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What does the future of humankind look like? Can we imagine a world in which humans live in peace with each other and with nature? Is a different life really possible? Current global development is not encouraging. To be able to imagine a different world with a positive future, we need places where we create such a world in real life - at first on a small scale. This is the most basic purpose of a model.

Women chose their lovers freely, they were powerful, carried the responsibility for the most crucial areas of life, and motherhood was seen as a role model for a just, caring, and wise leadership-a quality that was also required from male leaders. While in the past a woman had provided her social skills and loving care for the whole community, she now had to do everything for one man: give birth to HIS children, raise them, cook for HIM, keep HIS house-her circle of activities became very limited, and she was more and more separated from unity with other women. Community members can go there and rest, have a coffee, meet their lovers or a new acquaintance, find a space in nature or a room in the temple.

Did You Know? ...that the ecovillage Crystal Waters in Australia, with a population of200, simultaneously acts as a wildlife reserve? ...that in Orissa, one of the poorest areas in India, over 200 villages of indigenous people are transforming their communities into ecovillages? ...that during 13 years in Latin America, the traveling community of La Caravana taught villagers, farmers, youth, and children sustainable living techniques? ...that the ecovillage Hurdal in Norway has developed the \"Active House\" and created a green business by building eco-friendly houses? ...that Eco-Valley in Hungary produces an abundance of grain and vegetables to feed its 200 residents several times over, and that it effectively offers social work to some of the poorest communities nationwide? ...that the Peace Community San José de Apartado in Colombia has formed a neutral village in the middle of an armed conflict zone and its more than 1,000 peasants have been in nonviolent resistance against expulsion for 18 years? ...that the Healing Biotope Tamera in Portugal with 170 members and a Love School at its center has ecologically regenerated an area of220 acres of land which had been in the process of desertification? ...that the Konohana Family community in Japan has 100 members that are engaged in new agricultural methods for healthy food production and cares for psychiatrically vulnerable people? ...that the fast growing ecovillage Schloss Tempelhof in Germany with its extended economic and legal know-how has established a foundation that supports many other ecovillages and emerging intentional communities? ...that the Republic of Damanhur in Italy with more than 1,000 members was building a secret underground Temple of Humanity for more than 10 years before it was discovered and turned into an officially recognized piece of art? With all its environmental efforts-land preservation, bird watching, waste separation, recycling and composting, renewable energy, energy conservation-the kibbutz has made a direct impact on the region.

[...] it came because innovative and enthusiastic local authorities and the abundance of sun were good conditions for its aim of building a global peace model based on solar technology. Why is this so important for a peace project? Because industrial production of food is a sort of war. [...] even an international community like Tamera has to face the fact that one day - maybe after peak oil, after the next financial crisis, or after climate change - it will not be global contacts that will help us to survive.

The densely-growing leaves on the terraces are edible plants such as radishes, cabbage, turnips, lettuce, and old varieties of cereals which all grow here abundantly-not in straight lines and rows, but as Mother Nature would have sown them herself. The design of the lakes incorporates a gendy rising dam with an overflow and an oudet discharge structure that regulates the water level and makes the population of water plants and fish controllable. Together with the solar energy systems which we have been developing in Tamera for some years, this \"lakescape\" is a model for decentralized sustainability in times when the supermarkets can't take care of us any more.

In 2005 and 2007, Sabine Lichtenfels, founder of the Tamera Peace Community in Portugal, led two peace pilgrimages through Israel and the West Bank International peace workers walked together for four weeks through the divided Holy Land. Out of this experience, a group came together to plan and prepare the next step: a Peace Research Village in the Middle East, a place where Israelis, Palestinians, and Internationals live together and develop peaceful solutions in practice. 9 THOctober 2007: 89 people meet in Eilat to start their walk through Israel and the West Bank.

José and our other gardeners sow the seeds we get from the locals, watch the plants carefully, and send their seeds with a description of the plants to the Portuguese seed Bank, through which biologists and organic farmers throughout Portugal help maintain the genetic richness of the region. It is dominated by a geodesic dome covered with transparent foil and crammed with hundreds of boxes of seeds and sprouts, tools and small machines, and surrounded by greenhouses, water pipes, and tidy lines of vegetables. It's a responsibility to help neighbours conserve resources, restore the soil, and deal effectively with the effects of global climate change.

Through stories of our shared experiences on the ground, the EmerGENcies initiative has started to map the growing community responding to crises such as natural disasters (e.g., earthquakes, typhoons) and conflict in connection with ecovillages, intentional communities, permaculturists, and anyone else keen to the regenerative design process. Through this work, we see that crises can be defined beyond situation-based emergencies and relate to longer-term crises, affecting regions plagued by man-made conflicts, natural disasters, economic collapse, and chronic poverty.