Home Page
An Organization Needed - The "Green Peace Corps" The Power of Vision Recently, we have been putting together a non-profit NGO called the "Green Peace Corps" (GPC). This organization is focused on getting people from all nations together into one globalized network to produce healthy food while applying sustainable environmental practices. The GPC’s objective is to aggressively change the world's food system to sustainable organic in a way that is affordable to all people, everywhere. We will have stringent, yet semi-flexible guidelines. In a few instances to help make our system more economically sound, and after thorough discussion and agreement, we may consider some products, which are nearly sustainable (e.g. methods of growing grain) to be incorporated. Our plan is create small to medium sized poly-culture farms in rural communities while working hand in hand with rural and suburban farms as well as urban community garden programs. The methods we need to make sustainable food economically feasible are complex and vary w/ climate and location. The GPC will become grower, processor, transporter, and marketer of its own food products as well as that of private companies and individual concerns that contribute to the production of food and other products that conform to sustainable standards. Furthermore, we are sure that combining innovation, efficiency, microorganism technology and proven traditional methods will enable us to produce healthy sustainable food at near current commercial food prices while constantly lowering our prices as we expand. The GPC also intends to foster cooperation with the Native Americans as well as indigenous people of other continents most of who live or have lived sustainably in the past. They are the original environmentalists. We intend to produce locally and sell locally; establishing a network of farmers markets and small indoor retail stores in every locality selling sustainable food and products. Excess food produced by the GPC farms and its confederates can be frozen, canned or dried to be transported to the nearest locations of need or to organizations that deal with food shortage crisises. Outdated food and food scraps will be fed to livestock. Spoiled food goes to compost. Nothing will be wasted. The United Nations has recently agreed that sustainable organic food is the future for the world. Here is an excerpt from their recent March, 2009 proclamation: The GPC's environmental commitments includes producing and using non-food biofuel and alternative energies, 4-H style animal husbandry, water & soil conservation, recycling, and reforestation; while working in conjunction w/ rural, suburban and urban communities to do the same. Presently the "Green Peace Corps" is gathering more information and building its website and then immediately we plan on contacting organizations, environmentalists, ethnic and cultural groups, and others to add input, join and participate in this venture. Remember this -- Sustainability means “Meeting the needs of the present generations, while not compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”…..the future is now! The “Green Peace Corps” offers an open invitation to anyone interested in knowing more about us, or interested in contributing time or information to help jump-start this organization. We need your help! Please contact us at agraorganic@yahoo.com or call 480-949-2725. Thank you in advance, On Behalf of the “Green Peace Corps” organization. Green Peace Corps The Green Peace Corps is committed to realizing the goals of the sustainability movement by undertaking projects that are designed to change the way the world utilizes our environmental energy. Towards that end, we are committed to:
"Vision without action is merely a dream;
Action without vision just passes the time;
Vision with action can change the world."
---Joel Arthur Barker
"Changing the ways in which food is produced, handled and disposed of across the globe -- from farm to store and from fridge to landfill -- can both feed the world's rising population and help the environmental services that are the foundation of agricultural productivity in the first place," says a new study titled 'The Environmental Food Crisis' released by the U.N. Environment Program (UNEP).
With the steep increase in food prices in 2008, the number of chronically malnourished has reached a staggering 963 million, mostly in the world's poorest countries. (to read more, go to Food Crisis)
Thomas F. Thirion,
