The Organizer 

I am just one of many Peace Warriors that have begun to return in some great numbers and I am one of the Bioneers. My main focus is on understanding the Natural ways of Native Peoples. I work in Eco-Logical Systems Design and Repair.

That has a lot to do with the natural Exchange of Nutrients in Living Systems and the introduction of sustainable ecologies and living on the land using renewable energies and Permaculture with People Power and how all these emerging technologies like solar energy and Intentional Community all fit together with Tribal Spirit and the biospheric imperatives of a sustainable human way of life in community. Creating a real Habitat for Humanity is about more than just having a place to live.

What is a Bioneer?

"Bioneers peer deep into the heart of living systems to glean what we can from 4 billion years of evolution. We Bioneers are applying natures operating instructions to serve human ends harmlessly while creating conditions conducive to all of life. One of the beauties of biology is that its facts become our metaphors. Natures underlying codes can serve as inspiring parables for how as human beings we might organize a more just, humane and authentically sustainable society.

What Bioneers are unearthing is nothing less than a revolution from the heart of nature. In many cases the knowledge we need is prefigured by ancient traditions of indigenous wisdom. Bioneers are among the best pathfinders we have and because life really is all connected, so is the work. Bioneers come from many diverse cultures and perspectives and from all walks of life. We are scientists and artists, gardeners, and economists, teachers and public servants, architects and ecologists, farmers and journalists, priests and shamans, policy makes and students and everyday people committed to preserving and supporting the future of life on Earth.

Uniting nature, culture and spirit, we know that any real solutions must also embody a change of heart - an empathic connection with the fullness of all life, grounded in social justice. All of us who care - and act - to preserve the future of life on Earth are Bioneers. Together we are creating an Age of Restoration, guided by shared values of interdependence, kinship, cooperation, community and mutual aid. Part of that work is to gather and spread the countless success stories of the central enterprise of our times - healing the planet and ourselves. They are one and the same thing. We've all worked long and hard to see this work flower and bear fruit in the world. It's ripening, and it's telling us it wants to spread much further now.

There's dramatic urgency for us to share these ingeniously effective solutions with the widest possible audience, inspiring them to join in this sacred and global work. The Conference is the beating heart of the Bioneers organization, but the energy field has rippled out into many more expressions." - Nina Simons

Stewards of the Earth

I support the Rainforest Action Network and Friends of the Eel River and the Willits Economic Localization Project. I am also the Mendo-Hiker. I lead hikes up into and around the Middle Eel Wilderness Area just to show people first hand what some of this beautiful country looks like that we all have worked so hard just to see it all protected forever.

I am also the Organizer of the North Coast Watershed Restoration Council which is concerned with the Unification of all the smaller Watersheds along the entire North Coast of California from the Bay Area on up to Mendocino and Humboldt Counties where we have deep roots in the Solar Energy and Environmental Movements since the Redwood Summer of 1990. My work is for the Saving of the Earth and All Her Children so that we don't all go the way of the Bongo and the Oryx and the White Rhinoceros.

I am one of The Peace Warriors and I also have many other projects in the works like the Pleiades EcoVillage Network and the Kindred Spirits of the Emerald Forest which is to become a cooperative network of sustainable communities that will start right here in the Americas and then will spread throughout the world that will be more than just a list of names that don't mean anything but that truly does have to signify a deep connection and a common cause.

This one will only be for real communities and those other real groups and even some distinguished people that really are connected up on a deep level with what it is that our work is really all about.

I am a supporting member of the Fellowship of Intentional Communities and I highly recommend reading Communities Magazine and going to the Community Conferences.

I am also in positive dialogue with the Federation of Egalitarian Communities which I think might line up nicely with the Vegan Village Project which is a part of the Eden Project.

I am also a member of the EcoVillage Network of the Americas and the Global EcoVillage Network.

