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Imagining Your Peaceful World Bed & Breakfast, Hostel, Small Hotel or Café


Peaceful World is forming a global network of small locally owned and operated Bed & Breakfasts, Small Hotels, Hostels and Cafes focused on local cultures and providing meeting places for travelers and hosts.

 

Some of these Centers already exist but are unconnected. Others will be created anew to support a local social or environmental project, reflecting the needs and traditions of their own locales.

 

At the Civil Rights Inn, a small hotel near the sites of Martin Luther King's assassination, the famous bridge, and the Birmingham jail, each room is decorated with dramatic photos and quotes of the era. Pilgrims to these historic places can stay in inspiring and educational surroundings and become, themselves, motivated to help change the world.

 

Washington D.C.'s Founders Dreams Bed & Breakfast, each guest room features a document - Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, Kennedy's Inaugural Address, documents, photos, of the visions for America, books.

 

Hawaii's Real Hawaiian History Bed & Breakfast, each room featuring large portrait of a real Hawaiian leader, for instance Queen Liliuokalani, and documents and stories of her imprisonment and dying of a broken heart.

 

The Butterfly Inn incorporating a real butterfly farm and educational materials about butterfly habitat and conditions for survival.

Interstate 40's Native Indian Thinkers Inn, each guest room features a huge portrait of Indian leaders of the area like Crazy Horse, Chief Seattle, Chief Big Foot and quotations by them.

Interstate 99's Broken Treaties Hotel, each guest room features a wall size copy of a treaty signed between two sovereign nations and never kept by the U.S. government. Learning about situation of native Americans then and now.

Chacala's Native Trees Bed & Breakfast, each guest room is themed around a local native tree or plant, colors, paintings, local uses and medicinal values, etc.

Kathmandu's Educate-the-Children Bed & Breakfast, next door is a model local school. Opportunities for teachers and staff to interact with travelers - "show and tell"

 

More possible themes for Peaceful World Centers

 

Local birds Organic farming Local Neighborhood Projects Local Forest Preservation
Land Management Indian Culture Manufacturing Alternatives Alternative Architecture
Community,
co-housing
Holistic body and Health Services Environmental Art Spiritual Art
Art connected with local environment Museum or School  of inspiring future visions, legends Biodynamic gardens, wildlife reserve, plant reserve Education centers, children, women, multi-ethnic, peace center
Population control Handcraft centers, scientific research, rivers Socially conscious theatre, participatory dance Fishing and fish conservation
Museum of local dinosaur species, archeology Neighboring monasteries past and present Wind power in action, solar power in action Humane societies, animal sanctuaries

 

 

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