Sustainable Model Village
Only a couple of months passed since the ratification of cooperation agreement between the Eco Valley Program and University of Pécs. The signatory to the agreement, the Department of European Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the University has already announced the “Eco Valley Research Seminar”.
Description and evaluation of Hungarian eco-villages is compiled in a thesis at Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest). Beáta Hári, student of ELTE Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences chose a very interesting and relevant topic for her thesis.
Among the programs of the 15th anniversary of Krishna Valley’s establishment, on 31st October, 2008 we organized a teachers’ conference to emphasise the importance of education about enviro-consciousness. The conference hosted nearly 60 guests, teachers from our region.
Among several research institutes and many universities, The Eco Valley Foundation is a Hungarian cooperative partner as well in the Hungarian-Indian Intergovernmental Cooperation. India and Hungary prepared a work schedule for 2009 and 2010 and they signed an agreement on ministerial level on 15 October, 2008.
The poster of Eco Valley Program was presented on the 5th Hungarian Conference of Conservation Biology (6-9. November 2008. Nyíregyháza, Hungary)
The environmentally conscious mindset of the Eco Valley Programme’s three basic pillars is the creation of sustainability for the unity of individual, society and environment. An important element of this is the maintenance of physical and mental health.
The eco-village can be viewed as a model experiment, where all age groups are represented. People with various skills, qualifications and abilities work together each and every day for their community, sharing their tasks and also spending their free time together.
At the planning stages of the botanical garden (11 ha, more than 600 species), besides the afforestation of streets and planting larger green areas with trees and shrubs, we try to take into consideration cheap levitra professional the needs of the village along with the effects of a changing climate.
One of the main goals of the Eco Valley Programme is the use of renewable energy resources.
One of the most vital and urgent environmental issues to be addressed is the lessening of fresh water supply.