Community Resilience
By Community Resilience
Community ResilienceMar 20, 2024
Honoring the learnings & sacred cycles of life with Yuluka Kankurua, from Aldea Feliz Ecovillage
Today we are joined by Yuluka Kankurua, President of CASA Latina and Latin America’s regional representative in the Resilience project. Yuluka lives in Aldeafeliz, a 17 year old Ecovillage in the center of the Colombia.
She is a part of CASA Colombia, CASA Latina and now the Network Stewardship Circle (NSC) of GEN. Yuluka is a sociocracy trainer and also a promoter of the rights of Mother Earth. She has written a short book about the pedagogical strategy used to promote the Rights of Mother Earth called “Community Living Aulas for the Mother Earth Rights,” available to download at the CASA Latina Site.
Please remember that english is not the first language for many of our guests. Thank you Yuluka, for your help translating the materials into spanish. You can find these resources in our show notes at ecovillage.org/resilience-podcast
Regenerative journey with Rob Wheeler from The Farm Ecovillage
Today we speak to Rob Wheeler, the Ecovillage Resilience Project partner for The Farm Ecovillage and Education Center. In addition to his work locally, Rob has participated actively in the UN’s primary conferences and processes on climate and sustainable development for the past 25 years. He is the North American Representative on the Facilitating Group for Action for Sustainable Development which works with the UN on the Global Week of Action for achieving the SDGs. Rob serves on the Advisory Council for Ecosystem Restoration Communities and is the Founder and CEO of Sustainably Wise - which will be a web portal that will assist all interested people and stakeholder groups to help achieve the SDGs and to transition as rapidly as possible to a fully sustainable world. Rob is the Global Ecovillage Network’s main representative in the United Nations and a newly elected board member.
Dive deeper by exploring the Resilience Attributes mentioned by Rob:
Diversity
habitat diversity
food production/crops diversity
livelihood diversity
diversity of perspectives
Redundancy
multiple reinforcing options
backup alternatives for responding to shocks
Connectivity & Modularity
connections with other ecovillages (shared learning/resources)
connections with surrounding communities (sharing information/resources)
landscape connectivity e.g., ecological corridors
connectivity that promotes recovery after disturbances/shocks
modularity to buffer disturbances (disease spread/economic impacts)
Inclusivity and equity
degrees of equity
how to gauge levels of trust
evidence of collective action
fair opportunities
reciprocity/exchange for mutual benefit
Adaptive learning & decision making
monitoring change
experimentation
processes for learning
evidence-based strategies
polycentric governance
inhibiting top-down approaches
Learn more about them at: https://ecovillage.org/resilience-tracker-tool-release/
Join us as we explore the ways in which many forms of nurturing resilience are being developed. Find more at: ecovillage.org/ecovillage-resilience-podcast
Building Local Resilience with Mugove Walter Nyika, Gudza Ramuka Ecovillage Zimbabwe
Mugove is a natural farmer and a community development facilitator, focused on the building resilience and food sovereignty in African communities. His mission is to use his life skills, land use design skills, and passion for the environment and community to listen, encourage, and inspire people to look after themselves and the environment, especially the next generation, as the custodians for the future. Over the last three decades, he has played a central role in the development of the integrated land use design process as a tool for inclusive and participatory whole school land design and community engagement.
Mugove has worked with communities and organizations across the African continent and facilitated the founding of the Regional Schools and Colleges Permaculture Program, or RESCOPE, in 2006, which now shares green technologies and permaculture techniques in Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Today, Mugove serves the movement as a general coordinator for RESCOPE and the development facilitator for the Gudza Ramuka Ecovillage in Zimbabwe. I hope you enjoy our conversation on community resilience and the powerful act of connecting locally.
Please note that English is a second language for most of our guests. We do offer transcripts and our show notes at ecovillage.org/community-resilience.
Community empowerment with Damanhur Ecovillage
Welcome back to Community Resilience, a podcast created in collaboration with the Ecovillage Resilience 2.5 degree project facilitated by the global ecovillage network.
Today we're receiving Macaco Tamerice, who has lived in Damanhur for nearly 30 years and served the ecovillage network as the president of GEN-Europe, Ecovillage Design Education Facilitator and GEN UN Ambassador. Macaco is a life coach, trauma worker, facilitator and spiritual healer who has found purpose and happiness by going through profound personal transformations and life choices.
I hope you enjoy our conversation on the lifecycles of Damanhur, the interplay between inerfreedom and community, and take from our conversation ideas for building resilience in your community.
Learn more at: ecovillage.org/ecovillage-resilience-podcast
Holding Hope in transformative times with Piracanga Ecovillage
Welcome back to Community Resilience, a podcast created in collaboration with the Ecovillage Resilience 2.5 degree project facilitated by the global ecovillage network.
Today, we are travelling to Piracanga Ecovillage, located on the eastern coast of Brazil in the state of Bahia, nestled between the forest and the beach. Piracanga has undergone great transformation in the past few years on social, structural and spiritual levels. It is an honor to have them with us in the resilience project, and we hope you enjoy hearing from them as much as we do.
Today’s podcast guest is Bruno Tambelini, permaculturalist, EDE instructor, social entrepreneur and founder of the Inkiri Institute at Piracanga. For four years, he has dedicated himself to the development of the Viva Inkiri University - a project that has trained more than 400 young people between 18 to 28 in socio-emotional skills - while creating local impact through regenerative culture training.
Join us as we explore the ways in which many forms of community nurture seed of hope, passing on the ways in which they have learned to be resilient.
Learn more at: ecovillage.org/ecovillage-resilience-podcast
Community Resilience & Cultural Transformation with Anna Kovasna
Welcome to Community Resilience, a podcast created in collaboration with the Ecovillage Resilienec 2.5 degree project facilitated by the global ecovillage network.Today, we kick off our listening journey with Anna Kovasna, catalyst for the Ecovillage Resilience +2.5 degree project and resilience researcher. Anna is dedicated to exploring community as a tool for resilience, regeneration and liberation. With a long history of leadership within the Global Ecovillage Network, she until recently lived in the Findhorn Ecovillage - a 60-year experiment in inner listening and cocreation with nature. Deeply in love with the world and its myriad inhabitants, Anna now lives in the Pyrenees with her human and nonhuman kin, hoping to support vibrant biodiversity, rich soils and abundant health for all who share her west-facing mountainside.Dive deeper by exploring the work and people mentioned in this episode:Lyla June JonhsonRobin Wall KimmererCascade InstitutePost Carbon Instituteresilience.orgStockholm resilience centerJoin us as we explore the ways in which many forms of community nurture seed of hope, passing on the ways in which they have learned to be resilient.Learn more at: ecovillage.org/ecovillage-resilience-podcastLink to transcription