One year old TREE!

Snapshots from the 2nd compost-making workshop and preview of the 3rd workshop in September

Photos: RH/ NA


Stavroula and Rheinhold were excellent hosts of this second compost-making workshop. There was a good group with a healthy mix of neighbors and locals, friends from other areas and new people! The evening had many different parts and all contributed in generating a spirit of community, knowledge exchange and learning, communal food and fun with great music and dance!...

An exciting 3rd workshop on compost-making is in the works for September 5th that will take place in a garden in Marathon! Make sure to attend this one! Details will follow.

2nd Compost-making workshop and parallels with theories of anthropology

Nicholas Anastasopoulos/ George Loudos/Fotis Terzakis

A cycle of three workshops addressing home compost-making is designed as a holistic approach to the issue of recycling at the source. The topic will be addressed in theory and practice with hands-on opportunity and it will address the practicalities of composting as well as its application and place in the philosophical movements and religions.
Bring with you all organic remains collected during the previous week in a plastic bag. These may include peels, leaves, weeds as well as egg shells! We will provide the carbon-rich materials in the form of paper, carton, dry leaves, etc.
Instructors: Nicholas Anastasopoulos and George Loudos both practice composting with several methods for more that one decade. Philosopher/ writer Fotis Terzakis will illuminate aspects of human thought and belief systems of different traditions and cultures in relationship with the meaning of death and rebirth and the cycle of life in nature. At the end of the evening we will have a light meal together prepared by the hosts, that will also include everything that we bring along!

This second compost-making workshop will take place at Stavroula and Rheinhold's garden
18:30, 30 Μαϊου 2010

You may register for the first workshop until May 23rd by e-mail: gloudos@teiath.gr
Androu 7,Nea Makri

We ask for a donation of 5 euros per person.
Maximum number of participants: 30 persons

For direction and any last minute changes please visit the site one week prior to the scheduled event.

Do we need Nature? Elements of sustainability in landscape design

Thomas Doxiadis

Architect, Landscape Architect Harvard University
F lecturer, Patras University


For the most part of the 20th century, man thought that he reigns over nature and subjects it to his desire. This attitude largely defined the ways we built cities, buildings and landscapes.
It’s been a few decades now that we began to understand how things are not really that simple. Man cannot survive without nature. Up to a point he acquires the role of being one main shaper of nature: what we think of as nature today has been largely shaped by man. In addition, it becomes clear that in order to survive we need to formulate a new, symbiotic relationship with nature, learning to collaborate with her.
Already since the 60’s this finding and all subsequent scientific developments have began to shape a new type of landscape architecture, followed by new types of urban planning as well as new types of building and architecture. Through realized examples as well as studies and proposals we will examine the possibilities of ecological landscape design in Greece.
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The presentation will be followed by a rare walk through the grounds of the former American Base and the archaeological site of Brexiza and a discussion in-situ with experts that will discuss the ecological and historical significance of this damaged site.
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Time and place:
11:00 am, Saturday, May 15th at the foyer of the Aliki movie theatre in the Athletic and Cultural Park of Nea Makri.



The meeting place for this public forum is the foyer of the Aliki movie theater (a component of the Athletic and Cultural center of Nea Makri) and is open to the public.

How to get there:

If coming by public transport (buses going to Marathon, Grammatiko and Ag. Marina all make stops there) the ex-military American base site is also a bus stop, so just notify that this is where you want to get off. From there the Aliki movie theater is a 5’ walk inside the Athletic and Cultural center of Nea Makri.
If coming by car from Marathon avenue driving towards Marathon, about 150 m after the Dionysos intersection and just after the fire station you need to slow down and turn right into the Athletic and Cultural center of Nea Makri. Park and walk to the movie theater.

Building together/ building community

Building is about more than construction.
The structures that we create and the way we build them is a reflection of the values, needs and materials of the culture that creates them. What do our buildings today say about our communities?

Come learn about this natural building process, how it relates to Permaculture and most importantly how cooperative construction can help build a more vibrant, cooperative, active and connected community, based on an experiment that took place just this past week where 20 people convened re-exploring an ancient technique and re-interpreting it to suit their needs today...

Mark Krawczyk returns to Greece and Nea Makri after October 2009 and talks about the natural building workshop that just ended in Lefkas as well as about the philosophy behind a communal process of building and permaculture...

Tuesday April 13, 2010 7:30pm
Polytropo Hall
Marathonos Avenue, across from Lidl

Compost making workshop: theory and practice Ecology, Economy, Philosophy

A cycle of three workshops addressing home compost-making is designed as a holistic approach to the issue of recycling at the source. The topic will be addressed in theory and practice with hands-on opportunity and it will address the practicalities of composting as well as its application and place in the philosophical movements in life.
Bring with you all organic remains collected during the previous week in a plastic bag. These may include peels, leaves, weeds as well as egg shells! We will provide the carbon-rich materials in the form of paper, carton, dry leaves, etc.

