Eco-Logical Footprints

Working with What you Have

The circle go around may spark some conversation but is not meant to be abandoned once the conversation is rolling. It is the moderators job to get things back on track. That is just an introduction of who you are and what you are supposed to be all about in relation to Eden. How you found out about it. What you have read. Who you are and what you want to do. What your views are about Eden and what would be your own idea of the ideal EcoVillage Community.

We do all this with very little moderation from T or as I have said it could be some other person who has been with us for a while who could be doing that job, as it has been before.

Those who would like to try a hand at moderation, need to first volunteer to become note takers. Talk to me more about that if you think you can do a good job. How it is done is not a big issue. Whatever works best for you. And yes, we do need to call them the Minutes of the Meeting, and they do need to be typed up on one or two sheets of paper.

We do believe in supporting affirmative action in Eden and we especially in regards to gender balance in all things relating to balanced power sharing and deeply committed caring, on any of the jobs and responsibilities in Eden. Everything is Personal. I think that some people probably feel that T has represented the male spirit here quite adequately so far. I admit that it may be just a little bit too much sometimes.

Well it might be time now to see some more women taking on some of the more responsible positions around here. That may give us a greater sense of transparency as well. And that means more of the power gets distributed among the women and all the others who have done the most good for this project.

Eden is all about service and helping the homeless and creating work for the jobless and real sustainable community those who are living without almost any kind of community that really satisfies the need for full integration with the community spirit of caring and sharing. We like to do good things for good people who really are looking for a place where they can make a real difference.

One thing that does come to mind at this time when the days are growing longer in Eden, is that we could hold various seasonal events to join with others in the larger NorthCoast Eco-Region for the purpose of regional unification.

Those who would like to help to coordinate such things should come to our next meeting. The most accomplished and the most highly skilled workers could take on the role of mentors who could help people who wished to be part of the community learning process as many new skills will need to be learned.

Summer volunteers could then be integrated into the picture. And we should be able to help a few homeless people from time to time. Community Service work of at least 4 or maybe 8 hours a week might be very helpful and especially during crunch times where more people would be needed temporarily like during food harvest or in the late summer or when community building projects need a sudden burst of energy to get the jobs done.

We value the work of all those who are over the age of 18 at $10. and Hour. Some people, like a doctor, for instance may need to get out of that work in order to do more important work. I feel they should have that option. They could pay off their weekly 4 hours worth at the standard rate that everybody gets paid who works for Eden, which is Ten Dollars an hour.

Other forms of barter and exchange are always possible. Each creatively inclined person could offer their own products and services for exchange, with some of the other brothers and the budding young mothers in the community which could be something like an even hour for hour exchange.

That would allow each worker to bargain for their own value levels and that could be responsive to differences in technical skills and knowledge and ability to get the job done requirements.

The Web of Life comes first in Eden for full integration with the community spirit of caring and sharing. We like to do good things for good people who really are looking for a place where they can make a real difference for the Earth and for all the Children.

Eden is just a good place for some good folks to live in peace and self sufficiency who have Eco-Logical Integrity and are worthy of sharing a life with others.

We are making some changes right now in the WorkGroup and we would welcome the input of Women and Children and Seniors. Let me know if you would like to join the WorkGroup. You don't have to be an expert or a professional architect or city planner as long as your heart is in the right place and you really do care about the Earth, and can speak from your heart for the Earth.

Eden needs to make a place for all the Children of Eden that have turned out well and want to stay here among us and who will then become a useful and valuable part of this community and who will support the cause and make a very real contribution of their own towards the fruition of this project.

That is why we wanted to set some of them up with a full sized homestead. No seed is ever guaranteed anything. All must always do their best for Eden. We don't believe in splitting things up in Eden. And some people don't have children so there are some issues that we need to talk about in some depth as a committed group of people who are on their way to becoming a full blown EcoVillage who are faithful and true to the vision of Eden that has been put forth by T and is still unfolding within the WorkGroup, where things do get covered and commented on first.

Some folks may have other significant relationships that could be considered to be just as meaningful and important to them and to us. These people should perhaps be given a closer look. Any last minute input on that would be welcome. We are all held to be fully responsible no matter what the age might be and to make every effort to pay our own way in the most gracious manner possible at all times.

We welcome Seniors and the disabled. But if you don't have one thing then let us hope you do have the other. We always bring something to offer at every meeting. No one shows up empty handed or empty hearted. A box of tangerines that could be passed around would be nice.

