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#1: Автор: Peteris, Населённый пункт: Германия

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МАНИФЕСТ

15-го октября 2008 г. в Турции на конференции читателей книг Владимира Мегре, с участием автора, состоялись выборы в оргкомитет Международной Ассоциации ?Звенящие кедры?, на который возложены обязанности по её регистрации и все, связанные с этой процедурой, действия.
Первой намеченной задачей Организации является разработка практической стратегии преодоления всемирного экономически-финансового, политического и продовольственного кризисов. Участники конференции пришли к единому мнению, что деятельность, направленная на успешную реализацию программ по созданию родовых поместий по всему миру, является основным этапом данной стратегии.

Контекст
Сторонники движения ?Звенящие кедры? уже приступили к реализации идеи по созданию родовых поместий. Воплощение в жизнь этой успешно разработанной модели уклада жизни благоприятно отразилось на судьбах тысяч семей, стремящихся минимизировать потребление энергии и ресурсов по, этическим, экологическим и экономическим соображениям. Все эти изменения произошли без существенной поддержки со стороны государственных организаций, официальных органов и правительств.
Создание родовых поместий ? самый оптимальный выход для решения проблем мирового сообщества. Основной идеей программы является постепенное создание и развитие небольших автономных жилых поселений. Такой вид поселения обеспечивает живущие в нем семья всеми условиями для удовлетворения личных и социальных потребностей, но, прежде всего, оно направлено на снятие ограничений, устоявшихся в современном обществе. Человечество достигло максимальных темпов потребления ресурсов, при этом жизни большинства людей лишены значимых целей и содержания.

Динамично развивающаяся система родовых поместий (эко - деревень).
Понимание важности родовых поместий является причиной их распространения по всему миру.
Их создание является основной стратегией долгосрочного, устойчивого существования будущих поколений. Автономность и минимизация влияния человеческой жизнедеятельности на окружающую среду позволяет избежать деградации социальной, экологической и духовной жизни. Распространение родовых поместий по всему миру постепенно находит поддержку со стороны местной администрации, национального правительства и общественных экологических организаций.
Все большее количество людей и социальных групп, стремятся к созданию семейных поселений. И такая возможность должна быть им предоставлена.

Затруднения, возникающие при создании родовых поселений.
Несмотря на то, что тенденция к созданию экопоселений пользуется большой популярностью, становится все труднее основывать новые родовые поселения ввиду высоких цен на землю и ограничений действующих законодательств в этой области..
Одним из преимуществ программы по созданию родовых поселений является то, что она, в первую очередь, способствуют стабилизации экономики на местном уровне, а затем и жизни страны в целом. Правительства, озабоченные масштабом текущих проблем, должны оказать значительную поддержку эко-деревням, когда осознают, что их создание позволит постепенно преодолеть не только финансовые трудности, но и другие проблемы населения. В этой связи мы призваны помочь представителям правительств понять эффективность идей создания родовых поместий.

Необходимость в сотрудничестве
С нашей точки зрения, основными средствами распространения целесообразности и важности, а также модели родового поселения являются: консультирование, образовательные программы, сотрудничество с общественными организациями соответствующих направлений.
Родовые поместья можно рассматривать как исследовательские, демонстрационные и обучающие центры по разработке концепции долгосрочной и гармоничной жизнедеятельности.

Роль родовых поместий
Создание родовых поместий представляет собой следующий этап развития эко-деревень. Они являются составной частью поселения и ориентированы на долгосрочное гармоничное взаимодействие с окружающей средой. В родовых поместьях воспитание подрастающих поколений происходит в естественных и социально благоприятных условиях.
Эко-регионы, образованные подобным образом, характеризуются более высоким уровнем устойчивости к внешним воздействиям и культуры их граждан, что в конечном итоге позволит обеспечить экономическую стабильность во всех странах мира, принимающих участие в реализации программы родовых поселений.

