Tamera Newsletter March 2012 - new "university" and Water of Life March 12, 2012

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Dear Friends of Tamera Peace Research Center,
the guest season has started, and around you´ll find news on which continents and projects co-workers of Tamera are involved.
please enjoy and share with your friends !
Thank you for your attention,
Peter Koll
Tamera Team
WE editor
+351-913 081 509
 
read the newsletter also in portuguese : http://www.tamera.org/index.php?id=861&L=2
 
topics :
THE START OF THE "UNIVERSITY" TAMERA 2012
May 1st, 2012, the Basic Education begins
"Water Retention Landscapes as an Answer to Desertification and Globalization." The Second Water Symposium in Tamera
Water Symposium in Palestine
Buckminster Fuller Challenge 2012 Tamera's Water Retention Landscape in the Running
1000 Lakes for Portugal
Alternative World Water Forum: Representatives of Tamera will take part in the Alternative World Water Forum (FAME) from 14-17 of March in Marseille
10 years “Children’s Project - Place of the Children”
Peace between the Genders, seminar in Israel

San José de Apartadó in Colombia - the peace community

OTEPIC , permacultre in Kenya : “Real Food Revolution”
Latin American Forum for the Globalization of a New Peace Power, 9-13 June, Brasilia
 
 
Tamera Newsletter March 2012

Fotos: Photos: (from left to right) Lake 1 in Tamera;  expansion of the workshop; with OTEPIC in Kenya

Dear Friends of Tamera,

The year 2012 has begun. In many places around the world, one senses the turbulence, and the challenges. Yet even in the highest-pressure situations, there are people who—no matter what—are following a different ethic and a different vision of life. Nothing can divert them from engaging with the world around them, to offer help and healing. There are people like this in African slums, in refugee camps in Palestine, and in the favelas of Latin America. They have become crystalization points, around which humanitarian miracles are taking place. This is the contagious power of human beings when they are connected to a very deep source or, as we can also call it, the Sacred Matrix. They are all parts of a global movement, even if they've never heard of it. A movement for a world of trust, without fear or violence. These different forces want to find a way to come together, to support one another and grow stronger, in order to become a global force for change. If that can happen, then 2012 will really be a true breakthough year, the beginning of a force for peace, in which every human being can find a place and grow into his or her full potential, for the benefit of all.

