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Vital Design
Fortunate Blessings Foundation president William Spear is a recognized authority on health and environmental issues, feng shui, natural architecture and community planning. His own approach to vital design, Intuitive Feng Shui (registered service mark), is presented in his bestselling book, Feng Shui Made Easy: Designing Your Life With the Ancient Art of Placement, first published by HarperCollins in 1995 and new revised in 2010 with North Atlantic Books. The first edition was translated into eleven languages and was hailed by the New York Times as "the most user-friendly explanation of feng shui for American audiences."
The Fortunate Blessings Foundation presents lectures and courses taught internationally by Mr. Spear for architects, interior designers, urban planners and concerned citizens. The focus of these activities is innovative community and home design that balances maximum well-being of inhabitants with minimum environmental impact. It is our belief that a sustainably designed structure should aid its dwellers in integrating their inner and outer realities; to this end, we support stress-reducing interior design and landscaping, energy-efficient and renewable energy technologies, and, ultimately, sustainable economics, organic agriculture, and ecological conservation. The Foundation is particularly interested in innovative design for schools, hospitals and nursing homes, parks and playgrounds, libraries, homeless shelters and urban planning projects.
Since 1983, we have also undertaken a variety of studies on the effect of the environment on health and the relationship of diet to disease; care and support of patients dying of cancer and AIDS; care and support of nuclear-accident survivors, especially children, in Chelyabinsk, Ukraine; and care and support of people affected by the wars in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo. We conducted whole-foods cooking classes for refugees in Croatia and victims of radiation poisoning in Chelyabinsk, to show how nutritional fortification could help reduce the negative effects of radioactive fallout and exposure to the conditions of war. In 1993, Mr. Zlatko Pejic, founder and president of our sister organization in Zagreb, "The Society for the Improvement of the Quality of Life," was awarded the "Green Oscar" - the Earth Day International Award - at the United Nations for his work in environmental protection and towards peace during the war in the former Yugoslavia.
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