EcoCities – A Sustainable Communities Initiative (SCI) – supporting Friends of Resurgence

Sustainable Communities Initiative (SCI)

Do you have an eco-product or service of relevance to
professional and corporate members of EcoCities?
(“EcoCitizens”) Contact us directly for Co-marketing
opportunities to promote your offering to our
membership base. (COSA option)

What you earn

As a Co-venture you can receive up to 50% of
membership subscriptions from students, professional
and corporate clients who plug into your own branded
EcoCities customer interface – using the services of Zen Cafés powered by
Sossoon. See: www.zencafes.com

To set up your own membership subscription system - contact Zen Cafés (Co-
venture option)

Train with us
We welcome students, GAP Year students, graduates and independent
professionals who want to train with us or enrol for a semester at The Offshore
Campus, Kalamata, Greece.

The Curriculum for Eco-learning

The Offshore Campus curriculum provides:
 Language learning courses for you to live and work in
the city and country of your choice
 Enterprise Orientation: to start a business career as a
business owner, manager, partner or director, working
with Career Support and Enterprise Support.
The Offshore Campus provides the courses, tuition, support and
learning experience of a Business School and Language School
– rolled into one:
 English as a Foreign Language (for those who want to
study, travel, work or do business with the English-speaking world).

Associates
We especially welcome collectives of 2,3, or 4 freelancers or professionals who
want to form their own independent collective, LLP, company or co-operative,
working as Associates with World Business Café on a Co-venture basis.

As an Associate, language, business or TEFL specialist you can attend the Director
of Studies course. On graduation you can apply to run your own Skype
Consultancy or Skype Campus, providing Learning Support to students,
professionals, managers and their organisations on a membership basis.
Your members subscribe to your services directly.

Enterprise Support - for professionals and their enterprises

What we offer – services for property owners and investors

We provide a blueprint for commercial building use (for landlords and tenants)

We provide a blueprint for residential/business use (for owners and tenants)

We provide bespoke consultancy for building alteration and property conversion (

for developers and would-be investors – with focus on Social Enterprise).

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We provide a bespoke service for rural landowners, estate managers, farmers and
country house owners. We can advise on barn conversion, self-catering
accommodation and building usage, with especial focus on the combined needs
of: food production, local economy and sustainability.

Working with selected architects, town planners as well as energy and transport
consultants we provide a service for:
 Local authorities
 Entrepreneurs
 Community Groups as well as: investors, investment consortia and
institutional investors

By working with us as an independent property advisor you can provide a

property matching service for your town or city – matching properties with
tenants and matching investment opportunities with investors.

Our ethos
Our focus for EcoCities comprises a combination of
Social Responsibility with the needs of Enterprise. A
sustainable vision means the needs of enterprise
and community can reinforce each other, through
active commitment to the principles of Social
Enterprise. Our advisors comprise: 7-Team
(advisors to Sainsbury, Bank of England, Royal
Bank of Scotland). Theodore Levitt – former editor
of Harvard Business Review and proponent of
Buyer-Centric Marketing. Lean Enterprise Institute (advisors to Toyota and
Tesco). White Design – advisors to The Hub Social Enterprise Workspace.

Our points of reference

Some of the organisations who inspire us
and whose values we share, include:
 Macdonough Architects
 Schumacher.org – publishers of
Sustainable Cities by Herbert
Girardet
 Resurgence
 International Business Leaders’
Forum
 The Soros Foundation
 The Soil Association
 FLOW
 Ashoka
 Forum for the Future

Working with us
We invite local specialists to work with us in
any of the following fields:

1. Building use – Commercial and

Residential: Rural and Urban
2. Finance and investment – new
ventures, co-operatives – existing
venues
3. Schools Portal: Enterprise Portal
4. Education (Human-scale education
and sustainable education)

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5. Health – Natural Health, holistic care and

healthcare delivery
6. Creative Living: Music: Creative
Workshops: Performing Arts
7. Dance Events – Social Networking
8. Energy and Natural Power
9. Enterprise and Enterprise Training (Social
Responsibility, Social Enterprise,
Branding, Communications, ISP services
and IT support)
10. Food Production: Human-scale agriculture: Food distribution
11. Youth and elderly: re-training and skills development
12. Architecture and urban planning: Transport, Energy, Resource
Management and Recycling
13. Cycling and fitness: camping, recreation and leisure
14. Publishing and Community Media
15. Not-for-profits: Social Enterprise: Co-operatives
16. Food and drink; retail and distribution
17. Local government: business space: Open Society
18. Environment and conservation: Eco-learning: Citizenship
19. Multi-cultural understanding: dispute settlement; restorative justice:
Community Law and Business Support
20. Media: Film Production and TV Programming
21. Eco-travel: sustainable tourism: eco-tourism: GAP Year opportunities
22. Volunteering: Barter: Time Banks:
23. Meditation and personal development
24. Right Livelihood

An invitation to use Eco Cities for your community

We invite local specialists to work with us in any of
the above fields.

 We invite individual entrepreneurs to apply

for training and Enterprise Orientation to set
up Co-venture opportunities

 We invite students and GAP Year students

to use Creative Workshops to start an independent career

 We offer an independent career path for those who want to set up their
own education consultancy or local think tank to advise and address the
needs of local interests.

Eco City Options

Business
 Property Services – Enterprise Services

Working in education
 Schools Portal: Yoga and Natural Health
 Dance: The Dance Project

Enterprise
 Education for entrepreneurs: language learning and EFL
 Leadership and Project Management
 Enterprise Training and Career Support

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Events and Networking

 The Dance Project
 Social Networking
 Business Clusters

Healthy lifestyle and Business Fitness

 Meditation at Work
 Creative Workshops
 Food and Drink: catering, retail and distribution

1. Co-ventures can work with us: start-ups,

LLPs and co-operatives
2. COSA – work with us if you are an existing
specialist
3. Consultancy: use our services on a pay-
as-you-go or membership basis

The next step: contact us directly or select your

membership level (below).

To set up your own Membership Enrolment page – select

your option:

1. 40% fee retention – for COSA members; per

country

2. 50% fee retention – for Co-ventures – per town or city

3. 60% fee retention – for Graduates of The Offshore Campus. Graduates can
work on a Co-venture basis with Career Support and Enterprise Support.

Eco-City Membership benefits

1. Set up your own Business Cluster or Enterprise Network

2. Set up your own consultancy

3. Organise and promote Social and Business

Networking Events

4. Set up your own Social Enterprise Cluster

5. Initiate flexible workspace for new and existing

businesses in your area

6. Make the move into education (services for

schools or organisations)

7. Set up your own Café (subscription service) for

invited members and community participants
with Zen Cafés

8. Get involved in Skype Cafes, Skype Tutors, The Dance Project or come
and visit us at a residential Creative Workshop at The Offshore Campus,
Kalamata, Greece

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