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WHAT NEW EARTH FOUNDATION
GRANT - FUNDS SUPPORTED
EXAMPLES
NEW EARTH RISING, THE MIRACLE FIRE RETARDANT
NEW EARTH FOUNDATION IN SUPPORT OF SUCCESSFUL RELATIONSHIPS
CELDF EXECUTVE DIRECTOR HONORED AMONG LEADING ENVIRONMENTALISTS
EARTHQUAKE SAFE HOUSES FOR NEPAL
GARDENING IN EARTHQUAKE IMPACTED NEPAL
ARAB JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER EDUCATING FOR PEACE
TEACHING POSITIVE THINKING AND INITIATIVE IN SCHOOLS
CLEAN AIR, SAVED TREES & GLOBAL WARMING REDUCTION PROJECT
OUTSTANDING YOUNG LEADERS BUILD A BETTER WORLD
GLOBAL COOPERATION FOR THE RIGHTS OF NATURE
SERVICE LEARNING ABROAD IN ECOVILLAGES
USING SOLAR POWER TO PROVIDE CLEAN WATER AND ELECTRICITY
DEMOCRACY SCHOOLS
TRAINING FUTURE LEADERS
EDUCATION IN ECOLOGICAL ARCHITECTURE
PEACE THROUGH SKILLED NON-VIOLENT COMMUNICATION
THE MIRACLE FIRE RETARDANT
NEW EARTH FOUNDATION IN SUPPORT OF SUCCESSFUL RELATIONSHIPS
© New Earth Foundation. Images: courtesy of Relationship Foundation of Virginia
CHILD PROGRAMMING We all know that the first eight years of life of a child are the most impressionable and programmable. For too many children, these years have been filled with harsh punishments, abuse, and “child” video games, teaching violence and in-tolerance. The results are on the daily news and we have to deal with these alarming upshots! Assisting in repairing the psychological damage done to children is an under-taking that requires knowledge, patience, and long-term follow-up. This is exactly what the Relationship Foundation of Virginia is devoted to do!
GRANTING FOR BETTER RELATIONSHSIPS The Relationship Foundation of Virginia took it on to encourage its youth, guiding them to a life of loving patience, understand-ing, and stronger relationships for a brighter future. It is also necessary to teach youth to set boundaries to prevent more abuse than any may have already suffered. New Earth Foundation supported their work with a grant, given especially for underprivileged families, where respect for each other is not always found, often in families of African-American descent. New Earth Foundation would like to do more with your kind assist-ance. Please become a friend of New Earth Foundation, sign up for the free newsletter New Earth RisingTM, and donate now. Thank you.
THE MISSION OF RFVA The Relationship Foundation of Virginia (RFVA), “is dedicated to helping youth becoming wiser about relationships, smarter about sex, more skilled in communications and more informed about marriage and families. RFVA brings youth programming to communities in a variety of ways.”
LEARNING THROUGH JOY New Earth Foundation is pleased to see that funds are used to create learning by joy, when punishment has yielded many unfavorable results in both areas: of self-understanding of the child and in society through distorted actions.
Students leaning through fun, replacing punishment.
The above image documents the joy of learning about relationships these students are having, being peacefully gathered, yet also graduating from their course with a certifi-cate that can make them proud. This gives them a new self-understanding and self-respect, and thus a different start into adult life than they would have met without the Relation Foundation program and the assistance of New Earth Foundation.
Relationship students proudly presenting their earned certificates.
The Relationship Foundation offers some separate boys or girls groups, and also mixed classes. The relationship program teaches boys and girls to understand their important input as future partners and parents in relationships.
Boys and girls graduating from their relationship course.
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CELDF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR HONORED AMONG LEADING ENVIRONMENTALISTS
New Earth Foundation is delighted to report that Attorney Thomas Linzey is listed as “one of the nation’s leading environmentalists in a newly published book, American Environmental Leaders.” Thomas Linzey is the Executive Director of the thriving Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), a frequent grantee of New Earth Foundation.
As a non-profit public interest law firm, CELDF has assisted hundreds of communities to protect themselves from harmful corporate activities threatening clean drinking water, poisoning rivers, contaminating air, and polluting soil.
CELDF supports communities as they advance democratic and environmental rights – including the Rights of Nature – and ban harmful activities as a violation of those rights.
