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10,000s sign up for online grassroots sustainability courses
Continue reading(21 June 2017) – Online learning as a tool for spreading sustainability knowhow has taken off, with tens of thousands of people signing up for courses on subjects as diverse as agroecology, reinventing democracy and ecovillage design. Two pioneers in this online field are L’Université des Colibris, the educational arm of the Colibris movement in […]
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How much electricity is produced by wind?
Continue reading(19 June 2017) – An estimated 315 000 of the 3.1 million gigawatt-hour of gross electricity generated in 2016 in the European Union came from wind power. In other words, wind accounted for 10% of the total electrical energy produced in the EU in 2016. This is five times more than in 2005 (2%). As […]
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Angry world leaders vow to defend climate pact after Trump pull-out
Continue reading(02 June 2017) – World leaders reacted with anger and defiance after President Donald Trump yesterday announced the United States, the world’s second biggest carbon emitter, was quitting the 2015 Paris Agreement. With France’s Emmanuel Macron taking the lead, they lashed Trump’s decision as misguided and vowed to defend an accord they portrayed as crucial […]
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International transformative training of trainers course offered in Scotland
Continue reading(1 June 2017)- Gaia Education, which specialises in strengthening the capacities of educators and multipliers to help transform communities, is offering its next Training of Trainers on the 17th June near Findhorn Ecovillage in Scotland. This course aims to unleash participants’ abilities to facilitate transformative learning environments and host multi-stakeholder conversations towards creating local platforms […]
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Welcome to the Evoneers’ Journey!
Continue reading(23 May 2017) – At the crossroads of entrepreneurship, personal empowerment and social innovation, the SIRCle project has created its first ripples across Europe. We take stock of the achievements of this pioneering initiative. The Erasmus+ SIRCle project seeks to address one of the most pressing needs of our time, namely, how to reconcile a […]