Ark vision v1

‘Ark’s Vision

Global
ARK
“projects” bought for illustration
Graphic
from www.dreamsTIME.com

The Ark Water Project
Anaerobic Digestion
Desalination & Renewable Energy
Drought
Flood Risk
Hydrogen + O2
Permaculture
Pollution
Tap
Graphic bought for illustration

Seed-Fund-Raising


For Affordable Housing
In Perpetuity
& Temporary
Build Code 6 (+)
Eco-Hamlets
Eco-Resorts/Tourism
Eco-Villages
Eco-Urban
Sustainable Communities

So People Can Live Free

Without Any Impact Graphic bought for illustration

(Saving Councils £Millions)
E.G. East
Anglia 153,000
Householders on
Waiting Lists for
Affordable
Homes
E.G.
Costing Local
Authorities ‘lots’
‘VALUE’

(Saving Earth ODS)
of money in
Housing Beneﬁts
& Top-Ups
E.G.
Losing
E.G. entrepreneurs their
Aim in East businesses, forcing
Anglia/other to people into B&Bs,
squats or face
offer people homeless-
E-Co-Op housing ness
for workers
(E.G CLT)
Land

Eco-Festival Program
• Friday: Introductions & Talks by Conference Attendees

• Friday Night: Organic Raw Food Dinner for the above

• Saturday: Open (Skyped) Conference (Experts, Land-Owners,
Decision Makers, Communities) + Exhibition

• Saturday Night: Reggae Concert/s - Skyped Live Broadcast -
which communities everywhere can stream into public
buildings & sell tickets to raise seed-funds for their own
communities. (Masks &/or Face-Painting invited for celebrities
& survivors of domestic/other, for fun & in order to protect
their identities from ﬁlm & photographs)

• Sunday: Green Build Exhibition - showing Build Code 6

• Sunday Night: Reggae Party (Freedom for ‘the’ people)

Open Skyped Introductions
& Eco-Conference

(+ Raw Organic Dinner) Graphic bought for illustration

Reggae Concerts



ARKS in the pARKS

Why Reggae?
• It’s GREAT roots music & liked by most people
• Songs of God & Jehovah - for freedom for
people (from slavery)
• The Reggae colours of red, yellow & green have
even more poignancy than those of the ﬂood
risk map.
• Red - is for the blood ‘they’ shed
• Yellow - is for the gold ‘they’ stole
• Green - is for OUR plants & dreams

When I checked my fully
researched report & Ark proposals
with my ex-tutor, Tony Smith MA, he
said to remember I.T. also stood
for ‘Intermediate Technology’ (I
needed to come up with a way of
explaining which was understood
by ‘everyone’), ergo as colours
have meanings which are
understood without written

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language, I’ve used them as the
basis of Ark’s presentations.

Red - STOP/DANGER

Yellow - IN Transition

Green - GOOD to GO
When I first started to build Ark’s
website, I wanted a circle (better
still, a spherical orbital shaped
website - squares are inorganic &
unnatural), I was told I couldn’t
have one, it would cost far too
much money. Instead, I settled for
the current - but this graphic
showing a colour wheel represents
the original concept - to have an
ethical internet hub (Social
Enterprise), where people could
find ‘The Best’ Eco-Ethical design
solutions & innovations. (ALL Net
Profits for ALL Non Profits -
especially Eco-Homes/communities)


Every Web Has a Hub

• But the World Wide WEB doesn’t yet have an ethical hub for people who care to shop ‘differently’

• Ark is Eco-Designed as a Social Enterprise to form an Eco-Ethical
NETwork hub. (To provide ALL the NET profits needed to float
children/life through the predicted Economical & Ecological
‘storms’)

• E.G. People currently use Google - whose NET profits for
the first quarter of 2011 were in excess of US$2 Billion.

• According to ‘Poverty Facts & Stats’ on
www.GlobalIssues.org it would cost just over US$9 Billion
to provide water & sanitation to everyone in the world.

• If the Ark Directory were as large as Google, it would
mean that a regular supply of clean water could be
provided to everyone in need in just over one year.