Dates:
Sunday, March 28th
Registration deadline 26/3
Sunday, May 30th
Registration deadline 23/5
Sunday,September 5th
Registration deadline 29/8

Instructors: Nicholas Anastasopoulos and George Loudos both practice composting with several methods for more that one decade. Philosopher/ writer Fotis Terzakis will illuminate the aspects of human thought and belief systems through various religions in relationship with the meaning of death and rebirth, the life cycle and nature through the different traditions.

We highly recommend participation in all three workshops which form a conceptual and practical unit and complement each other. At the end of each workshop there will be refreshments and snacks served prepared from local produce.

Attention:
Meeting places will be gardens in Nea Makri.
We ask for a donation of 5 euros per person.
Maximum number of participants: 30 persons

For direction and any last minute changes please visit the site one week prior to the scheduled event.

First workshop will take place on Sunday, March 28th at 4:30 pm at Nea Makri. You can reach the garden where 1st workshop takes place if coming from Athens or anywhere else more distant than a few kilometers from Nea Makri either by car or public transport. We generally favor reduced use of cars, therefore it is always a good idea to share a ride with someone else. If you drive, you must park on Argostoliou street and then walk on foot to Olympou 2.

Buses leaving from "Pedion toy Areos" with indications Marathon, Grammatiko, Agia Marina, all make a stop at "Agios Konstantinos", one stop past the Nea Makri square. From the stop you can walk to the house and it takes about 10 minutes to get there.
Please study and print the diagram below for directions and reference.




You may register for the first workshop until March 26/3 by e-mail: gloudos@teiath.gr mentioning the 1st compost workshop as title to your mail.

Deep recession is a reality and so is climate change!
We have been experiencing the consequences of rising destructive temperatures with the fires of 2007 and 2009.
While most ecology movements and mass media project a grim picture of the future in ecological and financial terms -a prospect that tends to paralyze and not empower people- in the case of the Transition Towns movement the central message is optimism:

Over the past five years Transition initiatives propose answers and ways of addressing problems that today appear crucial at a survival level such as climate change and the economy. Transition towns propose ways of tackling our current labyrinthine mess and attempt to give answers to these crises which threaten livelihood and the planet, such as the economic crisis and climate change. Central to Transition towns is the meaning of resilience, a term better known in ecology and understood as the capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and reorganize while undergoing change, so as to still retain essentially the same function, structure, identity and feedbacks.

In this presentation we will examine methods of the communities in a transition process and the up to the present results.

Time and place:
11:00 am, Saturday, March 27th at the foyer of the Aliki movie theatre in the Athletic and Cultural Park of Nea Makri.

Nicholas Anastasopoulos/ Zina Razis

The meeting place for this public forum is the foyer of the Aliki movie theater (a component of the Athletic and Cultural center of Nea Makri) and is open to the public.

How to get there:

If coming by public transport (buses going to Marathon, Grammatiko and Ag. Marina all make stops there) the ex-military American base site is also a bus stop, so just notify that this is where you want to get off. From there the Aliki movie theater is a 5’ walk inside the Athletic and Cultural center of Nea Makri.
If coming by car from Marathon avenue driving towards Marathon, about 150 m after the Dionysos intersection and just after the fire station you need to slow down and turn right into the Athletic and Cultural center of Nea Makri. Park and walk to the movie theater.

Climate Change, education and the everyday/ AKTO Amphitheater, 6:30 pm, 25th February

TREE opens 2010 and invites you to a round-table discussion that addresses the Copenhagen Summit on climate change as well as the people's movements related to climate change and climate justice and the future from now on:
What might be the link between an economic crisis and the climate change phenomenon?
How might everyday life contribute to the emergence of climate change, how is it affected by it and how might it harbor the answer?

Local communities need to boost their resilience towards climate change related threats and the educational component through an updating of content and curriculum can contribute by rising up to the challenges and efficiently addressing change.

Nikos Chrysogelos, Ecogreens party representative
Nicholas Anastasopoulos, Architect/ AKTO/ TREE
Nikiforos Plytas, MEDSOS representative on Climate Change and Energy
This event takes place at the AKTO amphitheater, 3 Kranaou street, Psirri at 6:30 pm, on Thursday 25th February and is going to be in greek.

24 January 2010 ---> A people's celebration 10:30 am at the Aliki foyer, former American Base, Nea Makri

DYNAMI POLITON-ΔΥΝΑΜΗ ΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ, TREE and SARCHA (School of Architecture for All) invite you to a celebration:
Become familiar with the electronic pilot forum “Sustainable Nea Makri”, participate in the traditional New Year’s pie cutting while enjoying home-made mezedes and sweets with wine, hear live music by the group Les Marionettes!...

DYNAMI POLITON will wave good-bye to 2009 with a brief recounting of their actions, while TREE will announce the 2010 schedule and SARCHA (School of Architecture for All) will develop the idea behind the program for 2010-1.