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Denmark’s oldest still existing community can be found on a big plot of land just north of Roskilde and feels alive and blooming 40 years after its start. Over 85 adults and many children live on the lands of a beautiful old mansion. Unique to Denmark, the community was started from a very idealistic social … Continue reading Ideological community life in Svanholm
Munksøgård is one of Denmark’s largest communities, with over 160 adults and a ton of children. The community was found more than twenty years ago on the grounds of an old farm. Over time five blocks of houses with each their own communal building have been build and an ecological shop in the old farm … Continue reading Community life for all in Munksøgård
At Hallingelille ecovillage there is a new project since a few months: this past January they started participating in the regional project “Cafe Ingeborg”. With this project the local municipality has provided activities for handicapped and dement people in the region for the past seven years. Some ecovillage members gathered around last year to see … Continue reading Project Dementia at Hallingelille
At Hallingelille ecovillage the community is being used as a fertile soil for helping refugees in Denmark. Through gardening, cooking and working together, the community members make the refugees feel welcome, give them meaningful activities to do and at the same time provide them with job-oriented skill sets and some practical training in the Danish … Continue reading Refugee project in Hallingelille: New Roots
Hallingelille is an ecovillage in the heart of Sealand, Denmark. The village started roughly 15 years ago on the terrain of an old chicken and pig farm with several hectares of pasture land. Now, over 50 adults and around 20 children are happily living here in community. The grassy pasture land has been transformed to … Continue reading Ecological community Hallingelille – an overview
In July 2018 I attended the annual Global Ecovillage Network Conference in Estonia, where I gave a workshop on the role of envisioning in ecovillages This was based on my thesis research (find it here: https://drift.eur.nl/publications/social-innovation-dutch-ecovillages/). In the beautiful ecovillage Lilleoru just half an hour outside of Tallinn, over 500 ecovillage inhabitants and enthusiasts from … Continue reading The potential of communities for global change
Expedition Ecovillage 