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imagine your life to the big cities. crystal clear water. organic food. living in harmony with nature. sounds impossible. some people have already chosen. a place in the sun on our feet. forty two thousand americans die each year from car accidents only a thousand. 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 americans every year. but from. a news story the polls have. connections. to see less power for the president and more for m.p.'s as a country strives to become the first parliamentary democracy in central asia. foreigners have gathered to remember the victims of the plane crash which killed the polish president six months ago a movie russian city of ninety six people died in the tragedy including many opponents top officials. of the war in afghanistan the.

u.s. military history. this is already the deadliest for nato troops in a decade. plus the soyuz spacecraft arrives at the international space station after friday's blast off from the baikonur cosmodrome. two russian cosmonauts and a message. that the whole thing is. back with more news for you in less than half an hour from now on the meantime we meet some people who have grown so sick of big city life they've given it up altogether to live in harmony with nature a special report next. out in the countryside every day hard work is far more valuable than creature comforts here the people have no use for the latest high tech handheld devices will consume a crazes. they build what they call ecological settlements to live in harmony with

the natural environment so while they simply escaping big city life for a short break or are they fully rejecting modern civilization ecological settlements a refuge for misfits and down costs or a place for the independent and strong minded of these people moving to be the economic crisis or to escape from themselves. that is this. 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 settlers. 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 fancies 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 noah's ark the may be no biblical flood but dozens

of people have flocked here from big cities only a few plots of land are still vacant. hello. we shifted 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 comfort checked his boss and 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 country. 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 are frequently found baking their own bread. when life gets tough i take comfort from the floor to the sea for i was working in moscow i'd spend three hours going to work and back. i spend as much time working. out in the open. this bakery as an eco village 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 traverse so much but that it's really fresh. and. elliot sank species 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 organizing programs for young eco settlers. and he had maintains that life without physical work is impossible in the village. do. different. people rufus it can be really engaging with different words so.

some of the vegetables that he had gathered this morning will end up in the community center kitchen where the settlers cook their food. meat products are strictly for the in this kitchen exit permitted for use in pounds and salads. very delicious. weather. and. the second time i've ever made a cake. schools of settlers of the community center the time 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 peter and candy came with their

friends dorothy mclean to live in a trailer near the village of findhorn. 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 to. because of meditational focus the 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 attractions it's made from whiskey barrels we were looking for would particularly. which is very hot and whiskey barrel wood the hard wood is great. right now the water industry. 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 we live very simply we still live quite simply but it was not difficult was really wonderful because we were. not working for money. and 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 gun instead of 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 stole it off 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 after with. 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 secret service 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 is 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. next seems daughter 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 pull is. 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 and their daughter go to what is locally known as the common home. is indian dances night. that. is a newcomer to come she teaches the inhabitants indian dancing and tells them about the country's culture. most local residents have volunteer jobs be a teacher sing to adults. and children. but. when they came here for the first time people asked me to tell them about indian dances and

demonstrate some of them. a good deal of interest on the pontiff local residents and even asked me to teach them and i greet. indian songs bring another day to a close one of the days this one has been filled with many activities from work in the vegetable gardens to learning new skills. people hear. the low traffic jams supermarket queues old t.v. sets but they have to rise early to get the day's chores completed.

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seventy years of the red machine which so we had people wanted to leave in the past . week to make changes to society. but was it possible change the whole country's regime so quickly. or close only fundamental changes in the state britain people's minds are changed. a warm summer is a rare occurrence in this part of scotland but this summer has yielded a bumper harvest in the fin the whole eco village. the tomatoes squashes and cabbage is a packed into apostles and boxes. some of the most go to local settlers who pay for their vegetables of those a sold in this shop. phoenix is the only shop in the settlement it's items are

targeted mostly at visits isn't guests but settlers also come and buy here. but instead of paying in pounds she uses the currency. the exchange rate stays the same. it was seven years ago to support local businesses. in order to keep the money. the people in. recycling system. with a special device called the living machine from here under ground. the next step is that. this is

a first place. into the tank and that kills the. area that was previously. used. bacteria. 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. we come to the. if you look into the. and this is the final tank quickly from this point the water goes underground. which runs it up the wrong way under the foundation. the end result is crystal clear water in the pond you can see with maybe their. full face.

generally speaking a very simple principle. the green technologies used at. the residence maintain that people must not take more from nature than she can off for that reason chemical fertilisers a not used whenever possible so the cells heat the water. and electricity comes via wind turbines another source of local pride we just wanted the settlement to have as many renewable features as possible so that you could see the. turbines complement solar panels or the wood stoves or whatever else electricity generated in this way is more expensive but settlers are willing to pay because they know that lamps and computers are powered ecologically. this was a community wind project we also wanted to involve the community and after they

were rectitude we had groups of young community artists and school children decorate all three turbans and this was a school project about the ecological footprint. it's daybreak in the russian village of jacques. revisits the. indian 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 race to reach in. straight lines. two years ago and has forty pupils the teachers of. the children by the settlers themselves. children cheerful generous and elsewhere in which they want to learn things i'm happy to see their faces i get the desired response from them that you back if you will.

we thank you. this. recently. nino was living in a small. room we came here last july the grass was very high here. the first thing that we did. tent. and we'll leave 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. to the situation naturally and you do what you wanted to. 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 bigger part to material for one thing urban people are losing jobs nobody needs and this is a powerful stimulus for them to move to other places and if this city sewage system goes down then 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 log 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. the freezer is 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 their 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 that dozens 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 a great discoveries by dan scientists. suicide for all of us. back home in scotland once a closed community has become an education center that's over fifty years old many international organizations hold seminars hear. these issues and guests visit hoping to learn from the experience. of visitors coming to the findhorn eco village this time it's a focus 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.

that it musicians are not asked to perform at the moment one hundred forty kilometers from moscow strangers are now treated with suspicion on one occasion house was burned down and there's been a result of those 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 blending hundred thousands of trees bringing 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. sure would be soon which would be.