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Sustainable Rural Development Environmentally Clean Communities

A Proposal for Development and Implementation in Vietnam June 1998


To see the earth as we now see it, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence in which it floats, is to see ourselves as riders of the bright loveliness in the unending night-brothers who see now they are truly brothers.

Sustainable Rural Development Environmentally Clean CommunitiesProposal for DevelopmentRural Community Based Development Opportunity

Intensive Food ProductionClean Water Liquid and Solid Waste TreatmentsImproved Health ConditionsImproved Educational OpportunityEnvironmental Protection & Restoration

Sustainable Rural Development Environmentally Clean Communities* Every second of every day the world gains 3 new mouths to feed.

* Feeding the growing planet is the biggest challenge of the coming century, bar none.

The figures are staggering. The earths population is expected to nearly double in the next 50 years. Hitting 10 billion by the year2050. Yet, there will be no increase in the land available for growing food

58%27%4%9%2%Sustainable Rural Development Environmentally Clean Communities By the year 2050, nearly six billion people will live in Asia where agriculture expertise and technology is far behind the U.S. and Europe.

Not only is Asia the most populous region in the world, but its economy is the fastest growing economy during the 90s. By the year 2010, North America will experience a mere 2% growth rate but Asias population will Distribution of world population expand by 58%. growth by 2010

The explosion in Asia.

Sustainable Rural Development Environmentally Clean CommunitiesWe feel that the constant effort to feed a growing world population must be balanced by equal efforts to protect the earths ecology. After all, with ten billion people on the planet every inch of land, every drop of water, and every breath of air will become more precious than ever.

Taken out of context, the concept of ten billion people means nothing. But, when you stop to consider that it took millions of years to reach the current total of five billion people, and that its going to take just over fifty years for another five billion to join us, then you see the enormity of the challenge.As the worlds population begins its rapid ascent to ten billion, other industries will swing into overdrive in order to clothe, shelter, educate, provide health services and to feed them all.

Sustainable Rural Development Environmentally Clean CommunitiesOur BusinessSustainable Rural Development

AquacultureAgricultureWaterWaste TreatmentHousingHealth ServicesEducational OpportunityEnvironmental Protection Environmental Restoration

Sustainable Rural Development Environmentally Clean CommunitiesINVESTMENT HIGHLIGHTS*Enormous Growth Potential

*Provides Basic Human Requirements

*Local, Regional and International Markets

*Environmentally Sound Development

*Substantial Tax and Business Advantages

*Substantial International Funds Available for Growth

Sustainable Rural Development Environmentally Clean CommunitiesFeeding ten billion people will require increased production on the acres currently being farmed. New sources of food must also be discovered and made viable. A distribution system must be in place to get the food to those who need it, quickly and efficiently.One in five people on this planet suffers the ravages of hunger and poverty. Malnutrition causes more than 16 million deaths a year. And every two and one-half seconds a child dies from malnutrition and preventable disease. At the dawn of the new century, the world is better equipped than ever to move toward eliminating hunger. But, it wont be easy. We have the modern systems to alleviate hunger. But, we dont have time to waste.

Sustainable Rural Development Environmentally Friendly CommunitiesWithout modern farming techniques thered be only one place for endangered species to go. Away!Simply stated, if agriculture still relied upon the farming methods of a quarter-century ago, the only way to feed the current world population would be to farm an additional 15 million square miles of land. Where would that land come from? From the rainforests, from the woodlands, from a host of other wildlife habitats. Farmers are the most indispensable people on the planet. Sustainable, intensive, high-yield farming will save the world environment and can provide shelter for families everywhere.

Sustainable Rural Development Environmentally Clean CommunitiesOur AgendaThe United Nations, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, most governments of the world have issued declarations and statements concerning the great importance of establishing programs for sustainable development. To protect the worlds ecology and environment the issue of sustainable development has reached the desks of all governments and concerned people. The program, the agenda which can be established through implementing the proposal set out in the Environmentally Clean Communities program is the improvement and protection and restoration of the environment while providing and establishing a model for sustainable growth and development.

Sustainable Rural Development Environmentally Clean CommunitiesTo feed the population which will double to ten billion people during the next fifty years all efforts will be necessary to maximize yields while at the same time sustaining the environment.

The program which can be established with the ECC community requires the use of 200 hectares of land for100 families. Yields in excess of 300 tons of fish per hectare per year can be achieved; yields in excess of 30 tons of vegetables per hectare per year can be achieved. This will provide the basis for high growth of sales and income and profit potential.

Cooperative ownership provides the basis for the involvement and effort of all the people living in our community. On the following pages we provide an introduction to what we can achieve.

