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Reflections on Creating Songs of Change weekend

We planned the weekend carefully according to our core principles I.e it should be accessible to all regardless of their song-writing or singing experience and we would aim to work principally in a group (although if people wanted to work alone that was fine), drawing on our collective creativity.

Emerging Politics: Reflections from an Eroles Project Residency

"What are our reasons for taking action, and what are our brakes?"This is a question that came up for Anna, one of the 10 people from across Europe that gathered in a house in Catalonia, to explore Emerging Politics. What does taking action mean in our personal,

Come for the fun, stay for the revolution

This is the fifth and final blog from guest editor Kate Duva of of Prosocial Power. In a world that’s been increasingly paved over and privatized, it can be hard to find open places and spaces to gather. As Lucy Gomez-Feliciano of Logan Square Neighborhood Association says, many grassroots

Natural Voice – Putting it all together…

This is the fourth blog from our guest editors, Jenny Goodman and Bid Cousins. We are gearing up this week for our weekend ‘Songs of Change’. We’re expecting about 20 people to come to Scarborough to join us for two days of intensive singing and songwriting, and we are

Can singing change the world?

This is the second blog from Jenny Goodman, read her first ‘Can singing change your life?’. After our initial blog, I’ve been thinking about how singing changes things at a community and global level. Can it initiate and support change and how and why? Communal singing has been one

COP23: Views from the Global Ecovillage Network booth

It gives me hope that many voices are being heard, for example those of indigenous communities, of young people who claim to be recognized as young leaders for climate action.Stella Veciana, Global Ecovillage Network Do you think that the UN climate process will succeed in bringing about sufficient climate

COP23: Where is the place for community-led initiatives?

Robert Hall, president of Ecolise and Board member of the International Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) lives in the ecovillage of Suderbyn, Sweden. In January 2013 he quit his well-paid position with the Swedish government to become full-time ecovillage activist. Here, he talks to Christiane Kliemann about COP23, his hopes and