This document outlines a plan to establish national eco-centres in the UK focused on sustainable forestry, agriculture, and renewable energy. The eco-centres would provide jobs, training, and income from products like bamboo, biofuels, and locally-sourced food and goods. They would also offer eco-lodges, tourism, and conferences to further generate income while promoting environmental stewardship. The plan aims to make the UK more self-sufficient through reforestation and modern sustainable farming techniques.

1. GROWTH FRom growth.
A plan for Economic
Growth, Sustainability and
Responsibility by Jonathan David
Ripley.

2. 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.

3. Eco lodges.
• Appreciation centres.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. Visual displays.
• Recreate scenes via intelligent planting.

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. When?
• Right now.
• Launched with docu style programme and
National tv and media campaign.
• Involvement from highest levels of Business
and Government.