& Co-Operative Housing
for workers

ARKS in the pARKS

• All the net proﬁts made from all the Eco-
Festivals, will go into seed funding for all the
sites’ local communities, for community
building/s & affordable Code 6 Housing for
all in need within those communities

E.G.
• Hollesley Bay:

• Grove Farm Dairy (currently losing 3p per pint of organic raw milk) - needs:

• £50k to install the creamery equipment (they’ve already bought)

• £15k - £25k to install each adapted shipping freight container
(Housing Justice) - to offer free accommodation on a WWOOF
scheme for homeless people & ex-offenders who are willing to work
on the organic vegetable & fruit production on the farm

• Education will also be available, as Keith Jefferson-Smith (Proprietor)
has over 20 years experience as a lecturer in agriculture at
Aylesbury College

• I’ve spoken with some Big Issue vendors & young rural
squatters (+ Crisis, Poverty, Housing Justice & a non-profit
organisation set up specifically to find accommodation to ex-
offenders who had massive government grant cuts), all of
whom confirmed interest in these proposals.

E.G.
• Hollesley Bay:

• Grove Farm Dairy needs:

• Seed fund money to install an anaerobic digester & bio-gas plant
(which could also signiﬁcantly reduce the running costs of
Hollesley Bay Open Prison & The Suffolk Punch Trust)

• James Youngs’ contacts in China are prepared to work with us in
East Anglia, & dependent upon the success of the proposed
scheme in Hollesley Bay, work with a local college or university
to teach local mechanical installations. potentially send
component parts for Bio-Gas plants to the UK without fossil
fuels), E.G. into Great Yarmouth & King’s Lynn, where
employment could be provided in the assembly (& running) of
the plant mechanics.

• (We’d offer free Code 6 E-Co-Op housing to employees in
Great Yarmouth &/or King’s Lynn.)

• Stalham
E.G.
• The Happing Community Shop is trying to organise £225,000 to buy the
land needed to accommodate Community Buildings (deadline on option to
buy the land = mid September 2011:
• Cinema/Youth Theatre & Youth Facilities
• Police Ofﬁce
• A New Library
• Shared P/T ofﬁces for: Healthcare, Citizens Advice Bureau, Parish
Council & more - which may be adaptable to use as conference
rooms etc.
• A New Church
• (+ needs investment for affordable housing & employment
opportunities)
• I’m quickly preparing a sketch scheme to show Foundation
East - which if approved & we can get a Community Land
Trust, may in exchange provide The Tree Ark Project with the
existing Library Building/site for our franchised showrooms
& E-Co-Op outlet for locally manufactured renewable
technologies virtually ‘off-the-shelf’, (via The Ark Directory)

Who am I?
• Linda Beamish (architectural designer), rural self-employed lone
parent of three

• Founder Eco-Designs & ‘Friend of The Earth’ since childhood

• Ark Building Social Entrepreneur

• NO grants applicable - as no banks would touch me - hence I
couldn’t open a bank account for Ark Social Enterprise, (I’m one
of the national statistics for rural poverty & deprivation, ‘stung’
by 4 developers this recession)

• I did the research & prepared the presentations, so nobody else
would have to, (or publish their personal/debt situation if they
didn’t want to - its basically the same for ALL in poverty)

• My ex-tutor wants to buy my research & graphics to use as class
resources for ‘The Subsidiary Diploma in Environmental
Sustainability

• Neil Godfrey at Voluntary Norfolk, hopes their volunteers will
load all my research, links & book-marks onto all Global Ark’s
websites - to help build sustainable, resilient communities across
Norfolk, East Anglia & beyond. (Neil appreciated the fact that I
need to get on with paid work to feed, home & clothe my
children.)

The presentation slides will be introduced
at ‘ARKs in the pARKS’ - running behind
the musicians (to show problems & solutions
graphically) & we hope that Tony Smith MA,
will be a conference attendee to explain it all.

