GEN
Global Environments Network
Our Global Environments Network gathers over 600 members – including activists, artists, practitioners and scholars – from 90 countries from an extraordinary diversity of backgrounds and experiences. Members join the network by participating in one of our events.
See where our GEN Community live and work as well as their passions, skills and projects.
Seed Projects
Supporting Gbagyi women in Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory to earn income from waste upcycling and business mentorship
Through this project, women in Nigeria are being trained on waste upcycling and business mentorship to enable them to run their own successful waste-to-wealth businesses in the future.
Safeguarding diverse landraces of beans in La Araucanía, Chile
Recognising that many places in Latin America are not producing enough legumes to feed their own populations, Porotarium Austral aims to recover and revalue the diversity of bean landraces within the family home gardens of the La Araucanía Region.
Specialty coffee agroforestry farmers Field School in the Pasco region, Peru
Specialty coffees, valued for their complex, rich aromas and flavours, require special geographic conditions and climates to be cultivated. The Field School aims to provide the necessary tools for producer families to continue to grow coffee without negatively impacting nature, but rather restoring it.
Cook Rocket mass stove to help improve the use of wood by rural families from the North Patagonian Steppe (Argentina)
Energy sources such as electricity, natural gas, canned gas, oil or wood are not equally available for all of us. Our project aims to promote wellbeing and to empower family farmers and rural extensionists through participatory learning processes in the self-construction of Cook Rocket mass stoves.
Revitalizing Sengwer people-land relationships through indigenous knowledge in Kenya
The Sengwer people are an indigenous hunting and gathering community who primarily live in the Embobut forest in Kenya’s Rift Valley. They have been victims of unjust land management and conservation practices since the colonial period (early 1900s).
Nursing our ancient trees in Savannah Region for resilience
Local and important trees have been disappearing for years from the Savannah Region of Ghana due to external market pressures, such as charcoal trading capital demands, deforestation and the introduction of foreign seeds.
The Rejea Retreat 2021 – Radical Reskilling for Regeneration
Colonial trauma is silenced in East Afrika, yet ongoing. Decoloniality is still a nascent movement and commitment to the dominant global narrative that rewards capitalist growth is equally high.
The Coffee Miners Project: An interactive and immersive platform to understand the Coffee Value chain from a Circular Economy lens
From encouraging biodiversity-friendly farming practices, roasting, blending, grinding, hulling, grading and garbling to packaging, we would break down these processes and look at it from a Circular Economy perspective.
Community seed banks contributing to small-scale food production, agrobiodiversity and local seed exchange networks in Chile
Women leaders from urban agriculture organisations maintain food and seed farms using agroecological and traditional techniques, allowing varied production to feed families and their communities.
GEN In Conversation
The Power of Art in Activism
The Power of Art in Activism 15th July, Monday | 16.00-18.00 GMT/UTC | 17:00-19:00 BST | 18:00-20:00 CEST “Art is not neutral. It either upholds or disrupts the status quo, advancing or regressing justice. We are living now inside the imagination of people who thought economic disparity and environmen
Intangible Cultural Heritage and Peace Building in Palestine
المصطبة Intangible Cultural Heritage and Peace Building in Palestine 24th June, Monday | 16.00-18.00 UTC/17.00-19.00 BST/18.00-20.00 CEST Heritage is often at risk and under attack, either directly or indirectly, when violence and conflict escalate. Although targeting cultural heritage sites during con
Conservation’s Leading Edges
In Conversation Series: Conservation’s Leading Edges This 4-part series gathers practitioners and scholars to discuss practical and philosophical innovations in community-based conservation. The title of the series draws on the ecological principle whereby habitat ‘edges’ are understood as spaces of s
In Conversation Workshop: Stories and Spaces
In Conversation Workshop: Stories and Spaces Join us to dive into how we shape stories & stories shape us, and to learn how to tell your story. The stories we tell, and the ways in which we tell them affect how we are in this world, our relationship with the land, with ourselves and with […]
GEN in Conversation: An Intimate Discussion on Food Sovereignty
Food sovereignty is about the right of communities to self determine their food systems. It advocates for locally grown and culturally relevant food that centres health and nutrition outside the dominant models of global industrial food production. Cultivating food sovereignty is essential, not only for our ind
Ethical journalism and meaningful storytelling for social impact
Ethical Journalism and Meaningful Storytelling for Social Impact In a mainstream mediascape dominated by narratives of conflict, polarisation and domination; new forms of ethical reporting and collaborative filmmaking are emerging. With the intention of breaking the status quo and shifting the old paradigms of
Transformational leadership, regenerative activism and navigating uncertainty
Transformational Leadership, Regenerative Activism and Navigating Uncertainty Transformational leadership is when ‘leaders and their followers raise one another to higher levels of morality and motivation’, as defined by leadership expert James MacGregor Burns. Transformational leaders stimulate, inspire an
Analysing integrated management in socio-ecological systems- Expert workshop
Through a participatory workshop, we interacted with a variety of NGO representatives, socioenvironmental practitioners and activists, as well as academics interested in exchanging ideas, tools and reflections surrounding integrated management in biocultural and socioecological systems.
Art as Environmental Justice: Social and Creative Interventions for Planetary Healing
Art as Environmental Justice: Social and Creative Intervention for Planetary Healing Art allows people to relate to vast and often unfathomable concepts by engaging the heart and the senses. Art can break down big issues, like climate change, into small, digestible pieces. Art compels thought, helps us feel and
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GEN Community – Regions
