Re: ecovillage and sustainability

Thanks for clarifying this Liz, with your organic metaphors:

>We should see the tiny groups calling themselves eco villages as seeds of
>a
>village. And we need those seeds scattered where ever the land has been
>disrupted.

AHO, and may all these tiny "ecovillage seeds" sprout and grow to become
mature, flowering, full-featured ecovillages someday! Especially those in
the disrupted, degraded, biologically desolate land called "cities."

-VDI


<[email protected]> writes:
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>> In ecobalance, T <temeluch-/[email protected]> wrote:
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>> "...people are parading around as EcoVillages who
>> actually are not at all doing anything but exploiting
>> the name. You must have real land or a plan to get
>> some in my view of things. Sustainability is
>> important..."
>>
>> Sustainability is certainly an "essential" factor of
>> an ecovillage...
>>
>> But so is "ecology".  I've read that humans may be
>> "diverting" for human use up to 40% of the productive
>> life on the planet.
>>
>> Do we really want to invade another area of natural
>> ecosystem?
>>
>> Shouldn't we be using our knowledge and technology to
>> create human ecological communities by RESTORING
>> something we've already disrupted?
>Yes. Findhorn didn't start out as a full blown ecovillage. It started out
>with 3 people in a tiny caravan parked in a dump left over from the
>neighboring RAF base. The main street through the park is a former runway.
>The land was actually classified as desert as the soil is mostly sand and
>shale. A place no one would have wanted to live.
>My own dream of starting an Urban Permaculture Community Center in a
>depressed neighborhood of a depressed city would be the seed of an
>ecovillage.
>We should see the tiny groups calling themselves eco villages as seeds of
>a
>village. And we need those seeds scattered where ever the land has been
>disrupted.
>Liz
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