Sustainable Model Village
By giving this interview the president of Slovenia, Dr Janez Drnovsek has for the first time expressed a message to people: it is high time to start thinking about unimaginable brutality that man is inflicting upon animals. Source: Svoboditev Zivali
1. Name, location and size of your community? Krishna Valley Somogyvámos, Hungary 267 hectare, 133 people
We would like to warmly welcome everyone to a conference regarding various procedures and options of reducing ecological footprint. This conference will be held in Krishna Valley on behalf of the Eco Valley Foundation.
We may wonder how the devotees began building Krishna Valley in Hungary, which now attracts 30,000 tourists per year. And why did these young people turn to natural and simple life-style? What is the mission of this community? Gaura-Sakti Das, the president of ISKCON’s Krishna Valley community, answers these questions to the Krishna Valley Magazine.
„Well-planned vegan and other types of vegetarian diets are appropriate for all stages of life, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood and adolescence,” was declared in an article of a science magazine (Canadian Journal of Dietetic Practice and Research, 2003. Vol 64. No 2).
Even The Times magazine took notice of the sustainable community of Krishna Valley. With the headline “Self sufficiency” an article with a huge picture was published in the magazine’s issue of 9 February, 2009.
Scientific facts corroborate, anyone can easily become environmentalist. Join the populous camp of vegetarians! – Will I be healthy? – Yes, you will. Compared to meat consumers, the chances for vegetarians to get various diseases of vascular and digestive systems or high blood pressure are 30-70% less.
Even if connection between meat consumption and climate change is a clear fact according to scientific researches, it does not get appropriate publicity and attention. Meat production is one of the major reasons of climate change. Animal breeding farms and factories produce several million tons of CO2 and methane per year.
Our address: Eco Valley Foundation (Öko-völgy Alapítvány)
It was the greatest interest ever shown in the Hungarian Ecovillage Winter Assembly this year. More than 140 attendants participated in Máriahalom. Perhaps global crisis, high unemployment, gas scarcity on the coldest days of winter together forced a lot of people to think over how to continue in Hungary.