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PRACTICING FOOD SOVEREIGNTY IN THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY

PRACTICING FOOD SOVEREIGNTY IN THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY

Imagining a regenerative, community led & cooperative local food sector.

Online Session I Tuesday October 19th 2021
15.30 - 17.00 BST I 16.30 - 18.00 CET

While admission is FREE to this event, you MUST register beforehand as places are strictly limited. Please secure your place by booking here

Green European Foundation, along with Green Foundation Ireland and Cultivate would like to invite you to a dynamic online conversation and launch of a pamphlet exploring the topic of Food Sovereignty, Climate Action and Local Resilience.

This session will include conversations with leading Irish and European advocates of regenerative agriculture. rural regeneration and sustainability. It will explore how we might take climate action and strengthen the resilience and wellbeing of our local places through the practice of food sovereignty.

The project builds upon the outputs of the 2020 project. ‘A Question of SCALE’ and the findings of an online session held in June 2021 to produce the new GEF Pamphlet, ‘Food Sovereignty, Climate Action and Local Resilience’, that is launched at this webinar.

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Wellbeing Economy Alliance

We're delighted to announce the formal launch of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance's Ireland Hub with this interactive event - a follow-up to the Hub's successful online gathering in June.

We’ll hear from leading global visionaries Kate Raworth of Doughnut Economics and Katherine Trebeck of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance. They will join with Jennifer Wallace of the Carnegie UK Trust, core members of the new WEAll Hub for Ireland, the Irish Doughnut Economics Network and other local Irish activists to help identify the strategic actions that are needed to shift values and reorient our economies toward wellbeing policies and practices, to create an island of wellbeing.

Date: Tuesday October 19

Time: 12:30-2pm Irish time

Book a place here

Cultivate is a co-organiser of this event, along with FEASTA, the European Health Futures Forum and QUB School of Law and Social Justice Ireland.

Transformative Learning for the Socio-Ecological Transition. Sunday 19th September 2021 I 16:00 I € free

TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING
For the Socio-Ecological Transition

Sunday 19th September  I 16:00 I € free
WeCreate Centre, Cloughjordan Ecovillage, Tipperary, Ireland

This session shares the results of the BLAST - Blended Transformative Learning Project - funded by the European Union Erasmus+ KA2 Strategic Partnerships Programme.

A presentation on transformative learning from Peadar Kirby will be followed by an overview of the three key outputs from the project: a Community of Practice (CoP) Guide; a Catalyst Toolkit and a Competency Framework from Davie Philip, Mel White and Aaron Bailey of the Irish consortium partners Cultivate, the Sustainable Ireland Cooperative.

The BLAST partnership is and has been set up to interweave three key concepts and respective sets of practice: Blended Learning (BL), Transformative Learning (TL) and Socio-Ecological Transition (SET).

Peadar Kirby is Professor Emeritus of International Politics and Public Policy at the University of Limerick and a resident of Cloughjordan Ecovillage.

Permaculture Design Course 29th July to 7th August 2022, in Cloughjordan Ecovillage

The COVID-19 pandemic has further revealed the need for our globalized industrial systems to adapt so that our values and quality of life are central to the way we live. We will be implementing recommended health measures to put safety first while sharing skills, that are all the more important in light of our rapidly changing world, to foster resilience in our local and global communities.

This current break with many of our old systems provides opportunities to reconsider our relationship with the natural world, reconnect to our local communities, re-localise economies and intensify efforts to strengthen our resilience. The principles and ethics of Permaculture provide us with the design system for the future.

UK Permaculture Association Accredited
Course Fee €600. Deposit refundable until 14th June 2022.
Some concessionary places are available for low or no wage participants | €100 deposit secures your place | We accept Bitcoin
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A Question of SCALE Publication

A Question of SCALE: “Imagining a cooperative, community-led approach to regional resilience” (SCALE also being the acronym for Supply Chains and Local Economies).

Cultivate produced this framing paper with Green Foundation Ireland and the Green European Foundation. It is part of the Climate Emergency Economy transnational project, which includes Green House Think Tank, UK and GroenLinks, Netherlands.

