The DAAD-Freundeskreis Berlin invites scholars for a two-day field trip to ecovillage Siebenlinden in north Saxony-Anhalt.

The Ecovillage Sieben Linden, situated in the community Beetzendorf in the Altmark – District Salzwedel, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, was established in 1997. It has the aim to realize collaborative and holistic sustainable lifestyles that connect a small ecological footprint with a high quality of life. Currently a little more than one hundred adults and forty children and adolescents live in eleven straw-bale houses and about forty well-insulated construction trailers. The cooperatively organised village covers over a hundred hectars of land; there of 80 hectars of woods, which are managed sustainably. The core of the village is a half timbered ecologically restored farmhouse that accommodates the community and seminar rooms. In the garden fruits and vegetables are cultivated for self-sufficiency. Composting toilets, a sewage treatment plant and solar panel provide local energy and closed material cycles. The lean structures of the village offer the possibility to shape social, ecological, economic and cultural aspects. In the interaction of all those areas may develop a sustainable entity that offers space for the diversity, creativity and the different needs of the residents. The Ecovillage Sieben Linden is a liberal-minded and hospitable village. It welcomes people from diverse cultural and social backgrounds, age groups, with and without disabilities. Ecovillage Sieben Linden defines itself as a village that strives for sustainability in all its 4 dimensions: Ecology, Economy, Social Life and Culture.

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