Archive for the ‘Conferences’ Category

The Eco Valley Foundation has decided to organize a Seminar on The Pillars of Sustainability that will take place between 5th and 13th September, 2012 in Somogyvámos, Hungary.

The good news is that it is still possible to hand in grant application in some European countries!
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How to build a community? How to plan a self-sufficient family homestead? How to establish contact with the existing ecovillage initiatives? How can a city dweller get organic produces from the land he owns, while at the same time support local villagers as well? How to manage 50 hectares of land, if someone wants to produce organic foodstuff? What are the actualities in Hungarian ecovillages?
Questions like the above and others were discussed during the 11^th Winter Ecovillage Meeting in Somogyvámos a few weeks ago.
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From October 9th to 16th, sponsored by the European Commission’s Lifelong Learning Programme, the Eco Valley Foundation of Hungary held a one-week workshop called The Pillars of Sustainability – Developing Small Communities Aiming at Self-sustainability in Europe at their primary model community, Krishna Valley in the South-Western part of the country. Krishna Valley, situated in a beautiful rural Hungarian setting and home to 130 residents hosted for one week 20 attendants from 14 European countries.
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The Eco Valley Foundation organized its fourth conference on sustainability in Krishna Valley. We had 132 guests on the event held on 5th October. The topic of this year’s conference was ecological farming; therefore, we tried to pass on the experience of Krishna Valley’s organic farming through captivating and inspiring presentations.

The afternoon programs followed the morning lectures and round-table discussions, when ecological farming experts showed the audience their everyday practices. The display of various skills symbolically demonstrated to the participants the way bread is made, from sowing to harvesting and baking. However, they also learned about the bits and pieces of ecological dairy production and organic gardening.

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We would like to warmly welcome everyone to a conference regarding the various procedures and options of reducing the ecological footprint. This conference will be held in Krishna-valley on behalf of the Eco-valley foundation. Read the rest of this entry »

Among the programs of the 15 anniversary of Krishna-valley, on the 31.Octorber 2008 we organized a teachers’ conference to emphasise the importance of education for enviro-consciousness. The conference has nearly 60 guests, teachers from our region. Read the rest of this entry »