Village in Action

Eco Sustainable Village

ESV IN ACTION

Most people like to live in big cities because they offer more jobs and services (institutions) than smaller towns and villages. In a sustainable village setting, the number of services will not be compromised; instead the institutions will be downsized for better management and to make them more economical for their residents.

The rule is that, "The number of New jobs is directly proportional to its services".

How to create new jobs in this sustainable village module?

To create new jobs we have to create new services especially those services that are offered by the big cities. This is the only incentive that can bring back life to our eco system and our villages can take advantage of all those services that are offered by big cities and also can enjoy pollution free environment of a country side. The incentive behind this beautiful eco living heavily depends on pure economics. Many individuals may not like to participate just because of services that are routinely offered in larger cities unless the services are economically attractive enough that may guarantee a higher life style in a less expensive way than what they are already spending. All services will be incentive driven based on economics and quality life style.

1. Local Dairy Service.

Each Pie (also called a cube) of the village is an independent unit comprising of 25 households. To create a new service to cater the needs of 25 families we calculate the working hours that each family has to spend on the care of their domestic livestock. The time dedicated by one individual from each family meaning twenty five individuals has to work for growing food for livestock, has to devote time for their care during and after grazing, chopping their food, feeding them on time, Milking on time, and disposing off their waste and washing them periodically. Two new full time jobs can replace all 25 individuals by constructing one common animal shelter for batter management, washing, feeding milking and waste disposal. This new service having two full time employees can free 23 individuals to do other jobs that are more productive for their families and since the salary of these two individuals is shared by the rest of 23 households, the cost and work hours are divided 23 times as per human labor making this service a viable solution

2. Local free cooking gas service.

Now we have an issue with the animal waste. We can turn it around by installing a small methane gas unit and create a new job with a new service of supplying cooking gas to all 25 household families. In this way everyone gets free gas and all they have to pay for one person as caretaker of the gas plant and its supply. The cost of the unit can be shared over time in mini installments. That means that the salary of this individual will shared by twenty five families but will give them free cooking gas supply around the clock and that gas can also be used to tight the streets and houses as well almost free.

3. Food & Farm Services

All twenty five families have to consume food in the form of vegetables, fruits and meat from somewhere to live. Let’s create a new service and deploy two new jobs in the village designated common area also known is shamlat. The two individuals will grow vegetables using our most advanced method of Hydroponics to produce vegetables, fruits for all the residents participating in this service. One new job can cater fish farm and poultry together for the local residents and the expense will be divided by twenty five families which will be about 2000% less than if they use the same living life style without this service.

4. Food Storage Service

We know that after season or excess food tends to decay every soon so a new service also known as food bank will utilize solar dehydrators to keep the food dried for long shelf life and sell the excess food. This service will not only offset the salary of the individuals at service but also make some extra money in the village common pool.

5. Food Cooking Service

This food catering service will utilize solar oven bakery to cater cooked food to its residents three times a day. It is important to note that this service will be a cooking service like having a common cook and not like an independent business. It will employ two new full time jobs for cooking and one new job for cleaning, washing and waste disposal. This service will save alt the collective cooking time in each household (4x25=100 hrs daily, 700 hrs weekly, 2800 hrs monthly) If daily wages of labor is Rs.200.00, the savings would translate Rs.560,000.00 per month while the salary would cost about Rs.30,000.00 per month with a net savings of 5 lack 30 thousand rupees per month. This service would provide the participants enough free time to enjoy their lives with quality work other than cooking.

6. Local Laundry Service

Similarly a Laundry service can replace all 25 families work by adding one new job. Since services are shared and so does the expense proportionately making them the most viable and economical solution to enjoy all the benefits of larger cities while enjoying a healthy eco friendly country lifestyle.

7. Village Security Services

People buy security for their families and that’s why people love to pay premium price in gated communities. The mere news that a certain community is nearly crime free zone can jump the real estate value of that community quadruple. One single person can diminish the value of that area and on the other end of the scale if the area is secured from theft and crime, its real estate will enhance the property value and also the residents will have a pride to live in such a secured environment. Each Pie of the village can accommodate one new job of a security person for the safety of that community. The salary of this new job will be shared by the residents giving them peace of mind, enhanced security and an incentive for attracting business and investment.

8. Village landscaping Service

There is a saying that Image is everything. It is like a face and if the face is pretty, chances are that it will create a competition to be the first to join in. In Pakistan people build nice homes but put all the trash out in front of their homes, making it an ugly looking community. In sustainable village the landscaping service will take care of the village landscaping making it attractive to the tourists and visitors. More tourists & visitors translate into more business opportunities for local residents to cash in these opportunities. Since the salaries of this service will be shared by residents, it will be nominal as compared to its huge value to the village community.

