An Invitation for Practical Training in the Field of Global Ecology in Tamera

As we enter the seventh year of the construction of our water retention landscape, the Ecology Team of Tamera would like to dedicate the year 2013 to the issue of ecological education. Beginning in May, we will offer the opportunity for one month or longer to be part of an ongoing education group accompanied by Tamera’s ecology team.  

 The training consists of practical work in one of these ecological areas, subject-oriented theoretical training in the issues of global ecology, as well as the study of the basic ideas of Tamera for building a new peace culture.

3rd International Water Symposium: “Water Retention Landscapes – a pathway towards sustainable and decentralized water management”

June 7-9, 2013

The global water situation continues to get worse. One billion people currently lack access to clean drinking water. Even in Europe, governments are privatizing water rights. By doing so they hand over the control of this vital resource to profit interests. Desertification, floods, rising sea levels, forest fires, and droughts—which are generally considered to be either symptoms of climate change, or natural disasters—are to a large extent due to poor water management. However, there are solutions. Building water retention landscapes is an effective first step towards the healing of nature and towards the development of modern subsistence economies.  more...

Seed Freedom

Tamera Joins Vandana Shiva´s Seed Freedom Fortnight of Action 2-16 October 2012

Seed sovereignty is the basis for sustainable agriculture; patented seeds threaten severly life, diversity and freedom. Dr. Shiva from India started a global campaign to “Occupy the Seed”. Tamera will take part. more...

Professional Training in Creating Water Retention Landscapes

from August 13th – September 1st, 2012

Incorrect water management is a key factor in the worldwide ecological destruction and so-called natural catastrophes of our times, such as floods, large-scale fires and desertification. In cooperation with Sepp Holzer, we in Tamera have come to know and applied an alternative way of water management, to heal landscapes and their water balance: decentralised water retention landscapes. We offer an ecological professional training in the frame of the emerging “University of Tamera” more...

"Living Building" project won Buckminster Fuller Challenge

Tamera´s Water Landscape on Place 3

Tamera's model of Water Retention Landscape received the "Honorable Mention" in the Buckminster Fuller Challenge which means it became 3rd of 150. Two representatives from Tamera, Aida Shibli (Palestine) and Uri Ayalon (Israel) who studied and lived in Tamera in the last 5 years took part in the award ceremony in New York. more...

Tamera Water Retention Landscape Selected as a Semi-Finalist for the 2012 Buckminster Fuller Challenge

The 22nd of March is the International Day of Water.  Some facts: In September 2010, the UN has made water to a human right. Still more than 1 billion people have no access to sufficient clean drinking water.  1,8 million children die every year because of diseases caused by unsufficient drinking water. For making space for the 45.000 large dams worldwide 40 to 60 million people have lost their homes. There are alternatives which show how to overcome the worldwide water crisis. Water itself shows us the way how to make a change. The Tamera Water Retention Landscape - which has been built since 2007 with the help of Sepp Holzer - has been named a 2012 Semi-Finalist in the Buckminster Fuller Challenge. The Challenge supports "the development and implementation of a whole systems-based solution that has significant potential to solve humanity’s most pressing problems." more...

“Water Retention Landscapes as an Answer to Desertification and Globalization”

Second International Water Symposium in Tamera

April 27th (9 am) – 29th (3 pm), 2012 Tamera has invited water specialists and policy makers of many countries. Examples like the water retention landscape of Tamera shall show how desertification can be reversed and the water cycle in all climate zones of the Earth can be cured. Among the speakers are: Sepp Holzer, permaculture specialist and rebel farmer from Austria, who supports groups building water retention landscapes in many countries, Rajendra Singh, the "Water Gandhi" who has built hundreds of lakes in Rajasthan, John D. Liu, a film maker who accompanies large scale landscape healing projects in China and the USA, Madjid Abdellaziz, founder of Desert Greening, Algeria, Nora van Cauwenbergh, UNESCO, Belgium, Martin Vilela, Fundación Agua Sustentable, Bolivia, Catherine Austin-Fitts, economy specialist and many others. more...

Tamera Water Retention Landscape in Buckminster Fuller Challenge 2012

Colos, Portugal: Feb. 14, 2012

The “Water Retention Landscape Team” led by Bernd Walter Mueller, Silke Paulick and Christoph Ulbig is proud to announce that we have taken on the Buckminster Fuller Challenge. We encourage all our cooperation partners, supporters and friends to participate in our project by joining BFI's online community. Please visit the BFI website and submit your comments: http://challenge.bfi.org/ideaindex more...

The new “Big South Lake” comes alive

With every walk to the South Valley of Tamera, we are moved by the vastness and beauty of this new space, fresh and blossoming with life. In gentle curves, the dam, the large new terraces and slopes are nestling into the land. They form and surround the new retention space, which is now gradually filling with water. We deeply thank all the forces that helped and supported these successes!  more...

A Vision Becomes Reality

October 1st 2011, Update of Jeff Anderson´s Construction Site Weblog

Yesterday, three months after work first began on Tamera's new large water retention space, the intensive building and landscaping work accompanied by the constant clatter and roar of the big machines came to an end, and what began as a vision held deep within the hearts of a few individuals could be witnessed as a fully manifested reality of earth and stone. While some detailed finishing work remains to be completed, and the winter rains that will start to fill the retention space are still to come, the building team can now happily and proudly say to themselves “We did it!”  more...

THE SECRET OF WATER AS A BASIS FOR THE NEW EARTH. Healing the Water Cycle through the Creation of Water Retention Landscapes

New Study Text by Bernd Walter Mueller

Free download in five languages (PDF). more...

An Exciting New Phase of Development in Tamera's Water Landscape

Building work for a new large water retention space has begun

The next major step in the development of Tamera's water landscape is now underway with the beginning of construction work for the largest water retention space in Tamera, that when full will cover an area twice the size of 'Lake 1' and will hold three to four times the volume of water. A team of specialists in construction and ecology and an excavator are already at work in Tamera's southern valley, where the dam of the retention space will soon be built. A weblog by Jeff Anderson. more...

The Permaculture waterlandscape grows – Living drinking water through a ringduct

June 2010

During this year the waterlandscape, which the Tamera ecologists are realizing together with Sepp Holzer, will be further established. Several water retention basins and a ringduct are being planned. This idea of the supply of clear and living drinking water came to Sepp Holzer in a dream. „Water is a living being. A living being which does not move, dies. Water that has been kept for too long in bottles and pipes and cannot accumulate new information, loses all vital powers.” more...

Global Learning with Sepp Holzer in Tamera

by Linda Parfenoviča, Lettland

Sepp Holzer an Austrian permaculturist specialising in waterlandscapes returned to Tamera to give a permaculture seminar in the beginning of June. Interest in Holzer`s permaculture and aquaculture is growing. People from 13 countries participated in the seminar, including Palestine, Israel, Ecuador, Brazil, Kenya, Mexico, Latvia, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and USA. This variety represents the diversity of our planet and reflects the urgent need for solutions to increasing global problems, such as desertification, drought, poverty and starvation. more...