Sustainable Rural Development Environmentally Clean CommunitiesThe earths population is growing rapidly, but the amount of farmable land isnt.Our oceans fish population is actually decreasing. In fact in 1996, aquaculture accounted for nearly 20% of the total worlds fish output. When all these factors are taken into consideration, the importance of finding alternative food sources, such as aquaculture, becomes that much clearer.We have developed and used new methods of intensive fish production which allow us to substantially increase the ratio of fish grown per cubic meter of water; yields of 10, 20 and more kilos per cubic meter of water allow us to grow 180 and more tons of fish per hectare cultivated. In this way we improve both food and nutrition while also producing substantial profit opportunities.

Sustainable Rural Development Environmentally Clean Communities A century ago the average farmer fed about 8 people with his labor. Today he feeds about 212 people and tomorrow the figure will be even higher.

Indoor vegetable production utilizing new techniques for growing vegetables without soil, indoors, hydroponically, very high yields are possible. On less than five hectares it is possible to grow over ten tons of lettuce and cucumbers each in a month along with many other types of vegetable and herbs. Techniques of intensive agriculture production including drip irrigation, controlled use of pesticides and fertilizers, use of compost for soil enrichment, all these methods produce higher returns without destroying the environment.


The Lotus represents the opportunity to rise up from the mud at the bottom to tower in the suns light of hope and opportunity. With water, whether it be fresh, salt, or brackish, in regular supply, we can treat it and use it so that our community of hope and opportunity can grow and prosper. Technology developed during the past thirty years allows us today to use all sources of water for the development of our community. With water comes the method to raise the fish, to cultivate the agricultural produce, to clean ourselves, to promote our health, to improve our health, to increase our opportunities and to contribute to the world which supports us.

Sustainable Rural Development Environmentally Clean CommunitiesTreatment of waste water and solid wastes can be done utilizing nature as a model. Engineered wetlands provide effective and safe treatment for waste waters produced both by humans and by the use of waters in aquaculture. In fact, by utilizing natures method we save the waters and make it possible to use them over again. With solid wastes created by human society, we can again copy natures methods and create compost and fertilizer for improving soil conditions. These methods for treating solid wastes and waste water provide many benefits including improved health conditions and environmental protection and restoration all leading to sustainable development.

Sustainable Rural Development Environmentally Clean CommunitiesLow cost housing provides the residents of our community with another incentive to work and participate in all the activities. Utilizing construction techniques which arose from developments in Habitats for Humanity, we can and will construct homes in styles which are both suitable and affordable. Incorporating alternative energy systems such as solar, wind, and methane gas conversion, we will add to the integration of our residents into the environment and to their efforts at restoration. Coupled with clean water, solid waste treatment, and intensive farming techniques, our community will provide a basis for sustained development into the next century.

Sustainable Rural Development Environmentally Clean CommunitiesHealth Care and improved health conditions will go far to stop the spread of disease and will also provide the basis, through improved health education, for family planning and the limit of population growth. With the implementation of programs for the treatment of water, waste water, solid wastes, new housing, progress towards the establishment of a better environment, and the provision of care from professionals trained in community health practices, this will substantially improve the quality of life. In Vietnam today an estimated 85% of the population dies from the effects of disease spread by poor water-all these factors will be improved in our community and, with time and much effort, they will be eradicated. This is sustainable development.

Sustainable Rural Development Environmentally Clean CommunitiesEducation. Improved educational opportunity. Education and training is important for the young people who live in the rural areas of the developing world. Today, for the most part, they do not have the opportunity. Training and education is also necessary and required for their parents. Developments during the past few years in distance education, interneteducation, multimedia education and more present the opportunity tobring the most recent educational developments to those who live undereven the most rural conditions Coupled with advances in tele-communications, satellite and wireless communications, there is noreason that the residents of our community cannot have the best in education and training.


Slash and burn agriculture. When there were less than a billion people living on the earth this type of existence did not cause the problems which are encountered today.Top soil loss, water pollution, forest destruction, wildlife habitat loss, dust storms, uncontrolled fires, flooding-all a result of poor and even no environmental protection requirements. The sustainable community development which is presented here offers a chance for stopping the problems which now exist. As was said previously, We have the modern food systems that can help alleviate the problem of hunger. But, what we dont have is time to waste.

Sustainable Rural Development Environmentally Clean CommunitiesEnvironmental restoration.

Can we do it? We have no choice. We must use our best efforts to restore and protect the environment.

ECC communities offer an answer. By implementing the plans for this new development we provide the basis for rural peoples to stop their invasion and destruction of the natural habitat. Accomplish this, we can create and establish programs for the restoration and improvement of the environment.

Sustainable Rural Development Environmentally Clean CommunitiesEMPOWERMENT. In order to achieve sustainable rural development the people must participate, they must be made to be part of the solution. It is not possible for any one person to answer all the questions concerning the environment, concerning the best ways to do things. The people must become involved in all aspects of the operation, management and direction of the ECC community.To achieve this, a cooperative ownership and management of all undertakings within the community will be established. This method of ownership and management will insure that the people whose lives are being affected will bring forth their best talents, energies and efforts. This way to own the economic activities will also provide the developers with continued participation and return.

