Post by SpyderLady on Aug 6, 2007 20:53:29 GMT -6
Lessons in Village Design
by Peter Bane
I live in a new Village called Earthaven. Part art project, part social experiment, part bridge to an unknown future, this place is an endlessly challenging, paradoxical exercise of the imagination. It is also quite real and solid, home to 60 people and a locus of much hope and creativity.
Ten years ago, a dozen of us set out boldly to go where few had gone before: Envisioning a human-scale community designed and built in harmony with the natural world, we wanted to show a healthier way for humans to live with each other while treading lightly on the earth. We thought we could leave behind the greed, selfishness, alienation, and destructive habits of US culture and create a more meaningful life together by living more simply, closer to nature, and by helping other people to make similar changes in their own lives and circumstances.
www.permacultureactivist.net/PeterBane/LessonsinVillageDesign.htm
Pretty neat story.
by Peter Bane
I live in a new Village called Earthaven. Part art project, part social experiment, part bridge to an unknown future, this place is an endlessly challenging, paradoxical exercise of the imagination. It is also quite real and solid, home to 60 people and a locus of much hope and creativity.
Ten years ago, a dozen of us set out boldly to go where few had gone before: Envisioning a human-scale community designed and built in harmony with the natural world, we wanted to show a healthier way for humans to live with each other while treading lightly on the earth. We thought we could leave behind the greed, selfishness, alienation, and destructive habits of US culture and create a more meaningful life together by living more simply, closer to nature, and by helping other people to make similar changes in their own lives and circumstances.
www.permacultureactivist.net/PeterBane/LessonsinVillageDesign.htm
Pretty neat story.