Роль Международной ассоциации ?Звенящие кедры?
Замысел, описанный в книгах серии ?Звенящие кедры России?, вдохновил тысячи читателей на создание собственных родовых поместий и поселений. В последние годы движение распространилось по всему миру. Создание международной ассоциации, которая олицетворяла эту инициативу, стало крайне необходимым.
Роль Ассоциации состоит в объединении идей Родовых поместий и выступлении перед мировой общественностью в качестве их представителя.

Наша цель: Совершенствование среды обитания.

Наши основные задачи:

1. Способствовать созданию родовых поместий по всему миру.
2. Способствовать разрешению всемирного экономического, сельскохозяйственного, экологического и общественного кризиса путем взаимодействия с организацией Объединенных наций, правительствами различных стран и другими организациями.

Наши методы:
Представлять интересы международного движения ?Звенящие кедры?, в частности:
1. Быть мировым центром инициатив создания родовых поместий;
2. Способствовать объединению родовых поместий по всему миру, а также поддерживать связь между ними, предлагая содействие в вопросах образования, юридического консультирования и т. д.
3. Служить общепризнанным, официальным органом, взаимодействующим с другими общественными организациями, движениями, агентствами и т. д. по вопросам движения ?Звенящие кедры? и создания родовых поместий.
4. Оказывать содействие и поддержку при проведении исследований, демонстрирующих эффективность модели родовых поместий в решении глобальных проблем.
5. Поддерживать центральную многоязычную базу данных (библиотеку родовых поместий), содержащую идеи экологически рационального образа жизни в родовых поселениях.
6. Организовывать международные мероприятия (конференции, конгрессы, семинары) для общественности и членов организации.
7. Создать информационный центр в виде вебсайта, содержащего подробные данные о движении и обеспечивающего связь между его участниками.
8. Собирать и распространять информацию о моделях родовых поместий путем написания статей, создания блогов, съемки фильмов и т. д.

Выводы

Мы нацелены на поддержку и осуществление проектов, направленных на устойчивое развитие всемирного сообщества и воспитывающих ответственное отношение к Земле. Мы полностью признаем настоятельную потребность в создании родовых поместий и их многочисленные преимущества. Нашей общей миссией является воплощение в жизнь всех целей и задач, методами упомянутыми выше.

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MANIFESTO

On 15th October 2008 at the International Ringing Cedars of Russia Readers? Conference an Organising Committee was elected to form an International Organisation that will represent the global Ringing Cedars movement. The first suggested task of the Organization is to offer practical solutions to the present World crises. It was agreed at the conference that facilitating the implementation of multiple Kin?s Domain settlement programmes world-wide as being the pivotal first step.

Context
The proponents of the Ringing Cedars movement have already begun fundamental implementation of the Kin?s Domain concept. This successful model has beneficially influenced the lives of thousands of families who hold to minimal energy and resource use for ethical, ecologic and economic reasons. All this has happened without any substantial support from powerful institutions, corporations or governments.
Kin?s Domain programmes are the best available solution for practically all the individual and collective problems of the World. They lead progressively to the development of smaller, decentralised and self-reliant neighbourhoods, both in the villages and in the cities. They provide for all the individual and social needs of the families, and most of all they address the limitations of current society: humanity is at the peak of resource growth, yet most people?s lives lack meaningful purpose and content.

Growing profile of Kin?s Domains and Eco-villages
The importance of eco-villages is reflected in their growing profile worldwide.
Eco-villages carry the key strategies for promoting a long-term sustainable way of life for future generations. They incorporate self-sufficiency and minimize the environmental footprint of the individual, effectively opposing the degradation of social, ecological, and spiritual milieus. Eco-villages across the world are seeing an unprecedented level of partnerships developing with local and national governments and other sustainability initiatives.
The increasing number of individuals and groups who are striving to create Kin?s Domain settlements are gaining momentum. People need to be given the opportunity to live in such settlements with continued support.

