Episodes 18
Avg. Duration 33m
Activity Moderate
Since Sep 2020
Latest Episode Apr 2025

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About This Podcast

Community is a podcast about living better together. From the Global Ecovillage Network in Europe, we tell the stories of ecovillages and the people who live in them.

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At Work in the Ruins: Dougald Hine at the European Ecovillage Gathering 2024

Apr 21, 2025 57m

Today, we’re bringing you a very special recording from the annual European Ecovillage Gathering held in Ängsbacka in 2024, where we had the privilege of hearing from Dougald Hine, an author,…

“The Political Aspects of Community Building”: A’ida Al-Shibli in a conversation with Teodora Radulescu at the European Ecovillage Gathering 2024

Mar 07, 2025 39m

In this powerful episode, we explore how to confront systemic injustices and work toward a more just and peaceful world, examining the essential role of love and compassion in addressing global…

The Power of Going Local: A Conversation with Anja Lyngbaek at the European Ecovillage Gathering 2024

Jan 30, 2025 57m

In this compelling episode, we sit down with Anja Lyngbaek, Programmes Director of Local Futures and a passionate advocate for localization. Drawing from her extensive work with communities…

Episode 12: Coming back to the power of life – the politics and spirituality of peacework with Sabine Lichtenfels

Oct 16, 2023 42m

On today’s episode, we speak to Sabine Lichtenfels: activist, peaceworker, theologian, and co-founder of Tamera Ecovillage. We discuss Sabine’s journey into community, the politics and spirituality…

Episode 11: Building Community That Lasts with Les Pas-Sages

Jun 14, 2023 42m

How do you build a community that lasts 100 years? Les Pas-Sages wants to help community groups do just that, by demystifying complex concepts and providing clear and simple explanations of the…

Voices of the Ecovillage Gathering: Camilla Nielsen-Englyst, Danish Ecovillage Network

Nov 21, 2022 21m

Why are there so many ecovillages in Denmark? How has the country ‘mainstreamed’ ecovillages? And what made hosting this summer’s ecovillage gathering there so special? Ecovillage veteran Steffen…

Finding meaning in a time of endings: Dougald Hine at the European Ecovillage Gathering

Nov 21, 2022 39m

in this episode we explore some of the main themes of this summer’s European Ecovillage Gathering, and share writer and storyteller Dougald Hine’s moving keynote speech on the work worth doing when…

Episode 10: Voices from Ukraine with Maksym Zalevski and Steffen Emrich

Mar 31, 2022 17m

Today on Community we’re rebroadcasting an episode of GEN EU board member and veteran ecovillager Steffen Emrich’s podcast, All About Community. Steffen has been closely involved in the ecovillage…

Episode 9: Crowdfunding Community with Mas del Potro

Nov 26, 2021 25m

Can you crowdfund a community? It’s one option many people have tried, with wildly differing results. On today’s episode we talk to someone who made it work: Roger Jove, co-founder of Mas del Potro,…

Episode 8: Food and Community – Growing Plants and People at Findhorn

Nov 09, 2021 27m

Food is an integral part of community: what we eat, how we grow it, and who we share it with. And an ecovillage’s approach to food can tell us a lot about its philosophy, too. Today on Community we…

Episode 7: In conversation with Tobias Jones

May 24, 2021 20m

This week on Community, the ecovillage podcast, with guest producer Evan Welkin from Borgo Basino we’re in conversation with author and journalist Tobias Jones, who has documented his explorations…

Episode 6: Let’s Build an Ecovillage – lessons from a life in community

Apr 26, 2021 32m

This week, Community visits Torri Superiore – a 30-year old ecovillage in a medieval town steeped in history in Northern Italy. Here we talk to Lucilla Borio, an expert in community building, who…

Episode 5: The Ecovillage Explorer

Mar 22, 2021 23m

From their food to their customs, few people know the ecovillages of Europe so well as Riccardo Clemente. Community resident, eco-architect, musician, former president of the Italian Ecovillage…

Episode 4: Aida Shibli – Identity, Community and Activism

Mar 08, 2021 31m

Aida Shibli describes herself as a queer Palestinian activist, an ecovillager, and a mother. On this week’s podcast we talk about her journey from Palestine to Portugal, identity in community, and…

Episode 3: The Ecovillage Economy

Feb 22, 2021 36m

How do ecovillagers make ends meet? When you start talking about ecovillages, it’s a question that sooner or later people are likely to ask you. In this episode of Community, we talk with researcher…

Episode 2: The Love Revolution

Feb 04, 2021 27m

Love: it’s everybody’s business. Or that’s what the founders of the pioneering Tamera community believed, and it’s a conviction that has lead to the creation of a peace research centre, the Healing…

Special Episode – Bafut: War and Hope in Cameroon’s First Ecovillage

Feb 03, 2021 22m

Bafut Ecovillage was a model of hope and good practices in challenging circumstances: providing education and ecologically sound livelihoods to youth and adults in Cameroon’s highlands. Then the war…

Episode 1: A Journey of Transformation

Sep 23, 2020 36m

Is it possible to change your life? In Episode 1 of Community, the ecovillage podcast, we set out to explore what changed the life and values of two very different people, following their journeys…

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