Sustainable Model Village
It was the greatest interest ever shown in the Hungarian Ecovillage Winter Assembly this year. More than 140 attendants participated in Máriahalom. Perhaps global crisis, high unemployment, gas scarcity on the coldest days of winter together forced a lot of people to think over how to continue in Hungary.
Even city dwellers have several choices to actively take part in reducing climate crisis. Many tiny GREEN changes remarkably contribute to decrease present and approaching crises. However, those who take their roll seriously even try to get out from the consumer society’s madness. Gradual reduction of demands improve every individual’s inner harmony and tranquility, rather […]
This year our Eco-logic Clubs will start with the contribution of partner universities and colleges. The topic of the first meeting will be the following: “Sustainability is feasible.” The know-how of feasible sustainability will be available on the website later… We invite everyone interested to a discussion beginning with a short presentation.
Only a couple of months passed since the ratification of cooperation agreement between the Eco Valley Program and University of Pécs. The signatory to the agreement, the Department of European Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the University has already announced the “Eco Valley Research Seminar”.
Description and evaluation of Hungarian eco-villages is compiled in a thesis at Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest). Beáta Hári, student of ELTE Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences chose a very interesting and relevant topic for her thesis.
Among the programs of the 15th anniversary of Krishna Valley’s establishment, on 31st October, 2008 we organized a teachers’ conference to emphasise the importance of education about enviro-consciousness. The conference hosted nearly 60 guests, teachers from our region.
Among several research institutes and many universities, The Eco Valley Foundation is a Hungarian cooperative partner as well in the Hungarian-Indian Intergovernmental Cooperation. India and Hungary prepared a work schedule for 2009 and 2010 and they signed an agreement on ministerial level on 15 October, 2008.
The poster of Eco Valley Program was presented on the 5th Hungarian Conference of Conservation Biology (6-9. November 2008. Nyíregyháza, Hungary)
The environmentally conscious mindset of the Eco Valley Programme’s three basic pillars is the creation of sustainability for the unity of individual, society and environment. An important element of this is the maintenance of physical and mental health.
The eco-village can be viewed as a model experiment, where all age groups are represented. People with various skills, qualifications and abilities work together each and every day for their community, sharing their tasks and also spending their free time together.