Constraints on formation of Kin?s Domain settlements and eco-villages
With existing eco-villages enjoying new levels of influence and profile, paradoxically, it is becoming significantly more difficult to create new eco-villages under the current conditions of high land prices and restrictive planning regulations.
The strength and simplicity of the Kin?s Domain programmes is that they first stabilize the local economies, then the nation as a whole. Overwhelmed governments will become more supportive of eco-villages when they realize their support will relieve not only financial pressures, but will also progressively resolve many of their countries? other concerns. For this reason we need to help governments understand the effectiveness of the Kin?s Domain concept.

Need for partnerships
We see the key tools for spreading an understanding of Kin?s Domain?s values, skills and models are the following: consultancy, educational programmes, and partnerships with organisations that strive towards sustainability.
Kin?s Domain settlements can be regarded as research, demonstration and training centres for long term sustainable living.

The role of Kin?s Domain settlements
Kin?s Domain settlements are a progressive step in eco-village development. They form partnerships with the neighbouring communities with an orientation toward environmental sustainability for all. They ensure the upbringing of future generations of families in a natural and socially supportive environment.
Eco-regions formed in this manner will have a greater resilience and skills base, leading ultimately to the global economic stability of all nations who are supportive of Kin?s Domain programmes in their countries.

The role of The International Ringing Cedars Association
The concepts of the Ringing Cedars books have inspired thousands of readers to start building their Kin?s Domains or Kin?s Domain settlements. In recent years the phenomenon has spread around the whole world. Forming an international association to represent these concepts has become an imperative.
The role of The Association is to unite these ideas and to appear in public as the official representative of Kin?s Domains.

The central aim of the association is:

Perfecting the living environment.

The progress towards this aim will be accomplished by the following activities:

1. Encouraging and supporting the materialization of Kin?s Domain communities world-wide.
2. Helping the world resolve global economic, agricultural, environmental, and social crises by working with the UN, governments, and similar organizations.
Representation of the International Ringing Cedars movement will be carried out by our goals, which are:
1. To be a focal point of all world-wide activities related to Kin?s Domains establishment.
2. To unite all Kin's Domain settlements world-wide and to serve as a support network, encouraging cooperation, education, legal consulting etc.
3. To be a recognized legal entity for communication with other legal entities, movements, agencies, etc., regarding the issues of the Ringing Cedars movement and creation of Kin?s Domain settlements.
4. To encourage and support the research showing how efficient the Kin?s Domain model is in solving global problems.
5. To administer the central multi-lingual knowledge database (Kin?s Domain library) related to the ideas of sustainable lifestyles as outlined by the Kin?s Domain concept.
6. To gather and disseminate information on Kin?s Domain settlement models ? via writing articles, blogs, films, etc.
7. To organize international events (conferences, congresses, seminars) for the general public, members, and other organizations.
8. To provide a comprehensive website that acts as a clearing-house for information and communication between members.
Conclusion

We look forward to supporting and nurturing the materialization of projects that further the creation of a sustainably developed world wide society, by supporting the responsible caretaking of the Earth. We sincerely appreciate the urgent need for Kin?s Domain settlements and their many benefits. We have a common mission with all those aware of the importance of the physical realization of all the topics mentioned above.

#2: Объявление Оргкомитета международной ассоциации "Звенящ Автор: Peteris, Населённый пункт: Германия

Добавлено: Ср 05 Ноя 2008, 6:48
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Дорогие друзья!

C 10 по 18 октября 2008 года в отеле Belconti в Белеке (Турция) была проведена международная конференция читателей с участием Владимира Николаевича Мегре. В конференции приняли участие представители многих стран со всего мира, включая Австралию, Барбадос, Белоруссию, Болгарию, Великобританию, Венгрию, Германию, Грецию, Грузию, Ирак, Ирландию, Испанию, Канаду, Кипр, Латвию, Литву, Португалию, Россию, Румынию, Сербию, Словакию, Словению, Соединенные Штаты, Украину и Швецию.
С Владимиром Мегре были проведены две встречи, на которых обсуждались важные вопросы, и перед участниками конференции были поставлены серьезные задачи.

