Global Ecovillage Network (GEN)

The Global Ecovillage Network envisions a world of empowered citizens and communities, designing and implementing their own pathways to a sustainable future, and building bridges of hope and international solidarity.

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The Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) is an international network of ecovillages, administratively divided into five autonomous regions.

GEN’s primary purpose is information exchange among the thousands of projects across the world that are building and living in small intentional and traditional communities in harmony with nature, as well as information dissemination to the larger world. GEN does this with seminars, newsletters, educational programs at many ecovillages, and an active website with easily accessible contact addresses of members, resource lists, and links to related activities. GEN has consulting status with the United Nations agency ECOSOC.

For a fuller description, visit the GEN website, which has an enormous database of information on the many participating projects and related issues. On this site you can also find an article on the Global Ecovillage Network History 1990-2004.

The Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) is a network of thousands of diverse communities worldwide that are committed to sustainable living.

The GEN network has a rich and diverse variety of Living and Learning centers in 5 world regions. This means that good models already exist where people live together and are manifesting practical examples of sustainable living. Below, you can read about some of them.