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Organicvision – a world tour dedicated to sustainable lifestyle
(by Johanna from Organicvision)


Curious about alternatives to mainstream urban lifestyle?
Wondering how our society can change to become ecologically viable?


This is precisely what we want to find out on our journey around the world visiting 30 exciting projects covering permaculture, eco-construction, herbology, self-sufficiency, homesteading, transition towns, eco villages etc.


We, that is Joanna and Franck- a German/Polish-French couple in their thirties, living in Brussels.

Some years ago, if somebody had asked us about the future, never we would have predicted that we would quit our jobs one day and do a project dedicated to sustainability…

So how do we ended up there? Seeing films like “An inconvenient truth” or documentaries like “How Cuba survived peak oil”, reading Hervé Kempf´s books and being part of the economic crisis, made us understand that our modern society is on the wrong track.


We decided to rethink our future. After having visited several organic farms in Belgium and Spain in 2009, we were captivated by the generosity and enthusiasm of the people we met there. Compared to the authentic values these people were living, our office jobs, our hectic everyday life seemed fake and meaningless.

Many discussions and sleepless nights later, our decision was clear: We wanted to change our life.

Even more: We wanted other people to discover that it is worth to live closer to nature. But how do you do that? Our solution: Travel various countries and meet positive role models, work with them and share their inspiring ideas with others via interviews, video clips and pictures on a blog!


To this end, in October 2009 we also set up an association – Organicvision – as we wanted to show our sincere long-term investment in promoting sustainable lifestyle and setting up a network of activists in this field as our project develops.


Then we started to seriously prepare our world tour, which will start very soon with a survival training in Belgium followed by a permaculture design course in Southern France.


Want to join the adventure? Meet us at www.organicvision.org

I went to visit the Royal Botanical Garden the other day. The garden is only open to public for a short time every year. I am generally quite reserved when it comes to tourist attractions, but this garden is just amazing and you simply forget about hundreds of people that are amazed by the flower paradise around you.


If you get the chance go and visit the place. Not just a nice thing to light up your weekend – we cannot take enough opportunities to admire the beauty and variety of life nature has created around us. Let me know if you know of similar places that you can recommend .