I am greatly involved in the Northern California Permaculture Movement and like most native peoples I have been practicing Permaculture since before it was even called that and I have attended some of the Gatherings and Workshops and do intend to get my designers course certification eventually.

I also have worked with a couple of the Community Gardens in my area that were dedicated towards feeding the hungry and the healthy and the happy who hardly ever need any help because they always try to be self sufficient like we will do here in Eden.

I am an envisioning board member and an active participant with various local clubs and environmental groups and have been involved with local watershed restoration groups on the North Coast of California like the North Coast Watershed Restoration Council.

www.northcoastcouncil.com

I am a firm believer in self educating and free thinking and a bit of an outdoorsy and natural spirit of the wild winds of the woods and a lover of the wild spirits of all native peoples and I have a great respect for the traditions of older times.

I have learned to design and build common cause within the natural world towards an Earth Restored and a World at Peace. I have learned to work through some great deal of dissent and I have gotten fairly good at taking a little personal criticism from time to time. 

I have for a very long time been actively involved in some of the roots of resistance to warfare and militarism and environmental degradation which I like to call the Global City Mono-Culture. I am also one of those who can be found at some of the Rallies to save the last remaining old growth forests where people have died to save those magnificent trees since 1990.

I have been a long time participant in the Shasta Bioregional Gatherings. I was among those in the circle who took full responsibility for the envisioning of the next gathering. I am very good with land and can help with any group in site selection and online networking. I make videos and can help other people who would like to make their own movies.

I do have the beginnings of a clear vision of a new land and that is something that I will gladly share with those who are truly committed to working with me in a cooperative manner.

I will only work with other brothers who can speak respectfully as real collaborators and who are committed to getting past the usual personality problems which are usually just about needing to know how they fit into the Natural Order of Eden.

Women are not as bad off in that regard.

I am here to Change the World and I will not settle for anything less than the best. I am very pragmatic and do not want to hear any religious nonsense.

I know how to prioritize things and am not deluded by the empty promises of need and greed. It is the Fire that goes unnoticed that does the most damage. This is what we must Disengage from. Not that we can ever completely forget about the usual suspects like corporate greed and political power and the doctrines of dominator culture. I just thought I would focus on an entirely new and completely overlooked area that is almost entirely unrecognized by others.

I am one of those who just shows up and starts making thing happen with or without a set place being there for me. There is never a ready made opening for any True thing. I have a very strong relationship to the Magic of Place and the Meaning of the Earth and the Motherhood of Birth.

I do welcome others and I do want to help to create the conditions for true collaboration and not just dependency. I do want to be able to extend a warm welcome to all those who would be able to work very closely with me in organizing a resource center for the Emerald Forest.

Kindred Spirits

I am also uniquely knowledgeable about land use and how it can be passed on down to the next generation without having to be bought and sold over and over again forever.

I live on the land and am a bit of a creative designer who knows how to work with the on site energies that are all around us in a whole new way. I have lived off the grid on solar energy for 20 years on a system I put together myself.

I think we might even want to start a special group just to share our knowledge and ideas about how to make things work with existing energies and how to make a living and a life with good people off the grid with very little money.

I don't think it is always such a good idea to get every little thing patented and copyrighted. That is too exclusionary. Knowledge of a technical kind that could help a lot of people should be shared so we don't support those who hoard solutions for personal gain when the world needs our help.

Throwing money at needy people all over the world is not the only way we can impact the Web of Life in the most beneficial way. We can't just buy our way out of this global situation. Just writing a check is the lazy mans way.

Social Justice has to become integrated within the human scale community and as a part of a working form of Eco-Logical Integrity. We need to focus our intentions to put the emphasis where it really does need to go by working within the Natural Order of Priorities.

I learn a lot from listening to the voices of the wild part of the world where everything is real which is where I get most of my inspiration.

I do have a unique perspective on some of these things and this life we all share is more than just another consumable item. I do need all your help, and yet I am totally self sufficient.

