Profiles
Andrew Olivier
Ambassador, GEN Australia
" Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) - laboratories of alternative living - insights inspiring new community paradigms that help humanity live in harmony with themselves and the Earth"
This 45 minute talk looks at how ecovillages have pioneered different ways of living together and how this offers real alternatives to today's problems of poverty, consumerism, alienation and environmental damage. Andrew will talk about the start of a collaborative venture with Remark Paringa to develop an Ecovillage.
Coming from a military and corporate background Andrew has had a number of successful businesses, including software company, a large commercial art gallery and a consulting company, operating across five countries. He has published two business books and his third book, a fiction is due out in November this year. Andrew is an ambassador for the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN), a member of the leadership circle for GEN Australia, Fellow of the Global Design Society and the Australian Institute of Management. He is a pioneer member of the Narara Ecovillage in NSW, outside Sydney.
His consulting company has an office in Adelaide and he and his team have worked with SA companies and councils since 2007. The transformation programme undertaken with the RAA since 2008 has been the topic of two international papers.