This weeks @Ecotrain 's Question of the Week is out - Details here...
What is stopping you from moving to the ecoVillage of tomorrow?
I've been following @eco-alex and his endeavors with the building of his Earthship and now the Eco-village and I love, love, love the whole concept.
Love it for it's sustainability, self sufficiency, the fact that it will be built on a gifting economy! Love that it will have folks living totally off-grid, with homes based on Earthship Biotecture, built using a design with complete autonomy and self-sufficiency in mind. To me, an ideal situation which seems more inline with how we are meant to be living on this earth.
If I were younger and my partner was in agreement I would jump on it in an instant! In fact we often comment on how, if we were starting over, we would be building an Earthship design on a beautiful spot we go walking to most days.
As it is, for the last few decades, we have been building our homestead in a forest community and although we are not totally off grid, we have built with self sufficiency in mind. We have a lovely, comfortable, home nestled in the forest.
Our Home Nestled In the Forest
As a community we worked together building our homes, community hall (which has since burnt down) and although we never formed a village ( there were enough folks to form a Hamlet) we had a close knit community comprised of environmental-minded folk, we were getting close to that idea of an Eco-village.
Times have changed and the community has drifted apart some what, but I do know we would pull together as a community, to take care of itself and it's members if there were a major collapse or something.
It is mostly my age and the fact that I am kind of done with construction, with no desire to start over again, that prevents me from joining in on this Eco-village project. I am quite happy living in our forest community and have set things up to have a comfortable old age, enjoying my family and friends! But you can bet I will be supporting this endeavor in other ways and would encourage anyone who has any inkling to live communally in an Eco-village to take this opportunity. It is rare and having @eco-alex as the driving force behind it it, is bound to be an incredible experience, which I'm so looking forward to seeing unfold!
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