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60% of the world’s people are poor. Their potentials lay unused, being a loss for the world.
The states’ national borders are not the true divisions. Deep social ruptures separate us.
Climate change, fossil raw material depletion, social insecurity and the financial crisis are
most pressing issues. However, before they will ever de solved we must integrate the poor,
work with them to make the world a place we all like it to be.
Vital Village opens a door for the MAYA to newly thrive. The poor of Yucatán are the same
Mayan people who once managed a sustainable civilization of grand richness. Integrating
the profound European technical and organizational knowledge with their re-empowerment
a strong impulse for sustainable living will be created in the Vital Villages.
Vital Villages are places for people to lead meaningful productive lives, to be focussed,
decide and act in their real own ways - whatever their background may be.
Vit al Vi l l a ge Ru l e # 2
S u st a i n he a lthy energ y and food supplies
Be the love for people and for the earth, act responsibly without further assumptions.
Vital Villagers produce healthy energy and food for themselves and for their clients.
They secure their own regional independence and combine it with responsibility
for quality food and energy supplies to the city markets.
In a balanced economy the rural areas will always have to produce what the cities most need.
Their production must, however, provide fair and secure rural incomes. To re-create this balance
Vital Villages take the initiative to show the potentials of integral rural production providing
sustained and healthy flows of food, water and energy.
The main production factor in a healthy economy is integral consciousness. It’s through our own
consciousness that we enable people’s brains to develop healthily with good nutrition. Presence,
awareness, perspective, attention and discernment lead to loving care extended by Vital Villagers.
Vit al Vi l l a ge Ru l e # 3
Create an i nt e l l i ge n t resource management
Make intelligent raw material and energy production the basis of our future economies.
Be impeccable integrating all future technologies into the natural bio-cycles.
Create no environmental poison and no waste. Soil and water management are key to this strategy.
The past Maya civilization managed to do so, why not we?
Bio-cycle integration becomes possible when we start considering the natural resources and
nature itself as a common world heritage. We must develop our respect for everybody’s dignity,
learning and reframing our exploitation habits.
Intelligent resource management starts at the bottom line, where the resource is. It starts where
people touch the water and the soil, learn and live together, in the worlds’ villages.
For the Vital Villages, achieving an intelligent and sustainable resource management around the
world is a prerequisite to bringing our planet’s carbon use into balance. Intelligent bio-cycle
technologies are the key to shaping this strategy.
Vit al Vi l l a ge Ru l e # 4
Devel o p S o c i a l B u s i n e ss Strategies
Overcome the separation of social concerns and economic, technological design.
There is a big social job to be done on earth. National state policy makers have failed, and there is
no reason to assume they could be more effective in the future. Social conflicts and divisions
happen as a consequence to the established structures. Those structures were once created to
support exploitation and the concentration of power. They were never profoundly changed. Todays
effects have specific causes.
Social Business Development structures focus on social integration, productivity and the distribution
of wealth permitting a self-sustained process of continuous learning and personal growth.
They so increase the overall potential for production and for productivity.
The sustainable world’s measure of success will be based upon the fulfillment of one’s individual
pursuits and happiness, rather than the acquisition of wealth, property, and power.
2. you may ask Trees for People S.A., the Vital Village operator, to manage
the land for you and receive 10% of your investment as a yearly revenue.
2. 40% of this land will be permanent forest, 60% agroforestry with 8 main products.
3. All production follows the guidelines for sustainability established in the Vital
Village concept. Within 10 years the yearly quantities produced will stabilize.