We do not come to Eden out of a sense of Self Entitlement or a bad case of Mistaken Identity because even though we may have been disconnected from the Earth and had our rights and responsibilities severed, we must still have an open heart and a true spirit in the face of it all to get into Eden.

This is a special time of change we are now entering into. That is why T has begun to speak up for the Trees and for the Oceans and for all the Planets and the Animals who are going to need our help now and just to keep just a few people alive who might be of some help, as would be in keeping with the Spirit of the Ark.

In Eden it will be considered that you will deserve only what you have earned and not what you have been promised by all these politicians. And that is what we must now begin to disengage from, which will all start very gradually at first.

The children of Eden may not even need to be prematurely catered to with a false build up and a completely imaginary sense of premature emancipation. What has been given once can be taken back twice.

They may not need every kind of materialistic means of self gratification, which should not even be there until they have earned it, and that is just one small part of the true measure of a true Edenite, that they never ask for more than what they have earned.

Personal Responsibility does need to be proven to be there first before any kind of real Freedom and even a few other "rights" and responsibilities can then be earned which goes down on the books of Eden as an honor within the honor system.

People need to be able to show a deep commitment to this fine project and to this place we call Eden. It is not just a chance to stay along with us as a casual visitor that we are offering to the free people of the world. But we are offering a chance to be of real lasting value and a huge service to the Earth by putting Eden first and Self last.

Eden is more like a wedding ceremony that only the most deeply committed and the faithful few and their closest people are going to be allowed to attend, who have brought something real to contribute.

Was everybody there with T when we gazed down upon the uncompromised lands of Eden from just beyond the wild domains of impassable rock? That means there is a relationship here that needs to be fed into and respected. That part is not to be disregarded. We have to learn how to honor our relationships. Because this is a very personal undertaking.

Everyone will have to be able to carry their own weight and then some, in order to help support the community in a very specific manner. We may never ever choose to go public with this project. It really is a family affair.

It might be better to hold that Eden is nobodies dream but those who have been recognized and who actually have spoken up with True Spirit and who have been heard, before the people of some great faith who have been gathered around right here on the web, with some little bit of guidance and direction, I would think, from someone who has been at this for more than just a week.

It may be that we cannot move on until we have digested most of the material we have been given, and then made something good out of it. We may have to rebuild the entire Universe on a regular basis so get ready for a lifetimes worth of full involvement within an honorable cause.

All who would become members must express their good intentions towards the childhood grace of Eden, and then back that up in the day to day struggle to put food on the table 365 days of the year so that the vision may progress.

Many seemed to think that the child of Eden was only there for their own use since they come first in all things, in the reckless self centeredness of their own minds.

It is no wonder that America is now going down hard. But a big spending binge will only make matters worse. Don't spend your money. Save it all. I believe we have been catering to a misplaced sense of the natural order of priorities for way too long now.

It is time now for some new voices to be heard who really do have some uniquely new ideas, and who can help us to get that all straightened out. But we do have to take a stand for Eden. That is why we now must begin to disengage from all those who have not been willing to be held personally accountable to the laws of Eden.

But who is T? He is only one man of Truth who is prepared to stand among many other men and women of Truth, and which are all to be brought into alignment with the Eco-Logical laws of the Earth and the entire Web of Life, both of which have been so hastily dismissed with regard for the many who have died in child birth and all that has ever been deemed to be good and right since days of old. That is why we must begin to disengage now, to start a new beginning. - T

Even our own Mr. T, for instance, who drives a 16 year old vehicle, less than 9,000 miles per year, that is rated at 49 miles per gallon. That means he is burning up about 300 gallons of gas per year. That is a lot of carbon, but average American is burning 5 times that much.

T lives off the grid on Solar Energy and consumes much less than the average American. These are just some of the considerations that might be used to determine what some ones Carbon Footprint is, and what their qualifications are to enter into Eden, as people who have earned the very real sense of equality with others and the recognition that we all really do deserve.

We have to learn to Live and let Die simply so that the the Earth may simply live on as long as it can. Death is a very helpful part of the process. We believe in keeping our own Green Burial Grounds simple and affordable.

Others who want to become True Edenites in the full meaning of the word, and who wish to acquire full Breeding Rights, which is a wonderful thing to have, will be expected to do the same thing one day or better.

