Cooperativa Ser Natureza
Cooperativa Ser Natureza is a project in Terroso, Póvoa de Varzim, dedicated to reconnecting people with nature and other species through ed…
Community Education
Learning that happens in public: Novas Descobertas in the Algarve, the arts-and-sustainability NGO Quinta das Relvas, and city-based movements like Circular Economy Portugal. Knowledge shared, not sold.
Projects in this focus
TERRA Associação de Educação Integral do Minho
TERRA is a non-profit association in Alvarães, Viana do Castelo, offering nature-based, integral education for children through daily activi…
Ceiba Permacultura
Ceiba Permacultura is a permaculture education and consultancy initiative based in Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal, running courses, worksh…
Bem da Terra
Bem da Terra is a sustainability education space in Portugal offering permaculture design, sensory walks, a food forest and workshops that r…
Raíz Circular
Raíz Circular is a sustainability and circular economy consultancy based in Évora, Portugal, that guides organizations through diagnosis, st…
Community education in Portugal
Most of the environmental knowledge in this country is not taught in universities. It is carried by associations that run field days, talks and campaigns for whoever turns up, Some predate the policies they argue about. Quercus has been at it since 1985, ALMARGEM since the late eighties in the Algarve.
The range is wide. A Rocha Portugal runs a field study centre near Portimão. GEOTA works on land-use policy out of Lisbon. Vita Nativa takes people into the Ria Formosa. Shops like Maria Granel teach as a side effect of selling.
Almost all of it is free or close to it, and almost all of it needs volunteers. Related focuses: nature-based learning, sustainability in schools and workshops and trainings. Anything with a date attached is on our events calendar.