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Free Government Land for Food-Gardens: UN Petition - 2009/02/22 21:08
Free Government Land for Food-Gardens: UN Petitioned Online
Petition Online, calling themselves "the marketplace of free ideas (tm)", is making a powerful democratic tool available to anyone who wants to be serious about their grassroots powers to make a difference.
An example in point is one of the latest submittals, entitled "Family-Plot Gardens for a Sustainable Planet," addressed to His Excellency, Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General, with requests to the UN General Assembly to help create sustainable small family-plot sized food-gardens all over the world by way of member nations dedicating unused, free government land for such purposes.
This petition "sparked an enormous amount of excitement," says Dr. Regina Jensen, editor of Space of Love Magazine, who drafted the document in behalf of Ringing Cedars of Russia, a world-wide "green" movement originating from Russia. The signers of this petition are convinced that powerful, positive personal, social as well as ecological change can be affected through the development of eco-communities world-wide. They support the belief that peaceful life and self-sufficiency can be created by developing hectare-size (2 1/2 acres) family food-gardens, a size large enough to feed a family and therewith protect them from survival-stress and harm under difficult economic circumstances. The petition also claims that historically, such food-producing family-plots have stabilized a region, state or entire countries during economic and other disturbances.
Sample comments from signers of the petition are: "We are all one. What affects one affects us all. It is time to move into cooperation and real relationship with the earth and each other." "This is the path for a bright future for our children and their children." "This is essential to recovery from the global economic crisis and climate change." "We are responsible for how we treat the Earth and feed ourselves." "This is the most important thing we can do to save our species upon this planet." People are encouraged to participate by signing at: http://www.petitiononline.com/SoLMag/petition.html or check with www.ringingcedarsofrussia.com and www.spaceoflovemagazine.com
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Official request to interested parties:
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
Please reproduce this press release on your website or any available resource with direct link to PETITION: Family-Plot Food Gardens for a Sustainable Planet, for a wider spread of information regarding this initiative and gathering necessary signatures.
Sencerelly,
Editorial Board,
The Earth Monthly Newspaper
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