Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage: an introduction

[kobi2187]

I am a Falun Gong practitioner. Falun Dafa is a cultivation system in the Buddha School based on the principles of the Universe: 真 Truthfulness

 善 Compassion 忍 Forbearance.

Since 1999 it has been brutally persecuted by the CCP in China. People are being killed, tortured, put into concentration camps and have organs harvested from live people, simply because of their belief. More than 3400 Falun Gong practitioners have died at the hands of CCP in the past 12 years.

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[EmotionalIntrovert]

GREEN ANARCHY!!!!

[colwilpro]

The global warming thing seems to be a big thing with these villagers when it should not be as global warming is an NWO invention. It's being used to limit population growth - if the economy does not grow then population will do the same. They actually want to reduce population - to 500 million. The earth goes thru cycles where it heats and cools but over the thousands of years. Many scientists have signed petitions saying that GW science is flawed.

[Adamthebarsteward]

Im not into any of that holding hands and singing bollocks. But I definitely could sell up and live that life :)

[ped200014]

@Adamthebarsteward Agreed. The newage tripe can go and is a big turn off but the rest is very cool and interesting.

[EnglandBeat]

Are there no intentional communities in existence with a spiritual, but not so heavily christian, environment? I love and enjoy every aspect of spirituality, but organized religions go against so much of what I believe is best for humanity. Perhaps the song in the video was chosen to represent every man's god, but it -is- a christian song, and if a member of this commune is expected to follow Christianity or -any- particular organized religion, I find that very counterproductive.

[Mcvthree3]

I really admire what these people are doing, but when they stood in a circle holding hands and singing I threw up in my mouth a little.

[ToeIn2194]

@Mcvthree3 same reaction! lol!

[toprobone]

those light bulbs that he mentioned are highly toxic and are suppose to be recycled in a certain way, yet most get tossed in the rubbish, so that's just another joke of society being conscious basically .... it's truly wonderful to see people living like this in the U.S.

[atfatw]

these people are just funks. they don't really do anything important they are much like zendik. they just putz around with very small stuff and live off their money and their parents.their commune, if you want to call it that is just a kind of summertime camp for very immature adults

[fivestarcows]

@atfatw And what exactly do you know about Dancing Rabbit? Have you visited? Because it sounds like the only thing you know about is ignorance!

[atfatw]

@fivestaridiot what you know about communes fool?

[fivestarcows]

@atfatw Well, considering that I live in one I think that I know a little bit about it. Do you always answer questions with questions?

[atfatw]

@fivestarcows do you really live in a commune what is its name?

[fivestarcows]

@atfatw As a matter a fact I do. And it's called Dancing Rabbit. There you go again, answering questions with questions.

[atfatw]

@fivestarcows Ha Ha yeah, I'll bet you live on a commune! definately LOL!!!!!!!!!

[fivestarcows]

@atfatw How should I prove it to you?

[atfatw]

@fivestarcows "IF" you are an actual member of dancing rabbit commune what is your full name so that I can check it out on the member's list of people actually there. also in detail what do YOU actually do there?

[fivestarcows]

@atfatw Well, I'm not formally a member, just because I'm a minor, and therefore cannot be a formal member. But I've lived at Dancing Rabbit for six and a half years now. and what do you mean "do" there? Like jods, hobbies, past time, education....?

[atfatw]

@fivestarcows Dummy! what is your work there? I'll bet you are a kid probably 15 and you just get good grades thats your job. look sonny you must have seen adults working just exactly is it they do WHAT IS THEIR WORK

[xEpiicFaiL]

I hated the stupid black woman in the 30 days episode, she was a disgrace to humanity. what a bitch.

you guys keep doing what your're doing

[gigisandiego96]

TO EACH HIS OWN. But the lifestyle depicted in this video seems so dreary and depressing.

[jetle25]

@gigisandiego96 what is dreary?

[jmg1957]

peace from mississippi

[TheGreenPlague]

I saw this place on 30 days with Morgan Spurlock...Seems great, but how do they get on the internet without wifi?

I couldn't live without meat...humans are meant to eat meat...How would you know if a hostile group was out to kill you for your land? I dunno...Seems like a temporary resort spa.