9. Village Medical Services

Village medical service will have a first aid emergency center and a medical trained professional including a nurse that will work closely with the nearest city hospital and will have ready ambulance for all contingencies. This private arrangement by the sustainable village may be made possible by deducting a small percentage from the sales tax of the residents from their shops and general contributions from community.

10. Village School for Children

In most villages schooling is provided by the provincial government or other local bodies. In a sustainable village the schooling will work with those bodies to upgrade it to a minimum standard as set forth by the village committee.

11. Village Sports Club

Village will be provided with the basic tools for sports and especially new sports that may attract more visitors. The sports club will provide a base to hold local tournaments for increasing enthusiasm in the sports circle.

12. Village Health Club

The village local gym will promote health awareness amongst the residents and a local store will sell nutritional supplements to both residents and visitors to cater their health needs.

13. Village Shopping Mall

In the village central Mall plots will be allocated to build shops for the residents and rental umbrella markets like flea market will be made available for outside merchants. The rent collected from these U markets will be distributed to the residents as an additional income source after deducting overhead expenses. The provision of public fountains, public rest rooms, public phone booth, security post, first aid post and an information center will be made available for visitors in this shopping mall. A separate parking facility will also be provided for visitors and tourists.

14. Village Hobby Center

A hobby center will be made available for youth and seniors where they can use the facility and equipment for their hobbies. We intend to start with sections like ceramics, wood, metal, weaving shops for adults and a toy center for children. These workshops will be equipped with tools to make innovative designs in their respective hobbies. Hobby center may call upon experts in those hobbies for networking and appreciation.

15. Village Court & Complaint Center

In case of any dispute, the matter will be brought before the village committee for immediate intervention to resolve the issue. In case of any serious offense the matter will be handed over to the proper authorities to action and a local action of dis-membership from the village may be initiated to keep the village a crime free zone. In case the village committee decides to dismember any individual because of a proven crime, his house will be bought back at the price at which he bought the house or at the price five years back if the house was purchased more than five years, whichever is applicable.

16. Village Guest House

Each Cube of the village will have the provision of a village rest house to accommodate visitors, tourists, and relatives of residents. The residents will be required to reserve the rest house in advance. The rules of operating the guest house affairs will be made by the village committee.

17. Village Recycle Center

Each cube of the village will be provided with a color coded storage tanks (Dumpsters or compactors) for garbage recycling. A service may be started to collect garbage from compactors to the disposal sites.

18. Village Water treatment & Supply

Each cube of the village will have its own water storage and supply system. The water treatment by solar still or other reverse osmosis system may be provided if the need arises.

19. Village Fire Solutions

The cube of the village will have their own fire extinguishers at designated and visible public places to put off the fire if it erupts. These sites will be near resident clusters, crowded public places and near cooking areas

20. Village Emergency Response Team

The village will prepare a volunteers team for emergency response. A training course will be included in the village adult school and will be practiced periodically by holding drills of different scenarios.

21. Village Farms

Each cube of the village will be provided hydro phonic technologies for agricultural farms and know how will be gathered and shared for other farming needs

22. Village Services

Each cube will be provided with a facility to offer their services or process their merchandise and the final product or service could be sold in their own shops at the village mall.

23. Allotment of Shops

Each household will be allotted a shop to do business, offer services or merchandise in a designated commercial area with free and east access to visitors. The village committee will make arrangements to make this shopping mall attractive to draw more visitors by variety of techniques. Foreign tourists will be invited to visit the village progress and incentives will be placed for greater exposure.

24. Buying home options

In this unique Eco village anyone can enjoy the pleasures of eco living with all the facilities of most advanced cities, even with almost no money of their own. They can use the labor point system to buy the house.

25. Village specialty

All food related personals inside the facility or on the selling floor will use hand gloves and scarf to prevent food from contamination, All products sold by the village will guarantee its purity according to its label, Lost and found section will provide services to visitors, tourists and residents as a special feature of this village, Babysitting service will be provided for tourists for a nominal charge with toys and food, Village maintenance crew will be made available in shifts on special occasions

MANDATORY PROTOCOLS

	Noise reduction protocol,
	Tourist attraction protocol,
	Residents interaction protocol,
	No pressure incentive driven protocol,
	Getting along diverse group training & protocol,
	Non littering village policy enforcement,
	Recognition of individuals with distinguished services as person of the Month,
	Maintaining scenic beauty and curb appeal enforcement protocol,
	Theme uniformity of the eco village protocol and
	Interfaith protocol of diversity as power protocol.

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

Agriculture- Greenhouses

	Soil Tea technology,
	Hydro phonic technology,
	Aero phonic technology,
	Vermi-compost earthworm farms,
	Tumbler Compost,
	Sprinkler system,
	Drip irrigation system,
	U-Pickup farms.

