Lógica Bio Coop
Lógica Bio Coop is a cooperative based near Fundão and Idanha-a-Nova, Castelo Branco district, connecting people, farms and territories arou…
Community Resilience
Places building the capacity to weather change together: Biovilla's cooperative in the Arrábida hills, the transition village of Re.Rural in São Luís, and gathering points like O Cais in Silves. Where sustainability becomes a shared, local project.
Projects in this focus
Converge Cooperativa da Cova da Beira
Converge Cooperativa da Cova da Beira is a citizen-led integral cooperative in central Portugal working on regenerative economy, participato…
T'Inspirar Cooperativa Integral
T'Inspirar is a multisectorial cooperative based in Tomar that brings together producers and consumers around sustainable living, education,…
Mesa Silvestre
Mesa Silvestre is a cultural association and a laboratory for local experimentation in Monsanto, Idanha-a-Nova. Through cultural and communi…
Project Kamp
Project Kamp is a research community near Santa Comba Dão, Portugal, prototyping sustainable building, energy and food systems and sharing e…
Silveira Tech Re_generation Village
Silveira Tech is a regenerative village project reviving abandoned villages and 230 hectares of forest in Serra da Lousã, Portugal, combinin…
Lousitânea – Liga de Amigos da Serra da Lousã
Lousitânea is a non-profit association based in the schist village of Aigra Nova, Góis, dedicated to conserving and promoting the natural an…
Eco Vale Feridouro
Eco Vale Feridouro is a collective living in Feridouro, Águeda, dedicated to holistic regeneration of land, people and ecosystems around the…
The Riverside Community
The Riverside Community is a grassroots family project in Central Portugal dedicated to land restoration, eco-building, and creating a self-…
Mount of Oaks
Mount of Oaks (Monte dos Carvalhos) is a small, self-organising intentional community and permaculture farm on 5 hectares of terraced land n…
Spirala Ecovillage
A regenerative camping site and eco-hub on 10.4 hectares in São Miguel de Acha, Castelo Branco District, offering community living, workshop…
O Fojo Permaculture | Integral Education Center
O Fojo, founded in 2009, is one of the first permaculture projects in central Portugal. It is now growing into an Integral Education Center …
Guardiãs da Natureza
Guardiãs da Natureza is a national network of women who act as local catalysts for ecosystem regeneration, biodiversity conservation and sus…
ATO — Associação Terras de Ourondo (Terra Divina)
ATO (Associação Terras de Ourondo) runs retreats, artistic performances, workshops and an itinerant clown school at Terra Divina, in Ourondo…
CooLabora
A social intervention cooperative based in Covilhã. For 18 years it has worked in Cova da Beira on gender equality and against domestic viol…
Universo Refazenda
A rural creation and cultural mediation project in Alquerubim, Portugal, that brings together art, memory, agriculture and community to buil…
Rewild the Future
An off-grid community and education hub in a forest valley in central Portugal, working on ecological restoration, Montessori-inspired learn…
Folha Verde / Benfeita Ecozone
A bilingual natural education project and intentional eco-community of more than 270 people in the mountains of Benfeita, central Portugal. …
Loural Ecovillage
Loural Ecovillage is a sustainable community and retreat centre in Colmeal, Góis, Portugal, working towards food and energy self-sufficiency…
The Hide PT
The Hide PT is a co-living and retreat centre in a secluded valley near Oleiros, Central Portugal, with space for creatives, remote workers …
Live With Earth
Live With Earth is a Portuguese non-profit association, active since 2012 and formally founded in 2017, working on sustainable development a…
Living the Life Portugal
Living the Life Portugal is a family-run quinta near Figueiró dos Vinhos, where Tom, Ros and their children share their home, skills and kno…
Community resilience in Portugal
Fires, drought and the pandemic made resilience a concrete question in Portugal. It means the practical things a place can do for itself: grow some of its food, hold its own water, know who lives alone.
Biovilla runs a cooperative in the Arrábida hills. Re.Rural works from the transition village of São Luís. Coopérnico organises citizens around renewable energy nationally, Aldeia Inclusiva builds a rural community in Monção, and Unidos em Defesa de Covas do Barroso is what resilience looks like when a village organises against a mine.
Almost all of it is membership-based and local, so the entry point is a meeting rather than a donation. Related focuses: cooperatives and collectives, intentional communities and volunteering and social impact. Dated activities from these projects are listed in our events calendar.