Guest guest Posted January 18, 2006 Report Share Posted January 18, 2006 To all of our New Friends, Yes we do cherish much more than just the word community. The Eden Project is just another EcoVillage to save the Earth and a whole lot of other places no less as just a humble part of the emerging vision of the Emerald Forest. Eden Village in this way is just one small part of the larger vision of becoming the good stewards of the entire web of life that is the Emerald Forest. We are to become the Kindred Spirits of the Emerald Forest. The place could be called Eden Village. People who understand the real significance of Personal Freedom would be welcomed to come who want to live there or have been welcomed to come as visitors or who have come with friends or been given approval through various internships and learning programs and work trades or to attend Global EcoVillage Conferences. Various people you might meet at the meetings may welcome you to stay at their homes or direct you to campsites nearby if you have come a long way and don't have any place else to go but that is all on the voluntary level. It is considered to be an insult to expect anything that you have not provided in any healthy Eco-Logical culture. If you think there should be a bowl of organic tangerines on the table then you bring them. We are only inviting other creative people to join in with us who come in full collaboration as supportive and companionable members of the larger growing resource base behind this emerging vision and within the creation framework of the Kindred Spirits of the Emerald Forest which is connected up with most all other communities who stand in unity in good faith who uphold their end of our vision of a Earth Restored and a World at Peace. Once that foundation of supportive contributors has reached a critical mass and an unofficial core group of deeply committed supportive members is in place and been well enough integrated we will then be able to go ahead and buy the land. Towards that End we expect people to open up personal accounts in the Permaculture Credit Union. You can access that off our webpage. In the application box for what business you may be affiliated with don't put down that you are a shoemaker or a gambler just put Eden if you will in that space so we can keep track while you still retain full control. These decisions will be made by a 3/4 consensus among the densest of those who have committed to the project and are on the stewards council. Each of those will in return get to have one of the 3 acre homesteads and one of the 2 acre farmsites for their own personal use at a lower rate in return for their early support which will help to get the ball rolling into an Eco-Logical Critcal Mass. $1,500. gets you on that Council as one of the preposterously bombastic initial members and that goes towards your full Contribution Pledge which can be as low as $30,000. or even as low as $24,000 for those who want to claim the seniors discount and are willing to dress up like old folks and hobble around on crutches. This is going to be relatively inexpensive for that much personal use land within a larger community of this finely crafted high quality of integration that has even more land that is to be held collectively and to be the place of the 200 acre Community Farm and extensive protected surrounding forest lands. We will have the Village Commons too which will be like a 64 acre downtown ecovillage mini eco-tropolis shared use area with a multiuse building and a few other things all surrounded by a park like wooded area with ponds and a creek flowing through it with maybe a vegan restaurant. There we could have a place where we can have music and a community garden for interns and one for the children and all that can be paid off by the month and that all goes along with what you get for your money. The homesteads are there because some people maybe really do need a place where they can go to get away from the fully involved full blown intensity of the vibrantly alive community village once in a while. The whole community vision of the Emerald Forest is at the real heart of Eden and so it is not all just about the people and their personal needs to suck the Earth dry. But seriously I do personally try to welcome most all true collaborators to become true companions who do have a sense of humor and can make a real contribution and will work very closely with me and some of the other folks towards Saving the Earth by creating the Emerald Forest of all sustainable communities and their friends throughout the Americas and all around the world. That Equitable Contribution plan if you must know will make it possible for each of the fuzzy furry homesteaders to get in for as little as $380. a month or even less for seniors and that is with no down payment. Each homesteader will then have to build his or her own naturally non toxic passive solar home right in the center of that homestead if you don't mind and native trees will then be planted all around the rest of the homestead as you wish. Eden is going to be in a county which is the most alternative friendly place in the known Universe being the first place on Earth and a whole lot of other places to ban genetically engineered crops among other things like fewer building code restrictions for owner builders and a fairly progressive local population base. The beautifully formed Valley of Eden is already named Eden. Eden Village will become everything that very significant name suggests and much much more. The only drawback for those who have no hope is that we must put truth first here and we do expect trust to be well in place first as those who are not willing to trust anyone cannot themselves be entrusted with anything so do be somebody we might want to have right from the start or you may no make it through. The usual fantasies about need and greed having universal predominance over every real thing that ever tried to grow might have to be re-examined in the light of the emerging Eco-Logical Truth instead of Goof as that which has not been thoroughly checked out will not hold water here for long since where we are going is beyond the sidewalks of doom and gloom and all these loony tunes that have no room for the kind and loving qualities that we hold high and the people that we hold so dear and clear so don't be tragic and remember the magic. We are not just grasping for straws. We are now in the planning stages of a significant new creation. But we have no tolerance for the brain dead conglomerations of mass destruction. This is to be the human scale 2,000 acre Sustainable EcoVillage Community where everybody has a passive solar home on enough land in that community to feed themselves and their families and a share in decision making which is by a Consensus of all homesteaders and within walkable distances from the village. There will also be Ancient Valley, a camping and retreat area with 2 large lakes one of which is about 40 acres. There will be 3 acre homesteads all around the rim of the valley as well as 2 acre farmsites where people can make a living as small farmers. There will also be the Community Farm of about 300 acres in Raspberries to create jobs and to help drive our own Sustainable Micro-Economy which also does not work by need and greed. We will have Permaculture Trainings, Sustainable Living workshops and protecting the environment and more personal freedom which starts right here in the heart of the Earth but that only comes after personal responsibility. Our Next Meeting is the Annual Meeting on January 28th so join our group to stay informed as Eden unfolds. - T http://www.edenvillage.net/18.htm http://www.pconline.org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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