Elements of Change Festival 2022
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- Category: Community Resilience
25th - 26th June 2022, Cloughjordan, Tipperary
Updates: Early bird tickets extended to 25th May, now with local camping options available!
Saturday line up includes Shakalak & Kiruu!
Finally we’ll all be back in the field after such a long time away, with our community-led sustainability festival celebrating culture, creativity, and climate action. In the inspiring setting of Cloughjordan Ecovillage, the team behind Global Green at the Electric Picnic, Sustainable Ireland Co-operative, and Cloughjordan residents have collaborated with the aim of creating a family-friendly celebration of regenerative culture.
Coming back to face-to-face events, we’re all rediscovering the joy of gathering and celebrating together. Let’s also re-imagine how our communities can be vibrant places to live that bring about positive change and are prepared for future challenges.
We'll need: collaboration, arts & expression, music & dance, food sovereignty, community resilience, renewable energy, climate justice, traditional crafts & skills, open-source design, circular economy, decentralised economies and governance, meaningful livelihoods…These are some of the Elements of Change.
Please note with tickets: As this is a small-budget community event is has been priced to be accessible to the local community, and families. If you are in a position to pay the full price rather than the early bird it will help keep this event affordable and enable others to come on cheaper rates, thank you!
Permaculture Design Course 29th July to 7th August 2022, in Cloughjordan Ecovillage
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- Category: Permaculture
The COVID-19 pandemic has further revealed the need for our globalized industrial systems to adapt so that our values and quality of life are central to the way we live. We will be implementing recommended health measures to put safety first while sharing skills, that are all the more important in light of our rapidly changing world, to foster resilience in our local and global communities.
This current break with many of our old systems provides opportunities to reconsider our relationship with the natural world, reconnect to our local communities, re-localise economies and intensify efforts to strengthen our resilience. The principles and ethics of Permaculture provide us with the design system for the future.
UK Permaculture Association Accredited
Course Fee €600. €550 Early bird. Early bird available and deposit refundable until 31st May 2022.
Some concessionary places are available for low or no wage participants | €100 deposit secures your place I please pay in full before 31st May to avail of the Early Bird rate | We accept Bitcoin
Please apply to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Read more: Permaculture Design Course 29th July to 7th August 2022, in Cloughjordan Ecovillage
Diversify Diversification - What’s Possible in Rural Ireland?
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- Category: Collaborative Projects
On the 22nd April, Cultivate hosted a blended event featuring both physical and online participants held in WeCreate at Cloughjordan Ecovillage. This blended event built upon the report “Rural Ireland on the move: farm diversification and just transition” which is an attempt to collect reflections on how Irish farmers can extract more from value chains environmentally and was supported by Arc2020 and UCC’s Centre for Co-operative Studies.
For the full article and report, go to ARC2020.eu
Wellbeing Economy Alliance
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- Category: Community Resilience
We're delighted to announce the formal launch of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance's Ireland Hub with this interactive event - a follow-up to the Hub's successful online gathering in June.
We’ll hear from leading global visionaries Kate Raworth of Doughnut Economics and Katherine Trebeck of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance. They will join with Jennifer Wallace of the Carnegie UK Trust, core members of the new WEAll Hub for Ireland, the Irish Doughnut Economics Network and other local Irish activists to help identify the strategic actions that are needed to shift values and reorient our economies toward wellbeing policies and practices, to create an island of wellbeing.
Date: Tuesday October 19
Time: 12:30-2pm Irish time
Book a place here
Cultivate is a co-organiser of this event, along with FEASTA, the European Health Futures Forum and QUB School of Law and Social Justice Ireland.
Learning Journeys and Study Visits
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- Category: Community Resilience
Visit Ireland's Only Ecovillage - Learn about Living and Working Sustainably
Cultivate, in partnership with Cloughjordan Ecovillage, designs and delivers one to five day programmes for groups around a particular topic or topics of interest related to the transition to a low carbon and resilient society. These can include Green Building and Sustainable Energy, Local Food, Food Security, Community Energy Transition, Local Enterprise, Digital Manufacturing, Community Resilience and Sustainable Living.
We tailor the tours for each group and work with them to devise a personalised itinerary on their specific area of interest. These study tours can range from one to several days, depending on the itinerary developed, though we recommend at least two days to allow for a more immersive experience.
Cloughjordan is a traditional Irish village which is now also home to the Cloughjordan Ecovillage. This is where we share our experience and knowledge with groups of all ages, sizes and interests.
Activities are based in the Ecovillage and can include tours, talks, practical workshops and social events in Cloughjordan and the surrounding area. We can also work with groups on transport, accommodation and meals. Groups interested in continuing professional development can participate in industry specific workshops and talks.
For more info, options or booking: email Veronica at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
A Question of SCALE Publication
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- Category: Community Resilience
A Question of SCALE: “Imagining a cooperative, community-led approach to regional resilience” (SCALE also being the acronym for Supply Chains and Local Economies).
Cultivate produced this framing paper with Green Foundation Ireland and the Green European Foundation. It is part of the Climate Emergency Economy transnational project, which includes Green House Think Tank, UK and GroenLinks, Netherlands.
The process began by bringing together some new, and old ideas for shortening supply chains and strengthening local economies into a position paper, which was distributed to 50 researchers and cooperative advocates. We then invited them to a webinar in September 2020 to discuss and build on the ideas. 10 illustrations as well as the findings from the webinar were then synthesised into the final framing paper.
The paper introduces and explores the potential of the Social and Solidarity economy, Doughnut Economics, Just Transition, The Commons, Community Wealth Building, Federated co-ops new co-operative approaches.
Question of Scale Framing Paper is available on the GEF website here..A Question of Scale - PDF
A Question SCALE Podcast
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- Category: Community Resilience
A Podcast featuring some of the contributors to the Question of Scale Webinar and Framing Paper was recorded in Cultivate’s new digital studio in WeCreate Workspace.
This production is available here https://youtu.be/TnQaq_E3xaA
Framing Paper A Question of Scale - PDF
00:00.00 - Introduction
Davie Philip - Cultivate/ Ecolise.eu, Ollie Moore - Cultivate/ ARC2020
00:02.18 - Resilience - A Guiding Principle for a Just Recovery & Transition
Dirk Holemans - GEF
00:08.10 - Climate Emergency Economy
Jonathan Essex - Green House, UK, Bram van de Glind - GroenLinks, Netherlands.
00:17.10 - Introducing Doughnut Economics
Dr. Carol Power - Centre for Co-Operative Studies at UCC
00:28.00 - Just Transitions & Community Wealth Building
Sinead Mercier, Sean McCabe - TASC
00:46.00 - Historical Perspectives on Cooperatives in Ireland
Tommy Simpson - GFI
00:53.50 - Cooperatives Now
Sam Toland - Solid Network, Aoife Hammond - Dublin Food Coop
Production - Eoin Campbell (JustMultimedia)
Music and Tech Support - Darren Flynn
The project is made possible with the financial support of the European Parliament to the Green European Foundation. The European Parliament is not responsible for the content of this publication.
