What does “orienting trees” mean?
In Damanhur it often happens that you hear strange, sometimes incomprehensible terms. One of these terms is tree "orientation", is a project with the …
Category: Sustainability
Six years of deeply inspiring EDEs
This year in August we will be holding the seventh edition of the Ecovillage Design Education (EDE) course in Damanhur, certified by Gaia Education.
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How does Music of the Plants work?
It all started with a question that the founders of Damanhur asked over 40 years ago, "What if plants could interact in a sentient way with the enviro…
The -not- way to perfection
The concept of sustainability in Damanhur encompasses many aspects of life, so in addition to investing in renewable energy, green building and organi…
Damanhur Stands with Standing Rock
For the last months the indigenous Sioux Tribe in North Dakota has been fighting against the building of the Dakota Access Pipeline - a pipeline that …
Cooperation Damanhur-Senegal: support for Guede Chantier
Damanhur has a sister community relationship with Guede Chantier, an eco-village in Senegal. This relationship has existed since 2014, when Ousmane Al…
Louis, the #1 vlogger on a journey of discovery at Damanhur
Louis is the kind of person who throws himself from whatever height into all kinds of adventures. He has traveled around the world and some of his vid…
The GEN Africa conference in Ghana
In early December, Macaco Tamerice traveled to Ghana as facilitator of the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) conference. After 23 hours of travel, she …
Collecting chestnuts in the Sacred Woods Temple
Living in the Sacred Woods Temple of Damanhur means waking up in these autumn days immersed in marvelous colors that span all shades of yellow, brown …
What is the Music of the Plants?
Since the 1970s, Damanhur—a resilient Federation of Communities with its own constitution, culture, art, music, currency, schools and uses of scienc…
