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Our FocusOur Vision
Vision
The word 'bustan' refers to a fruit-yielding orchard (Hebrew & Arabic), and the name symbolizes what we seek to accomplish. A bustan is sustainable due to its diversity: one plant is a natural insecticide for another, another acts as a trellis for a vine, another preserves water in its roots and sustains neighboring plants. Conversely, in a 'monoculture,' plants are weak and must be doused with harmful chemicals to protect themselves from parasite and weed invasion. BUSTAN believes that the peoples of this land are intertwined and survive most productively in fellowship with one another.
Projecting over 10 years, we will have been a total success if our hitherto radical approach to fair resource allocation — promoting self-sufficiency via affordable green technologies, advocating for 1st-world environmental regulation matching 1st-world consumption, & challenging Jewish-only development — has become mainstream.
Combined forces of regional conflict, and the global marketplace have yielded too much construction, and too much destruction of the fragile landscape between Israel's Jewish and Arab inhabitants, and the region's public resources. To address the degradation and systematic appropriation of public resources, our proactive programs aim to raise awareness to the political aspects of ‘development,’ the subsequent disappearance of the rural landscape, and the impact on once self-reliant peoples.
Mission
All of our work seeks to:
1. Promote fair allocation of clean resources
- Advancing cutting-edge analysis of the implications of unequal distribution of resources, as a first step towards demanding greater government, donor, and corporate accountability.
- Launching educational outreach across ethnic & national boundaries to increase awareness of the environmental & human rights problems in the desert & encourage involvement in advancing solutions.
2. Foster a culture of sustainable self-reliance
- Facilitating self-sufficiency in marginalized communities through fair dissemination of environmental technology applications, & supporting sustainable initiatives towards ‘Greening the Desert.’
- Promoting environmentally-sound alternatives in order to enable a healthier form of resistance against both discriminatory policies & rampant environmental degradation.
Over time, we aim to foster a culture of environmental justice and sustainability in the wider Israeli social arena, in a common struggle for a sustainable future.
BUSTAN cultivates sustainable models to promote fair allocation of clean public resources. BUSTAN strives to present sustainable and replicable models for a healthy paradigm of development that serves both Jewish and Arab populations by promoting stewardship in the face of strident political wars over ownership of public resources.
As a Jewish-Arab movement for fair resource allocation, we seek to transform the excess of unsustainable consumption patterns into resource access for marginalized populations. We connect citizens with cost-cutting green technologies in order to spark consciousness of the wider benefits of sustainable living. The experience of self-reliance in lieu of waiting for government assistance is often a first step towards catalyzing renewal and social change.
"Vision without Action is a Daydream, Action without Vision is a Nightmare." —Japanese Proverb
