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2008, Living Mandala
creative services by: 360 Degrees

Co-Produced by

Living Mandala

The Venture Greenhouse

Presenter

Kate Bunney

& Guest Panelists

Presentation & Panel Discussion: Creating Community Models for the New Culture: Ecovillages, Co-Housing, & Intentional Communities

During this presentation and panel discussion we will explore models for Community living in the form of Eco-Villages, Co-Housing, and Intentional Communities. What are effective models for community ownership of land.... for governance and decision making... for community living... for land stewardship?We will hear presentations and a panel discussion with Kate Bunny from Tamera - one of the longest running and most renowned ecovillage communities in the world who have been pioneering new models of sustainable and deeply peaceful existence between the human being and the world. We will also hear from Raines Cohen - Cohousing California & East Bay CoHousing, and from Gordon Davidson & Corinne McLaughlin of Findhorn Foundation, Sirius Ecovillage, the Center for Center for Visionary Leadership, and the World Business Academy.

Ecovillages & Intentional Communities

Over thee last 50 years, the international Ecovillage and Intentional Communities movement has birthed communities all over the world and connected together communities that already exist or have existed for thousands of years. Some of these communities include eco-towns like Auroville in South India, the Federation of Damanhur in Italy and Nimbin in Australia; small rural ecovillages like Gaia Asociación in Argentina and Huehuecoyotl in Mexico; urban rejuvenation projects like Los Angeles EcoVillage and Christiania in Copenhagen; permaculture design sites such as Crystal Waters, Australia, Cochabamba, Bolivia and Barus, Brazil; and educational centres such as Findhorn in Scotland, Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales, Earthlands in Massachusetts, large networks like Sarvodaya (11,000 sustainable villages in Sri Lanka); EcoYoff and Colufifa (350 villages in Senegal); the Ladakh Project on the Tibetian plateau; and many more.

About Tamera

The Tamera Research Center is one of the longest running communities in the world with the intention of developing complex and all encompassing models for a sustainable and deeply peaceful existence between the human being and the world. The baseline is inclusion and global collaboration as opposed to the structures of separation that currently exist. It dares to examine all aspects of life and discover new realms of truth and trust between people and, most importantly, between the genders.

Tamera is a deep ecology and spiritually oriented community, an offshoot of the German ZEGG movement founders, now reviving a desert area of Portugal through permaculture design. Over time Tamera has gathered an enormous amount of knowledge in issues of gender relations, love, sexuality, and sustainable land management. From this foundation Tamera has gone on to explore and offer valid solutions against dessertification through water retention landscapes and a way of earth healing that draws together all the life elements of healing that form the aspects of complex models.

The 200 residents work together to model a non-violent existence of people and between people and nature. Its main missions are education, creating a self-sufficient Solar Village, and global networking under the name of GRACE. As the global revolution has begun, Tamera has an important contribution to offer towards its longevity.

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Cost - (includes snacks, food, beverages)

$10 - $20 Sliding Scale

$20 - Standard

$5 - 10 - Students

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Agenda

6:00 pm - Doors Open

6:30 - Networking, Snacks, Beverages

7:00 - Featured Presenters Begin

8:30 - Questions and More Networking

9:00 pm - Doors Close.

Ecological Leadership Series

The Ecological Leadership Series is a monthly networking event held at the Venture Greenhouse featuring an amazing speaker on cutting-edge ecological and social technologies. With a green entrapranuial focus, the series will host renowed leaders, pioneers, and experts in various topics from permaculture, sustainability, ecovillage & community design, watershed restoration, aquaponics, holistic organizational design, and other potent stradegies that can transform people and the planet.

About the Venture Greenhouse

The Venture Greenhouse of Dominican University of California is a pioneering, early-stage business incubator providing an intensive acceleration process for growing companies that have the potential for significant environmental and social benefits. Located in San Rafael, California, the 5,000 sq. ft. “innovation engine” houses up to 12 companies at a time, with the goal of graduating companies within one year.

