B-I-G’s Mission

Based on the bio energetic potential of Eastern Europe and the globe, to give Form to our creative impulses in the bio mass domain for the long term benefit of People, Planet and Profit

B-I-G’s Long Term Objectives:

• To Build the institutions, infrastructure, and the economical and monetary base for a sustainable revival of the countryside
• To engage in open, network type of arrangements to create and foster the emergence of a co-operative and collaborative spirit as the backbone of productive, conscientious and joyously living communities
• To demonstrate the viability of alternative business models to underpin economic thinking based on abundance rather that the classical scarcity thinking

B-I-G’s basic institutions will be businesses organised around the principles of Communities of Practice which in turn will focus on:

• Agro and other use of the land and countryside
• Sustainable energy production and consumption
• Community of Service to People, Plant and Profit (3P’s)
• Selected domains of Innovation
• Collective and individual Healing
• Arts and Creative Living as ‘Education Permanente’
• Consultation as basis for decision making
• And Your choice:……………………………………..

B-I-G’s Core Values to underpin operations and to put the 3P* principles into practice it:

1. Will practice Value based Leadership and Management
2. Aims at zero emission so that its creations may be sustainable
3. Will engage in Ethical Business Practices and not co-operate or tolerate corruption practises or behaviour
4. Actively seek to balance the roles of woman in order to have a true partnership of women and men
5. Considers itself as an integrated part of the environment and hence looks to take the long time view
6. Will research, develop and seek to put into practice a new paradigm of work and money
7. Sees consultation as a key practise for decision making

* In B-I-G, 3P stands for: People, Planet and Profit (in sequence of priority)

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