Habib's Garden
Connecting People to Weave a Better World
It is with great sadness that we report the death of Steve Habib Rose. A number of us met this evening and thought that this group would be a fitting tribute. Lets use this group to recognize, honor and appreciate the many gifts and blessings he bestowed on so many of us. Please add yourself and your reflections.
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Gaia Trust is a Danish-based charitable association founded in 1987 on the initiative of Ross and Hildur Jackson, with the intention of supporting the transition to a sustainable and more spiritual future society through grants and proactive initiatives.
Our Dream – The Grand Ecovillage Vision
We are one undivided whole on Earth and the healing of Mother Earth is a joint responsibility of all Humankind. The song tells us how we need to redefine our western worldview into a more holistic one and find a new vision for the future.
The vision is for all people to live in settlements containing all elements of society much like a holograph, where every part contains the whole. Plant and animal systems reflect this manifold/variety. Everything in the larger society and in nature may be experienced within walking distance by children, the aged and the weak, so that they may live full lives. It is a place where God feels at home and where you would like to return in you next life. It is a place where we live according to the values of the major world religions of love, peace and solidarity with all. Where we celebrate and respect 4 billion years of evolution on the planet.
As more and more fully featured ecovillages appear, we hope that the idea will quickly spread all over the planet as a morphogenetic field and restore the circulatory systems on all levels both in people and in nature. The ecovillage vision has its roots in civil society, in the subsistence economy, in the informal economy. It is thus a feminine utopia and a community utopia, saying: this is how we want to live with each other, our children, the elderly and the handicapped; this is how we want to live with the natural world, plants and animals. This is how we want to reinvent ourselves as humans. "We are not a collection of objects but a community of subjects" with the words of Thomas Berry. Economics and technology must adapt to that - not the other way round.
In this way society can be structured to reflect spiritual and natural laws.
Gaia Trust is a Danish-based charitable association founded in 1987 on the initiative of Ross and Hildur Jackson, with the intention of supporting the transition to a sustainable and more spiritual future society through grants and proactive initiatives.
Gaia Trust has always been self-funded by earnings from its very successful daughter company Gaiacorp, a foreign currency manager and advisory firm. The basis for Gaiacorp`s business was software and research donated to Gaia Trust by operations researcher Ross Jackson, who retained 10% of the shares. The announced intention from the beginning was to sell off Gaiacorp after about 10 years in order to free up capital for the charitable activities, and this sale was indeed completed in 2000.
Gaia Trust`s strategy has always been two-pronged with yin and yang components. The yin component was to support the ecovillage movement through grants, while the yang component was to invest its capital in "green" startup companies that would complement the grants policy, creating jobs and promoting more sustainable businesses.
The major projects resulting were the establishment of the Global Ecovillage Network and venture capital firm Gaia Technologies A/S. Over 300 grants have been made to projects in over 30 countries. One of the key concepts was to support the first permaculture course in a number of countries.
It was always Gaia Trust`s intention to use up its capital while the founders were still active, and this policy has been followed. Today, Gaia Trust no longer accepts grant applications, as available funds have been reduced substantially after using over $20 million in carrying out its objectives. Gaia Trust will continue to support smaller projects on its own initiative and maintain its website.
Our Dream – The Grand Ecovillage Vision
We are one undivided whole on Earth and the healing of Mother Earth is a joint responsibility of all Humankind. The song tells us how we need to redefine our western worldview into a more holistic one and find a new vision for the future.
The vision is for all people to live in settlements containing all elements of society much like a holograph, where every part contains the whole. Plant and animal systems reflect this manifold/variety. Everything in the larger society and in nature may be experienced within walking distance by children, the aged and the weak, so that they may live full lives. It is a place where God feels at home and where you would like to return in you next life. It is a place where we live according to the values of the major world religions of love, peace and solidarity with all. Where we celebrate and respect 4 billion years of evolution on the planet.
As more and more fully featured ecovillages appear, we hope that the idea will quickly spread all over the planet as a morphogenetic field and restore the circulatory systems on all levels both in people and in nature. The ecovillage vision has its roots in civil society, in the subsistence economy, in the informal economy. It is thus a feminine utopia and a community utopia, saying: this is how we want to live with each other, our children, the elderly and the handicapped; this is how we want to live with the natural world, plants and animals. This is how we want to reinvent ourselves as humans. "We are not a collection of objects but a community of subjects" with the words of Thomas Berry. Economics and technology must adapt to that - not the other way round.
In this way society can be structured to reflect spiritual and natural laws.
Gaia Trust is a Danish-based charitable association founded in 1987 on the initiative of Ross and Hildur Jackson, with the intention of supporting the transition to a sustainable and more spiritual future society through grants and proactive initiatives.
Gaia Trust has always been self-funded by earnings from its very successful daughter company Gaiacorp, a foreign currency manager and advisory firm. The basis for Gaiacorp`s business was software and research donated to Gaia Trust by operations researcher Ross Jackson, who retained 10% of the shares. The announced intention from the beginning was to sell off Gaiacorp after about 10 years in order to free up capital for the charitable activities, and this sale was indeed completed in 2000.
Gaia Trust`s strategy has always been two-pronged with yin and yang components. The yin component was to support the ecovillage movement through grants, while the yang component was to invest its capital in "green" startup companies that would complement the grants policy, creating jobs and promoting more sustainable businesses.
The major projects resulting were the establishment of the Global Ecovillage Network and venture capital firm Gaia Technologies A/S. Over 300 grants have been made to projects in over 30 countries. One of the key concepts was to support the first permaculture course in a number of countries.
It was always Gaia Trust`s intention to use up its capital while the founders were still active, and this policy has been followed. Today, Gaia Trust no longer accepts grant applications, as available funds have been reduced substantially after using over $20 million in carrying out its objectives. Gaia Trust will continue to support smaller projects on its own initiative and maintain its website.