Главным вопросом конференции был глобальный экономический кризис, а также учреждение новой международной организации, которая предложит решения по повторяющимся кризисам, с которыми мы столкнемся в ближайшие годы. На общественное обсуждение было представлено типовое письмо. Оно было оформлено как обращение жителя Родового Поместья к Организации Объединенных Наций.

Идея учреждения международной организации для реализации многочисленных программ Родовых Поместий во многих стран со всего мира предлагалась как единственное возможное решение нынешнего глобального экономического кризиса. Г-н Мегре пригласил каждого принять участие в создании новой организации. Предложение приветствовалось всеми участниками конференции, и работа над учреждением новой организации началась.

15-го октября была проведена встреча, на которой был избран Оргкомитет. Задачи комитета состоят в следующем:

1) создание структуры организации, включая необходимые юридические документы, такие как устав и другие;
2) регистрация международной организации;
3) организация международной конференции, на которой будет избрано правление недавно сформированной организации и другие должностные лица (согласно уставу);
4) помощь в подготовке документа для Организации Объединенных Наций.

Комитет согласно принятым решениям имеет право создать команду для выполнения задач, описанных выше. Мандат комитета будет длиться до момента регистрации организации и избрания правления.

Первыми в Оргкомитете были назначены председатель комитета и секретарь, они в свою очередь назначили специалиста по общественным отношениям (пресс-секретаря).
Организационный комитет:
Лиз Эшли (Великобритания) – председатель
Нара Петрович (Словения) – секретарь
Петерис Шпелс (Латвия) – специалист по общественным отношениям

16-го октября Оргкомитет провел 2 встречи, и было принято решение о необходимости регистрации организации как можно скорее, но не позже чем через год (16.10.2009). Поступило предложение зарегистрировать организацию до Дня Земли (23.07.2009).

Комитет начал работать над формулировкой целей для устава организации и над разработкой критериев, позволяющих стать ее членом. Началась работа по переводу документов для Организации Объединенных Наций. Они будут представлены в ближайшее время на общественное обсуждение на домашней страничке организации, которая в настоящее время создается. Вопрос о финансировании все еще открыт. Мы будем признательны Вам за любые предложения, касающиеся организации.

Было предложено, чтобы организация была названа международной ассоциацией «Звенящие Кедры».

Отчеты о результатах работы будут предоставлены каждой организации, которая проявит интерес к сотрудничеству, и опубликованы на страничке www.anastasia.ru, а также на домашней страничке организации.

От имени Оргкомитета,
Петерис Шпелс
Специалист по общественным отношениям
peteris_spels@inbox.lv

#3: Автор: Дмитрий Деревицкий, Населённый пункт: Беларусь, Брест

Добавлено: Вт 10 Мар 2009, 23:08
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Все обсуждения - перенесены в отдельную тему:
http://forum.anastasia.ru/topic_41974.html

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Некоторые ссылки по теме (на английском):

http://www.cedrosresonantesderusia.es/especiales/conferencia-megre-turquia.html
http://www.ringingcedarsofrussia.org/theearth/ringing-cedars/un-petition/2009-feb.html
http://www.ringingcedarsofrussia.org/theearth/ringing-cedars-ukraine-law-vladimir-megre-2008-nov.html

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Подробней по вышеприведённым ссылкам.

Английская версия объявления Оргкомитета:
http://www.cedrosresonantesderusia.es/especiales/conferencia-megre-turquia.html

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Dear friends,

On October 10 to 18 2008 The International Readers? conference, with Vladimir Nikolaevich Megre, was held at the Belconti Hotel in Belek, Turkey.

The conference was attended by representatives from many countries around the globe including: Australia, Barbados, Belarus, Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, Germany, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Iraq, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, Ukraine and the United States .

Two meetings were held with Vladimir Megre where important questions were discussed and significant tasks for the conference participants were established.

