Third Year started today: Monte Cerro Peace Education

May 1st 2008

Today the third study year of the "Monte Cerro Peace Education" started with nearly 40 students from different countries. Monte Cerro intents to develop a training for peace work: "Monte Cerro Peace Education". more...

 

New plans and visions for the Permaculture

After the visit of Sepp Holzer

After the last visit of Sepp Holzer, the ecologists of Tamera have new plans and visions for the further development of the Permaculture and the water landscape and of Tamera becoming an ecological future model. In the same time several hundreds of water lillies were planted and fish released into the "Lake 1." more...

 

Building a Scheffler Mirror

Solar Technology

Presently a group of students, guests and co-workers are building a Scheffler Mirror under the guidance of Alec Gagneux. A Scheffler Mirror is a most easy, effective, enviromental friendly and comfortable way of producing heat for cooking. more...

 

Earth, Straw and Grass: The re-discovery of ecological building material

Experimental buildings in Tamera / part 1

On Saturday, April 12th 2008, the Tamera Peace Research Center near Colos invited interested people to get to know different experimental straw-bale/adobe buildings on its site. Gernot Minke, professor for adobe building at the University of Kassel, Germany, was there and explained the advantages of this technique. (Photo: Sol e Adobe. Nigel Dickinson) more...

 

Spring in the Tent of Nations

April 11th

Today, Thursday 11 April, "Spring in the Tent of Nations" has ended – two weeks of seminars and a peace gathering in the Tent of Nations in the West Bank, organised by the PRV team (Peace Research Village) which had been founded in Tamera. more...

 

Planning of the Global Campus

San José de Apartadó in October 2008

The Colombia Team of Tamera returned after six weeks in the Peace community San Jose de Apartadó, building a health station, participating in an international gathering, and planning of the first big seminar of the Global Campus in October 2008. more...

 

Water is Life! Water is Capital!

Development of a lake landscape as a model for the ecological regeneration of the Alentejo

On 21st February, the ecologist team of the Tamera peace research center near Colos invited ecologists and specialists from the region as well as from the universities in Lisbon and Evora to show them the state of the renaturalisation project in the middle of the dry Alentejo region: a model for the ecological healing of the landscape applying the concept of “Holzer´s Permaculture“. more...

 

IMPLEMENTATION OF FUTUROLOGICAL CENTERS

New text by Dieter Duhm on the Weblog Future-without-war.com

With this "memorandum from the peace research center Tamera in Portugal" we started the weblog www.future-without-war.com. You are invited to study, think, and comment. "The globalisation of peace is not realized through mega-systems but through new life models." more...