This podcast series explores "Ecological Resistance in Intentional Communities," focusing on the "real-world laboratory" of Arterra Bizimodu, an ecovillage in Navarre, Spain. Founded in 2014, Arterra serves as the headquarters for GEN-Europe (Global Ecovillage Network) and models a life centered on cooperation, sustainability, and shared governance.

The show dives deep into Sociocracy (also known as Dynamic Governance), a non-authoritarian organizational structure developed by Dutch engineer Gerard Endenburg in the 1970s. Listeners will learn how this system replaces traditional "power-over" hierarchies with a "power-with" circular structure, where authority is distributed among semi-autonomous teams called circles.

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