Living in the Future Episode 06- Tinkers bubble

[ferdonandebull]

Haven't seen a plow used in twenty odd years now.

In my state no one plows anymore.

These kinds of little settlements are fine but we all cannot live like this. We have to produce more effectively or be willing to starve off some population....

[loki1066]

I'd like to spend a couple of days with mary.

[thebluebunny1]

what a cool idea

[jantjesjantje]

Bunch of stupid guys ... :)

Don't you understand that this is something you just have to do instead of making wishes?

And otherwise do the step by step. A sort of survival for the weekend and holidays.

If you really want this you wil take the step in time. (As your confidence increases.)

You'll see that in time people will join you.

[pgm98387]

In the states I've seen other videos of intentional farming communities. Rarely see anyone over 30. Maybe the commune thing failed after the 60's it was a glamorized lifestyle. Out of reach from the average working class persons living in the suburbs.

Sister & brother in law tried that in So. OR. had a really ruff go at it. living out of small trailers selling roadside produce..

[kindly4real]

@pgm98387

Check out The Farm in Summertown TN. 35 years and going strong.

thefarmcommunity . com

[flute4hire]

Wish I'd got involved with the tinkers bubble crew when I had the chance.

[asubjectiveopinion]

I wish someone would start something like this for those of us who haven't got enough money for buying shares etc.

Maybe one day, eh?

[ncis098765]

iv just been there. it is well cool. i would love to live there

[MrEnergyCzar]

those who live like this are probably way happier than most billionaires...

[nineteenthly]

It's good that you can live this way and i aspire to do the same in the city. I should probably find out how you got to this point, but i have a couple of concerns. One is, do you have access to the land without having to pay for it? How did you manage if so? The other is, i find it almost impossibly hard to generate an income without compromising. If you had to provide a financial input, does what you're doing now balance any harm done to generate the necessary income.

[makerofstuff]

It rather looks like a step back in time, but it is the only way that people will be able to make it and restore the planet. I use more of a no till intensive garden technique here in Colorado and find that it works lovely for me. I have ms and find that the digging was the part of gardening I could not do. The soil here is much better for it. The garden grew well even during drought. Though the cold summer and hail did it no favors.

[MrNeosoul99]

I want to live like you guys! ;-)

[PakaNoHida]

Well, the naturalist Viktor Schauberger has proven, all be it around 100 years ago that plowing was a very bad idea, but if needed to be done it should be done with special plows.

Look him up, and the flow form concept which I will be implementing into my permaculture.. If you want more info on Schauberger message me directly or check out my favorites which won't explain it, but you can see some flow forms in use.

[ChoasTheory2000]

How what would help?

[PakaNoHida]

If anyone researches a "Food Forest" and uses the Fukuoka method of farming with it, you can over produce the average amount of food a person normally raises in 1 acre with no use of fertilizers, pesticides and weeding over time. It's amazing that we have moved so far from the old ways & that fear is keeping us from doing what is right like these people have.

[ChoasTheory2000]

I think your talking about Permaculture right? If people would adopt some of these things that have been around for ages then you get a place like Fukuoka Japan. Instead profit drives societies not innovation, which I hope will some day change.

[PakaNoHida]

Yes it is a Permaculture method. I attempted it in a small scale manner over the last 2 years on a 10 by 10 area and my veggies have exploded in size in all directions, even crossing into the neighbors yard!!! No compost, no fertilizer, no pesticides and best of all, minimal weeding.

[PakaNoHida]

Why are you afraid of the idea? 1 acre is huge.

[silverhawks]

I'd also take the opportunity to point this out - what these people are doing is the DEFINITION of free market capitalism. Capitalism is not about money, it is about private individuals controlling the means of production for their own prosperity. Contrast this to the corporatism you see on Wall Street. Look up the difference, become aware of why the two systems are different, and realise that the "means of production" refers to people, their minds, their dreams, and their ingenuity.

[ChoasTheory2000]

If you like Sustainable living, check out the Garbage Warrior DVD. It's a documentary about an architect by the name of Micheal Reynolds who has built a fully off the grid community out in the New Mexico desert. He has been my inpiration to develop another sustainable community here in Canada.

[PakaNoHida]

You should also check out the work by Fukuoka

[ChoasTheory2000]

I'm assuming you mean the city in Japan right? I've seen the work they have been doing there, some of which is very expensive. I'm thinking of making things affordable for everyone. Land is cheap here and you could easily start up a community that is fully sustainable and not dependent of very expensive and wastefull infrastructure, like the centralized systems employed by most towns a cities. Fukuoka has managed to "green" itself, but it's far from self-sustainable yet.

[archaedemos]

nice village, too bad the world couldn't live with technology AND nature Combined in a great way.

