GROWTH FRom growth.

A plan for Economic Growth, Sustainability and Responsibility by

Jonathan David Ripley.

National Eco-Centres

• Purpose built Eco-centres concentrating on the development of forests, woods, man made lakes, wild vegetation, wildlife programmes.

• Planting of new crops such as fast growing bamboo used in the production of many new commodities.

• Returning the UK to excellent forestry levels.

Eco lodges.

• Appreciation centres.

Eco lodges

• Centres for training, tourism and conference.• Income producing workshops.• Bases for workers to manage the land.• Self sustaining in terms of power and upkeep.• Solar and wind power producing.

What will it provide?

• Immediate jobs, training programmes, apprenticeships, social responsibility, community involvement.

• Income. High end luxury products. Bio fuel. Food. Drink. Local, natural products. Ethically and morally responsible products.

• Tourist Theme Park styled facilities where visitors don’t just go on a ride they help build it.

Long Term Food Source

• Prolonged periods of bad weather becoming more frequent.

• UK too reliant on overseas food supplies.• Jobs created from mass crop planting.• Return the UK to traditional and modern

methods of farming. • Return to seasonal produce and feeding from

the land.

Recycled Products

• Use the vast amounts of UK waste to build the infrastructure.

• Use bio diesel vans and ultra efficient and modern transport system to allow flow of people around.

• Create a globally renowned centre for conversion of waste.

• Create products designed to be green in their disposal.

Who’s paying?

• Initial investments from Big Business who are morally responsible for the Banking and Financial collapses.

• These Companies could see the mass investment as a turning point in their moral relapses.

• Perpetual Sponsorship- in terms of sponsporing trees and lodges and eco-centres, there would be a historical and visible point to associate themselves with the programme.

Long term art projects

• Visible and sustainable planting programmes with art association.

• Seasonal displays and projects high lighting nature at work.

• Trees plantes in such a way that long term growth would reveal extraordinary displays of foliage and colour.

• Centres for art, hollistic and natural pursuits.

Visual displays.

• Recreate scenes via intelligent planting.

Tourism

• Returning parts of the UK to periods of time goneby.

• England as it is known worldwide.• Theme parks and Wildlife Safari.• All working and income producing projects.• Eco themed lodging and conference centres.• The essence is always green in ideology.

Forward thinking.

• Cost of using nature to provide is effective.• Store water in periods of extreme weather.• The infrastructure associated with this would be

economically changing.• Changing the way people think.• Creates massive public pride and responsibility.• Engages the youth whilst exploiting the

experience of retired persons.

Associated benefits.

• Prisoners to contribute the building of the infrastructure giving them training into something they may enter into upon leaving of prison.

• All walks of life can play a part in the programme.

• Mass boost for wildlife and sustainability of life.

Modern techniques.

• Using the most modern of methods we could turn unused land into centres that produce income from products exported globally.

• Inner city forestry projects and community responsibility.

• Use digital media to create social hubs following the development of the eco centres.

When?

• Right now.• Launched with docu style programme and

National tv and media campaign.• Involvement from highest levels of Business

and Government.