[atfatw]

@TheGreenPlague

a neighbor sells clean non corporate healthy butchered cow on the farm beef you can't make a living at dancy rabbit there is no industry they shell out saved in the bank money constantly for rents and crops food that they plant and grow and harvest and then purchase not cheap they are not 'down' with the idea of industry job work and bringing money in instead of shelling it out constanly its just a summer camp for grown up adult funks

[tonyjohnbradley]

America was once a beautiful healthy place full of sacred people who were truly connected to the Earth. Let's rebuild that!

[AWSH17]

Fuck these faggots, i wish i could drive a nuclear waste dumping bulldozer through their commune and run all of them over! this is AMERICA!!!

[fivestarcows]

@AWSH17 Please don't have kids, we don't need your genes in the gene pool!

[Proverbs1x26refurbed]

What a bunch of commie fags and freaks. Thank God they formed this commune so us normal folks don't have to see them!

[atfatw]

these people like all communes are consist only of upper class suburban libby commie

white people who really don't want blacks, hispanics or any other people who are not exactly like them they are in addition, dreary funks and nobodies who have nothing to offer anyone like the army communees will not tolerate any disagreement from their'core values' which are like them quite crazy. 'intentional communities' are in reality no real alternative

[TheGeorgianskater]

@atfatw hail the swastika hail the houlocast hail the mighty swastika penis balls trololololol buhhhhhh krel penis cock pussy vag

[metamorabirds98]

@atfatw not even close to the suburban life

[maitrimorningstar]

@atfatw Please don't spawn....please don't spawn....your scary.

[maitrimorningstar]

@atfatw Please don't spawn....please don't spawn....your scary.

And you make no sense....yikes...where do you come from?

[atfatw]

what do you people have in the way of industry? twin oaks has hammock, soy sausage, and tempeh manufacturing what do you have to produce jobs for the communitarians and money to pay the taxes so the workers don't have to pay for everything out of their pockets

[maitrimorningstar]

@atfatw OMG...it's you again. why don't you get more information before you spew your negative, mindless statements. Do you think about anything before you say it?

[atfatw]

@maitrimorningstar

stupid girl, stupid girl! your parents are hippy dippys like these losers who never left high school all these communes are full of rich kids mostly in their twenties they really have nothing to offer the word they are all just funks, cop outs and jerks who can not be anything in life!!!!!!!!!!

[tuddyfruity4]

are they christians? that is awesome! it is hard to find people who live and believe like this that are christians believe it or not...

[xpsyclonex2002]

@tuddyfruity4 This is not a Christian commune. I live 15 miles from them.

[billtheamerican]

The American lifestyle is all left brain. The native/tribal/stone age lifestyle is all right brain. The promise of a sustainable future for man may be a whole brain culture, which will enhance the gift of our wonderful planet with the gift of our amazing human intellect. Thanks for following your hearts and using your heads to move in the right direction. God bless you all.

[AWSH17]

@billtheamerican dude, you're fucking GAY!!!

[RachelEMacD]

I can't access your website. It says the bandwidth is too wide....

[Akeilan]

I should probably reference author Derrick Jensen for that last statement. You should check him out. At the very least he'll make you rethink things.

[Akeilan]

Or better yet your children are starving on the banks of a river saying to each other "There used to be fish here, scaly things you could eat. God D*** you dad!"

[Akeilan]

And these people are experiencing the closest thing to true freedom in this country. . It's called economic slavery. The only difference is that you get to choose your master. So go ahead, choose your master. Wish away the hours of your life waiting for time to clock out, then go home and play with your shiny toys. When you're 65 hoping you can retire, wishing your kids lived closer to you, and possibly have cancer I hope you remember this post.

[maitrimorningstar]

@Akeilan Wow...another mindless splattering of hate filled thinking. Did someone beat you as a child? How do you get like this, really....I'd love to know, well maybe not.

[Akeilan]

It's simple mathematics. If you keep using resources at an industrial pace they will run out. If you like physics then think about the fact that herbicides, pesticides or any other poisen does not disappear after you use it. That's what sustainability is. Many keep trying to use the definition of self sufficiency.

[Akeilan]

I sincerely hope that the whole world goes this way or some way similar. Mankind lived sustainably with the earth for many thousands of years before civilization. Then one day some one developed the concept of ownership and true freedom was lost. It irritates me that people say "technology will save us" when it has done nothing but tighten the noose around our necks.

