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March 2012 GENOA Newsletter

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Participatory Action Research with Design Studio

Why Design Studio? In the EDE Thailand 2008/9, the Thai EDE teaching and organizing team had started their first design studio at the fifth week of their course. The Idea was to have an extra week for the student to experience and practice integrated design in the real sites.

Forming Community Through EDE

biyaya resilience_center Tuwa The Laughing Fish is an eco-homestead, living and learning center and green bed and breakfast inn nestled right in the middle of the vast rice fields of the small farming town of Cabiao in Nueva Ecija, Philippines. It is on the wings of growth and has the potential to evolve into a forming ecological community. What makes it unique is that it was founded and created by two Ecovillage Design Education (EDE) alumni in the persons of John Vermeulen and this author, Penelope Reyes --- all in a short span of two years.

Team for Nature and Wildlife

Team for Nature and Wildlife (TNW) is on a campaign of making Dolakha district as the first eco-district of Nepal till 2020.In the beginning, TNW aims to develop one of the highly remote and backward villages of the district as an ecovillage.

Bangladesh Ecovillage Design Education

Organised by the Bangladesh Association for Sustainable Development (BASD) and in Partnership with Gaia Education and the Global Ecovillage Network Ocieania & Asia.

GENOA was established in 1997 by Max Lindegger is a network of people, ecovillages and organisations in Oceania & Asia region. A member of the Global Ecovillage Network, it is GENOA promotes Ecovillage living where people live together in a sustainable way, with dignity, in harmony with each other, and with nature.