year hectares Wood-chips Wood-pellets BioCBokashi Jatropha Timber Bamboo Honey Fruit
2010 200 ha 1.000 tons 4.000 tons 3.000 tons 0 tons 2.000 tons 0 tons 2 tons 200 tons
2011 200 ha 2.000 tons 5.000 tons 5.000 tons 400 tons 3.000 tons 400 tons 5 tons 1.400 tons
2012 250 ha 3.250 tons 7.400 tons 7.750 tons 1.100 tons 4.500 tons 2.000 tons 8 tons 3.450 tons
2013 250 ha 4.500 tons 9.050 tons 10.250 tons 1.900 tons 5.750 tons 3.700 tons 11 tons 5.750 tons
2014 250 ha 5.750 tons 10.800 tons 12.750 tons 2.775 tons 7.000 tons 5.700 tons 15 tons 8.250 tons
2015 250 ha 7.000 tons 12.550 tons 15.250 tons 3.650 tons 8.250 tons 7.700 tons 18 tons 10.750 tons
2016 250 ha 8.250 tons 14.300 tons 17.750 tons 4.525 tons 9.500 tons 9.700 tons 22 tons 13.250 tons
2017 250 ha 9.500 tons 16.050 tons 20.250 tons 5.400 tons 10.750 tons 11.700 tons 25 tons 15.750 tons
2018 250 ha 10.750 tons 16.400 tons 20.750 tons 5.575 tons 11.000 tons 12.100 tons 26 tons 16.250 tons
2019 250 ha 12.000 tons 16.750 tons 21.250 tons 5.750 tons 11.250 tons 12.500 tons 27 tons 16.750 tons
Totals 2.400 ha 64.000 tons 112.300 tons 134.000 tons 31.075 tons 73.000 tons 65.500 tons 159 tons 91.800 tons
Vita l Vi l l a ge i s for Policy Make rs
Vital Village approaches several major issues in global development.
Tree s fo r Pe o p l e
Th e S tor y
1. 30 year s a g o M ay an v i l l ages w ere still a live
Bernd Neugebauer learnt and practiced tropical agriculture and
forestry in the Mayan village of Oxkutzcab.
1. 7 ye a rs de di cat ed t o t e ac hi n g ec ol og i c a l
org an iza t io na l de ve lopm ent tec hn i ques a nd stra teg i es
Partial land clearing for wood chip and BioChar Bokashi production
Ren e wa b l e Heal th y
E nerg y Fo od
Supervision
Schools &
General Design
Training
Director
Chan Ká Internat’l
Vergel Village Members’ Relations
Developm’t Relations
Communication Sales &
Product Logistics
Developm’t Finances
Security
& Admin’tn
Water Forest &
Managem’t Landscapes
Energy
Agro‐Forestry
Managem’t Crafts &
Infrastructure Workshops Food markets
Biomass Machines
BioChar Roads &
Production Timber Buildings
Bokashi
Timber Yard
Production
Pellet
Production
People i n th e Vit al Village
3. Foreigners in search of living true sustainability • many move to México, buy land
and houses, but hardly ever find a way to integrate their skills and capacities.
4. All sincerely interested in a sustainable and truly ecological living will find a place •
fine selection, good organization and slow growth will provide a platform for them.
Vi t al Vi l l a ge Te a m
3. Co n trib u t e yo u r per s o na l s t r e ng t hs
We want y ou t o parti c i p a t e a s a p e r s o n , wi th your know ledge, your
stre ngth s an d y ou r w e a kn e s s e s . T o g e t h e r we w ill be str ong, effectiv e,
succe ss f u l an d … it’s all about joining in responsibility !
4. B e ready t o l ive an d b e w e l l !
Vit al Vil la ge is ab ou t t r ul y cr e a t i ng o ur o wn l iv es .
Activ ities in Detail
Land acquisition: There are presently some 2‘400 has available of which 342 have already been acquired..
Irrigation and water supply are crucial to the success of the project. Wells will be drilled 20 meters deep.
Roads are constructed with little machinery and much handwork, based on 10 years experience.
Land clearing is considered a raw-material production process - instead of the usual land-clearing with
bulldozers and fire which destroys or disrupts the vegetation and soil structure.
Wood-chip production is done with mobile equipment and pellets are made on a central storage place.
BioChar Bokashi production is done with all the biomass produced, dried, pelleted and then sold in 20 kilo
paper bags. The carbon efficiency is 80%. 20% will be used on the Vital Village land itself.