CELDF provides weekend workshops entitled Democracy School, which examines the legal doctrines that allow environmental degradation, and shares tools to challenge and change it. CELDF is supporting communities as they elevate community rights over corporate claimed “rights.”
Learn more at www.celdf.org or contact CELDF at info@celdf.org. See also CELDF’s Publications.
EARTHQUAKE-SAFE HOUSES FOR NEPAL
A region, forgotten by most of the world’s news, is still suffering from the devastating major earthquake in 2015 that has destroyed countless buildings and homes. Many people still live in tents, although winters are harsh in this high altitude of the Himalayan Mountains. Governments were open to part funding but bureaucracy takes time and wants to see the results before a final financial commitment. Funds were urgently needed for building model housing for families, sanitary facilities, and rain water channels. NEF assisted the aid-crew by a grant for earthquake safe housing in Nepal, when other funds were not available for investing in the new constructions.
The houses are made of sandbags between corner structures and then secured by concrete and painted. The roof is metal to be light and durable in case of more earthquakes, and the natives are happy to have a home and are proud of their “Western style” houses. Even schools and other public buildings are constructed using this earthquake-safe method.
New Earth Foundation supported earthbag homes and schools in Nepal, as the following pictures show. After years, following a devastating earthquake, many people were still living in tents, even during cold high mountain winters! The project was threatened with a halt for lack of funds: New Earth Foundation gave another grant which allowed to project to continue
Interns use a model to explain earthquake safe earthbag constructions with engineering students in Nepal. They may have questions if such building is livable, not made with stones and mud. Yet, they soon are convinced once constructions begins.
Earthquake safe earthbag construction of a small home in Nepal. A few people can built it in a short time with only few materials and tools.
An earthquake safe home in Nepal, earthbag construction, for at risk girls and young women.
More funding and building efforts are needed to help all the earthquake victims to finally again, after years, have a warm home for winter. NEF asks your kind donations to help.
New Earth Foundation funded many projects during the past 21 years. This project alone shows that indeed New Earth Foundation is
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GARDENING IN EARTHQUAKE-IMPACTED NEPAL
Today, in after earthquake Nepal, NEF’s grant for school gardens helps to prevent riots for lack of food. The children are instructed in planning and manifesting the gardens in after school programs and are excited to learn and harvest. They report home what they learned and share their knowledge with their relatives, who then may start a garden by where they live, according to the New Earth Foundation Mission as well as Vision to create peace, harmony, and sharing to benefit many.
Malnourishment was a common danger in Nepal, since a few families held the majority of land on which the less educated worked for too little income. Thus Nepali youth saw no advantage in gardening – until they learned advanced, environmentally safe methods and all that is involved: from sharing ideas, to planning and organizing the gardens on paper, and calculating what is needed, to going out on the land, to implement the plans, stake the areas for different plants, and sow/plant according to season. Than attend to the gardens with non-toxic means until the harvest time to be proud and celebrate. The grant from NEF assisted to form a new, peaceful, and well nourished society.
Image courtesy of Educate the Children.
ARAB JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER EDUCATING FOR PEACE
It always was essential for the Founder of NEF to help create peace, especially in the Holy Land. He studied the history of that region since 1947, and saw that the people wanted peace and would get along when a chance was given to learn to know each other and each other’s needs. NEF funded an Israeli-Palestinian project in Tel Aviv that is bringing people of both sides together to learn together and play together.
Such human outreach programs are essential to build cells of harmony that spread to families at home and to neighborhoods alike. New Earth Foundation will receive reports and images at the end of the granting term.
TEACHING POSITIVE THINKING AND INITIATIVE IN SCHOOLS
Positive thinking is needed in a world of worries and attacks. Positive thinking and behavior to finally create world peace starts at home and in schools. NEF granted to the development of a high school education program that instructs through understanding and doing. This system does not have teachers who hold the required solution, but the students come up with it and learn to solve problems in innovative ways. In this program, the students are so involved and respected that bullying may be eradicated and students may want to go to school and stay in school till college years. The curriculum for this unique program is still being developed, with NEF seeking donations to fund its full development of estimated $500,000 for courses, documentaries, guide books etc., so that it can be shared around the world.