New Crop prospects

	Olive trees,
	Grape crops farming,
	Tomato crops,
	Mushroom farming,
	Shrimp farming,
	Ostrich farming,
	Herb farming,
	Picon farming,
	Kiwi farming,
	Coffee farming,
	Black pepper trees,
	Stevia plant farming,
	Jajuba farming for desert lands,
	Paulownia farming,
	Mangovers farming between sea and land,
	Raising ground water column technology,
	Ground cover by creepers plants,
	Moss, Mulch and relationship of airborne particles as health hazard camps,
	Tourism Industry seminars and
	Camps on village premises

VISITOR ATTRACTIONS

Go Solar Program

	Solar dehydrator,
	Solar Cookers,
	Solar water heaters,
	Solar desalination still for clean drinking water,
	Solar refrigeration units,
	Solar pumps,
	Wind powered pumps,
	Bio-diesel Industry,
	Landscaping industry,
	Serious Sports industry and beyond,
	Neon lighting industry,
	Suggestions Bank.

New Services

	School service,
	Road maintenance service,
	Garbage disposal service,
	Methane gas supply,
	Village Security services,
	Information center and info packages,
	Rain water collection,
	Drip irrigation system,
	Activity director for seniors,
	Visitor /schools/ tourist’s coordinators,
	Media coordinators,
	Fire extinguishing squad,
	Village Emergency response team,
	Trolley rail service,
	Exhibition services,
	Vending machines and
	Village sports club.

Performance check

	Time capsule of the village,
	Bi weekly bulletin,
	Opinion polls,
	Demographics stability,
	Fine penalty policy inside the village for littering and using bad language,
	Site elevation of the village and drainage system performance,
	Solid waste dumping sites allocation,
	Security audio video cameras on official places to fight against crime and pressure from any source

TECHNOLOGIES TO DEAL WITH MORE ISSUES

	1. Eco Sustainable village design integration with current technologies
	2. Village parking spaces for visitors
	3. Gray water issue and its disposal
	4. Solid waste landfill and its use as a source of energy or as compost by adding and passing carbon dioxide gas to quickly convert it into compost.
	5. Village natural landscape to design a natural flow of sewerage system and plumbing needs.
	6. Drip irrigation system in dry areas and to save 90% budget on buying water as plant root gets 3% water and 97% is either evaporated or wasted in unrelated areas
	7. Village bee farm and floral garden.
	8. No littering policy implementation by placing garbage cans in all public areas and penalties for violation.
	9. Rain water storage facility or direct feeding that water to sand column to raise water column in wells.
	10. No twisted names for anyone policy to preserve human dignity for everyone without discrimination.
	11. Winter heaters powered by windmills using oil friction heaters (100 % conversion)
	12. Landfill location
	13. No arms inside the village premises implemented by village security to keep everyone safe and secure.
	14. Water recovery from fog and thin air technology as a source of drinking water.
	15. Village handicrafts center, its courses and exhibition.
	16. Village operated as a corporation model and residents as shareholders
	17. Reclaiming land from sea, desert, salty lands and wet waste lands.
	18. Sharing each step over the internet and networking with other world eco villages.
	19. Village emergency response team and its assigned, well coordinated and rehearsed duties with assigned ranks by the village

Implementation Phase

Semi Government and local bodies can operate companies under their flag to establish these new technologies with turn key processing units, manufactured in the country with local resources, employing local skilled workers and boosting the economy of that area. For example, Bio diesel small processing reactors for low income families, Solar heat powered ice making small plants for smaller communities, solar heat powered water desalination units for schools, hospitals, villages. Compressed earth brick production units for new developments, Gravity powered water lifting pumps for hilly areas, and Hydro phonic units for local farmers etc.

Countries buying these modules may use the transferred technologies to develop their economy in the designated areas and may buy the license to duplicate these units locally under the supervision of our staff to produce more jobs according to their priorities.

The Eco Village may offer three innovative house-building options:

The government department or local body managing the housing and planning of Eco sustainable villages may offer to their nationals to build their eco houses in the following manner:

	The first is Self-manage/build in which the construction of the house may be controlled by the owner.
	The second, Community Build, may allow a group of people to join forces and get involved in the planning, design and building of their own homes together.
	Finally, Contract Build may offer a full turn-key construction provided by the local authority or an approved housing association of this project. Village members may be a diverse group of people of all ages and walks of life.
	Individuals with limited economic resources may also buy plots in these developed eco villages by investing their labor points instead of cash. Rest of the payments may be made in installments like in any other real property.
	The managing body may not be selling houses. They may sell freehold and leasehold sites with planning permission and services to members and payment can be in cash or in the form of time and labor.
	Legally, the Village may be incorporated as a company limited by guarantee, called Sustainable Projects (Country name) Limited, with charitable status or for profit. The company may be managed by a Board of Directors that may be drawn from amongst the members.
	The eco village may be a non-for profit charity wherein all money raised through the sale of sites may be used to provide the development that members want.

These are some suggestions depending upon different variables however the area study would be required based on the area profile. See also STATISTICS at our website.

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