News from Tamera and the network: (This month's newsletter will emphasize the subjects, “The start of the University in Tamera 2012,” and, “Water is Life.” The next newsletter, scheduled for April, will deal more in depth with the subjects of Technology and the Global Campus.) THE START OF THE "UNIVERSITY" OF TAMERA 2012 After a winter of intensive study, which was lead by representatives of Tamera's younger generation, and in which the entire community participated, we enter this new year with the motto, “The Whole of Tamera is a University.” By this we mean a school of the future, a school for knowledge in the subjects that the world needs most urgently: Water, Energy, Ecology, and Community. Einstein said, “The thinking of the future must make war impossible.” The purpose of study in Tamera is to learn this kind of thinking. On March 1st, the Guest Season opened. Once again there will be Introduction Weeks, Seminars and Workshops, an Easter Week, possibilities to do practical work, and of course, there will be the big Summer University in August. Here is the complete calander of events: http://www.tamera.org/index.php?id=events On May 1st, 2012, the Basic Education begins, in the framework of the Global Campus. Through October, it will be possible to join the Basic Education on the first of evey month. We're expecting participants from many parts of the world Above all, we invite members of the Youth- and Occupy-movements, all those who wish to gain for themselves an understanding of how to create an alternative. More information can be found here: http://www.tamera.org/index.php?id=770 WATER IS LIFE The question of water is critical in a world where one out of seven people doesn't have access to enough clean, potable water and where the ground can no longer absorb the rains. Our answer to this is the sharing of information on how water retention spaces can be built around the world, as we have done here in Tamera since 2007, with the help of the ecological visionary Sepp Holzer. After a rainless winter, like the one we just had, we see every day how important and how appropriate this strategy is. The morning fogs of the waterlandscape are bringing moisture to the terraces around the lakes and helping the plants to grow, while outside this area, everything is dry. From all around, egrets and other animals come to drink from the lakes and ponds. Water is life! This is why we have to build water retention spaces, so that even during dry periods, people, animals, plants, and the earth, can all be fed. "Water Retention Landscapes as an Answer to Desertification and Globalization." The Second Water Symposium in Tamera, April 26th to 29th. Along with Sepp Holzer, specialists and decision-makers from many countries have signed up. In particular, participating groups from Kenya, Palestine, South America, and Portugal, will be using the symposium very concretely, to prepare for the construction of water retention landscapes. Guests and participants are also welcome. Here is the complete and up-to-date information: "Water retention landscapes as an answer to desertification and globalisation." (pdf-file) Water Symposium in Palestine: "Water Retention Landscapes as an Answer to Desertification and Globalization". An additional water symposium will take place on the 25th of March in the monastary of St. Gerasimus (Deir Hijla, near Jericho, in the West Bank). In the Middle East conflict, where water and water rights play such a large role, solutions or alternatives are the first call of peacework. The symposium will be organized by the Carrier Group of the planned Peace Research Village-Middle East. Among others, speakers will include Bernd Müller (Tamera), Sami Awad (Bethlehem), Sabine Lichtenfels (Tamera), Benjamin von Mendelssohn (Tamera), and Tamir Yaari (Jerusalem). More: http://www.tamera.org/fileadmin/PDF/PDF2/Watersymposium_mail.pdf March 22nd is World Water Day. We have a great idea about how you can all help, wherever you are, in your city or community, to prepare the field of a solution: Put on an information- and fundraising-evening, around the theme of water. Show our videos, pictures and other materials. Help the concept of water retention landscapes become better and more widely known. Our water retention lanscape video is currently available in English, German, Spanish, and Portuguese: Download our Water Symposium brucure: "Water retention landscapes as an answer to desertification and globalisation." (pdf-file) We will happily send other materials, including flyers, postcards, and books. Please contact Peter Lewerenz: igf@tamera.org Tamera's Water Retention Landscape, in the Running for the Buckminster Fuller Challenge 2012: Tamera's Ecology Team responded to this year's call for entries to the celebrated “Buckminster Fuller Challenge,” and has passed to the shortlist of possible prizewinners. We ask all our friends and cooperating partners to visit our entry on the website and to leave relevant comments in the “Idea Index.” http://challenge.bfi.org/ideaindex 1000 Lakes for Portugal: In response to the wishes of many Portuguese friends, we are offering a special invitation for Portuguese people to come live and work in Tamera for a while, to learn the fundamentals of community and about the creation of self-sufficent models. We want to collaborate to find ways out of the current economic crisis and how, even in this situation, a model for a different life can develop, in cooperation with nature. One of the most wonderful ideas is the creation of a national network as an answer to the financial crisis and unemployment, and of a local project with the title, “1000 Lakes for the Alentejo,” or, “Portugal as a Model.” This time period