I do meet with people and I do put myself before the public all the time.  I do believe that all people need to be held accountable to their own communities and that premature emancipation is dead. We don't want to have to play cops and robbers with the future of the Earth.

I will say that I have been asked to head up a Panel Discussion on Intentional Communities at one of the many important conferences and  events we we do try to go to but my responsibilities to manage our booth space sometimes keeps me from doing all that I could do.

I have been to a couple of the Communities Conferences and did propose a whole new avenue of discussion having to do with a whole new way of understanding the Eden Project and how that could lead to the formation of the formation of the Emerald Forest of Sustainable Communities.

My ongoing offer to the larger community in terms of Speaking Engagements and Collaborative Efforts is that if other folks will create the venue and put me on the agenda I will show up on time and ready to provide an interesting and entertaining presentation.

I will meet with All Good Heads of State and other Folks in Good Faith either in a public place or at a friends home if they really will organize a decent sized group of people and who really will put out a good spread as I do bring a hearty appetite as you would expect. And then maybe we can talk a little more directly and get some real face time in but you do have to have a face that is worth looking at or I may not have the time just like it is where you come from.

The right person might even be able to make themselves quite indispensable through integrating us into their own community or group in just the right way. We do believe in Cross Pollination. Nothing is a problem for those of us who are the real doers in this world.

But I can only work with existing energy resources and only when there is adequate support and a good introduction about Restorative Eco-Logical Design Concepts and becoming more universal while we still have a chance to Save the Earth.

I will always try to help out in camp to keep people from getting soaking wet but I have become way too busy as you can imagine to be expected to take off on every kind of personal emergency. Others may want to begin to take up the slack so I can just kick back one time.

I do want to introduce Eden House as a likely addition to the Solar Living Centers ongoing need for a place to house and support their interns and volunteers so they are not just left to camp out somewhere.

Bioneers Youth I would think might want to take a greater interest in becoming the driving force behind the creation of EdenHouse at the Solar Living Center which is something I would think we could go right ahead with once we have an adequate circle of support in terms of Time - Resources - People and the cooperation of like minded people who would like to host this kind of thing or to be one of the people who lives in residence at the Solar Living Center as interns.

We do have the beginnings of a well documented group here of over 700 people in our email group  that  took a whole lot of work to build up into something so let us use that wisely as that is our face to the public and that is expanding rapidly.  We have an even larger resource base of over 1,000 members in our Sustainable Community Network.

There are no other groups I know of that have reached such an enormous size that have been organized around just one single EcoVillage project.

People are looking for us and we have made it possible for them to find us. But there are going to be many obstacles in the way for those who choose to treat us unkindly. Enough has been said for those who are truly interested and have been inspired and are now greatly motivated. Let the people choose themselves to begin with and then they will be able to help to choose the others. Expect the best and forget the rest if you ever hope to pass the test. That is our prime directive.

More than Enough and Some to Share with all of those who really care is just one of our many flashy precepts.

It does help us tremendously to have this much understood as we begin to enter into this elegant new re-version of the Universe which really is just a little more closely related to the actual place.

We share an abiding respect for the many who have died in our bold new vision to Change the World from the inside out which is the only way it can be changed. Otherwise it would be too much like chasing neutrinos.

Like a Tree that grows from one tiny little Seed this dreadfully rich new Vision of the Emerald Forest  has ultimately much more sustainable potential than any other possibility I know of.

We do have to put down very deep roots into the Earth at this important time of change in the ways of truth that we must all learn how to live. We are among those who must become ready to make a grand departure and to disengage from the ordinary world so that we may begin to Live to Know How to Live.

We already do have something real to work with as you can see. Honor this vision which could be your last chance. Enter with Grace into the Spirit of Place.

All we have to do is focus on that which is already in place here. That will save us all a huge amount of time and energy that otherwise would only be wasted as the doom and gloom scenario sets in all around us.

