Community

Mar 07 2025 17 ep. 32 mins 9
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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.

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“The Political Aspects of Community Building”: A’ida Al-Shibli in a conversation with Teodora Radulescu at the European Ecovillage Gathering 2024

Mar 07 2025 39 mins  
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...

The Power of Going Local: A Conversation with Anja Lyngbaek at the European Ecovillage Gathering 2024

Jan 30 2025 57 mins  
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...

Episode 12: Coming back to the power of life – the politics and spirituality of peacework with Sabine Lichtenfels

Oct 16 2023 42 mins  
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...

Episode 11: Building Community That Lasts with Les Pas-Sages

Jun 14 2023 42 mins  
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...

Voices of the Ecovillage Gathering: Camilla Nielsen-Englyst, Danish Ecovillage Network

Nov 21 2022 21 mins  
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, powerhou

Finding meaning in a time of endings: Dougald Hine at the European Ecovillage Gathering

Nov 21 2022 39 mins  
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.

Episode 10: Voices from Ukraine with Maksym Zalevski and Steffen Emrich

Mar 31 2022 17 mins  
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....

Episode 9: Crowdfunding Community with Mas del Potro

Nov 26 2021 25 mins  
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...

Episode 8: Food and Community – Growing Plants and People at Findhorn

Nov 09 2021 27 mins  
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,...

Episode 7: In conversation with Tobias Jones

May 24 2021 20 mins  
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...