CLEAN AIR, SAVED TREES & GLOBAL WARMING REDUCTION PROJECT
U.S. farmers are forced to deal with approximately 250 million tons of agricultural residues annually. The easiest way for them to remove the residues is to burn them. This process pollutes the air, contributes to global warming and creates serious health and safety risks for the surrounding communities. Fiber Futures demonstrates that this massive burning is a missed opportunity for proper sustainable resource management and rural economic development. They advocate that such agricultural residues can be easily used for building materials and paper, instead of trees.
Consistent over-logging of forests has devastating impacts, appallingly leaving less than 5% of the nation's virgin forests standing! Despite the alarming damage and projected shortages, wood continues to be the prime resource for paper and building materials. U.S. consumption of wood is presently 200 million tons per year, and is expanding annually by 4 million tons. The building and paper industries continue to use virgin wood for 70% of their total requirements, and only 1% of non-wood sources.
As early as in 2004, New Earth Foundation enthusiastically supported Fiber Futures’ much needed and multifaceted project. For both the looming wood shortage and harmful practice of agricultural burning, the use of readily available agricultural by-products for the wood and paper industries is an environmentally-sound, technically feasible, economically beneficial, and brilliant win-win solution.
Image courtesy of Fiber Futures
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OUTSTANDING YOUNG LEADERS BUILD A BETTER WORLD
Since being founded in 1990 by two teenagers, Youth for Environmental Sanity (YES!) has been a thriving organization doing far-reaching work to impact the lives of youth leaders across the world. For one year, young, knowledgeable and dynamic high school graduates traveled throughout the United States engaging more than 650,000 students in school assemblies, following up with day-long workshops numbering in the hundreds.
The YES! staff has also held more than a hundred week-long gatherings for visionary young leaders from over sixty-five nations. New Earth Foundation is especially excited about YES!'s development in the last few years, organizing intergenerational “Jams” to support some of the planet’s most potent and dedicated young social change leaders. “Jams” are gatherings of innovative people from around the world, coming together to inspire and augment each other’s work, gaining understanding and consideration for the differences in others, augmenting peace. These “Jam” events are currently being held in North and South America, Asia, Africa, Australia and Europe.
Image courtesy of YES!
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GLOBAL COOPERATION FOR THE RIGHTS OF NATURE
Global pollution and its consequence, the dying of species worldwide, have broadened human awareness that all ecosystems on our planet are deeply intertwined. The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund advocates that our ecosystems – including trees, oceans, animals, and mountains – have rights just as human beings have rights. The work of this organization is to bring a balance between what benefits human beings and what is good for other species and for the planet as a whole. They state, “The Earth’s voice must be heard for us to survive.”
NEF is pleased to say that due to the help of this important project, more than two dozen communities in the U.S. have now adopted local laws that recognize the rights of nature. In September 2008, Ecuador became the first country in the world to recognize rights for nature in its constitution. Bolivia is in the process of implementing a set of laws that also recognize certain rights for nature.
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SERVICE LEARNING ABROAD IN ECOVILLAGES
Ecovillages are living examples of socially and ecologically sustainable communities, and offer remarkable educational environments that are ideal for holistic and interdisciplinary education. Offered by Living Routes, this special innovative ecovillages program is a most inspiring, well-planned, and university accredited curriculum. NEF funded this program because it develops a profound understanding of real-world issues and equips students with the skills needed to solve real-world problems.
Service Learning is essential to this program, whereby students engage in supervised community projects within the Ecovillages as a way to help them understand and feel that they are a part of the community. It has been found that a sense of disconnect in young people may lead to cold violence, wherefore the belonging these projects awaken, furthers peace. Expert faculty helps students build skill in ecology habitat restoration through group facilitation in workshops, coursework, seminars and internships. Through setting goals and meeting challenges, students gain knowledge, practical abilities, and a sense of personal and social responsibility. The students become more self-confident in their ability to be powerful change agents for peace in their own lives and communities. Expert faculty helps students build skills in ecology habitat restoration through group facilitation in workshops, coursework, seminars and internships. Through setting goals and meeting challenges, students gain knowledge, practical skills, and a sense of personal and social responsibility. They also become more self-confident in their ability to be powerful change agents in their own lives and communities.
