imagine your life under the big cities. eco friendly. crystal clear water. soft. organic food. living in harmony with nature. sounds impossible. some people have already chosen. a place under the sun on our team. forty two thousand americans die each year from car accidents only a thousand posts seven hundred thousand people. and thirty two thousand will kill themselves cancer in all its forms kills five hundred sixty thousand of us here part disease is even more devastating it kills over eight hundred seventy thousand

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konami crisis or to escape from themselves. that is this or. early on some is an important time for a few that's when he begins collecting honey from his forty bee hives as he pulls out each heavy honeycomb he suggests that bees may be in nature's original eco setlist. i mean bees are very rational creatures that's what is amazing about them and that's why i adore them besides they're very useful creatures they don't harm nature in any way whatsoever nature blossoms with the arrival of. eighty years ago fielder who's

a former engineer and several of his friends were given a one hundred hectare plot of land one hundred forty kilometers southwest of moscow they divided it into one hundred equal parts they offered the land to anyone willing to adhere to special conditions takers were expected to live in the settlement permanently. we follow these rules there is a ban on pesticides and manmade fanciers of trees every one of us must plant trees we are dead set against smoking and alcohol. banned in public places. the name of the settlement means no. the maybe no biblical flood but dozens of people have flocked here from big cities only a few plots of land are still vacant. hello

. which is that i'm doing i was a go on. maxine from moscow is one of the most recent newcomers he wants to take advantage of the warm weather to finish building a house he spent a good deal of time and effort preparing for his move to come check his boss had allowed him to report to work in moscow only twice a month he also convinced his wife and children that it was much easier to work outside the. i grew up in a village. in my apartment there wasn't enough space for me. to my windows trees all around. so i don't have people cramping. things before i lived in the countryside. maxime's wife is a doctor by trade after she came here it took her a while to get used to the daily manual work the really the show centers in the

settlement electricity only came here a couple of years ago residents of frequently found baking their own bread. when life gets tough i take comfort from the floor to see if i was working in moscow i'd spend three hours going to work and back. i spend as much time in vegetable garden out in the open. this bakery at an ecovillage in scotland begins work at home. it's in an old fishing village near findhorn scotland's north sea coast and is one of the world's oldest and most famous eco settlements the people here. it's autumn and time for the harvest. it's very important to grow our own food so that we don't have to buy it in from overseas so that we know that the food trever it so

much but that it's really fresh food and. elliot sank speed is happy to see the bumper crop strictly speaking growing tomatoes is not his every day job he's in charge of the generation next project at organizing programs for young eco settlers. elliott maintains that life without physical work is impossible in the village. to my body different. people who facilitated can be really engage in a different word so i looked. at some of the vegetables that he had gathered this morning will end up in the community center kitchen where the center.

meat products are strictly forbidden in this kitchen eggs are permitted for use in pounds and salads. with. schools of settlers turn up at the community center and the cooks finish preparing the food for dinner. everybody is expected to join in the communal males. the history of what is now a well known community goes back forty seven years. came with their friends dorothy mclean to live in a trailer near the village. when their efforts to grow vegetables succeeded

others followed. campaigners for the eco friendly lifestyle began arriving at findhorn from around the world during the one nine hundred seventy s. the community grew from twenty to one hundred fifty members. as we come through this landscape here we start to move into what we call a poem a culture a garden. garden is the same thing as co-creating with nature working with nature one of the reasons why i came. because of meditation or spiritual progress but also working with nature. gibson was one of the first settlers. he's lived. his house is one of the eco villages main attractions it's made from whiskey barrels we were looking for would particularly. which is very hot and whiskey barrel would the hardwood is great.