Sustainable Rural Development Environmentally Clean CommunitiesManagement and Direction

An Advisory Board of Directors has presently been assembled composed of experienced, dedicated, skilled professionals in all aspects required by the undertakings. Please see the Proposal Document for information concerning this team of people.

The completion of the Execution Documents will provide a full management compliment for all aspects of this programs implementation, development, management and expansion.

Sustainable Rural Development Environmentally Clean CommunitiesA first location must be chosen and Vietnam is that choice.

Vietnam presents a number of benefits for establishment of the first ECC community:

* Location* Climate* Available Land* Work Ethic* Business Environment* Favorable Laws* Favorable Tax Benefits

Sustainable Rural Development Environmentally Clean CommunitiesCompetition and CompetitiveAdvantages

Sustainable Rural Development Environmentally Clean CommunitiesUntil now, no-one has established a program of integrated sustainable development. There are partial models such as in Gaviotas or Tara which, while successful and praiseworthy, do not provide the engine of integrated capability and capacities which is trulyrequired to drive sustainable development from the drawing boardsto actualization. Aid and donation programs funded by variouscharities leave unanswered the basic problems of sustainable development in countries which need the full integration of technology and know-how which is provided in the program established by the ECC program. Food supply, clean water, improved health, education and training, affordable housing, renewable energy-Sustainable Development.

Sustainable Rural Development Environmentally Clean CommunitiesIncorporating and integrating the various services, products and technology presents a multi-market of profit-centers. Fish, vegetables, spices, housing, power, waste treatments, training, education, technology, equipment, technology transfer: all provide opportunities for profit, growth and, most importantly, models for sustainable development. PROFIT CENTERS FISH AGRICULTURE HOUSINGEDUCATION TRAINING POWERTECHNOLOGY EQUIPMENT WATERAND MORE

Sustainable Rural Development Environmentally Clean CommunitiesFinancial Forecasts

Sustainable Rural Development Environmentally Clean CommunitiesAll significant capital expenses will occur during the first three years of operation. These expenses include the completion of the Execution Documents and Master Plan, the undertaking and completion of development, construction, implementation.The completion of the Execution Documents and Master Plan are estimated to require no more than nine months. Immediate undertaking of the implementation phase is estimated to require some twelve to fifteen months to complete. Thereafter, another twelve months of further development and fine-tuning will bring all aspects of this program on-stream and fully operational. The completion of the Execution documents will provide a complete analysis. See ChartCapital Expense/Cost of Sales/Sales.Expenses

Sustainable Rural Development Environmentally Clean CommunitiesIncome from the sale of the houses will occur at the time of construction completion and will continue for the length of the offered mortgage. These sales will produce the first income stream. Second to this will be the commencement of the income streams fromthe sale of fish, vegetables, fruits, spices, medicinal herbs, servicesand other operations of the community. These sales are expected togrow significantly commencing in the first quarter of the third year and continuing thereafter. Dependent upon the agreements for funding which are reached, further growth beyond this initial community can provide the basis for significant income growth for many more years.The completion of the Execution documents will provide a full analysis. See following charts.

Income

Sustainable Rural Development Environmentally Clean CommunitiesIncome By Source Years 1-5Millions $Note: Fish projects are based on only 5 kgs/m3 of water rather than higher projected amounts.

Sustainable Rural Development Environmentally Clean CommunitiesCapital Expense/Cost of Sales/SalesSales projections are based only on the sale of fish and are calculated at the minimum production rate of 5 kgs/m3 of water.

Sustainable Rural Development Environmentally Clean CommunitiesFinancial Model-Income from Sales Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 ObjectiveGross Margin 0% 45% 45% 50% 52% Low-50s

Research & Development 0% 15% 12% 8% 6% 6%

Sales & Marketing 0% 15% 15% 15% 15% 15%

General & Administrative 0% 10% 10% 8% 7% 7%

Operating Profit 0% 15% 18% 19% 20% low 20s

Sustainable Rural Development Environmentally Clean CommunitiesInvestment Opportunity

* Strong Growth Potential* Multiple Products and Services* Unique Opportunity for Meaningful Development* Local, Regional and International Markets* Environmental and Social Benefits

Sustainable Rural Development Environmentally Clean CommunitiesVietnam requires the type investment and development which is outlined in this document and more fully in the Proposal. Significant tax and business incentives exist and will be fully taken advantage and utilized:

4-8 Year Tax Holiday after commencement of profitsAdditional Years of 50% taxes No Import Taxes on EquipmentLow Land CostsLow Labor CostsEducated Work ForceOther Benefits and Incentives

Sustainable Rural Development Environmentally Clean CommunitiesThe total invested capital requirement for all phases ofdevelopment is $4.3 million. This investment is a stagedinvestment during the course of three years.

For further information please contact: Brian Lewis, J.D. 6704 East Park Drive Fort Worth, Texas 76132 Tel: 817-361-0710 E-mail: [email protected]

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