Finding an Ecovillage / Sacred Activism

[Shivalaya777]

Thank you so much for posting, it´s very useful information!

[Engineer245]

I have been searching for an agra community farm that is common land with villages around it that belong to each individual. Each person can participate to what ever degree but less participation returns less from the community. A place were the leadership is a civic duty and is voluntary with no compensation. A place where the more sweat equity you put it the more you get. No sweat no return. I have been one of the slaves to a group that expended very little physical energy. Never again!

[koberask]

and TECHNOLOGY. why can we not use technology more than this? Oh wait, we can! Join the zeitgeist movement! resource based economy!

[filmguy2003]

Very helpful and wonderfully articulate video.

[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.

[MrMrPanPan]

How about a swingers eco community? ahhhh yeah... sounds like paradise to me!

[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?

[racinkc]

wow this is great!

[TakeTheGreenPill]

This is!

[racinkc]

so whats the difference between ecovilliages and wwoof and ccof????

[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).

[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.

[Sonar37]

Don't get me wrong I fully enjoy most of the videos produced by these Gals thus I subscribed.

[ArboriusOwns]

LOL the worlds pain and suffering what a load of crap.

[towhook]

A load of crap indeed.

[ArboriusOwns]

Indeed These people are nuts.

[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.

[ArboriusOwns]

Doesn't sound like a religion to me it sounds like they smoke too much weed.

[yogiudo]

really great video.. very inspiring..

Looking in...

[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.

[koberask]

@peakmoment I say a resource based economy would be much better. We can do much better than this. This is for sure a step in the right direction, rather we use the Marxist style or not. But this is forgetting the capabilities of technology. How about working on automating organic farming? And producing all the goods everyone wants and we share it all? Venus Project.

[odin422]

PERFECT SUBJECT MATTER

[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.

[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?

[peakmoment]

Human farming? What do you mean?

[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

[permacultureli]

beautiful houses, lively colors, great as backdrop...I want to start an intentional community...I will be announcing it locally to the retired americans living here the coast, in case some want to come just 1 km inland and create the community with me, on 10,000 m2 my family actually wants to sell....I will also post a video proposing the project online.

[LarkaSojourn]

This is very promising. I've seen it working in Frederick Tennessee quite well. I may do this near the snake river Oregon Idaho border with a collective ranch. I look forward to your video.

[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.

[KARStarla]

These videos sound just wonderful, but they are not rooted in reality, with eminent domain land grabs and the aparent desire to push codex alimentarius through, living on the land with God given food with natural seed on it will be unlawful under that, not to mention the buying up of aquifiers and laws prohibiting (though not "yet" enforced) rainwater catchment. Sorta like wishing the world could be what it was meant to be without looking at the oppressive laws that would take it away anyway

[quantumsolutions]

Whoa Whoa Whoa. How can you accept that!!! We must not capitulate to a bunch of words written on flimsy pieces of paper by a bunch of crooks in secret meetings.

Check out the Freeman on the Land movement. Under that you are not subject to statutes which we assume are "law". If interested, here's a funny video of a man who gets to drive 90mph in a 45 zone without a driver's licence cuz he understands how it works. =))

watch?v=8Epdh8kG1LI

You're right. We must live Free under God.=))

[LarkaSojourn]

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth. We have the Red cloud encroaching and what we have to do is get out into the wilderness and forge a new way of living. I keep 2K of heirloom seeds always.

[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

[EbolaV1rus]

Love all of your videos. They are so informative, I really appreciate you sharing them with all of us.

The woman who conducts the interviews is fantastic. She really keeps the conversation flowing, and has a real skill with helping people feel at ease.

[permacultureli]

oh...janaia is excelent!.