Welcome to the Ecovillage Design Education North South portal

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This page will guide you through all aspects of our human settlement design course EDE.

Andes Consulting has gotten the United Nations Decade for Education and Sustainable Development UNDESD stemple and the Gaia Education Certification for our courses.

In order to become an ecovillage designer, you must cover the 1 month course and its 4 week modules.

The course is divided into 4 modules:

1. Worldview module

2. Social module

3. Economical module

4. Ecological module

See the whole course curriculum click on:

Ecovillage Design Education Pensum

 

What kind of course is an EDE?

 

Ecovillage Design Course is:

 

• A course where a thorough and objective assessment of the state of the planet is followed by regional, community, and place-based solutions.
• An education that empowers individuals and communities with the knowledge for shaping their worlds and becoming more self-reliant while engaging in bioregional as well as international cooperation.
• A course that is universal in scope but local in application, directed toward preserving precious cultural diversity.
• A course where investigating theory is followed by practical application.
• A course that imparts useful and instrumental life-skills as part of the curriculum..A course relevant to people in rural and urban regions.
• A course promoting and facilitating healthful planetary evolution, as well as the well-being and quality of life of individuals and their communities everywhere.
• A course exploring and expanding the perceived limits of human potential.
• A course that informs, enables and inspires community-based visions of a sustainable human civilization as well as the means to turn such visions into reality during the course of the 21st century.
• Andes Consulting in cooperation with the Huehuecoyotel Ecovillage in Mexico, bring you the unique opportunity to learn how to build a sustainable human settlement or ecovillage to become more self reliant and learn to take your future in your own hands.
• The course will take place at a farm that seeks to become an ecovillage, an example of self sustainability and conscious design. Come and take part of this adventure.
• For more information contact: 
• Enrique Hidalgo info@andesstudier.no Phone : +47 - 966 82 452

Course dates:

 June 2010: Contact us

September 2010:Contact us

 

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