Miesiąc: czerwiec 2013

Date: will be specified

PROGRAMME:

1st day – From 14:00 – accommodation in small holding POTOCZEK
19:00 – dinner from local organic produce

2nd day
9:00 – 10:00 – breakfast from local organic produce
10:00 – 11:00 – Our Ark (part I) – visiting ECOCENTRE ICPPC
11:00 – 12:30 – „Quit the Matrix Build the Ark – In Three Steps” introduction by Sir Julian Rose, president of International Coalition to Protect the Polish Countryside-ICPPC, farmer, activists and the author of the books
12:30 – 13:30 – „Our Ark (part II) ECOCENTRE ICPPC, its history and current activities” by Jadwiga Lopata, the leading Polish activist, laureat of Goldman Prize (ecological Nobel Prize)
14:00 – 15:00 – Lunch from local, ecological products
15:00 – 17:00 – Our Ark (part III) – „On the Way to Food Independence” – guided visit to the farm and workshop (how to grow and preserve food, making compost, save seeds) – Jadwiga Łopata and Julian Rose
19:00 – dinner from local organic produce

3rd day
10:00 – 11:30 – „Loan-Free, Energy Saving and Healthy House”, presentation by Krzysztof Wietrzny, expert practitioner of ecological technology and creator of ECOCENTRE ICPPC
11:30 – 12:30 – „Micro-scale energy independence systems for production of green energy for heating and electricity in the home” – presentation by Krzysztof Wietrzny
13:00 – 14:00 – Lunch from local, ecological products
14:00 – 17:00 – Seasonal and healthy eating. Local action plan by Julian Rose and Jadwiga Lopata
17:00 – 18:00 – Summary
19:00 – dinner from local organic produce

4th day
8:30 – 9:30 – breakfast from local organic produce

A model envisioned in „Small Is Beautiful” is possible in reality – welcoming to the Polish countryside.

In the early 1970?s, Fritz Schumacher wrote the book „Small Is Beautiful” and proposed ?an economics as though people mattered? comprising small scale, flexible and ecologically sensitive developments as the long term solution for preserving the planet and the quality of life of its populace. Three decades on, we seem to be no nearer to applying the wisdom inherent in Schumacher?s work.

It is not just the loss of lively hoods and poisoning of the soil that marks this out as the worst crisis to have hit the countryside in centuries, but it is the loss of „a whole way of life” and the great store of knowledge and wisdom that goes with it. Today, a handful of transnational corporations control a high percentage of commercial agricultural activities in Europe and North America ? and a similarly small number of supermarkets dominate the market place.