{"id":456,"date":"2017-07-27T21:04:20","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T20:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citeecologique.org\/?p=456"},"modified":"2017-10-31T20:54:02","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T19:54:02","slug":"how-to-keep-young-people-involved-in-ecovillages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citeecologique.org\/en_US\/2017\/07\/27\/how-to-keep-young-people-involved-in-ecovillages\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>How to keep young people involved in ecovillages?<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><em>Written by\u00a0N\u00e9besna Fortin, interns coordinator\u00a0and\u00a0sustainable development officer of\u00a0Cit\u00e9 Ecologique, born\u00a0in Cit\u00e9 Ecologique.<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In many ecovillages the question of keeping young members active in the community is a big challenge. Many young adults leave their home ecovillage to experience other lifestyles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today, I would like to share my experience with you. I was born in an ecovillage in Canada, La Cit\u00e9 \u00c9cologique where a program works pretty well keeping the young adults involved. The avenue brought forward is to create entrepreneurship and leadership aspiration to young members. For myself, and the major part of my colleagues, this idea was effective.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The basic idea is to get the young adults involved as much as possible in all community aspects. Already at the high school level, we were invited to participate in one or many business we had interest for. Internships and practical hands-on learning classes were given in all domains: cooking, accounting, sowing, gardening. We were invited to manage and do all the planning of great projects like the preparation of a meal for all members each week, creating a theater play by getting younger kids involved and so on. One of our projects was to take care of three greenhouses! Yes, it was a nice and big challenge, and yes, at one time, all the plants burn in the sun and were flooded the week after! Now, I can imagine how confident and patient were the adults who sacrificed the production of three greenhouses, the plants and all this growing space&#8230; for the only result of giving us a formidable learning experience!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/citeecologique.org\/en_US\/2017\/07\/27\/how-to-keep-young-people-involved-in-ecovillages\/#more-456\" class=\"more-link\">(suite&hellip;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><em>Written by\u00a0N\u00e9besna Fortin, interns coordinator\u00a0and\u00a0sustainable development officer of\u00a0Cit\u00e9 Ecologique, born\u00a0in Cit\u00e9 Ecologique.<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In many ecovillages&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citeecologique.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citeecologique.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citeecologique.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citeecologique.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citeecologique.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/citeecologique.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601,"href":"https:\/\/citeecologique.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions\/601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citeecologique.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citeecologique.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citeecologique.org\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}