Hildur Jackson, born
in Denmark in 1942 is the person behind ‘The Global Ecovillage Network - GEN’, a
global association of people and communities (ecovillages) dedicated to living
"sustainable plus" lives by restoring the land and adding more to the
environment than is taken.
She has spent most of
her life in the suburbs of Copenhagen, with a Bachelor of Law degree from the
University of Copenhagen and also did postgraduate studies there in cultural
sociology, She and her husband Ross Jackson since 1967, has 3 sons and 5
grandchildren.
GEN members share
ideas and information, transfer technologies and develop cultural and
educational exchanges.
In 1991 Hildur and
Ross Jackson from Denmark established the Gaia Trust, a charitable foundation,
Gaia funded a study by Robert Gilman and Diane Gilman of sustainable
communities around the world. The report, Ecovillages and Sustainable
Communities, was released in 1991. The report found that although there were
many interesting ecovillage projects, the full-scale ideal ecovillage did not
yet exist. Collectively, however, the various projects described a vision of a
different culture and lifestyle that could be further developed.
In 1991 the Gaia Trust
convened a meeting in Denmark of representatives of eco-communities to discuss
strategies for further developing the ecovillage concept. That led to the
formation of the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN). In 1994 the Ecovillage
Information Service was launched (see Global Ecovillage Network link below). In
1995, the first international conference of ecovillage members, entitled
Ecovillages and Sustainable Communities for the 21st Century, was held at
Findhorn, Scotland. The movement grew rapidly following this conference.
By 2001, GEN had
obtained consultative status at the United Nations Economic and Social Council
(ECOSOC). In October 2005, at the conference to celebrate the tenth anniversary
of GEN, a group of young adults joined together to found NextGEN (the Next
Generation of the Global Ecovillage Network). GEN does not have a verification
procedure to select ecovillages or member subscriptions on their website. A
Community Sustainability Assessment tool has been developed that provides a
means to assess how successful a particular ecovillage is at improving its sustainability.
GEN surely is the necessary
step for the creation of post scarcity cells all over our planet - exploring
new ideas and putting them into practice, leading us to a life with more
harmony and abundance.
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