Finding an Ecovillage / Sacred Activism

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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• intentional
• community
• ecovillage
• activism
• spirituality

[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]

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.

[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?

[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.

[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.

[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]

@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.

[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?

[TakeTheGreenPill]

This is!