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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">This is a typical case where I feel that choosing the village lifestyle is still a very sacrifial thing. </font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">I like much about them, I like the wiki, I like the fact that they have a tiny federation of 4 micro-villages in that valley working together, but still there is obvious hardships to endure.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">My quest is that if we really tackle village development from a strategic and inventive point, </font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">* can we bring with us some meaningful civilsational riches that allow us to live an independent AND decent life?</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">* can we reap the harvest of human knowledge about automation and work more effective in a deeper interplay with nature?</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">They have all my admiration because they dont wait for better circumstances, still its a tough way to begin, not easily possible for older and very young people.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">I just pubished a piece that mirrors not only my agony of the moment:</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><a href="http://globalvillages.ning.com/profiles/blogs/a-new-years-message-to" target="_blank">http://globalvillages.ning.com/profiles/blogs/a-new-years-message-to</a></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">There is a strategic choice to make: to influence mainstream society and have it accept the village as an extension of an otherwise unsustainable system. Accept it in all its autonomy and self - relatedness as a vital factor in an economy that has long time ago started to self-destruct.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">The only chance that this will ever happen is if a critical mass of villages around the globe teams up, to large to ignore as a customer to cater to - and as a force to respect at the same time.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">This year, there will be a gathering of Village communities in Berlin and this should not go unnoticed.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.rosalux.de/fileadmin/rls_uploads/pdfs/Themen/GK_L" target="_blank">http://www.rosalux.de/fileadmin/rls_uploads/pdfs/Themen/GK_L</a>ändlicher_Raum/Announcement_int.village-conf.pdf</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">maybe this meeting will bring some new developments to move the villages movement forward.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Franz</font></div>
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