The main focus of the conference was the global economic crisis and the foundation of a new International Organisation that will offer solutions to the multiple crises we face in the coming years. A sample letter was presented for public discussion. It was prepared as a message from an inhabitant of a Kin?s Domain addressing the United Nations.

The idea of establishing an International Organisation for the implementation of multiple Kin?s Domains? programmes, in many nations world wide, was offered as the only feasible solution to the current global economic crisis. Mr.Megre invited everybody to participate in the creation of this new Organisation. The suggestion was welcomed by all conference participants and work on the new Organisation began.

On 15th of October a meeting was held, where an Organizing Committee was elected. The mission of the committee is as follows:

1. To create the Organisation?s structure, including necessary legal documents like statutes etc...
2. To register the International Organisation.
3. To organize an International Conference where the board of the newly formed Organisation and other officials (according to the statutes) will be elected.
4. Support the preparation of the document for the United Nations.

It was decided that the Committee has the rights to create the team for fulfilling the tasks described above. The mandate of the committee will last until the registration of the Organisation and election of the board. The first nominations for the Organising Committee were, the Chairman of the Committee and Secretary, they in their turn, nominated the Public Relations Specialist.

Organisational Committee:

Liz Ashley (United Kingdom) ? Chairman
Nara Petrovich (Slovenia) ? Secretary
Peteris Spels (Latvia) ? Public Relations

On the 16th of October two meetings, led by the Organising Committee were held, and a decision was made to register the Organisation as soon as possible, but within one year (not later than 16.10.2009). There was a suggestion that the Organisation should be registered by the Day of Earth (23. 07. 2009).

The committee started to work on the formulation of goals for the Organisation?s statutes, and the criteria for becoming a member. Work has begun on the translation of documents for the United Nations Organisation.

They will be released for public discussion, as soon as possible, on the home page of the Organisation that is currently being created. The question about funding is still open. Your suggestions about the Organisation?s will be appreciated.

It was suggested that the Organisation be named The International Ringing Cedars Association.

Reports of progress will be sent out to every organisation that expresses an interest in co-operation, and published in www.anastasia.ru as well as on the Committee?s home page.

In the name of the Organising Committee,

Public Relations specialist,
Peteris Spels
peteris_spels@inbox.lv

Последний раз редактировалось: Дмитрий Деревицкий (Ср 11 Мар 2009, 0:13), всего редактировалось 1 раз

#4: Автор: Дмитрий Деревицкий, Населённый пункт: Беларусь, Брест

Добавлено: Вт 10 Мар 2009, 23:31
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Петиция в ООН:
http://www.ringingcedarsofrussia.org/theearth/ringing-cedars/un-petition/2009-feb.html
(THE EARTH, Online Monthly Newspaper, February 2009)

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An example in point is one of the latest submittals, entitled UN Petition: Family-Plot Food Gardens for a Sustainable Planet, which can be accessed online by transferring their web-link into a browser window: http://www.petitiononline.com/SoLMag/petition.html . Addressed to His Excellency, Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General to the United Nations, it requests the U.N. General Assembly to help create sustainable small family-plot sized food-gardens all over the world by way of member nations dedicating unused, free government land for such purposes.

This UN Petition "sparked an enormous amount of excitement," says Dr. Regina Jensen, editor of the international Space of Love Magazine, who drafted the document in behalf of Ringing Cedars of Russia, a world-wide "green" movement originating from Russia. The signers of this petition are convinced that powerful positive change - individual, social, economic as well as ecological - can be affected through increased development of personal or government land into family food-plots and gardens. They also support the creation of eco-villages world-wide to reawaken the wholesome neighbor-to-neighbor support available in such communities. More specifically, they have great hopes that peaceful life and self-sufficiency can be created by developing hectare-size (2.5 acres) family food-gardens, especially in community, a size they believe is large enough to feed an average family and therewith protect them from survival-stress and harm under difficult economic circumstances. The petition also claims that historically, such food-producing family and community-plots have stabilized a region, state or entire country during economic and other disturbances.

