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8 steps to creating your own sustainable Community
March 1st, 2011 | 
Author: by Robert Gilman
(As published on http://www.hbci.com/~wenonah/new/eco-vill.htm )
You might think that guidelines for eco-village development would mostly have to do with their “eco” aspect. That is, how to handle the bio-system and built environment. These are certainly important but in researching this issue and interviewing many people with extensive community experience, we have learned that the physical systems are the easiest part. They are also the most variable. The details depend strongly on the specifics of the community, its location, purpose, and composition. These guidelines here, focus on where we perceive the need to be. The social process of eco-village development.
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Space of Love Magazine – issue#10
In this world of paradox and extremes, we realized as we were making choices for your reading pleasure in this issue, polar opposites emerged – or so it seemed. But really, isn’t our human experiment predicated upon just that? We live and find our three-dimensional experience in the suspension between two opposites, the Yin and Yang of things, as we all like to say. So here we are, inviting you to join us in going more deeply into the seemingly densest parts of our bodies, the minerals which give us substance. There, if we read the fascinating AcresUSA/Dr.Olree interview carefully, we will discover HOW minerals and traceminerals are actually directly co-creating the energetic spiritophysical experiences we end up calling “you” and “I”.
Anastasia on planting seeds
“Every seed planted by someone contains within itself a great amount of cosmic information. Its volume is incomparable to anything manmade. Thanks to this information the seed knows exactly, up to milliseconds, the time when it is supposed to return to life. It knows when to sprout, what kinds of juices to extract from the ground, how to use the energy generated by cosmic bodies like the sun, moon and stars. It also knows what specific type of plant to become and what kind of fruit to bear. The various fruits are meant for man’s life-support. These fruits can fight and resist any disease of a human physical body very effectively and even more powerfully than the best manmade medications existing now and those which will be in the nearest future. In order to fulfill this job a seed has to know everything it could saturate the fruit with and bring them into proper correlation with the necessary substances for the healing process. It has to know precisely for a certain person concerning his specific sicknesses in case they have them or there is a predisposition towards sickness.
Non-violent Communication Workshops in CT
Dear all,
I hope that this information message finds you well, enjoying life and community in all its forms.
Please be informed about three Nonviolent Communication (NVC) -related activities:
- On Sunday, the 6th of March, 11 to 5pm, I will lead the workshop Speaking a language of life with children. We will practice around the topics of Values I want to live and give, “Power-over” versus “power-with”, Beyond power struggles and Hearing the “yes” in the “no”. There will be a lot of space for sharing and exercising how we can manage life with children in a way that is more satisfying and joyful. Please contact me on 078-3974108 to confirm a space.
- In the end of March an NVC training is going to start, meeting 12 Thursday mornings in Claremont. Please contact Marieke on 072-27205957 for information.
- The Claremont NVC practice group meets every Tuesday night. Interested persons may contact me on 078-3974108.
It’s a pleasure to share the inspiration and satisfaction of Marshal Rosenberg’s NVC. We had a very fruitful training given by Pia and Marietta in Muizenberg and there may well be another experienced trainer coming to Cape Town soon. Feel free to forward this message to your networks or other interested people.
With warm and caring regards,
Annika
Veggie Pride Parade – This Saturday!
| When: | Saturday, October 30, 2010 10:00 – 11:00 |
| Where: | corner of Long Street and Strand Street, Cape Town |
| Website: | http://www.facebook.com/event |
A parade needs participants so we need you, and you and you! If you are vegetarian or vegan please join us and show Cape Town that we are here and that veg living is great! Break out the veggie / vegan message tee shirts, dust off the fruity topped hat ala Carmen Miranda, stitch up a ‘peas on earth’ hat, wear orange pants and tee with a green hat (carrot), or red pants and tee with green hat (strawberry) paint up a positive and fun poster / banner and come and be part of Africa’s first VEGGIE PRIDE PARADE at 10 o’clock sharp in Cape Town on Saturday 30th October, from the corner of Long Street and Strand Streets. If you don’t want to dress up, that’s okay too, just come and join us!
