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Hello All,
Again me! Thank you very much for all the responses!
I said yesterday it is my last e-mail from Copenhagen but life is full of suprises and I am gonna write you one more e-mail from here. Basically my flight was over-booked so I am still in Copenhagen, sitting in the airport and waiting for the next flight.
There was one thing I wanted to share with you and I could not because of the pace of the meetings. This is the place I stayed in Denmark. During these days I stayed in Munksogaard ecovillage outside of Copenhagen. Unfortunately there is no photo of the place since I always left when the whether is dark and arrived when it is dark! The days are short here!
They have been great host. It is originally a co-housing project turn out to be an ecovillage. 150 adults and 100 children live together in the ecological and co-housing community. Their community is built on two fundamental values: environmental sustainability and spirit of community. If you want to have more information the web address is http://www.munkesoegaard.dk
Ok. Time to go.
I have got many request for more photos from the demonstration on Saturday. I have also heard that in media it was always shown that people breaking the windows, damaging and so. Actually I have not seen any of these. What I have seen that it is possible 100 000 people walking together peacefully and having fun! So there is one more photo from the demonstration in attachment.
With love
Deniz
Hello All,
Feeling completely tired, really!
I have a bad and good news, and I am gonna tell you both at the same time: I am going back to Turkey tomorrow. This means this my last daily news from Copenhagen!
Bad because it was so lovely and I was so delighted to share all this information with you! Good because I really miss Turkey, family, friends a lot and I feel tired!
Soo today, all morning council meeting, you can see the council and staff of of GEN-Europein the photo. And all afternoon different meetings within GEN and Gaia Education family. So the day of meetings, connections, information exchange and so... I have not been in Climate Bottom or Klimaforum today.
Having said that it was so wonderful to be with people I know for sometime and new people and just share and connect in a very nice place. Actually this evening has been one of the highlights of all conference!
Today, I would like to share with you about a couple; Ross and Hildur Jackson. I am very much touched by their generousity towards the ecovillage movement and even towards us today. Hildur and Ross are supporting the ecovillage/sustainability movement I do not know for how long! More than 40 years? in many different ways. They have founded the Gaia Trust, they are co-founders of the GEN, Danish Ecovillage Network and also they are in the creator team of Gaia Education and EDE trainings. You can read more about them below!
I just want to celebrate their very kind act of giving with real generousity from the bottom of their hearth. So that many people can get in touch with inspiration, knowledge and more holistic ways of living!
With gratitude
Deniz
Hildur Jackson was born in Denmark in 1942 and has been married to Ross Jackson for 40 years. She has three sons and five grandchildren. She is a lawyer, cultural sociologist, permaculture and ecovillage designer and writer. She initiated one of the three first Danish cohousings in 1970. Hildur is co-founder of Gaia Trust (www.gaia.org), the Danish National Network of Ecovillages (LOS) and the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN). Ross and Hildur have just initiated a new project: The Lavegaard project, where they will teach the EDE. She has authored several books including: Ecovillage Living: Restoring the Earth and her People (2002), co-edited with Karen Svensson; Creating Harmony: Conflict Resolution in Community (1998); and a video: Rashmi Mayur: A Man of the New Global Renaissance.
Ross Jackson, Ph.D., was born in Canada in 1938, and is Chairman/founder of Gaia Trust, Denmark (www.gaia.org). He has an educational background in physics, management, and economics, specialising in operations research. Ross was for many years a management consultant and IT systems designer, working in various branches of the business world, eventually specialising in international finance, where his foreign exchange know-how provided the financing for Gaia Trust‚s programmes to support a more sustainable and spiritual world. He now devotes more time to writing. His books to date include: And We ARE Doing It: Building an Ecovillage Future; Kali Yuga Odyssey: A Spiritual Journey; and, hot from the presses this summer, Shaker of the Speare: The Francis Bacon Story. Ross is a member of the GEN Advisory Board and is a board member of the recent Gaia Education initiative.