The process began by bringing together some new, and old ideas for shortening supply chains and strengthening local economies into a position paper, which was distributed to 50 researchers and cooperative advocates. We then invited them to a webinar in September 2020 to discuss and build on the ideas. 10 illustrations as well as the findings from the webinar were then synthesised into the final framing paper.

The paper introduces and explores the potential of the Social and Solidarity economy, Doughnut Economics, Just Transition, The Commons, Community Wealth Building, Federated co-ops new co-operative approaches.

Question of Scale Framing Paper is available on the GEF website here..A Question of Scale - PDF

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A Question SCALE Podcast

A Podcast featuring some of the contributors to the Question of Scale Webinar and Framing Paper was recorded in Cultivate’s new digital studio in WeCreate Workspace.

This production is available here  https://youtu.be/TnQaq_E3xaA

Framing Paper A Question of Scale - PDF

00:00.00 - Introduction
Davie Philip - Cultivate/ Ecolise.eu, Ollie Moore - Cultivate/ ARC2020
00:02.18 - Resilience - A Guiding Principle for a Just Recovery & Transition
Dirk Holemans - GEF
00:08.10 - Climate Emergency Economy
Jonathan Essex - Green House, UK, Bram van de Glind - GroenLinks, Netherlands.
00:17.10 - Introducing Doughnut Economics
Dr. Carol Power - Centre for Co-Operative Studies at UCC
00:28.00 - Just Transitions & Community Wealth Building
Sinead Mercier, Sean McCabe - TASC
00:46.00 - Historical Perspectives on Cooperatives in Ireland
Tommy Simpson - GFI
00:53.50 - Cooperatives Now
Sam Toland - Solid Network,  Aoife Hammond - Dublin Food Coop

Production - Eoin Campbell (JustMultimedia)
Music and Tech Support - Darren Flynn
The project is made possible with the financial support of the European Parliament to the Green European Foundation. The European Parliament is not responsible for the content of this publication.

Learning Journeys and Study Visits

Visit Ireland's Only Ecovillage - Learn about Living and Working Sustainably

Cultivate, in partnership with Cloughjordan Ecovillage, designs and delivers one to five day programmes for groups around a particular topic or topics of interest related to the transition to a low carbon and resilient society. These can include Green Building and Sustainable Energy, Local Food, Food Security, Community Energy Transition, Local Enterprise, Digital Manufacturing, Community Resilience and Sustainable Living.

We tailor the tours for each group and work with them to devise a personalised itinerary on their specific area of interest.  These study tours can range from one to several days, depending on the itinerary developed, though we recommend at least two days to allow for a more immersive experience.

Cloughjordan is a traditional Irish village which is now also home to the Cloughjordan Ecovillage. This is where we share our experience and knowledge with groups of all ages, sizes and interests.

Activities are based in the Ecovillage and can include tours, talks, practical workshops and social events in Cloughjordan and the surrounding area. We can also work with groups on transport, accommodation and meals. Groups interested in continuing professional development can participate in industry specific workshops and talks.

For more info, options or booking: email Veronica at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Global Green at Electric Picnic 2019

GLOBAL GREEN ECOVILLAGE 2019
AN OASIS OF CREATIVITY AND CLIMATE ACTION

Our climate is changing. How will we?

Global Green is a colourful pop-up eco-village of green ideas, merriment, inspiration and action. For over a decade this area, coordinated by Cultivate, the collective based in Cloughjordan Ecovillage, has been the conscious heartbeat of the Electric Picnic. Here you will find activists, artists, makers, musicians, foodies and poets from across Ireland hosting transformational ideas, activities and conversations for all generations.

Find us on the green edge of the festival to revamp your body and mind with fabulous famous toasties from The Market Kitchen, and drinks at the Full of Love Kombucha Bar, and the Revel Coffee Caravan.
Whether you want to dance, eat, save the planet or loosen up and mellow out, Global Green is a must-visit over the festival weekend. With performances, exhibits, art, information and curiosities of all sorts Global Green is a unique festival experience for everyone.

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