of our time. From a deep ecology point of view the planet is a living system – Lovelock named it GAIA after the Greek Earth-godess – in which everything is connected or interrelated.
The problems we are facing often appear with an individual aspect – but are truly collective.
For this day Gabi wants to invite you to create a space for new experience through sharing, exercises of perception and rituals. Since we all live in this time of crises, we are all experts. Let's use the time to discover new walks in the web of life.
Gabi Bott: studied landscaping and worked for environmental issues and the Green Party in Germany. She did an intensive training in Deep Ecology with the „Gesellschaft für Tiefenökologie“ in Germany and with Joanna Macy in USA; since 2001 she has been living in the community „Ökodorf 7 Linden“ and works with the deep ecology method in her workshops and as a trainer in long term groups.
The fee for participation in the workshop 30,– €.
Booking of GEN-Europe assembly
and workshop
To register please contact Elke Wiegand directly:
mail: maier-wiegand at web.de
phone: +49-(0)39000-51235
fax: +49-(0)39000-51232
Price for food and accomodation:
Food and hot drinks:
100% vegetarian/vegan organic and fair-trade products Euro 22 per day
As usually, we will support the kitchen team with cleaning after the meals.
Accommodation per day
Your own tent
-
Place in a big tent
Euro 3 per person
Place in a dormitory (14 places)
Euro 5
Single room (2 rooms each suitable for 2 persons)
Euro 15
Double room (1 room suitable for 3-4 persons)
Euro 25
Private lodging
Euro 5-15
House in the village (8 km away from the 7Linden)
Aprox. Euro 25,-
Please bring your sleeping equipment and towels! Due to limited number of places provided by Sieben Linden participants are strongly recommended to bring their own tents.
We also have places for caravan
Things to bring:
Please bring if possible, biological toothpaste and soap.
Helpful is a torch, hausshoes, and shoes for outside which are easy to take on and of. Also warm clothes – it can be cold and rainy in north Germany
Be aware, that you have to switch off your mobile phones in SiebenLinden (SiebenLinden is a non smoking and a mobilefree zone) – I will hand out a number where you are available in urgent cases.
We do have telephones and internet access.Please make your registration soon, so that we know whether we need to organize accomodation in Beetzendorf which is located 8km from 7 Linden.
Travel Refunds
Full members of GEN-Europe may apply for travel refunds. We offer 33% travel refund for one representative of each full member ecovillage or national network, up to a maximum of 200 Euros.
Please remember to pay your membership fee before the GA, and we ask you to contribute as much as possible. Thanks to all members who did so already!
Of course we continue to offer to pay in Eco-rates.
Please don’t miss the GA for money reasons – it is so important that all of you come to the meeting!
For all financial questions please contact Ina directly: ina at gen-europe.org
Travel information
By train
You take the train to Salzwedel or Oebisfelde. There you find the bus running between these two villages, and Poppau is in the middle. You leave the bus at Poppau Ort and have a little walk of 1km to SiebenLinden ecovillage (kodorf) there is a sign there, and you already see it when you step out of the village.
You can find the train and bus schedules in the internet: go to the site of German railway www.bahn.de and take Poppau for destination.
By plane
You can take Berlin, Hamburg or Hannover as destination airport and then the rest by train see above...
By car
Please use the internet to determine your best route, there are so many ways. The nearest village is Poppau – from there you drive through the village and over the fields, before the forest turn right - the rest is clear.
The next town in the South is Klötze and in about one hour driving there is Wolfsburg
The next town in the north is Beetzendorf and in about half an hour driving it is Salzwedel.
If you need more information, please feel free to ask Elke.
Elke Wiegand
mail: maier-wiegand at web.de
phone: +49-(0)39000-51235
fax: +49-(0)39000-51232