We need people who can die on time and who will be willing to be held accountable for themselves, until that time, or they will be held accountable for their own inactions in these regards, one way or the other.

We do have LEDs. We don't need to use incandescent or florescent lights in Eden, neither of which is an efficient use of energy, and the fluorescents pollute the environment.

That T lives on All Solar Energy at his own home and has been doing that for over 20 years now, shows right living stability and steadfastness in Truth and that is what makes accountability to the community possible. That is why the homesteads are for life. We always think long term.

I have never meant to come across as a divine authority figure, with the God Given Powers of Mass Discrimination, but you can see that some one does have to be able to tell the Truth, in the face of some of these rejects from dominator culture.

This Spirit of Truth which I have tried to express here might be needed now to be able to put something better into place before the End Times are upon us all.

Not that even we will have a store bought Monopoly on Truth or Justice in Eden, but we do have to have our priorities in line, and so we do welcome others to begin to measure up, as soon as they think they might be ready, to bring something of True and lasting value to our table.

We do have to have a good sense of what sound Judgment is, which, I think, is one of my own particular gifts and that is my birthright, to give it or to keep it, and I think that a few others might agree, that this really is going to be much better than watching the whole Web of Life get eaten up by the corrosive corruption of the many who have no regard for the value of the work that we have begun to undertake as a collective whole.

We will all have to learn how to change in order to better serve the Earth and all her children in the one way that she really does need our help, with some guidance and direction from down below, which some say is where our own Mr. T really comes from, and that may be partly true.

If we don't get control of our own sustainable natural economies of scale, we will have no choices because all of our choices will already have been made for us by this habitually pointless habit of pandering to the last and the least among us who would only drag us all the way down into the ground and then some.

In some tribes there is no way to speak of oneself in the third person. We don't embrace any of these old limitations about what people can say and what people cannot say about their own self, but we do come down hard on those who speak of others without permission.

Homeless people are always welcome, as well as differently abled people and the Deaf, and Twins will be given every consideration. But we don't play the same old blame games here in Eden, of premature capitulation to the forces of need and greed which has been a safe haven for all that has not turned out well, like that blundering power of numbers, and the exploitation of the dead wrong opinions of the all too many, that have been driving the world of dominator culture and the mass media which will always betray us, beyond the point of no return.

Eco-Logical Balance

We need to know whether or not folks can be depended upon to do their part towards supporting the rightfully justifiable unfolding of some of these vastly immense new visions that are being born here in the Raw Creation Zone.

The Lure of Freedom is very appealing. But Real Freedom has to be earned before it can be burned, as it always will be, by those who are governed only by the mindless opinions of the last and the least, and those who have only the worst feelings of resentment and revenge, which thing has been more than just fueled by the mass media, who will always play both sides of the game against the middle.

The that makes the most voters feel good wins the game show.

They will always try to start a guilt fight anytime they can, so that is why the world as we know it is exploding at this time, along with the population bomb as you might have expected, and that will only continue to destroy everything we do all the way down to the lowest common denominators of Doom and Gloom, which is what will happen, if we don't make some major changes in the way we have chosen, to misunderstand the natural orders of Eco- Logical Priorities, as we must all enter into Eden and be able to take our places in Positive Peace. 

Natural Progressions

We do have an Eco-Logical Footprint and we are connected up with each other in a very specific manner. For instance, I should be able to turn to anyone in this group, where I am well known and have earned a welcome place in the hearts and minds of at least some of the people, who have come here in good faith and have been good friends of Eden.

It would not be appropriate for me, for instance, to turn first to the patriarchal government, with the bottomless accusation that it needs to prove that it really cares about me. That is victims oriented. Of course it doesn't care about anything. How could it.

We all have to learn how to turn first to those with whom we have already earned the deepest trust, and the highest levels of respect, and even a certain amount of gratitude, and the willingness to extend a certain degree of empowerment, which honors can only be earned over many years of rock solid, service towards the greater good, within the community.

Money alone does not make a home. No manipulation of the power of numbers through the media is going to cut it in Eden. That is why no one is to go to the media without clearing that first with this community which will control its own profile.

These are just some of the most significant new answers that are just now blowing around in the wind, and that are not yet well enough understood within the larger society, for us to even begin to address what is wrong with the glaring deficiencies of mainstream society.