will begin with an intensive educational session from April 25th until May 11th. More: http://www.tamera.org/index.php?id=663 Alternative World Water Forum: Representatives of Tamera will take part in the Alternative World Water Forum (FAME) from 14-17 of March in Marseille and present the methodology for Water Retention Landscapes. The Forum is a meeting of civil movements and groups worldwide who want to manifest the human right for water, which was a resolution of the UN in 2010: Every being must have free access to drinking water. Ecological and sustainable alternatives in water management that could help to overcome the global water crisis will be presented. More: http://www.fame2012.org/en/ MORE NEWS FROM TAMERA: 10 years “Children’s Project - Place of the Children”: The children’s project at the “Place of the Children“ in Healing Biotopes 1 in Tamera, celebrates its 10th anniversary. Led by Gabriele Brüggemann and Oskar Eckmann, a team of pedagogues and learning facilitators is working out and exploring new ways of learning and building a children’s community. http://www.tamera.org/index.php?id=860 In the technology area: We're moving forward! From 05.03 – 30.04.2012, our workshop will be renovated! With a lot of support, we began last autumn to expand and beautify our existing workshop. Many thanks to all those who helped. We have brought light into the rooms, torn down some walls and built others elsewhere, improved the floors, and added doors and windows. And now, beginning on the 5th of March, the work continues: By the end of April we will have virtually new, sparkling places to work in the different areas of woodwork, metalwork, technology, and electronics. The technology workshop will have lots of room and a laboratory space—a great development for both maintenance and research, with the EPG (Energy Power Greenhouse) and low temperature Stirling motors from Jürgen Kleinwächter, and other equipment from Testfield 1. The workshop team, under the direction of Janos Valder, happily welcomes support of all kinds, whether it's in the form of vigorous physical work, or in the form of donations of money or material. In total we will need 30 to 60 thousand euros (with or without machines) for the expansion. We're increasing the existing space from 230m², to 320m² of covered usable surface area. For more information, please contact: Janos Valder: solarvillage@tamera.org MORE NEWS FROM THE NETWORK: The first three months of the PRV-ME in the Holy Land. A report from the Peace Research Village group in Israel-Palestine. The core group of the Peace Research Village-Middle East (PRV-ME) has taken real steps towards its vision of a healing biotope in the midst of a region in crisis. http://www.tamera.org/index.php?id=858 Peace between the Genders: From March 29th to 31st. Sabine Lichtenfels and Benjamin von Mendelssohn will offer a seminar in Israel. The subject is: Peace between the Genders. For more information: http://www.tamera.org/fileadmin/PDF/Flyer/PeaceBetweenGenders_Flyer_eng.pdf The peace community of San José de Apartadó in Colombia, for many years a partner in close cooperation with Tamera, will mark the 15th anniversary of its founding. Andrea Regelmann, Vera Kleinhammes, Martin Winiecki, Rabea Herzog und Laure Luciani will travel from Tamera to reinforce the friendship and cooperation. This is also a networking trip, to prepare for the next large event in the framework of the Global campus, and to meet with other cooperation partners from Latin America. OTEPIC in Kenya is a project for a “Real Food Revolution”, its founder Philip Munyasia has been in Tamera twice. Leila Dregger from Tamera visited the initiative in January. She helped with the development of ideas for future steps. More information available for download: http://www.tamera.org/fileadmin/PDF/PDF2/Projekt_Expose_Otepic_final.pdf Looking Forward: Latin American Forum for the Globalization of a New Peace Power, 9-13 June, Brasilia with, among others, Sabine Lichtenfels, Benjamin von Mendelssohn and Bernd Müller. In the framework of the Global Campus, there will be a meeting for strategy and networking this summer. People and groups from all over Latin America will be there. Here as well, the main topics will, of course, be natural water management and the creation of new social structures as elements in a new model for peace. “The current globalization of violence can only be overcome by a new Peace Power, which is stronger than violence.” The final day of the forum, June 13th, ¡Vamos todos adelante! is the International Conference for the Protection of the Colombian Peace Community San José de Apartadó. The Global Campus team, with Vera Kleinhammes and Martin Winiecki, will also visit the UN Rio+20 Conference in Rio de Janeiro, and participate in the People's Summit. More information in the next newsletter or contact: igp@tamera.org

We greet you warmly, wherever you are in the world, and we look forward to seeing you here again soon! Welcome! The Tamera Community

P.S.1: Don´t forget: 1000 supporters by end of the year 2012! With a monthly contribution in the amount of your choice you become part of the realisation and part of the increasing planetary community, which will bring peace models into being worldwide. More: http://www.tamera.org/index.php?id=716 P.S. 2: Don´t forget: The School of the Future: You can take part at the peace study 2012, by receiving and studying the texts: Please write to: igp@tamera.org P.S. 3: Please send us a mail should you no longer wish to receive our newsletter. If you do not receive the newsletter in a proper version, please open it here: http://www.tamera.org/index.php?id=861

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