Inspired by Dominican’ s groundbreaking Green MBA program, the Venture Greenhouse is a growth accelerator for budding social and environmental entrepreneurs, a learning laboratory for the University’s business students, and a community resource for innovators, investors, sustainability advocates and new ventures. The Venture Greenhouse is the leading innovation and venture creation catalyst addressing critical social and environmental issues, to support humanity thriving within the planet’s ecological means.

Their mission is to accelerate the success of environmentally and socially beneficial ventures by providing a broad array of resources to entrepreneurs from Dominican University of California and beyond. The Venture Greenhouse has a globally collaborative network of enterprises, professionals and partners who contribute to vibrant and sustainable economic development for Marin County and the Bay Area.

Contact

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email: education@livingmandala.com

Living Mandala phone: 707-634-1461

Venture Greenhouse phone: 415-497-3308

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Presenters & Panelists

Kate Bunney

After originally working in training, facilitation and project management for a number of UK based charities, Kate joined the Tamera Peace Research Centre in 2000. The aim of Tamera is to research and develop complex models that can serve to deepen a peaceful existence on earth for all beings. While at Tamera Kate has been one of the main event organizers and networkers for the Political Dept. and initiators of the Global Campus Education program. She has worked with groups from the Middle East, Brazil, Colombia, Kenya and Europe, organized Pilgrimages and events around the world, produced films, and organized music events. Now, one of her main passions is Fundraising and, in particular, bringing truth and authenticity to the art of giving. In 2013 she is organizing a number of events in Europe with the aim of bringing together the doer's and thinkers for effective and joyful economic alternatives. Kate's presentation will be on the importance of concrete models as proposed by Tamera and also about the Global Campus Initiative and, in particular, projects from Kenya and Brazil who participate in the program.

Gordon Davidson

Gordon Davidson is President and co-founder of The Center for Visionary Leadership and co-author of Spiritual Politics (Foreword by the Dalai Lama) and Builders of the Dawn. Gordon served as the Executive Director of the Social Investment Forum and The Center for Environmentally Responsible Economies, and he is a Fellow of the World Business Academy and the Findhorn Foundation. He consults with many organizations, and offers personal coaching for leaders.

Corinne McLaughlin

Corinne McLaughlin is co-author of The Practical Visionary, Spiritual Politics, and Builders of the Dawn and is co-founder of The Center for Visionary Leadership in California and North Carolina. She coordinated a national task force for President Clinton’s Council on Sustainable Development and is a Fellow of The World Business Academy and the Findhorn Foundation. She is also a co-founder of Sirius Community, a spiritual/environmental center in Massachusetts, and she taught politics at American University.

Raines Cohen

Raines Cohen is a Cohousing Coach, Coworking Coach, and community organizer with Planning for Sustainable Communities. Together with his wife Betsy Morris at Berkeley Cohousing, they run Cohousing California and East Bay Cohousing, regional groups with over 2000 people living in, co-creating, or seeking new ways of organizing neighborhoods that combine privacy and community. He has visited over 100 US cohousing neighborhoods, lived in two, helped start one, and advised many. A UC Berkeley Geography major who grew up near Boston and worked in the MacWEEK newsroom for half a decade, he has served on the boards of Fellowship for Intentional Community (FIC) and the Cohousing Association of the United States (Coho/US), and is a LEED Green Associate and Certified Green Building Professional. An Associate Producer of the "Within Reach" documentary due this fall, he wrote the "Aging in Community" chapter in the book "Audacious Aging." Look for his roving "talking tandem" side-by-side quadricycle "Cohousing Coach" heading your way to help you enliven your community.

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Ecological Leadership Series

Creating Community Models for the New Culture:

Ecovillages, Co-Housing, & Intentional Communities

Featuring Kate Bunney of Tamera Ecovillage in Portugal,

Gordon Davidson , Corinne McLaughlin, & Raines Cohen

Thursday, Oct 4th, 6:30 - 9:00 pm

The Venture Greenhouse

San Rafael, California