Bernd Neugebauer - Building a new human relationship with forests as healers and stewards
Channel: European Ecovillage Conference 2018
Date: 2018-08-07

Bernd Neugebauer is an expert in environmental sustainability and agroforestry with ample praxis experience. He is one of the very few people in the world who has been able to restore a rainforest - that took him only 15 years whereas ecologists told him that it will take 600. 

Over 5 generations his family has planted more than 3 trillion trees in Germany alone. His family is one of the reasons Germany could rebuild its forests quickly after two devastating wars. Since 1995 Bernd has been developing organic initiatives in Yucatán, re-establishing traditional Mayan ways and means for the younger generations. When he is not in Mexico he advises the government of Mongolia on how to recover their lost forests in the Gobi desert. He's also the co-founder of the Forest Stewardship Council Germany.

Workshop held on July 14, 2018, at the European Ecovillage Conference 2018 “The Wisdom of Conscious Communities” (July 10-14, Lilleoru, Estonia). Read more here: http://gen2018.ee/speakers/bernd-neugebauer/

The production of this video was supported by National Foundation of Civil Society in Estonia. European Ecovillage Conference 2018 was a gift for the 100th anniversary of the Republic of Estonia. #EV100