Social Change has to become the right size again, or we will be swamped. Eden is to be Human Scale for that reason. There may be many here who cannot be expected to comprehend any of this since, they have been taught only the ethics of mass dependency and they can only destroy, with reckless disregard for the many who have died, just to help us to get this far, and that will only lead to our greatest downfall and the collective end of all life on Earth.

That Trust, that we expect to see here, first and foremost and in some great deal of abundance, my fellow friends who would like to become Edenites, like our places here on the Earth, must be earned. That is why Eden is hard to get in and easy to get out. This is about laying down a whole new ethic that is almost completely unknown, and it even has no place of acceptance yet, because we have not yet learned the most basic laws of the expanding universe.

That it is all Eco-Logical, even neediness and manipulation, might have occurred to just a few people.

Womens Centric

Getting to know the people, we know we need to be able to work with in the local community, and to work with what we have to offer, and what we can make, and what we can do under our own power and our own energy, without any outside inputs, from the almighty government or the almighty state of disrepair.

This all ties in with Economic Re-Localization and Saving the Earth one step at a time, which just happens to be one of the main purposes behind this whole project. Unleashing the devastating power of numbers alone upon the fragile balance of the flora and fauna of this world, will only bankrupt the environment and that will kill the Earth.

The Eleventh Commandment might be: Feed not into your own Destruction, and the end of all living things.

We are all going to have to become reasonably self sufficient from now on, for these very reasons, at least in the way we think about ourselves, and the way we connect up with the world at war, because these humble words do signify a major change in the direction of our thinking. Let this be our one humble distinction.

The Vision of this Community

Then we will have a consensus council that will eventually be able to take over all of the decision making responsibilities for this project who will then be able to carry the vision of the Emerald Forest of sustainable communities that could be springing up all throughout the Americas and the world which would be our way of Saving the Earth by changing the future through the positive action of Spirit.

What we are doing is not a completely new idea. Eden Valley itself was once the proud location of an earlier community that was formed back in the 1800's as even then they knew it was perfect for such purposes. It is already called Eden right on the map for good reason. It is unique in many ways. It is now a large open grassy valley that has 2 big creeks flowing down the length of it and a third coming down out of Ancient Valley.

The Trees are mainly Oaks and mixed hardwoods. The project is focused on and designed around the most perfectly fine valley anywhere in Northern California that will allow us to be become largely self sufficient in Food and Energy. There we will each build our own naturally passive solar homes in a Circle of Equality all around the edge of this uniquely fine Valley.

Inter-Generational

There you may do some gardening, plant some trees, keep some animals, build a workshop or a greenhouse and maybe even a cabin for some friends all within a one acre living circle right in the center of the Homestead. The other two acres of the Homestead are to be left as wild and free as we find them accept for the planting of native trees to protect the natural flow of the land around us.

Along with each homestead also will normally come a 2 acre Farm Site. There you may be able to do some serious farming to feed your families and to trade within the community or for sale.

Some creatively hard working people may even be able to make a fairly good living right on their own Farm Sites and then when you consider that we will have about 65 Farm Sites as well as the 18 more that are going to be represented by the Vegan Village and then we have the 200 - 300 acre Community Farm so you can see that we could have more than enough people directly involved in the land to support our own self sufficient Micro-Economy as well as all the other things various people will be doing with the emerging technologies.

The Vegan Village will be a 90 acre egalitarian area in the Northeast corner that will be set aside for some of the more hard core vegans to share and share alike and to live like one big family if they want. The idea here is that some people are up for that and some other folks are not, and that most of us will probably want to have our own homesteads.

Human Scale

Eden is a service based community and one of the best ways to serve the people in the local community is to feed them with good wholesome healthy fresh natural locally grown foods. Towards that end we will set up a natural foods store in the nearby town of Willits.

There we will be able to sell some of the tasty things we will be producing in Eden. This will create more jobs and a steady flow of income into our own Micro-Economy. Ancient Valley will be a 200 acre natural area with 2 beautifully large lakes in it that will be set aside for camping and personal retreats and this will be protected from any building or farming or any other kind of development.

The Village Commons will be about 64 acres right in the heart of the valley where we could have some community gardens and a place for music and maybe even some housing for interns and a senior center.

Where is Eden? It's about 33 miles from the town of Willits which is about a 3 hour drive north of the Golden Gate Bridge. There are many lakes and ponds and creeks and springs and year around and seasonal sources of good clean natural untreated water which flows down to us from the mountains above. We will have a Community Water System that provides clean untreated water Free to every Homestead and Farmsite.