Eco-valley » Education and research http://ecovalley.hu Sustainable Society Model Village Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:44:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Eco-valley research seminar at University of Pécs http://ecovalley.hu/eco-valley-research-seminar-at-university-of-pecs/ http://ecovalley.hu/eco-valley-research-seminar-at-university-of-pecs/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:52:47 +0000 Szilvia Rév http://ecovalley.hu/?p=43 pte_cimerOnly a couple of months passed since the ratification of the cooperation agreement between the Eco-valley Program and the University of Pécs Department of European Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the University already announced the “Eco-valley research seminar”.
Farkas Judit (PhD), the responsible lecturer, told us about the structure of the course: one day Krishna-valley tour, background presentations, research reports and one week field work on the organic farm of Krishna-valley.

More then ten students already registered for the subject. They will be given a comprehensive knowledge about applied sustainability, principles and objectives of ecovillages, the Hungarian ecovillage movement as well as basis of theology and history of Krishna-consciousness. They will also experience the everyday routine of Krishna-valley’s environment-consciousness life. All participants will carry out their own research in Krishna-valley and the most remarkable ones will be published by the Eco-valley Program.

]]> http://ecovalley.hu/eco-valley-research-seminar-at-university-of-pecs/feed/ 0 Krishna-valley: Excellent in sustainability http://ecovalley.hu/krishna-valley-excellent-in-sustainability/ http://ecovalley.hu/krishna-valley-excellent-in-sustainability/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:43:00 +0000 Szilvia Rév http://ecovalley.hu/?p=37 paraszthazDescription and evaluation of Hungarian ecovillages are written in a diploma work at Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest). Beáta Hári, student of ELTE Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, chose a very interesting and current topic for her thesis. She studied the Hungarian ecovillages in aspect of applied sustainability and regional development.
Her comprehensive work obtains an insight into the functioning of these ecovillages and the everyday life of their inhabitants.

She laid down three major condition of a well functioning long term sustainable ecovillage:

- Ecological sustainability
- Social sustainability
- Economical sustainability

According to her research, there are two ecovillages in Hungary meet these requirements. One of them is Krishna-valley.

(The thesis is available only in Hungarian.)

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