right now the water to speak. and that's the way to get. inside the whiskey barrel everything is just as simple and ecologically pure as it is outside as a village veteran craig is in charge of several ecological projects. very simply we still live quite simply but it was not difficult really wonderful because we were. not working for money. doing everything just for the collective. nice climate nice people we're not trying to create something alternative we're trying to demonstrate a different style of living and we see ourselves more. so we are almost a little town. moscow one of the biggest cities

in europe concrete and glass towers are cropping up in the capital the brand new financial center housing both russian and foreign firms. and with. i think it's ok on the how. shall we draw conclusions regarding chile i mean school should we tie that in with kazakhstan. this workspace is on the top floor of one of moscow's skyscrapers but the head of the firm with this prestigious office space doesn't care much about the view from his desk he has done in stellar golf the man considered to be russia's first millionaire in the early one nine hundred ninety s. he also set up the first russian commodity exchange. but things took an unexpected turn seven years ago when his business went bust sterling of himself also went bankrupt when he was forced to sell off his apartment he took an extreme measure

and resolved to leave moscow for a place without central heating running water or electricity. i said to my wife i had lost my job and money and we could no longer own our apartment and we had to go somewhere else immediately so that there would be. my daily routine is like this i get up at six in the morning to tend the cattle then i have the right first and go to moscow my eldest son stays behind to look after the household i visit the big bad city to formulate anti-crisis measures and mechanisms. of the start of the financial meltdown was asked to head a private and he crisis center but even after moving into his huge office in moscow

he never even toyed with the idea of returning to the capital permanently. thank god we have no apartment in moscow this coffin of an apartment no matter how spacious it might be is a far cry from my house here is my home and this is what i call life. but now only gets to spend weekends in his out of this world settlement. thanks seems to a computer expert living in gov jack is fresh from a horse ride the neighbor breeds horses. look at the we she says and she's beautiful. sea of bills that pulls. most of the one hundred settlers have opted for country life because of their children. they believe raising them outside town is easier to refuse to temptations

in the countryside. in the evening maxime's wife olga and their daughter go to what is locally known as the common home tonight is indian dances night. that. natalee and is a newcomer to come check she teaches the inhabitants indian dancing and tells them about the country's culture. like natalia most local residents have volunteer jobs be a teaching dancing to adults or children schoolchildren. when they came here for the first time people asked me to tell them about indian dances and demonstrate some of them since it is a good deal of interest on the pontiff local residents and they even asked me to teach them and i greet. indian songs bring

another date cup track to a close one of the days this one's been filled with many activities from work in the vegetable gardens to learning new skills. people here go to bed early there are no traffic jams supermarket queues all t.v. sets but they have to rise early to get the day's chores completed. hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. are an easy nature and discover it's easy. to slip. communicate with the wild underland.

test yourself and become free period. again you see. the stock. market. can. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike brown no holds barred global financial headlines kaiser report. is a rare occurrence in this part of scotland but this summer. in the findhorn eco village . the squashes and cabbages packed into parcels and boxes.

some of the local settlers who pay for their vegetables of those of sold in this shop phoenix is the only shop in the settlement its items are targeted mostly at visitors and guests but settlers also come in buying here. dropped in to buy fresh squashes. but instead of paying in pounds she uses the local currency called the eco the exchange rate stays the same one equals one pound it was seventy years ago to support local businesses. in order to keep the money. so that money doesn't. place. the people in the proud of their recycling system the water is purified with

a special device called the living machine. from here under ground. the next step is that. this is a first place we introduce into the time and that kills the bacteria that was previously living in. this small facility purified water used here bacteria and other microorganisms purify it in several phases hey you can see the bubbles in the water and the condition is the. key and by the end of the process. after this process in which. we come to the car if you look into the water you might see. and this is the final tank cleaning from this point the water goes underground.

which runs it up the wrong way under the foundation. the end result is crystal clear. in the pond you can see with maybe there. generally speaking a very simple principle. green technologies used at. the residence maintain that people must not take from nature than she can offer for the chemical fertilizers and not used whenever possible. and. another local pride we just wanted the settlement to have as many renewable features as possible so that you could see them you know. turbines complement solar panels or the wood stove or whatever else electricity generated in this way is more expensive but willing to pay because they know computers are powered ecologically.

