Intro As it turned out once that my experience in simplifying life and in the countryside living turned out to be useful for a wider audience (see Social Slow Travel. Lowcost, Zerowaste), so now the research on possible new-old forms of cooperation between people that I conducted in ecovillages, may…

Муравьиными кругами На курсе Игоря Польского по экофилософии (это был ковидный 2020 год) исследовались примеры коллективов и сообществ, которые по их собственному мнению признают глобальный экологический кризис и делают те действия, которые в их картине мира выглядят осознанными и адекватными в контексте этого признания. На одной из зум-встреч курса были Александр…

I’ve been curious to visit a family sustainable tourism business by Emma and Ben Heywood for a few months. They moved to Montenegro close to Skadar lake in 2008 and started to provide adventures in nature spots of this country and the neighbouring ones under the ‘Undiscovered Balkans’ brand. They…

Thanks to the Deep Adaptation Forum and Igor Polsky personally I participated in the Deep Live Gathering 2022 event in Montenegro (the whole report on the international level of the gathering is compiled by Igor and posted here). It was part of a bigger event series conducted both offline and…

Technology and especially internet platforms allow us to connect to each other and make slow travel much reacher in its social aspect while significantly cutting-down costs and negative environmental impact. Here I describe the experience that I’ve got from my self-funded field trips to study back-to-the-land initiatives in Europe. Navigation…

Here is a recent book about Fedor Lazutin (1966–2015) — the founder of one of the oldest (20+ years) and one of the most advanced ecovillages and kin domain settlements in Russia [1] — ‘Kovcheg’ (website, Facebook page). …

From fight to understanding and cooperation. From city streets to countryside gardens. I’ve mixed reporting and reflection parts in a single stream, findings during the school, and my previous and further experiences in time and space neighbourhood. Here is a Google.Docs …

I’ve asked Nara to make this interview with him for the annual magazine that Global Ecovillage Network Russia used to publish. To have a more holistic view I’ve invited Tanya Gulyaeva to help me to prepare questions. For the GEN Russia Magazine 2021, she did a perfect interview series with…

В столицу Черногории — Подгорицу я приехал в начале апреля 2022 года поездом из Белграда (см. отчёт по Сербии на английском). В приморской части страны русскую и украинскую речь на улицах я слышал чаще чем где-либо ранее. Машины с украинскими и российскими номерами также были заметны. Ещё раньше тут осели…