Village Forum
Seminar July 2008 with Claude Lewenz
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.
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.
Claude will be speaking at the following times and locations:
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
