Ecovillages
Dear friends from Ecovillages worldwide,
I want to inform you about our Third Water Symposium in Tamera.
Water is a topic for everybody on this planet - and for sure for every ecovillage. Many ecovillages face severe challenges like salizination of ground water, treatment of sewage water, clean drinking water, and water for agriculture. Other challenges are the privatization of water, big dams and laws that in many cases support rather industry and centralization than decentralized models.
And many ecovillage have worked on regional solutions, sometimes they created model solutions that can and should be shared with others to help each others.
For this we organize this Water Symposium. Read more below. And please spread this information to all those who may be interested.
Leila Dregger, Tamera
"Renewing Water Cycles, Healing the Earth, Learning from Water”
3rd International Water Symposium, Tamera, Portugal June 6th -9th, 2013
"Water, energy and food are freely available for all of humankind, if we don´t follow the laws of capital but the logic of nature." (Dieter Duhm)
Welcome to İmece Evi! (Solidarity Home) İmece Evi started its “Ecologic Village” project on Kazdağı (İda Mountains) in 2007 based on the rules of ecology and intercultural peace and built on his claim of “Another World is Possible”. Until 2010 it gained a lot of experience in its rental premisses by the coast. Starting with 2011, İmece Evi has been moving to its own land on the mountain Dumanlı. (İzmir-Menemen,Turgutlar village) It is now a self-contained organisation which, by the help of its implementations and ecologic solutions, has already proved that “a life in harmony with nature” is possible, and its expenses on the things provided by the external resources gradually get less. All experiences gained through the time has been shared with the participants all over the world, and as of 2011 Natural Agriculture Method by Fukuoka-san has been given the priority to be used in its own lands while the philosophy and the results are debated with the volunteers. Permaculture, Biodynamic Applications and Traditional Culture have always been considered in all applications, and the experiences gained have always been shared with the participants.