Tree garden Agriculture and Silviculture will stepwise become the Vital Village’s long-term activities
Honey production and processing will accompany all production to guarantee pollination and additional
income. A beekeepers organizations has already been established for this purpose.
Vital Vi l lage Silvic ultu re
The village grounds are filled with beautiful forest
BioChar Bokashi • a fermented soil activator to boost production and build rich soils
Product Cascading • an approach focussing on a full use and re-use of the existing
Crafts • old and new people’s technologies are combined with modern options to
produce ecologically sound construction and energy installations.
VITA L VILLAGE Par t ners
d e t a i l s u p o n r e q u e s t
Bamboo Silviculture
Energy Farming
Bamboo
2. BioCharBokashi is an organic soil activator produced from lesser land clearing debris. It will begin replacing chemical
fertilizers world wide. An international conference of Agriculture Ministers pronounced this change as urgent and need
in Janaury 2010
3. Jatropha is planted on some 50% of the surface, the sustainable organic production per full hectare averages 5.5 tons.
Some 10 to 12% of the production is consumed locally through local fuel-stations at local fuel market prices.
4. Native tree species are managed on the remaining forest sites and slowly upgraded by silviculture measures. After some
10 years the Vital Village land will have a well balanced distribution of forests, permaculture and agriculture units.
6. Fruit trees are placed on specifically suited sites. Their production is sold to a growing regional market 150 kms away.
7. Some 1‘250 Beehives are installed, producing some 45 kgs organic honey per year each for the European market.
Pre se n t X I N A Pro du cts for Sale
Body Home Yucatec Rainforest Maya XINA
Care & Fruit Honey Cacao Tea
Products Garden & Spices Variations & Sweets Specials
Aloe Effective XINA Rainforest Raw Aloe vera
Noni Micro- Orange Juice Honey Cacao Whole Leaf
Elixir organisms Concentrate Variations Nibs Tea
Activated Vital Plant XINA Dry Roasted Cacao
Salt Skin Gowth Orange Honey Cacao Peel
Care Activator Peel Crunch Beans Tea
Aloe Terra Preta Ginger & Fine Cacao Neem
vera Soil Curcuma Honey Coffee Tree
Leaves Activator based Spices Sherry Beans Tea
Skin Lobché Limonate Cacao XINA Tropical
Activating Garden Whole Lemon Flavoured all organic Holler
Aloe Balm Tool Spread Honey Sugar Tea
Smoothening Neem Black Rainforest XINA Tree Garden
Propolis Insect Dry Honey Stevia Hibiscus
Cream Spray Lemons Combs Sweetener Tea
Social B usiness
Effectiveness
Transcendent Branding
2 Social Business Structure
1. Success in itself is not the central objective, yet it is basic for development,
Vital Villages balance their Social, Ecological and Economic Realms.
Co-investments are made to participate, not to optimize shareholder value.
2. Vital Villages implement fully organic schemes for water, energy, forests and foods.
Autonomy and independance are more highly valued than the market perspectives.