We will walk to the Beauty Without Cruelty Awareness Day in conjunction with the Wellness Natural and Organic Market at Jan van Riebeeck Primary in Kloof Street, which is from 9am to 2pm. (About 1½ kms)
It won’t be a long parade, so bring the veggie kids – if only your kids are veg, you can wear a tee that says PROUD PARENT OF A VEG KID and you can join us too!
We will have prizes for the best adult and under 16 outfits (we want funny, clever, inventive) and the best banner / posters too!
I want to see HUNDREDS of you please, so take a days’ leave, set the tape to record, and be out and proudly Veg at 10am in Long Street, at the Strand Str corner!
The market will have music, vegan food demos, organic fruit and veg, stunning art and crafts, animal welfare stands, vegan food, cookies, bakes
and cakes and more! Prize giving will be at 12pm and winners must be present to collect their prizes.
Non-Violent Communication
Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is based on the principles of nonviolence– the natural state of compassion when no violence is present in the heart.
NVC begins by assuming that we are all compassionate by nature and that violent strategies—whether verbal or physical—are learned behaviors taught and supported by the prevailing culture. NVC also assumes that we all share the same, basic human needs, and that each of our actions are a strategy to meet one or more of these needs.
People who practice NVC have found greater authenticity in their communication, increased understanding, deepening connection and conflict resolution.
Awakening Purity of Presence
Love from my heart to yours
Ahrian
I feel that the divine is calling us each to awaken to the truth of our divinity and to see the miraculous possibilities that unfold in each moment and more and more with the dawning of a new era of peace harmony and love on beloved mother earth. We are being strongly called to respect each other, to honour the earth and to help uphold the sacred balance, which is why Space of Love is such an important gathering – creating a network of support for all children of the earth – all beloved of the divine.
Tickets for the next Space of Love gathering
This blog post will be one place holder for the tickets. We’ll change this text to be more descriptive of what we’re offering, or if could go in the actual product.
And include it on the gatherings page, the home page, and what other page do you think it can go to?
The sidebar is also a good idea :-)
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Natural Building Workshop
Introduction to Natural Building weekend
23 to 24 October 2010
SUNDAY: Experience of each type of building style, Preparing mixes – checking consistency, Stomping, Finding and cutting wattle, Weaving wattle, Straw bale soaking – building, Making cobs, cob building
1.Introduction weekend R900 2 days
2.Full weekend building workshop R1000
3.Advanced building workshop R1000
4.Follow up weekends after advanced (at reduced cost)Lunch time meal is included in the price
Evening meal available at extra cost by arrangement.
Night time campfire and musical activities.
Accommodation
Cob house on Crystal Kloof, sleeps about 4 – R500 per night
Tipi Accommodation at Blue Moon, sleeps up to 5 – R400
Camping at Blue Moon R60 per person per night
For more information and booking contact Julan
serensgarden@yahoo.com
Why so few Sustainable Communities in SA?
Today, I am going to attempt the extraordinary. I am going to try and answer the question: why are there are so few sustainable communities? If the concept is so great, then why isn’t everyone doing it? Why are there so few traces of success in this field?
It is because there is no legal structure in existence that supports a model for sustainable community. That is why there is so much talk about community but not much community. Yes, we all hear the inner call screaming for us to live and work with the land, but almost nobody actually does anything about it.
Why dammit???
Well, the primary mistake comes right at the beginning. When a group of people come together to build a sustainable community, they tend to create a kind of round table decision process where everyone has equal voting power. And they put this into a legal structure. The group decides where to buy land, how much to invest, how resources should be allocated and, of course, everyone has different opinions. A division is created and any community that starts with a division in any way or form is doomed. You know the story: just when you think everyone has agreed on the next move, one person says “it just doesn’t feel right”, so nothing happens.
