REALS policy recommendations

(14 October 2016) – Partners of REALS, a transition cooperation project between Sweden, Russia and Belarus which ended in August 2016, developed a set of policy recommendations. You can find the document here. The work has really been a learning journey for a few of us in the project group

Bruce Charles ‘Bill’ Mollison (1928-2016)

(13 October 2016) – A moving tribute to Bill Mollison, who died 24 September in Tasmania, a true pioneer who gave up a promising academic career to challenge the status quo and establish the global Permaculture movement. A few people are born who are world class heroes to those who

Video: Design for Sustainability & Organic Food Systems Learning Journey

Gaia Education in partnership with the University of Catania is conducting of series of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) courses to address the convergence of humanitarian and economic crises in Sicily by supporting the professionalisation of migrants and unemployed youth in the context of the rich agricultural legacy of the

Gaia Education Maximizing the Edges

Gaia Education, an international NGO providing education for sustainable development at local level, has published a short video displaying a decade of the organisation’s international development work in less than five minutes. The programmes are running across the world empowering communities in vulnerable areas and assisting them in adapting their

Gaia Education Design for Sustainability E-learning Programme

Gaia Education’s E-learning programme ’Design for Sustainability’ is starting on the 17th of October! The course encapsulates the most effective and essential knowledge and design experience found in the successful sustainable communities and transition projects globally. It will provide you with the knowledge and confidence to take an active role

Design for Sustainability and Organic Food Systems

In 2015 it was estimated that there were 244 million migrants globally. The reasons for human migration are many; economics, conflict and the effects of climate change are some of the highest contributing factors and some migrants find themselves in lands quite different to their home. Starting a new life,

Free training course on financing local development projects

(04 October 2016) - The Covenant of Mayors and Eurocities are organising, in Brussels on 28-29 November, a training course on financing sustainable local development projects.

The large scale roll-out of electric cars on EU roads…

(30 September 2016) – The large scale roll-out of electric cars on EU roads will help fight climate change but more electricity will have to be generated to power the vehicles which, the European Environment Agency (EEA) has warned, could have its own impact on global warming. The European Environment

Swedish break-through for community-run micro-biogas in Europe

Biogas is a renewable energy source that is slowly getting more traction in Europe. It is freshly-produced methane, the ecological equivalent to its more well-known sister product, fossil-fuel natural gas. While much of Europe is heated by non-renewable natural gas, industries are run on natural gas and cars are powered

Energy in the European Union

(20 September 2016) – Statistics can help to make the complex process of energy more understandable. This is the aim of the digital publication Shedding light on energy in the EU – A guided tour of energy statistics issued today by Eurostat. This digital publication will serve in particular those