North America (GENNA)
GENNA stands for the North American Region of the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN). We focus on meeting the needs of community projects within “Turtle Island,” the name given to North America in the creation stories of some indigenous peoples. The image of a turtle in our logo is meant to honor the rich cultural heritage and ecology of Turtle Island, as we work to grow community networks towards a more beautiful, just, and regenerative world.
REGEN and Regenerative Communities because we believe that communities of practice, place, and purpose offer essential solutions to many of the world’s pressing social and ecological crises. Broadly, we term this phenomenon the regenerative communities movement, a subset of a wider regenerative movement, comprised of innumerable individuals and groups that share a common vision of humanity living in co-creative harmony with Earth’s biosphere and with each other.
The word Alliance signifies that we are an independent “collaborative platform” designed to synergize our efforts across networks and organizations. Collaborative platform is just one of many phrases being used to describe new ways of organizing human endeavor that are more responsive to the needs of our increasingly complex world.
Regenerative Communities Alliance is not an organization, instead it is a participatory commons and an emergent field of collaborative potential. We steward a collaborative space with others who are actively designing ways to better serve and make visible those doing community building work on the ground.