[nomoreremakes]

Hi, Tony! I saw you on "30 Days" with Johari and Vito! :)

[WONDOCTORJ]

Global warming is not from us, but kudos on the free energy and self sustaining

[ISSUESTHATMATTERMOST]

A wonderful way to live. However global warming is a scam most have fallen victim to. If you want to know how please drop me a line. Otherwise I am impressed with your eco village - a wise way to be at one with Gaia :)

[Pollther]

@ISSUESTHATMATTERMOST

Global warming is not a scam.

[TheWaldorock]

@Pollther i dont know about a scam but they disproved the theory of global warming in about 20 years the axis of the earth will tilt and there will be about 25 years of the planet cooling and then it will tilt again and so on

[greenteen85]

I like being a hippie up until the holding of hands and singing in a circle

[CANvsDK]

can i come live with you guys?!

[nostoppingnow]

Like many today, Im giving this great thought. I have traditional farming, woodworking and carpentry skills to offer my ecovillage. We need to prepare to go completly off the grid.What about taxes, medical, and retirement.Solar is not sustainable energy if a panel breaks and you have to go buy a new one from "the man" .What if someone in the community becomes sick ?Sustain means to be 100% free from any assistance outside of the loop.What about population control? Am I allowed to have children?

[druidia9]

EcoVillages are worldwide. Many fail in the early stages. It must take a special core group of committed (or talented) people to tough it out, since many who come to it are not as committed. It requires social skills and technical skills - notice the solar panels and wind turbines in this video. I applaud the people who are giving it a try here - 15 years is a pretty good run!

[CarlosMerighe]

watch?v=kuovqFwUtDc

[CarlosMerighe]

It sounds like the 1940's on my grandparents' farm. My grandparents had no electricity and no running water. They had to make what they needed or live without, including soap. But life on my grandparents' farm was a life of abundance, with plenty of milk cows, pigs, chickens, and rich land for growing all kinds of crops in a great tropical weather with plenty of rain. But I admire the people living in Dancing Rabbit for sure. I do not have the courage, I regret to admit it.

[atfatw]

are you sure you are not a summer camp for grown up kids to play around in complete with cantteen[mercantile] to buy yummy things at. when will you have industries like east wind commune has to provide jobs, hammock weaving, sandal making, food products selling so that people there can have an income?

[CarlosMerighe]

Global Warming? While scientists argue it out, there is a much more serious issue at hand, overpopulation.

[rakgtr]

no such thing as global warming, they faked all the data

[IamMeredithK]

@CarlosMerighe and running out of oil. or water pollution.

[evieann83]

Utopia? I think so!

[pearharp]

How do I go about moving in? -Doug

[NexusRebellion]

Take a look at their website.

[fivestarcows]

i am sooooooooo lucky to live there

[peacetrees]

This is a great idea but as comments suggest if one is to use this as a model, there is always room for improvement. So perhaps if we intend to do this we should consider our needs and location. Gardening and trade is how people got by in the depression, now we have better technology.

[peacetrees]

Btw, my great grandparents fed their entire community during the depression out of their gardens. They traded in the community for other goods like honey for sugar and also for clothes. I know it can be done, and we should look to the past for those who didn't die trying and thus many of us are here today due to their innovations and intestinal fortitude. There is much we can learn from the pioneers and think how much we know now about alternative energy and things they did not have back then.

[cdltpx]

We are so close to the second comming of the great depression it isn't funny. My grandparents said they were sustained off of poppas ability to hunt and fish. I personally don't hunt rarely fish but I have guns and a personal water craft that is very efficient and light weight that can be launched almost anywhere. We lack a well but we hope the water supply never goes out. Global warming is about to be on the back burner the deficit is going to take first place so soon you would puke.

[sheltona1]

We are in the process of starting an ecovillage in Northern Utah. I thank you for your example!

[BrockRhodes]

not a good model for an average person and the attitude exhibited here is not sustainable. there must be reasons for an individual who doesn't like standing in circles singing songs, and there is. couples and families can work together, have better food, and happier lives spending their time outside and doing pleasant, healthy things, and they can even do this while having normal jobs too. the point of permaculture is less work for more gain. there are many ways to live well, this is only one

[josuha2006]

If they want to call it 'eco-friendly', fine.

But 'sustainable is misleading.

My family are farmers/ranchers

It takes alot of work to make a farm or ranch self sustaining.

Even then, you need talent and trade skills.

