Date: February 9th 2009

hello everybody! I am also interested to come to the wintermeeting
wherever it will be!
I am from Armenia, so it may require some efforts, but I am ready to try!:)
Vahagn /ex-EYFA board member, 3 times participated in Ecotopias,
forever ecotopian by spirit!:)/

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Robrecht De Laet
<robrechtdelaet@hotmail.com>; wrote:
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> hey hello there!
> i am interested in coming to the meeting next winter.
> rob
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> Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 12:46:27 +0100
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> Subject: 2nd Small Update to Ecotopia?
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> Facebook group nearly 200
> Ecotopia newsletter nearly 125
> Daily visitors on the ecotopia.belzignet.de site about 300, going up...
> This list almost 40
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> And my mailbox plus at least 25 emails per day.... ecotopia? is starting to
> live...
>
> Yes some days past by again... and by now I got reactions from all over
> Europe, just chatted with Armenia, in the hope to get them involved with
> people in Turkey and them to organise a biketour again, from the far east to
> here.... passing by the east of europe... any dutch or further west living
> people wanted to come by bike as well?
>
> The main "problem" now is that it slowly started from an idea to become a
> small half day job already and since I am "living" from selling my book at
> the time it means a small conflict of interest,... so another reason why we
> need some funding soon (i am running out of money I do not have :-)).... but
> that is the least interesting part of this starting ecovillage....
>
> Main thing I want to write you about is following:
>
> For Ecotopia? we hope to build up a real stable Infrastructure here, not
> improvised as in most Ecotopia's in the past, nothing bad about that, but
> for 22 years when the idea the first time was born the aim was the leave
> something behind which could be used afterwards, in most ecotopia's this was
> not always possible to realise it on a larger scale. We, meaning the area
> where I live, have the long time dream to realise a ecological camping place
> in this area. We live not far away from Berlin in a natur park and the new
> first european bike route, the R1, from Poland to France... and more of
> those things....
>
> With Ecotopia? we hope to establish an ecological campingplace, a kind of
> pilot project, on which constructors and idea maker for new type of
> ecological energy production and water use and so can have a place to try
> out in practice... a place which will be used after the Ecotopia? festival
> for travellers, but also available for bigger groups to organise their
> activities there... Furthermore in the years to come next to the camping a
> small ecological village will be build, a say so "housing 3.0 project" (3
> generations, and 0 energy use), but that's the next dream to be realized...
>
> Festival and infrastructure are two different thing with other words. At the
> one hand the camping place will be build up as a kind of small compagny
> (collective), for which we hope to get official funding in co-operation with
> the towncouncil of Wiesenburg... but first they have to decide that we get
> the land and the permission to use it the way we want, allthought knowing
> that towncouncil and the place (who haven"t been use for almost 17 years or
> some even longer and since it is so far from the motorway and big cities no
> industrie ever will come there) that would not be a big problem. Informal
> the messages is "yes, come".
>
> Ofcourse we need help for the infrastructure, if you are connected to
> somebody or some group who is experimenting and wants to have a plans to
> promote their sollution, please do not hesitate and tell them about it,
> maybe we find a way together, with spezial international funding to get them
> here.. or when they are bigger compagnies as sponsering...
>
> Now to the Ecotopia? Festival
>
> That will take place as first event on that camping place... for that the
> get at least 500 participants there we need a huge network to be build up,
> that is working at the moment, but at this moment only individuals involved,
> no NGO's yet, at least not official, to aplly for funding, f.e. from the
> European Youth Foundation we need however ((inter)national) NGO's involved,
> on our side (the flaeming region) that is NOT a big problem, there are
> different NGO's here who can act as partner, but they need (active) partner
> NGO elsewhere ...
>
> This may sounds a bit quick, still over 500 days to go till the opening of
> Ecotopia?, but most funding places need their proposals more than year in
> beforehand, and when we want to have money for preparation and promotion
> next year we need to aply now...
>
> Therefor I am asking you to bring to ecotopia? idea up in your NGO, i you
> are member of one, and see if a partnership is possible.
>
> Furtheron....
>
> Starting with the ANTI NATO demo in France/Germany in April we would like to
> have a small Ecotopia? mobilisation pamflet, leaflet, whatever... I will be
> cooking there and on many other fetsival and camps this sommer and it would
> be good to start the promotion already now, ....
>
> Last but not least...
>
> Who of you maybe be interesting in participating in a meeting coming winter
> (december or so) to see eachother before .. in order to be able to have to
> whole thing on the rails by next year...
>
> Ljubav i Mir,
>
> wam :-)
>
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