Yuri Smirnov, publisher of Space of Love Magazine in Russia says: "People recover a sense of deep excitement and purpose when they re-discover the power true democracy brings. It helps all of us to come together and co-create a world that truly works for everyone. The excitement and gratitude our international magazine received upon launching the first issue last year was just astounding. It speaks for the deep hunger we all have to come back to our community roots, to Nature and its abundant nurture and to security in our own healing environment. It is contagious and exciting to return to a way of living that is joyful, peaceful and celebratory, without having to throw out the good things modern life offers. The exciting response to our joint online UN Petition seems to be another example of this hunger for a saner way of living." Although the United Nations published statements very recently in keeping with the petition's intent, if they do not respond with the urgency these world-wide issues demand, the publishers say that they will continue to present these concepts to whichever governmental organizations will be most able and committed to produce true, global change for the people they represent.

Many of the individuals signing the UN Petition, says editor Jensen, "have already been inspired by a specific global vision for healing, offered by the Ringing Cedars of Russia material, via re-connection with nature and a personal plot of land and the powers of an eco-village type of neighborly support for modern times." Some of the sample comments, she shares, are: "We are all one. What affects one affects us all. It is time to move into cooperation and real relationship with the earth and each other." "This is the path for a bright future for our children and their children." "This is essential to recovery from the global economic crisis and climate change." "We are responsible for how we treat the Earth and feed ourselves." "This is the most important thing we can do to save our species upon this planet." People are encouraged to enforce their voice and participate by signing at: http://www.petitiononline.com/SoLMag/petition.html or check with www.ringingcedarsofrussia.com and www.spaceoflovemagazine.com

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Official request to interested parties:

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

Please reproduce this press release on your website or any available resource with direct link to PETITION: Family-Plot Food Gardens for a Sustainable Planet, for a wider spread of information regarding this initiative and gathering necessary signatures.

Sencerelly,

Editorial Board,

The Earth Monthly Newspaper

EarthLife.info

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Free Government Land for Food-Gardens: UN Petitioned Online

To: United Nations
Excellency Ban Ki-moon
Secretary-General
United Nations
New York, New York

Your Excellency!

We, the undersigned, represent a movement of over eleven million voices strong. This is the growing number of people world-wide who are joining a brilliant "green" movement originating from Russia. We are all people who have become inspired and convinced of the urgent need for government supported development of family-size sustainably farmed land-plots, ideally located in eco-village settlements in every nation on earth. Robert Muller, Assistant Secretary General to the United Nations for many decades, said with great forethought: "The world of sovereign nations is in disarray. The Earth, our vital air, waters, nature, vegetation and many species which it took millions of years to form, our climate are in jeopardy. All this will end in a global disaster without precedent, if we do not react with urgency, vision and audacity." At the time, Dr. Mueller implored the General Assembly of heads of states to "remain in session day and night if necessary, until we give birth to a new political system for our miraculous planet and our sacred human family." We, the undersigned, implore you with the same urgency, because we are convinced that this new political system will be generated easily and safely in the form of wide-spread, internationally blossoming eco-systems, renewing themselves one hectare, one eco-village, one society at a time - and at great speed.

You yourself, Your Excellency, along with Prince Charles, sent written word recently to the assembly of Terra Madre and Slow Food advocates who met last Fall in Italy emphasizing "the importance of traditional farming knowledge in finding a sustainable solution to the global food crisis." And you let them know that "the global food crisis requires a comprehensive and coordinated global response....This is why I have created a high-level task force, bringing together the UN, donor countries, civil society and the private sector in a 'global partnership for food.'" With your address, you were hoping to support small farmers and see that new technologies be adopted along with modern farming methods, which would "attract more young people to farming, especially in urban areas of the world."

We feel so very excited to have a Secretary General such as yourself, Your Excellency, with the deep wisdom that our beautiful Earth needs to prevent such a "global disaster without precedent", as Dr. Muller warned.