I think this is more of a 'fringe' thing (no motor vehicles, cattle etc..)

The real problem with this, is that people will believe this lifestyle is 'sustainable' when in fact, if they were cut off from the outside world, they would'nt make it through their first winter.

[bluedragoni]

its called transition, the idea of sustainability isn't STABILITY that comes through connections to affiliated communes around the country. The idea of sustainability is that the drain you are placing on yourself the environment is not so great that you will deplete your internal or external resources

[josuha2006]

If after 10 years, if these people can't even feed themselves, it does'nt matter what 'drain' you are making on the enviorment.

The bottom line is, can you live with this model in ther real world.

If all you want to do is go to the woods and build a cob house and scratch around in the dirt, then have at it.

But this is the real world.

People have to eat, sustain themselves and progress.

This model cannot do that with their philosophy and techniques.

Time to wake up and get real.

[bluedragoni]

funny how you make the comment they can't feed themselves - funny how you say they aren't living - funny how they are all well spoken and educated and employing methods of living that require intelligence and cooperation. Funny how much of their living supplies come from the industrial excess of people like you who think that the apparent society you see is so much better.

the natural world is the real world!

[josuha2006]

bluedragon..

The 'real world' means you have to eat.

You have to produce enough to sustain not just yourself, but a community.

Not going back to a third world level of production and lifestyle and call it 'natural' or 'sustainable'..they are misnomers and misleading.

The best model I have seen that even comes close is probably the Amish model.

But even then, they use livestock and have skills to work a field and trade skills to make a living.

This model does'nt even come close.

Sorry.

[alaskasalmon11]

Best model I have seen is the Native Americans... then again not possible if one still clings the first world American standards....

[peacetrees]

Joshua, as a farmer what do you think it would take to have a self sustaining farm? In a remote location where it has to be off the grid.

[josuha2006]

There is no such thing as a 'self sustaining' farm.

In the earliar days, there was a 'community economy'.

Metalworkers, carpenters, farmers, lumber, ranches, fabric makers etc.

The reality is, most people do not have the trade skills today to start such an economy.

They have alot of 'theory' but poor real world skills to sustain themsleves.

If you want an indication of a sudden 'transition' to such a lifestyle, read the history of the first settlers before an economy.

Many died.

[alaskasalmon11]

Good Point... Do you have a formal education in farming or a family/experience learning or combo. Thanks

[cdltpx]

You are wrong sir they would make it through their first winter. Donner party of 5? Misourri is not the end of the earth they have a winter but anyone can raise bunnies chickens and save their crops. Sure they are not 100% yet but if forced to do so you would be surprised how well they can survive. Plenty of deer there they are near the river they can fish catsand dogs are edible.

[BrockRhodes]

i think the best attitude toward sustainable agriculture is a selfish one. i don't like living in a city, i don't like working for other people, in fact i don't like working unless the work itself is enjoyable, and i don't like depending on other people for my life. i do like fresh air, peace and quiet, working for myself, and what would be work? cooking, making things, planting, walking around outside, exercising.. this is what i love to do already when i am not caught up in current society.

[josuha2006]

This is NOT 'sustainable'.

Your getting most of your food from the outside.

If the supply was cutoff, they could'nt sustain themselves.

They would'nt even have enough to feed one plow horse, providing they know anything about horses or mules.

City folk..lol

[marqisr2211]

Hey Joshua... just a note that we aren't claiming our food set up is sustainable at this point, but we are making steady progress in that direction. I'd say that we are in agreement about your analysis, but it takes time to establish agriculture and housing people has mainly taken priority, but there is more every year. And I think we are in strong enough connection with our neighbors that we wouldn't starve if the food supply was cut off as you suggest. Thanks for listening-- a Rabbit

[josuha2006]

Where is your livestock?

To have livestock, you have to plant food to feed your livestock.

To plant your food to feed your livestock, you have to have a way to do it..

Digging in the ground on your knees or a hoe does'nt cut it.

If your going to preach this, live it and not just go to the woods and build a cabin and call it sustainable.

If you want to really cut down on fuel, look at the Amish model, but again, that takes work and a realistic approach to sustainability.

[OUTWARDTHINKING]

DID YOU EVEN WATCH THE VIDEO?

[josuha2006]

Yes..I watched ther whole series.

