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Do you want to support the
ecovillage hannover?

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Together for a greener future?

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Most of the money for our first construction field
we already have together.

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But we are still missing a little bit

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If you would like to help us
closing this funding gap

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Then go to our
Funding page

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and see which program
suits you best.

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Because:
"No mon, no fun!"

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Let's be honest:
3 years ago

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a few cranks sat down together and said:
"We're going to build an ecological settlement in a city".

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On the landsite there are
already a few smaller ones

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Somehow no one expected that this would
really become something - and it will!

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And that it just isn't something,
which is stuck in cloud cuckoo land,

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Many good ideas get stuck
in the cloud cuckoo land,

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but this one will be realized.

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It is the year 2041 and I look back.
Where am I now and what has happened?

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2041 we live in a great
ecovillage in Hannover

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and have learned that we can achieve more
together than we can do on our own.

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Young people, old people,
great diversity, hustle and bustle,

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maybe a little bonfire,
eating ice cream, drinking coffee - depense on the season.

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A little bit decelerated,
not so rushed in everyday life,

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but that here you
simply has a place,

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where one has
come to rest

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and where you simply
live together as a community.

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It will be a purist place,
where I'm going to be,

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a minimalistic place with the
most important objects,

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that, I think, make
my life worth living.

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And then I read about
the ecovillage in the newspaper

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and I thought,
this is something I always wanted,

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without really knowing it.

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I accidentally found out
about this project

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and one week later

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i just went
to some AG

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just had a little threshold fear

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and just went there
sat down, listened,

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but I also asked questions
and since two years or so, i am in this AG

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and it's fun.

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The first times
I had collected donations.

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I had also helped once
painting the containers.

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I think it's good
to do something

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that other people
only talk about,

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I'm insanely proud
about all of this.

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Proud that this cooperation of so
many different people is working

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and that everybody can bring something
can contribute themselves.

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An essential part of our
Community is the bottom-up process.

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Bottom-up means, exactly that happens,
what people offer to the community.

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Things that are agreed upon.

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I am proud that we have made
the neighborhood development plan

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for our ecovillage at Kronsberg

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with such a broad
participation.

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And we would be quite happy to let that develop.
We want to make our contribution.

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Now I can also say,
what aquaponics is: It is...

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Now I can also say,
what aquaponics is: It is...

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"Fish swims through lettuce
and fertilizes the lettuce".

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One evening at the Ihmezentrum
a woman from the process once said:

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"This project does something to me."
and I can only agree.

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People who want
to get involved,

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- there is so much to do -

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they find tasks very quickly
especialy those who appreciate

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this high level of self-involvement
in the Bottom-up process,

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do find their niche very quickly.

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Well, who wants to participate
should join in, it's quite simple,

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and as I meant earlier, you can also get in
very easy - to get in, you go there, and you're there.

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Yeah, get off your ass, get involved,
that's the most important thing.

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This project lives from the fact that there is
a lot of participation from the members.

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So far I find actually everything
is fine the way it is now.

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Do you like our project?

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Then go to our
Funding page and see,

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which support program suits you.