Asking for your help: Eurotopia contacts in The United Kingdom

Fri Apr 4 00:42:09 BST 2014

Dear friends in The United Kingdom,

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we are asking for your help today in promoting 
our eurotopia European Communities Directory in 
The United Kingdom. Please take a little moment 
to think about where you would want to see 
eurotopia for sale in The United Kingdom. Is 
there any alternative mailorder bookshop or a 
website where people can buy interesting, 
sustainable things? Do you know a bookstore large 
enough to have our English Communities Directory in stock?

Also, what would be a newspaper or newsletter in 
The United Kingdom where we could ask for a 
report on our book? We can offer free copies for 
reviews as well as interesting statistical 
information about communities in The United Kingdom.

All we need are email addresses - we will write 
emails specified for The United Kingdom and can 
hopefully spread the word about living in 
community. Since we are promoting eurotopia from 
our beautiful ecovillage of Sieben Linden in 
Germany, we can't know all distributors in 
Europe. So we are really looking forward to your suggestions.

At this point: Thank you for your attention. 
Below you find some more details about how 
eurotopia is doing and what we would like to archieve.

As you know, we try to include in our book as 
many communities, ecovillages, co-housing 
ventures and eco-settlements as we can find in 
Europe, as well as organisations that seem 
connected to that lifestyle. While we don't say 
that living in community is the solution to all 
problems, we do believe that living in community 
creates situations in which collaboration and 
communication have a good chance to make moves 
towards a sustainable life. Ok, that was a 
careful and diplomatic way to say it. It's easier 
to state that we think that community is an 
adventure - a real, tangible, physical and 
emotional adventure. We call it "the great 
offline adventure" sometimes because it has 
nothing to do with creating online profiles or 
buying software or using electronics at all - 
it's REAL! And that is not self evident at all in these times we live in.

We have published our new book just before 
christmas 2013, as we wrote to you before, and 
actually we are getting a great response of 
orders - we are selling a lot of books. Most 
successful is the German edition, though, and we 
really want to reach readers in the whole of 
Europe and beyond. We also want to get to know 
more communities in other countries, like in The 
United Kingdom where you live. I have a little 
table in which you can see how many communities 
we have listed from each country:

Country

Number of existing communities (published in eurotopia)

Albania

0

Andorra

0

Austria

10

Belarus

0

Belgium

6

Bosnia and Herzegovina

0

Bulgaria

0

Croatia

1

Czech Rep.

1

Denmark

17

Estonia

2

Finland

4

France

19

Germany

160

Greece

4

Hungary

3

Iceland

0

Ireland

3

Italy

17

Kazakhstan

0

Kosovo

0

Latvia

1

Liechtenstein

0

Lithuania

2

Luxembourg

0

Macedonia

0

Malta

0

Moldova

0

Monaco

0

Montenegro

0

Netherlands

19

Norway

3

Poland

6

Portugal

7

Romania

2

Russia

11

San Marino

0

Serbia

0

Slovakia

2

Slovenia

1

Spain

14

Sweden

10

Switzerland

8

Turkey

3

Ukraine

1

UK

44

Vatican City

    0

When we take into account the population of each 
country, we get an Europe-wide average of 0.4 
communities per 1 million Europeans. In the 
following table we compare the existing 
communities (that we know of) with he number of 
communities the country would have applying the 
average relation. This is interesting because it 
gives us an idea of how many communities your 
country could realistically have. We know that we 
don't live in a statistical world (and we are 
happy about it), but it's a challenge for us to 
find a few more communities in the countries that 
have no or very little communities compared to their population.

Country

Population (2008)

Number of existing communities (published in eurotopia)

The number of communities the country would have applying the average relation

Albania

3.170.048

0

1

Andorra

83.888

0

0

Austria

8.430.558

10

3

Belarus

9.489.000

0

4

Belgium

10.666.860

6

4

Bosnia and Herzegovina

4.552.000

0

2

Bulgaria

7.606.551

0

3

Croatia

4.489.409

1

2

Czech Rep.

10.501.197

1

4

Denmark

5.475.791

17

2

Estonia

1.342.000

2

1

Finland

5.326.314

4

2

France

62.793.432

19

26

Germany

81.882.342

160

34

Greece

11.141.740

4

5

Hungary

10.020.000

3

4

Iceland

317.593

0

0

Ireland

4.239.848

3

2

Italy

60.245.846

17

25

Kazakhstan

480.000

0

0

Kosovo

1.800.000

0

1

Latvia

2.261.294

1

1

Liechtenstein

35.789

0

0

Lithuania

3.354.700

2

1

Luxembourg

493.300

0

0

Macedonia

2.063.122

0

1

Malta

410.290

0

0

Moldova

3.300.000

0

1

Monaco

32.796

0

0

Montenegro

672.180

0

0

Netherlands

16.493.156

19

7

Norway

4.825.500

3

2

Poland

38.153.389

6

16

Portugal

10.617.575

7

4

Romania

21.498.616

2

9

Russia

104.000.000

11

43

San Marino

    31.538

0

0

Serbia

9.298.001

0

4

Slovakia

5.455.407

2

2

Slovenia

2.019.614

1

1

Spain

46.661.950

14

19

Sweden

9.269.986

10

4

Switzerland

7.701.900

8

3

Turkey

9.799.745

3

4

Ukraine

45.994.247

1

19

UK

61.113.205

44

25

Vatican City

   932

    0

0

This table is also in our book ("fun with 
statistics"). Please note that I send this mail 
to all international contacts that we have, 
regardless of whether you have been listed in the 
last edition of eurotopia or not. Please 
understand that we are trying to expand our 
distribution while the book is still new - we 
won't send emails like this often.

I hope I haven't bored or bothered you and I wish 
you only the best in your life in community :-).

Mike Würfel

publisher of <http://www.eurotopia.de>eurotopia

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Michael Wuerfel
eurotopia
Poppau - Sieben Linden
38489 Beetzendorf
Germany

eurotopia-office phone +49-(0)39000-90621
eurotopia-office fax: +49-(0)3212-1172008

<http://www.eurotopia.de>www.eurotopia.de

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