If this project has been going on for 10 years and they can't feed just 30 people on their own, how is this model going to feed 100?..1000?..or a nation?

Building a cob house, making a compose pile and digging in the dirt with a hoe does not make 'sustainable'..

I don't see any livestock, tractor etc.

Looks more like 'flee from the city' by a bunch of city people who don't have a clue what it takes to make a living off the land.

[cdltpx]

You would be surprised how much food you can yield from one row in your front yard. My mother kept just one row we would water it each afternoon we all took turns picking string beans,tomatoes,eggplants, bell peppers,okra, all from one row. That same property use to have chickens a fig tree, People discount what you can grow from home but you can save a lot of money if you grow just one row of vegetables. Add to that we use to go fishing every day we had fish to give away each day.

[bkidmore]

keep it up guy's ! :)

[bmxboy443]

Hippie cunts...

"we want to live like this! ^^ "

no, it's more of, a "we HAVE to live like this because non of use can keep a sustainable job..."

[Tidnull]

fiat currency is sustainable?

[inglisbe]

Yeah, working nine to five at burger king, going home alone and playing computer games until bed seems like a much better option.

[bmxboy443]

You're damn right I work at some fast food chain until I go to tech school, and you're damn right I play ONE computer game until the boredom of the day is over...

It's not like I'll be fucking 30-60 at some druggie eco-farm recycling my own shit...

[inglisbe]

Wow, you have some clearly uninformed stereotypes going on there my friend. How 'bout stepping out of your tiny worldview for three seconds and looking objectively at what these guys are trying to do.

[cmchapman75]

People like that have small minds and small lives. There is no way they could ever step out of their own world.. They wouldn't know how.

It takes guts and intelligence to try and live in a way that is not mainstream. Hell.. Go back 200 years and I am sure his ancestors were living like that. They would have had too. But, that wouldn't mean a thing to someone as small minded as him.

I cheer DR ecovillage, and all the others out there on! May your message be heard above the idiots!

[2012beginning]

You're good people :)

[wenrolland]

Very nice! What you are doing is amazing! Come and check out the video from the Montreal Permaculture Guild on my site.

[BigZeb5]

i want to live dancing rabbits

[ReinhardvonHolst]

Great video... more from me on ecovillages another day, but i just want to say that you guys at dancing rabbit are way ahead of the fossil burning, plastic packaging, unsustainalble people that populate the western world. keep up the good work

[SargonMan]

I will check out the website. I'm wondering who purchased the land and how payments, both tax and other are made. Do people contribute a portion of earned income, etc. Does the website go into that detail? Setting up such a community is great. I'd like to not make the same mistakes so any help is appreciated. Thank you

[metalvz]

same here... even I'm facing the same questions. Just want to get started, but the land!!!

[SpiderMan1307]

OMG...I live outside of Kansas City, Missouri!!! That Eco-Village place is probably a maximum of 3-4 hour drive away!!! :D I am going to go visit this summer for sure!!

[BEACHSURF]

What is in the white buckets and is then being treaded ? Hops for fermenting?Fermenting into what,beer?

What was the hand holding singing saying?

[aNaturalist]

Well, I'm very happy to see an eco village that is doing well. I trully believe in living lightly on the earth, especially with "community". I must admit that I'm somewhat dissapointed that the members are religious.

[ShadowKuluth]

Actually most are not religious, just into some Woo Woo here and there. They don't go around forcing their spiritual views onto people who don't follow the same ones as they do. However the woo woo is more nature direction, harmless really. No one's a Fundie. :P

[rainjustice38]

@aNaturalist religious? there is no formalized religion there.

[TheWaldorock]

@aNaturalist i know this is an old post but why are you disapointed about religion

[CityzenJane]

WOW You guys are up to 30!!!! When I was visiting I think you had about 8 - terrific news...so glad you all are using Youtube!

I hope to visit again someday soon!

[ecraftsmen]

Thanks for posting this video. It's great to see people actively doing positive things for themselves and the wider environment. Very inspirational!

[wr777]

Been following y'all for close to ten years now and it's nice seeing the progress. I saw Dancing Rabbit featured on a Morgan Spurlock 30 Days not too long ago; glad to see the exposure for the cause.

Really looking forward to your next video.

Namaste'

[MerryChicky]

hey, it was great to see all those familiar faces. Looking foward to the next video! :) ~Merry