2. Wood crafts
3. Forest architecture
4. Textiles
5. Bamboo
7. Product Development
8. Renewable Energy
9. Personal Empaowerment
12. Bee-keeping
1. A rch ing
2. A xe th rowin g
4. Aw are ne ss s kills
Vital Vi l l a ge Fi na n c i n g
Costs & Fi nancing
year starting in 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Hectares 200 ha 200 ha 250 ha 250 ha 250 ha 250 ha 250 ha 250 ha 250 ha 250 ha
Running total hectares 200 ha 400 ha 650 ha 900 ha 1.150 ha 1.400 ha 1.650 ha 1.900 ha 2.150 ha 2.400 ha
up front investment -1.092.165 € -426.631 € -426.631 € -533.289 € -533.289 € -533.289 € -533.289 € -533.289 € -533.289 € -533.289 € -533.289 €
Fuels and grl. Opt’l costs -40.000 € -40.000 € -50.000 € -448.500 € -50.000 € -50.000 € -50.000 € -448.500 € -100.000 € -100.000 €
Personnell: Management -141.414 € -202.020 € -252.525 € -252.525 € -252.525 € -277.778 € -305.555 € -336.111 € -369.722 € -406.694 €
Personnell: Field & Landscape -90.579 € -181.157 € -294.381 € -407.604 € -572.910 € -697.456 € -822.002 € -946.547 € -1.071.093 € -1.195.639 €
Village construction -56.389 € -100.000 € -375.000 € -750.000 € -937.500 € -1.171.875 € -1.464.844 € -1.831.055 € -2.288.818 € -2.861.023 €
Vehicles -14.350 € -36.667 € -36.667 € -45.833 € -55.000 € -66.000 € -79.200 € -95.040 € -114.048 € -136.858 € -164.229 €
Income from 1 year old 337.954 € 3.379.538 € 3.379.538 € 3.816.818 € 4.224.422 € 4.224.422 € 4.224.422 € 4.224.422 € 4.224.422 € 3.886.468 €
Income from 2 year old 0€ 0€ 425.520 € 425.520 € 531.900 € 531.900 € 531.900 € 531.900 € 531.900 € 531.900 €
Income from 3-6 year old 0€ 0€ 0€ 524.788 € 1.049.575 € 1.705.560 € 2.361.345 € 3.017.130 € 3.672.864 € 4.328.599 €
Income from 6+ year old 0€ 0€ 0€ 0€ 0€ 0€ 455.233 € 910.466 € 1.479.508 € 2.048.549 €
Overhead 12% -27.839 € -45.981 € -65.629 € -79.216 € -99.052 € -117.028 € -135.307 € -153.919 € -172.898 € -192.280 €
Founder’s pre-Investment -135.000 € -75.000 € -75.000 € -75.000 € 0€ 0€ 0€ 0€ 0€ 0€ 0€
Technical consultancies -20.000 € -30.000 € -45.000 € -67.500 € -101.250 € -151.875 € -227.813 € -341.719 € -512.578 € -768.867 €
Legal consultancies -30.000 € -50.000 € -55.000 € -60.500 € -66.550 € -73.205 € -80.526 € -88.578 € -97.436 € -107.179 €
Schools, Research & Training -10.000 € -30.000 € -150.000 € -300.000 € -450.000 € -675.000 € -1.012.500 € -1.518.750 € -2.278.125 € -2.733.750 €
Risks & cash reserve -65.000 € -100.000 € -150.000 € -225.000 € -337.500 € -506.250 € -759.375 € -1.139.063 € -1.708.594 € -2.562.891 €
Vital Villagers Investments 5.500 € 1.100.000 € 220.000 €
Net return per year -1.241.515 € 418.435 € 2.282.081 € 1.713.401 € 1.587.992 € 2.339.321 € 2.128.927 € 2.086.650 € 1.232.340 € 639.284 € -830.325 €
Workers’ utility 10-20% 25% 0€ 0€ 0€ -396.998 € -584.830 € -532.232 € -521.663 € -308.085 € -159.821 € 207.581 €
Taxes 20% 0€ 0€ -342.680 € -317.598 € -467.864 € -425.785 € -417.330 € -246.468 € -127.857 € 166.065 €
Interest & Dividends 10% -62.076 € -137.420 € -110.000 € -110.000 € -110.000 € -110.000 € -110.000 € -110.000 € -110.000 € -110.000 €
Running total -1.241.515 € -885.155,75 € 1.259.505,13 €2.520.225,84 €4.077.617,44 €6.423.904,47 €8.549.277,46 €10.630.260,45 €
11.814.217,13 €
12.375.464,82 €
11.393.623,79 €
With 200 village lots sold in 2010 and 40 more in 2011 the further financing needs are 885‘156€ for just one
year. Based on fixed contracts with our raw material customers these will be absorbed by a bank. We wish GLS
bank to create a financing fund and manage both the Vital Villagers’ investments and the credit line.
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