We have at hand simple yet highly intelligent, proven plans for action which can be implemented immediately all over the world, promptly healing our bleeding Earth and providing healthy food substances for its people; people who range from being concerned, hungry and even starving, depending upon the economic conditions of their home-nations.

Loosely embraced by the name "Ringing Cedars of Russia", this rapidly growing, world-wide movement shares one vision: the creation of ecological settlements ideally consisting of one hectare sized family-plots of land. While there are also many ideas for sustainable living for city dwellers (notably the Transition Town movement), our appeal to you and the General Assembly is for the following:

There is much unused land, ranging from very fertile to presumably unusable, marginal, even arid land. And there are precedents for the governments of many nations having provided such land to families practically free of charge for the development of family-sized plots for micro-farmed family domains. (One hectare is ideally suited to feed a family in any climate and on any soil.) Russia's Dacha Gardens; Germany's Schrebergaerten and America's Victory Gardens all represent examples where a nation's people retained their ability to feed themselves, their family and neighbors through economic hardship and thereby stabilized the economy and viability of their entire country while providing an atmosphere of hope, pride and belonging.

The granting of such land-tracts must include guidelines for changing rigid local zoning and use-permit laws to facilitate the swift creation of such food-plots, ideally as part of eco-type settlements. Visual materials (such as DVDs of the Rodnoe Settlement in Russia; or Australia's "Greening the Desert" film and Sepp Holzer's Permaculture DVDs) are available to effectively introduce these simple yet profound concepts to the General Assembly. All three sets of materials represent and confirm the conviction that "we can grow a food-garden anywhere". This includes salinity stressed, arid desert lands which can regenerate within months with intelligent perma and polyculture installations. Indeed, these installations can provide training for more people to teach these methods even as they go along recovering land for family food-gardens, effectively multiplying the blessings of such an approach to national and world-healing.

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Declaration in support of immediate creation and promotion of sustainable family-plot permaculture land development:

We, the undersigned, are supporting the vision of acquiring parcels of land, one hectare in size, for the purpose of setting up Family Domains to build a more perfect living environment for ourselves and our families. There, food and forest gardens can be planted in accordance with careful permaculture planning and healthy seeds, so that we can grow food such as fruit, berries, nuts, vegetable crops and might include such additions as ponds stocked with fish, bee colonies or farm animals.

As practical experience has shown, the creation of such Family Domains, though developed in different nations and climates, is capable in the very near future of solving the food and living problems of many nations. Ecovillages and agricultural cooperatives around large and small cities that are able to provide the urban population with ecologically pure plant products have proven to be very viable, immediate solutions to the planet-wide problem of availability of wholesome, affordable foods.

There is no doubt that a world-wide food crisis is looming, such as sharp, significant and continuing increases in the price of food products along with poor availability. Political, scientific and economic sources of information confirm these difficulties in countries all over the world. The World Agrarian Report IAASTD (International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development) is a recently published 2000-page international report which was gathered during a meeting of approximately 400 independent individuals and groups from various social sectors, such as science, research, politics, business, agriculture and consumer protection. It offers advice of a very similar sort as is advocated herewith. Also represented at that world gathering were institutions such as the FAOs, World Bank, UNEP, UNESCO, WHO, UNDP, GEF.

It should be an intolerable fact to any intelligent individual or government to know that from thousands to up to tens of millions of hectares, and even larger numbers in acreage, depending upon the size of the country in question, remain uncultivated and are overgrown with weeds while up to 40% or more of food-stuffs - very often of poor quality - are imported from foreign countries at great waste of resources, while compromising the economies and viability of such countries. This includes, of course, the destruction of vitally important rainforests and therefore, imperils our entire planet. No polite words, but only terms such as "stupid" or "criminally immoral" can adequately describe what is going on in the world regarding certain agricultural approaches including the resulting, totally unnecessary starvation of innocent people in Third World countries.