We must continue moving straight on ahead by holding on tightly in complete Solidarity. It is not a matter of opinion with us. One million opinions does not add up to a single word of Truth. First word of T. We must learn to make these kinds of distinctions and we must learn to break these kinds of distinctions.

I am just one of the Kindred Spirits of the Emerald Forest of which Eden is just a small but very significant part. That is just my one main distinction. I am just the self designated Vision Carrier of this Emerging Tribe of Truth Tellers who will one day go on to Save the Earth just as it has been written.

This Vision is the one which could become the beginning of a real place for Peace on Earth which is not just something we can leave subject to any and all who might choose to grab it and grip it as this is not for the hurting hands of little children to play around with or those who come to us with such little Faith and with no sense of Spirit and no willingness to learn without being told that there is nothing that can be said about the imaginary future of the walking dead since it does not exist.

Peace on Earth is something we must keep safely alive and thriving under the safety net of every protective concern for deep sustainability in Eden and then we will proceed carefully with a very clearly laid out plan for the ongoing propagation of the Emerald Forest of no return.

Who are we?

We are just some of the last of the best who must now  be put to the test.

We are just reaching out to some of the other more Creative Spirits who may seek to collaborate with other fellow creative spirits who really are ready to start becoming True Seed Creators of Change and who will then quickly choose to become a very real part of this Exquisitely Beautiful Tree of Life that will continue to branch out both here and beyond this one small planet we call the Earth.

We are the new Warriors of Peace and Freedom and we are card carrying member of the lean and green party and we now must become willing to Stand in Unity towards the fulfillment of an enormously vast opportunity that is spreading out now before us all even as we speak.

This long and windy road to Eden is just one short leg of a very long journey towards what is going to be a particularly beautiful and magnificent Wedding Ceremony of Earth and Spirit.

We will always try to welcome as Kindred Spirits all the kind and Gentle Folks from all over the Americas and around the world as well as many plants and animals of all kinds who do come to us with respect.

We do have to come to appreciate what we've been given here first which is like the gift that keeps on giving but that doesn't always pay off for those who try to redeem the dream because that my friends can never be sold.

We do have to start taking full responsibility for being here of our own choosing without losing.

We do have to teach the children to Do their Best and Forget the Rest which is what we expect from all who would come to Eden in Peace.

More than Enough and Some to Share is what we are all expected to bring to the table one way or another. That is not some brain dead guarantee.

We work only with what the true Positives are and must reject all these backwards moves and even to avoid some of the many lateral moves that serve no real purpose but to reinforce all the backwards moves we ever made in the past. That's why it is time to disengage from all this.

There is no Freedom without Personal Responsibility. 

There will be no easy answers given to those who have turned their backs on the many who have died and only a closer examination for those who will not take the trouble to try to digest what little has been given before asking for anything more.

Do show us at least that much respect for Eden and the work of T and then say Thank You and Good Bye at least I would think as you would before leaving anyone in peace and mutual respect instead of this deep disgrace without a trace as anything else would be almost completely unforgivable among almost any of the native peoples of the Americas.

There is a give and take and there is a non-invasive language that we all must learn to burn like ethanol that does not ever force the issue. Everything works within the natural laws of order and progression that can be seen throughout the natural world just like burning ethanol with little or no pollution.

We will have to use the spirit of oneness and the process of deep consensus which is not to be seen as being just another personal campaign to sway the most ignorant and cowardly in the bunch or to foment revolution among those who have the least grasp of the full depth and breath of the true nature of the Expanding Universe or to cater down to the need and greed of personal self interest through the power of numbers.

We do sometimes take a little of the good with the bad. But not always. And we do know the difference in qualities and in quantities.

This fresh new Spirit of Eden is just One Gift that is worthy of some great consideration and that is what we are here to share which is our Birth Right if we can pull this whole thing off and we will do the whole thing with the style and grace that has become almost expected here in Eden. But now if you will curl up by the fire I will tell you a little bedtime story:

Before Eden

Before Eden I was a Tree. And as a Tree I would often gaze off into the deep future just to see what would become of All Trees and some of our other friends here on Earth.