this was a community wind project we also wanted to involve the community and after they were wrecked we had groups of young community artists and school children decorate all three turbans and this was a school project about the ecological footprints. it's daybreak in the russian village of jacques. revisits the. indian says the day before but today she is the teacher and she's taking a geography global oh that's was the right. how would you describe the sound the race to reach in. straight lines. two years ago and has forty pupils teachers have always been in good supply the children. themselves. children cheerfully generous and then else when. they want to learn thinks

i'm happy to see their faces i get the desired response from them that your back if you will. thank you. for. this. recently. last winter nina was living in a small. room we came here last july the grass was very high here. the first thing that we did. the tent. and relieved here until december moving into that barn we covered it with the film and did the same inside to make the barn warm. but then then my husband found bricks and logs. and he used them to make a stall. alexi and his wife nina lived in this tiny bomb

until the summer. alexy who was a successful photographer then began building his family a new home in the spring while nina gave birth to their second child now the house is almost complete alexian lien say they found happiness. we don't do what we don't want to do. people to do what they dislike is no good it's. your expectations much what you see in the new place you adapt to the situation naturally and you do what you want today. people feel much more comfortable here to have an apartment and money and job or a business where everything was ok with that and yet they decided to come here they're successful here too as for escapism it doesn't work out well as

a rule. yes it's me. i know i haven't sacked him to the urals as for the money it goes to. government telephone barely stops ringing even on saturday mornings as an entrepreneur whose business was ruined years ago sterling of sees the financial crisis as the best time for spreading the economic lessons that land. this crisis offers a big opportunity for one thing urban people are losing jobs nobody needs this is a powerful stimulus for them to move to other places and if this city sewage system goes down that it compel people to move in no time the government dislikes the term eco settler he calls himself a peasant and hates progress more than even the most radical greens and feels that scientific progress does nothing but harm and maintains that people should go back

to their roots living as he does just like in days gone by the food should come from your own vegetable garden. just like them and eat them. laurie we don't use any cameco to grow them. come on try it. even has an eco solution to making a nice without a freezer. this is all free only a short time ago i had always dreamt of making a realized box and that's the right time for a big chunks of meat to be stored here with the freezers on one side of the fridge bought all jars and canned food are kept on the other one a freeze comes around i crammed into this place. the eyes down there last for a whole year. according to government people should eat at home with

their families and say prayers to he believes the best way to beat the crisis is to reject innovation and revert to time tested practices. well any novelty is the work of the devil everything that is old has been tested for thousands of years people used to leave quite well they just gave birth to children and multiplied through they quarreled and went to war but came to terms in the end but now great discoveries by dan scientists. suicide for all of us. back home in scotland what was once a closed community has become an education center that's over fifty years old many international organizations hold seminars here. these issues and guests visit to open to learn from the experience. of visitors coming to the findhorn eco village this time it's a focus of everyone's invited to see the show. another object of pride in finland

is the large concert hall which is filled to capacity to see. these issues are not asked to perform at the theatre settlement one hundred forty kilometers from moscow strangers are now treated with suspicion on one occasion house was burned down under the bed or is it others visitors need permission to come to. the value that privacy. found off as a simple explanation a community of settlers is a convenient arrangement but everyone's responsible for their own livelihood. you must leave something behind in this world planting hundreds or thousands of trees bring you more happiness into this world that would be a good outcome from my life that's the case i'll be happy to do it with.

other has numerous followers all over russia. settlements have sprung up in siberia and in the far east the recession has prompted people to leave the town behind and move closer to nature. that now people understand. bank balances can be easily lost but if you found a place under the sun. you can stay afloat. every month we give you the future we help you understand. and want to. invest in science and technology from across russia and around the world. join us for

technology update on r g. seventy years of the red machine which so many people wanted to leave in the past. to make changes. but was it possible change the whole country's regime so quickly. monopoles only fundamental changes in the state people's minds.