Finding an Ecovillage / Sacred Activism Video
Peak Moment 148: In this two-part program, Diana Leafe Christian, author of Finding Community: How to join an Ecovillage or Intentional Community, zeros in on how to find an ecovillage. Once you determine what you want, what are the criteria to explore whether a particular ecovillage is a good fit for you? http://www.ecovillagenews.org
In part two, Bob Banner, publisher of Hopedance magazine, shares insights from Andrew Harvey's Sacred Activism workshop: "What breaks your heart, what you really love, is the thing that will sustain you. That's what you ought to be doing." For Bob, it's using media to bring together the political with the spiritual, the environmental, and business. http://www.hopedance.org
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permacultureli: hopefully there will be an interest among the local US retired residents...a lot cheaper than the ocean front properties they usually purchase...but not something with any precedents, and the value would be more related to the lifestyle and ideology...though the architectural and permacultural design in general would also be as atractive as possible.
quantumsolutions: Such wonderful interviews. I esp. liked the Sacred Activism part. Reminds me of a story of an old Iraqi woman who lost all of her family to a missile and when the soldier who ordered the missile came into the house and saw what he had done, he started beating his head against the wall in frustration. She came over to him and put her hand on his face and said, "It is God's will." and instantly forgave him. He now speaks out against war. vid is below if anyone interested. watch?v=8J0PI8vCH50
PsyogiBottoms: I apologize if this is untactful - but doesn't this look a little like human farming? I'm a bit concerned for the direction this is headed. Possibly I'm mistaken?
KARStarla: Your in la la land, and I havent spent anytime aquiring an excessive knowledge of marxism. I keep heirloom seeds too, big deal
LarkaSojourn: :-P
scarmenl: How about we all strive to build a modern community that is based on clean fuel and tech. All of this dieing and death thought is not a good approach in my opinion. It is, to me, another way of giving up. If there is going to be some dieing off as you are saying I say it should be the destroyers and takers that should do the dieing off. Not the good people that want a better life with good approaches.
odin422: PERFECT SUBJECT MATTER
Sonar37: Lost me on this one peak moment. All people do not want to live in Marxist style communes. I personally don't live beyond my means and I know how to produce my own food, energy and drink. People that whine about being criticized for having feelings grind me. Don't we all have feelings, nothing more than feelings LOL.
peakmoment: There are Ecovillages worldwide. Diana says most do not pool their income (Marxist style). In the ecovillage where she lives, people have independent incomes and pay into the village, plus annual dues, and pay for their own home cost (much like a condominium I think.) Of course, Ecovillage living isn't for everyone. For many, the appeal is to grow better humans, to reconnect, to share more with others.
peakmoment: Human farming? What do you mean?
yogiudo: really great video.. very inspiring.. Looking in...
ArboriusOwns: LOL the worlds pain and suffering what a load of crap.
towhook: A load of crap indeed.
magua73: I kind of agree " the worlds pain and suffering" sounds a bit to much like religious nonsense, thus I usually interpret those kind of statements, not literally but as an effort to be more self consciousness about the problems the world is facing. So don't read to much into it, as it usually clouds the message, but focus instead on the message itself, which is ultimately the most important thing.
Sonar37: Don't get me wrong I fully enjoy most of the videos produced by these Gals thus I subscribed.
Sonar37: I tend to veer away from lock-stepped thinking and I feel the USA will be much better off when the individual thinkers businesspeople and workers re-emerge to rebuild the foundation of comers and society here in the USA.
ArboriusOwns: Indeed These people are nuts.
ArboriusOwns: Doesn't sound like a religion to me it sounds like they smoke too much weed.
racinkc: so whats the difference between ecovilliages and wwoof and ccof????
racinkc: wow this is great!
peakmoment: An ecovillage is a place people live and many work in. WWOOF "World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms" is an organization which bring interns to farms (some of which might be in ecovillages). CCOF is an organic certification organization (again, not a place).
TakeTheGreenPill: This is!
estoboy29: iv got an idea to fix food and mat issues.place a pvc system over a building and run water through it, and let grow hemp for the first year to produce the materials needed to get eco friendly. fill our streets with hemp pots full of veggies and blast them with our lovely supersoakers. whos for that future?
MrMrPanPan: How about a swingers eco community? ahhhh yeah... sounds like paradise to me!
kingazzaman: "Why are we afraid of our grief?" Grief, if allowed to inform as it's supposed to, will reveal what's truly important to you If grief is ignored, or avoided with addictions, obessions, or self-pity- it will multiply into depression, madness, and the kinds of horrors that ocurr on our streets daily I imagine a row of small apartments, each with a lonely soul in it, only yards from another lonely human, and another, and another. "The Matrix" was a huge hit for a deeply sad reason.
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