As Iowa’s newest city, we have a unique opportunity

• to build an ideal city and
• to apply principles that can be adopted by any city anywhere

Parliament for World Peace Citizen Action Committees

The Parliament for World Peace was held April 28, 2002 in 3000 cities around the world. On that date, local citizen action committees—Parliament Committees—were inaugurated. Now in Maharishi Vedic City and Fairfield there are 21 citizen committees with over 200 members working to create a model community for 8,000.

Their goal is to build a model community for 8,000 residents

21 Committees
Representing Every Area of Life

Key Elements

1. Building a healthy community for 8,000 using Vedic Architecture—Maharishi Sthapatya Veda^SM design and sustainable utilities and infrastructure
2. Value-Added Organic Agriculture
3. Dynamic Business and Entrepreneurial Community
4. Peaceful Retirement
5. Prevention Oriented Health Care
6. Complete Education
7. Knowledge-Based Tourism
8. Creating lasting World Peace

1. Building for 8,000

Community planning and building design are based on ancient principles of Maharishi Sthapatya-Veda Vedic Architecture promote health, happiness and good fortune of residents. Houses face east and communities are designed with streets aligned north-south, east-west and surrounded by a green belt of evergreen trees.

Planned as a “City of the Sun,” all energy needs will be met from sun and other renewable sources. Every building is designed to be energy efficient and use natural building materials. Wastewater processing will use a wide range of plants and animals in a garden and greenhouse environment. Native grasses and ponds will retain storm water for reuse including in a secondary water system.

2. Organic Agriculture

Value-added organic agriculture is a cornerstone of the City’s economic plan. The highest quality fresh organic fruits and vegetables are grown year round in greenhouses, picked when ripe—when flavor and nutrition are maximum—and rushed to market within hours.

The project uses sustainable approaches and renewable energy. It is designed to serve not only the local community— a university with all organic food service that is ranked by distributors as one of the largest single organic consumers in the country, local restaurants, food markets, health spas, and consumers—but also a broader service area within a 250 mile radius of the City.

3. Business & Entrepreneurship

Expansion of the business community in an area already known as the “entrepreneurial capital of Iowa” is essential for job creation.

Key to this plan is development of new technology-related businesses including call centers, and a major campaign to attract businesses around the country to expand in this community.

4. Peaceful Retirement

The City is planning an ideal retirement community offering seniors

• A peaceful, crime-free environment
• Rich educational program scientifically verified to enhance creativity and intelligence
• Natural prevention-oriented health care to maintain good health and treat chronic disease
• Recreation and fitness including a wellness center, golf and extensive trails.
• Ideal housing that promotes health and well-being

5. Natural Health Care

The College of Maharishi Vedic Medicine and its Center for Center for Natural Medicine and Prevention—one of the largest of 12 centers of research in complementary and alternative medicine in the country sponsored by the National Institutes of Health—will open its new building in the City in November 2002. The College is becoming a guiding light in the medical and research community in applying ancient Vedic approaches to health to effectively deal with modern medical problems including heart disease.

Prevention-oriented health care and new approaches to chronic disease are available at The Raj—ranked as one of the top 10 spas in the country.

6. Complete Education

The unique feature of this education is development of total brain functioning.

• Maharishi University of Management—founded in 1971, accredited at the doctoral level by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, and offering bachelors, masters, and Ph.D. programs in the sciences, arts, humanities and technologies—is reconstructing its Fairfield campus and planning for expansion in the City.
  
• For the first time, the award-winning Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment is making its Grade 9-12 program available to boarding students.
  
• Maharishi Open University is offering expanded programming via satellite to every country in the world.
  
• Maharishi Spiritual University of America, the only ladies' Consciousness-Based University in the world, offers part-time courses, and day and week-end courses worldwide in Maharishi Vedic Science, to fully unfold the special nourishing, peaceful, harmonious qualities of ladies as they grow to higher states of consciousness. A campus and residence area for ladies is being planned in Maharishi Vedic City.
  
• Ideal Girls School (grades 7–12 boarding and day school) is the only all-girls Consciousness-Based school outside of India. Specially accredited by the Iowa State Department of Education as a college preparatory school, Ideal Girls School offers the standard subjects in light of Maharishi Vedic Science, and applies the beautiful principles of curriculum and instruction from Maharishi Vedic Science to unfold the inner genius, joy, and wisdom of each girl..

7. Tourism

Indoor and outdoor Vedic knowledge gardens and pavilions will attract visitors year-round. The 1.5-acre outdoor Maharishi Vedic Observatory—modeled on ancient observatories found in India and around the world—will be open to the public.

A week-long program of knowledge and fun called “Funfest” held during the week of August 3-10, 2002 will be followed in subsequent years by a summer long “Fairfest” offering a great vacation with knowledge and fun for every member of the family.

Golf will be pesticide and herbicide free on the all-organic golf course with native grasses and wetlands.

8. World Peace

Solutions to the critical challenges of terrorism, crime and violence facing society today have been brought to light by His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and internationally recognized scientists, including John Hagelin, Ph.D. They present a fundamental approach validated by more than 50 replications and 19 published studies that can neutralize the basis of terrorism and crime, preventing terrorist attacks and violence before they begin. (For more information please see www.mou.org/media/index.html/ and Dr. Hagelin’s proposal to government at www.permanentpeace.org.)

This City of Peace is planned to be a part of the implementation of this proven, practical non-violent approach which calls for the establishment of (1) a centralized program—through a group of 8,000 Yogic Flyers in Maharishi Vedic City and the surrounding community to generate an influence of coherence for America and a peace-keeping group of 40,000 Vedic Scholars in India using thousands of years old approaches to generate a powerful influence of coherence for the whole world; and (2) a localized program to create peace-keeping groups of between 100 and 1000 in each of the 3,000 largest cities of the world.