This unacceptable travesty also affects a large percentage of the world's farmers who are practically enslaved to giant, heartless corporations due to the competitive struggle with which such agriculture is maintained along with the pressure tactics employed by such inhuman corporate entities. Struggling for profit with large agricultural farming approaches forces farmers to use pesticides and herbicides, grow harmful, genetically modified products via unhealthy mono-cultures, and endanger the lives of millions of people and indeed, the viability of our entire planet. And short-sighted actions such as infusions of cash into agriculture have not changed the situation for the better in any nation, but only aggravate it, as the core problems are never addressed.

While we believe it counter-productive to accuse governments or individuals, the fact that many countries are standing at the brink of great social upheavals demands immediate action. We believe that in such a situation, it is necessary that each individual or family make concrete commitments toward self-reliability and individual sustainability in the most immediate future. But they need help from their respective governments with appropriate legislation.

We posit that a fundamentally new and universally applicable global vision for another way of life for all of Earth's families is of vital and urgent importance. We have several guiding paradigms available, including the aforementioned Ringing Cedars vision for global healing, so as to be able to proceed immediately. There are already several hundred eco-villages flourishing all over the planet and 300 eco-villages in various stages of planning and development which apply the Ringing Cedars ideas for Family Domains. For instance, hundreds of families, having each obtained a hectare of land, are already building their own domains, domains in which children are being born and raised now in a more perfect ecological environment in specific areas in Russia, with many more emerging in other countries.
We, the undersigned, respectfully request that Your Excellency, bearer of the highest office of the United Nations, kindly join us in this urgent quest and realistic vision by assembling the relevant UN agencies to proactively pursue the possibility of realistic global healing, one hectare, one eco-village, one nation at a time. First and foremost, we need your powerful support toward the development of official positions and recommendations for the world-wide creation of hectare-size sustainable family-plots for food and forest gardens in all nations.

Please accept our gratitude for your attention to this important request to create a world which will work for everyone - Now.

(Our appreciation goes to Ivan Petrovich Sidorov, who acquired a hectare of wasteland 30 kilometers from Vladimir, Russia, to develop his own Family Domain, for gathering initial information for this letter: www.ringingcedarsofrussia.com and www.spaceoflovemagazine.com.)

Sincerely,
The Undersigned

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Signature Collection

For e-mail signature-collection:

Please download the file below. When each e-list is 14 voices long, will the last person please save a copy (or: copy and paste to a new document) and forward to info@ringingcedarsofrussia.org and then begin a new document. Hopefully, we will need to do this hundreds of times, until we have enough signatures to justify our collective voice and presentation of our ideas, representing a substantial portion of the international sustainability community, to the United Nations.

For paper signature-collection:

When the signatures are collected please send a scanned copy to info@ringingcedarsofrussia.org, or contact us by info@ringingcedarsofrussia.org for further instructions.

Download the file in WORD format (doc):
http://www.ringingcedarsofrussia.org/ringing-cedars/call-to-action.doc

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Submitted Comments

Living in balance with Nature is the only hope for humanity.

Mitchell A. Fleisher, M.D., D.Ht., D.A.B.F.M.

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Consider what Sioux City Iowa has done as part of the their regional economic stimulus strategy: zero-interest loans on land purchase for people who will farm the land organically, and "free" land n the city to these people to build homes.

Philip Anderson

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This dream of cooperation is LONG overdue...Please keep an OPEN MIND and Heart to see the benfit for MANY as an opportunity to work for peace and harmony for humanity and our planet.

Cecelia Gates

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We have a hectare in the UK. It works. It is something that is possible right now for everyone!

Dr Eva Maria Chapman

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I've have addressed the UN - In't NGO Conference about creating sustainable communities. This is essential to recovery from the global economic crisis and climate change.

Bruce L Erickson

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This is the most important thing we can do to save our species upon this plantet.

Merry Hall

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It is my experience that living connected and close to nature and the elements supports vitality, health, and balance. Simple appopriate tech agrarian living = security, prosperity, and peace.

Peter Baldwin

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(c) Regina Jensen, Ph. D.
(c) http://www.spaceoflovemagazine.com/
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