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Introduction to Permaculture,
Eco-Villages/Hamlets, & Studying
‘Build Code 6’ Construction

(We hope that decision makers
will study all the evidence with us)

I’m also founder of my own
sustainable community
‘showcase’.

Ark’s showcase community is
designed to showcase & enable others
to help build their own sustainable & resilient
communities.

In spite of repeated requests, emails & phone
calls to Local Authorities & others for asset
land, our Ark is still as land-less as the original
Ark was, after three years (free) work.

As I had to prepare architectural proposals
repeatedly for this application without income
or costs covered, I wound up with a replicable
Eco Design which could work anywhere
through permutations & permaculture.

Most of the potential sites proposed for
ARKS in the pARKS
are sites which I’ve outlined & prepared some
networking in readiness, or know of interest.

The question is, (as always), ‘what can we build
- where’? (Temporary or permanent, we don’t
mind - we simply cannot continue to live
unsustainably.)

www.TheTreeArkProject.org

Left:
Sketch scheme
for
‘The Avril Fox Visitor Centre’
(The Tree Ark Project’s Community
Centre - based on an EarthShip + ‘the
hub of the net’ - with water as the
central point of focus)

Avril is now 94 years of age, & hopes to
ﬁnd care & support in our community -
and to live the sustainable life which she
herself has advocated for nearly 50
years

Together with her late son Robin, Avril
wrote “Green Design”, Published 1989
(ISBN-10: 1854542001 - Phaidon Press.
via www.nhbs.com)

(A guide to the Environmental Impact of
Building Materials)

Avril has also very kindly asked me to
act as her agent, to ﬁnd a publisher for
her autobiography:
“The Long Road to Realism”.

With great thanks to all who have helped form Ark’s
proposals - who we are very pleased to be able to invite
to show their work at our Eco-Festivals & Open Eco-
Sustainable Conferences

Proposals are based on ‘The Best’ Exemplars of
Sustainable Design:
Centre for Alternative Technology, (CAT), Wales
Earthships (Fife & Brighton, and Brightonʼs Zero Carbon Community)
The Eden Project
The Findhorn Community (Scotland)
The Hockerton Housing Project
The Lammas Project
The New Forest Visitor Centre

(& Transition Towns)

Invitations (& Thanks) to:
Boudicca Tribe Eceni Tribe All Tribes Little Acorns WEETU Woman’s Notebook The Workhouse WREF
WIRE NPS CIC Renewables East
Produced in Norfolk Truly Local Happing Community Shop Organic Farmers/Land Owners BTCV Earth
Restoration Service Generation Journey
Survivors Womans Aid Avaaz Water Aid Unicef Amnesty Emmaus Crisis Poverty Shelter
Housing Justice The Big Issue Oxfam JRF
Christian Ecology Christian Aid Action Aid EPI (econ4peace) Red Cross Global Issues Inside Housing
Rural Community Council
The Guild Eco-Designs Kass & Beard John Jewell Structural Engineers Eartha Foundation East
Voluntary Norfolk KickStart DEFRA
Broads Authority Local Authorities/Councils Development Control/Building Control/Conservation
English Heritage National Trust
Eco-Village Network Eco-Hamlets ONE Village The Permaculture Organisation Transition Towns
WWOOF Farmers Guardian
CoHousing Organisation Co-Operative Housing Flagship HA Broadland HA FreeBridge Community HA
Burnham Deepdale HA Survival
Wood Norton Poors Allotment Guist Charity Trust CornerStone HA Co-Operative Bank Tridos Bank
(Eco-Ethical) Renewable Technologies - exhbitors at NNDC ‘Green Build’ (& Earth Day, Burnham Deepdale)
Environmental Investigations Agency The College of West Anglia/Anglia Ruskin University
CUE East/University of East Anglia RSPB
Easton College Cambirdge University National Rural Knowledge Exchange NNCF Friends of THE Earth
Blue Forest Pink Saris
Woodland Trust The Fairy World Fairyland Trust Hudson Architects EarthShips Kate Edwards Cob
Wiser Earth Organisation (more to add later)

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