International Ecovillage Design Education (EDE)
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What is Ecovillage Design Education (EDE)
This international Ecovillage Design Education course (EDE) is a four week course that is certified by
Gaia Education (www.gaiaeducation.org) & recognised as a contributor to
UNESCO Global Action Programme (GAP) on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). This Ecovillage Design Education course will be held from the
28th of July until the 25th of August, 2019 at Gaia Ashram, Thailand.
The curriculum for this course has been developed by Gaia Education and is often referred to as
EDE. The EDE provides students of all ages with the knowledge and practical skills on how to design a society or a community/village which uses energy and materials with greater efficiency, distributes wealth fairly and strives to eliminate
the concept of waste. The knowledge of EDE is also adaptable for personal or family level of transformation, in urban and rural contexts.
This EDE is also supported and acknowledged by the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) and is actively supported on the ground by a collaboration of
GENOA (Global Ecovillage Network of Oceania & Asia) & NextGENOA (the youth network of GENOA). Gaia Ashram as a project has been actively involved in the Global Ecovillage Network and supporting in promoting this beautiful alive
network.
Outline
Special Offer
What are the fees?
We have made three sliding scale fees to be able to give more chance for youth and people with low income to participate in the program. We wish that people with more income are willing to pay the recommended fee or the gifting fee which is the amount that will enable us to continue doing this work and give more space to youth with low income.
- 810 euro (xchange rate of 14 May, 2019) youth rate – Dormitory
- 930 euro (exchange rate of 14 May, 2019) recommended fee – Shared room (two people in one room)
- 1020 euro (xchange rate of 14 May 2019) or more: gifting fee – Single room ( the more you gift, the more you enable us to give youth fee for youth with low income!)
On arrival we ask participants to pay the remainder fee (minus the deposit) in Thai baht cash.
Gaia Ashram is based on 6 hectares of former degraded land that we are in line with United Nations decade of Ecosystems Restoration are regenerating into an abundant, productive living system mainly forest that supplies us with our basic needs as well enhances the biodiversity and the living systems of our local area. We always have guest and volunteers stay with us that come to learn nd support our mission of ecological restoration.
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