As it turned out there was not going to be any future for very many of these friends of the Trees after all. And a lot of other plants and animals would also suffer badly. Many would be eliminated in a very short time due to the Global Environmental Crisis.

Being very disappointed and unwilling to accept that there was nothing that could be done about this I spent many years examining all the past and the future events between the beginning of the end and the end of the beginning just to see if anything could be done to save the Trees and their children and all the other plants and animals and their children who depended on us.

Well I did at least find a few very interesting answers as there were a few things I could see that we could do with all the right people in all the right places.

Key Moves could be made that would change the future of the past which would be good for the Trees and all of their friends including even those who stand on 2 legs who would otherwise be among the first to go. They will not be able to survive the next big one like they did the last big one on instinct alone.

I could see that we would need to organize our way into the future as living plant and animal communities who are headed up by humans who are committed to each others welfare on a biological level. 

Eden is just a small part of a larger set of changes that need to be put in place to make up for certain mistakes that have already been made.

We can't afford to sit and blame those who are primarily responsible and we're sorry so many people have made such a bad series of choices for themselves and the Earth we all share.

But we can't allow all of the Trees or the other plants and animals to suffer nearly complete extinction so soon after just getting started just because of Need and Greed gone wild.

The Tree of Life is not through growing yet. The Earth has not yet Bolted and we have not yet Gone to Seed. We are to become the new Vision Carriers of Life and we are to become those who will plant the seeds of the Emerald Forest to Save the Earth.

Now we need to bring life and death back into a sustainable balance. We are the Stewards of the Earth. We are the Birth Givers. We are to become the Twin Propagators of a Cooperative new way of Life in Tribal Community.

Eden is the Voice of the Spirit of the Earth that like all real things must approach its goal in an indirect manner. Nothing can ever be defined in absolute perfection so we don't use words to hurt people. But the vision does have to come through loud and clear very much like a strong gust of wind that comes rushing through Eden Valley out of the deep mountain gorges.

The Dew falls on the grass in Eden during the most silent part of the night. The stillest sound of listening to the frost finding its way back down into the deep silence of Eden is the power of the Magic Word of Truth that opens up the heaviest Doors and business as usual will be frozen out in the end by its own exclusionary processes.

Eden is not just a place to bring disgrace. Social Change needs to be returned to the Human Scale. Eden is the Life and the breath that goes beyond being just about the beyond. Eden is the Sound of the reflection out of the Deepest Wells of Spirit. It is a thing called Magic that doesn't have a name.

Eden is a Bridge across the stormy seas and that alone will take us on across to the farthest shores of experience where we may then be found worthy to find Our Childrens Land which will be waiting right there for us like a gift for which we must now begin to make elaborate plans and exhaustive preparations.

We must have the Supreme Faith that we will receive the next issue of the Journal and the further guidance and direction we will need once we have begun to build the Ark in earnest and then we may feel even worthy to begin the journey to Our Childrens Land as a new people who have earned the right to go their own way.

Everything is always done through an equitable process of shared decision making among fully committed members. There is no poverty in Eden. More than enough and some to share is the law in Eden.

I do hope to hear from all of those who may wish to collaborate with us in all earnest and those who really do have something real to offer will all be looked at.

Those who wish to disengage soon and are known and committed and supportive members can begin to gather together now to form the beginnings of an unofficial core group that we call the Eden Work Group.

People should read the whole website first and then they can join the Eden Work Group which will be announced from time to time in the larger email group of about 700 people.

We are looking for those who can hear the signal and repeat it back without turning it into a Jonestown Massacre. That shows that we are all still in good basic communication which is a responsibility that must be borne by all. Then we need to see that a few people can work quite well with what has been the focus of this project.