Image courtesy of Living Routes
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USING SOLAR POWER TO PROVIDE CLEAN WATER AND ELECTRICITY
Currently, 23% percent of rural Hondurans and 22% of rural Dominicans do not have access to a clean and reliable water source. As a result, many suffer from fatal infectious diseases such as cholera and typhoid, as well as malnutrition. NEF gave a grant to Enersol to help build seventeen solar-powered community water systems, thirteen in the Dominican Republic and four in Honduras.
With NEF’s help, Enersol also developed a solar-based electricity program for rural areas, which drew interest worldwide. They demonstrated that solar electrification was an affordable and effective alternative to conventional grid systems and that it benefited the environment and contributed to local economic development as well. Enersol’s training and assistance to local technicians along with micro-credit programs have led to the electrification of 1,000 households and micro-enterprises. Enersol’s pioneering work in the field of renewable energy became a catalyzing model used around the world, and as a consequence the quality of life has been improved for millions of people in rural villages worldwide.
Image courtesy of Enersol
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DEMOCRACY SCHOOLS
Concerned citizens and local elected officials often feel powerless and discouraged as they try to protect their communities from life-threatening assaults, such as toxic dumps, hydraulic fracking, and the disposal of industrial wastes into local lakes and rivers. Democracy Schools come to the rescue of community members and officials with their informative and much needed three-day intensive course about how to legally protect their communities. This program teaches citizens about their legal rights and the methods to effectively defend against such undertakings that are causing severe health problems of residents and the destruction of the environment where they live.
Democracy Schools also give guidance and support to citizens, when needed. NEF liked the practical usefulness and effectiveness of this project. There are now more than 200 Democracy Schools, having graduated over 3,000 participants.
Image courtesy of Democracy Schools
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TRAINING FUTURE LEADERS
The youth of the world are the future of the earth and will determine its destiny in war or peace. The Global Youth Action Network (GYAN) highlights collaboration and resource sharing among international youth organizations helps to maximize the impact of modern youth who are working to create a better world. GYAN, one of the largest, existing networks of youth organizations, provides countless opportunities for global partnerships and shares global information connecting young people, individually and in groups. New Earth Foundation appreciates the tools and resources provided by GYAN for communication and leadership, and that recognition is given to positive youth actions that are transforming the world. GYAN has now merged its online community and databases with TakingITGlobal.org, which has become the most active site on the Internet for young social leaders. Today, the combined organizations have over 200,000 youth members in more than 200 countries.
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EDUCATION IN ECOLOGICAL ARCHITECTURE
New Earth Foundation loved this design program that immerses students in a living laboratory of the most current thinking and innovation in the field of sustainable architecture. Students explore the many ways in which design can solve the environmental challenges of the 21st century. Ecosa Institute teaches that architecture, community planning, landscape architecture, and industrial design have the potential to create a healthy and sustainable world, using nature as a model for their curriculum. A transformative experience is gained that demonstrates how environmentally trained designers can create better outcomes. Students are encouraged to keep an open mind, to be passionate about making a difference, and to show discipline as a pioneer: imagining, creating and manifesting a new world of possibilities.
Images courtesy of Ecosa
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PEACE THROUGH SKILLED NONVIOLENT COMMUNICATION
As we know from the ongoing wars since the advent of history, peace is needed in many areas of the world. Words and opinions, misunderstandings and dogma, as well as injustice and lack of sharing may be at the root of wars. The Center for Nonviolent Communication, a global organization, is dedicated to world peace. People who practice Nonviolent Communication (NVC) have found greater authenticity in their personal and professional communication, increased understanding of others with a deepened connection, and conflict resolution.
Through its emphasis on deep listening – to ourselves as well as others – NVC helps people discover the depth of their own compassion. Through the practice of NVC, people no longer need to use the language of blame, judgment or domination, and are able to experience the deep pleasure of contributing to each others’ wellbeing.
New Earth Foundation liked that the Nonviolent Communication methods are being taught and applied in over sixty-five countries around the globe in the realms of personal relationship as well as in social systems and structures such as business/economics, education, justice, healthcare, and peace-keeping. NVC creates a path for healing and reconciliation in its many applications, ranging from intimate relationships, work settings, hospitals, social services, police, prison staff and inmates, to governments, schools and social change organizations.
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