[quantumsolutions]

Beautiful. Inspiring. Read Anastasia, Ringing Cedars series. Has inspired a massive eco-village movement in Russia. Life changing books that touch on every subject under the sun from an insightful woman who lives in the Taiga, Anastasia.

Also agree with comment below. We must stop defecating in our water. How backward of us. Read Humanure book online for free and you will understand immediately how ridiculous our crazy unconscious habits are.

[zakoomu]

MCD's would run out of business, those people are serious about unnecessary fastfood expenses!! It is best to tend to their gardens than work for minimum wages in a McD's.

That ecovillage will survive for a very long time, atleast until every single one of those people and their descendants are dead and gone.

It's weird how the established system of McD's has lasted this long!! People are stupid and fools for allowing themselves to become slaves to monthly bills and killer food.

[zakoomu]

Who will buy starbucks coffee??! Without customers, a starbucks would soon run out of business. Those people are not fools and I commend them for ducking the established system. They grow their food, build their houses, make their own furniture, and live off grid. They are not slaves to monthly bills. It's obvious, they don't eat genetically modified organisms. They don't have flouride, chlorine, etc in their drinking water either. They will escape lots of common ailments and diseases.

[LAFF99]

why the negative responses to my comment? I would love if everyone could live the way they want to without destruction but how can 7 billion and rising be supported like so on this planet? Please enlighten me

[Baratgab]

They probably don't need that much land to live on; they just possess it. :-)

You're right, population is a problem; but not the main problem, IMO. Like any other animal, we have the capacity to be a productive member of the biological community. But we dumb enough to ignore the mechanism of nature: our industrialized, urban way of living is full of environmentally unfit practices. For example, our excrement is precious fertilizer to the soil, but we contaminate the (drinking) waters with it.

[Baratgab]

If you're interested about the humanure problem, you can google "Humanure Handbook". :-)

Modern agriculture is also highly destructive and resource-intensive: there are other methods that produce similar yields, without poisoning and eroding the land (google "permaculture"). Of course many of our habits are not just "wrongly implemented", but simply unsustainable. One example is the meat-based diet that requires enormous amount of soil, water and plants (google "FAO livestock's long shadow").

[Neoprimitivist]

There is no way that 7 billion people can live the way they like wihout destruction of the planet. The humans today are 100 times more commen than we should be, acording to the law of nature. Many reseachers have estimated that the world can handle maximum 2 billion people at the maximum limit, without pushing animals and plants to extinction.

[silverhawks]

That's how we live now. If we used our resources efficiently, worked out better ways of living, created communities in harmony with nature, we'd actually be able to sustain a global population closer to 20 billion, with no overcrowding and no shortages of any kind. The research for this is out there, take a look around. Right now our world is a mess, since everything is set up to make money and sustain power for the elites, even the way our cities are constructed. Think about it.

[LAFF99]

I'm not so good at maths, 40 acres to support how many in a world of 7 billion. Is the planet big enough and how many can afford to own 40 acres? Only the rich

[Neoprimitivist]

I agree, there is too many people on the earth. The earth can max suport 2 billion people without harming the nature and its animals. We need to reduce the population.

[zakoomu]

If you want to reduce the population, start with yourself. You can either commit suicide; be childless or have one child; go on a mass shoot out; support the wars in iraq, afghanistan, etc so that reproductively capable men and women can be drafted into the army for the sole purpose of extermination on the front lines of the battle fields; or encourage unhealthy eating habits of the fastfood nation to induce chronical illnesses to wipe out thousands (heartattacks, diabetes, strokes, etc).

[Neoprimitivist]

It't take more than one to tango. But yes, I will not support population further by having a lots of kids.

[Flowerchild4love]

Beautiful visionary people and settlement. For those interested, check out the many eco-village concepts via Google. Ithica, New York is doing amazing things, yet keeping a more traditional housing design. So many great ideas and possibilities are surfacing.

[cargnar]

Just simple low-stress living -- sweet story Thank you

[feeleasyuk]

inspiring... we've got a plan and some land and you're an inspiration xx

[goowealth]

Back to natural habitat and minimal pollution...

[usmartine]

Thanks for this wonderful video!!!!

[DJmisplacedmarbles]

wish so much my family and I could live there

[Moongal028]

amazing!!!

[sherriwestfall]

I could do that!

[daligoddess2006]

I want to live there! WOW!

[TheFloShow]

looks cosy

[ParadiseEarth1]

Interesting. Could this kind of Eco Village be feasible for widespread implementation?

[namzezam]

a kiss and thanks, and also see kesselberg

[raw420x]

with a nice woman and a skateboard ramp I'd be so happy living there! 5 stars

[FireMynx]

beautiful! :)

[SCODgreenhood]

FANTASTIC!!! *****

[razelma]

Thanks for sharing this..fantastic.