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Communal Living as an Alternative to Profit and Consumer Mentality
Economic crisis, climate change, conflicts – what can we do?
How do functioning alternatives look like – alternatives which we can trust and which contribute to the healing of the planet?
We all live on and from planet earth. We should live in cooperation with nature and with other humans. This is not just a nice future vision. This is a necessity – now.
There are no ready recipes for the building of new ways of living. Too complex are the challenges of our time. Besides the changes needed on the outer level like sustainable technologies new circumstances must be created to support inner growth. We founded ZEGG in 1991 in order to bring these two aspects of change together. What is it that the earth needs? What is it that humans need?
News
ZEGG-watercycle still at risk
After a few months of hope, everything is open again: The decision about being connected to the public water and sewerage mains run by the “Stadtwerke” (town utility company) will be taken by the town council presumably by the end of this year. Being forced to connect to the mains in this way would mean an end to our own water supply and our constructed wetland sewage treatment. Wether we can convince the councilmen of preserving our ecological model depends on many factors. One thing is for sure: it will take some time and we will need to be persistant.We will keep you up-to-date on any further developments via our website.
Hope for preserving ZEGG's watercycle
In recent months, one of the core elements that makes ZEGG an ecological model project faced a serious threat: our decentralised water cycle. As part of the procedure considering a building development plan for our site, in the summer of 2012 the Building Committee of the Bad Belzig town council recommended that ZEGG be connected to the public water and sewerage mains run by the “Stadtwerke” (town utility company). Being forced to connect to the mains in this way would have meant an end to our own water supply and our constructed wetland sewage treatment.
Ready to build! Attic conversion agreed
A plenary meeting of the ZEGG community on Nov 28 gave the go ahead for the next step in the conversion of the remaining attic space in our main 'Uni' building. The application for building permission will now be submitted. With this, the community wants to create urgently needed additional member accommodation. At the same time, the opportunity will be taken to give 'character' to the somewhat plain building, in the form of an impressive gable above the main entrance.
'Escola da Esperanca' (School of Hope) from Tamera visit ZEGG
Eleven children and youth with three accompanying adults from the forthcoming independent school in Tamera are staying in ZEGG for one week. Some of the young people in the group used to live in ZEGG, including one young woman who grew up here and is now a mother herself - so there were some moving reunions during the stay!
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