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background
vision
collaborations
objectives
timelines
governing
body
participants' profiles
project
plan
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Human
resources:
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Two
European ecology teachers to collaboratively craft the Project Plan
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Green
bio-architects to holistically plan
dedicated - yet inter-related spaces / ecological niches and infrastructure
- to facilitate on-going participatory learning experiences through
ecological living
- Professionals
in renewable energy, water harvesting and waste management systems
to build sustainability into the project (TERI ?)
Institutional
resources:
- Ecological
& Teacher-training Institutions and other related fields to participate
& consider project work in situ for accreditation at
the graduate (degree) or Masters' level
- Consultants
drawn from existing "successful" eco-parks - like The Center
for Alternate Technology, Wales and the Eden Project, England - so
that we don't invest time "reinventing the wheel"
- Associations
with ecological educational movements - like Capra's Center for Ecoliteracy,
Berkerly, CA
Creature
Comforts:
- Photovoltaic
panels to power 3 computers (for a start)
- Water
storage tanks (ten 10,000 litre capacity)
- Bio-methanation
plant for recycling bio-degradable solid waste
- Hand
held GPS to effectively map the 500 acres of forest - to which we
have unlimited access
Funds:
- to
finance the above human resource needs and at least 3 key personnel
working on the ground
- a
small grant to cover the cost of a dedicated team to write the project
plan
- 20,000
Euros to kick start the project - we hope to realise half the amount
through internal accruals
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