An ecological family living in Berlin

In January 2010, Nicola Zolin, Benjamin Lesage and I, Raphael Fellmer, departed from The Hague (Netherlands) and set off on our ‘Journey of Humanity’ without any money, hitchhiking over sea and land, from Europe to Mexico.

To go on this path that had not yet been trodden turned out to be a true adventure from the very first moment. It was only made possible thanks to the thousands of people that, wherever we ca¬¬me to meet them, gave us their trust, their food, and their love. In Mexico, Nieves Palmer, a girl from Mallorca that had joined us in Guyana, became pregnant, and after having travelled 32,000 kilometres over land and water with over 500 vehicles in fifteen months, we went back to Berlin.

These fifteen months changed our lives completely. Already while crossing the Atlantic a second time, we felt that we didn’t want to, or even weren’t able to participate any longer in the excess-consumption society we live in. No more consumption, no more looking away from the billions of people that suffer from hunger every day. We decided to maintain our money strike in order to raise awareness of (bring attention to) the injustice, the suffering and the destruction of the environment, and at the same time to find possible solutions that enable a life more in peace and harmony with people, animals and nature.

The basement of our good friends’ house in Kleinmachnow, not far outside the gates of the capital, became our new home, and our family life started when Nieves gave birth to our dear daughter Alma Lucia, a gift from heaven.

Mexico - here we come!

It was the 25th of November 2010, just some days left until the beginning of the COP16, the Climate Change Conference in Cancun, when we walked over the bridge into Mexico!!! Thousands of people helped us wherever we came, more than 330 vehicles gave us a ride and it took us almost a year to cover the 24 000km from The Hague, Netherlands, crossing Europe, Africa, the Atlantic Ocean and finally a big part of Latin America to get here. Thanks to the people our dream came true and “The Journey of Humanity” became reality, shifted our mind, opened our hearts and showed us how good and precious humans are by nature.

Earth and Hearts

Earth...mother of all livings...all earthlings who live together, breathing the same air, drinking the same water, aspiring all to live in peace and harmony with the world. This is not a dream...it is a vision, a vision shared by millions of human beings all around the world. to live in peace and harmony loving each other. This is not a dream...it is reality, waiting for us...

Today, Reality means change...it means breaking the old rules, putting down the bases of a society that is going straight to self-destruction. Today is the time to put an end to the absurdity of our ways of living, consuming and thinking. We are all one, all united. whatever action we do, whatever thought we have has an impact on the world, on people, on nature. Earth is a jewel of perfection where everything works in circle...circle of life...circle of water coming from the sea, getting desalinized in the clouds to swamp the lands...get filtered by the earth for the livings and coming back to the seas...Nature is perfect...all what human beings have to do is to live in harmony with it...to go with the wind as it blows.