Claude Lewenz seminar tour of FNQ, 'How to build a village and alternative to suburbia'

[Louise]

Dear All, here's information from CAFNEC about the upcoming tour of
FNQ by Claude Lewenz which will no doubt be of interest to many of
you. since our project is designed to create a sustainable community.
Best regards
Louise


Hello,

Claude Lewenz- NZ based author of "How to Build a Village"- a seminal
work on urban sustainability, will be touring Far North Queensland in
a to share 16 years of research and experience on creating sustainable
communities. Claude will be appearing in Cairns, Malanda, Innisfail
and Townsville.

Entry is FREE but please book your place as places may be limited!
Details below.
Program (6:30pm for 7:00pm start)

* CAIRNS: Thursday 3 July 2008
Serbian Centre, 73 Greenslopes Street Edge Hill
* INNISFAIL: Monday 7 July 2008
Innisfail RSL, 18-28 Fitzgerald Esplanade, Innisfail
* MALANDA: Tuesday 8 July 2008
The Malanda Hotel Ballroom, English Street, Malanda
* TOWNSVILLE: Thursday 10 July 2008
Victoria Park Hotel, Boundary Street, Townsville


Admission free

FOR BOOKINGS CONTACT PENNY 07 4085 5197 OR
Email: pe...@support.ecosmarte.com.au


Regards,
Sarah Rizvi, CAFNEC

For More Information Visit
www.cafnec.org.au or www.ecosmarte.com.au
Follow the links to "How to Build a Village"

Further info on Claude Lewenz taken from CAFNEC website.

Ecosmart-Australasia Pty Ltd in partnership with The Cairns and Far
North Environment Centre (CAFNEC) presents Claude Lewenz, author of
“How to Build a Village”, a book which has received international
praise and acclaim since publication in 2007

The New Zealand based author will be presenting his ideas and design
solutions, which he developed over a period of 16 years, to recreate
“The Village” in the modern context.

“How to Build a Village” is about real estate development, to produce
a wonderful place to live while treading lightly on the planet. Claude
Lewenz’s new book explores the village concept in the 21st Century. It
gives a blueprint on how to create sustainable, thriving communities;
focusing on the interaction between environment, sustainability, town
planning and real estate with the view of achieving quadruple bottom
line developments.

This is a hot topic in light of the Draft Far North Queensland
Regional Plan 2025.

From the local government’s perspective, a Village should be most
attractive. Imagine a corporation seeking a place to locate where it
would convert marginal land into a billion dollar development. It
would bring several thousand new jobs to the district worth a hundred
million dollars a year. Local governments vigorously compete to
attract such corporations, even when they come with liabilities, such
as pollution and pressures on the infrastructure.

A Village creates a diversified local economy, not a company town. The
need for infrasture upgrades are far less as it intends to implement
its own advanced systems for water, sewage, power and transport.