Human Scale

Critical Mass

There needs to be people with all different interests and skills. People with different abilities and resources. It is not so much a magic number as it is a quantity and quality of resources. We need a large Resource Base that grows up in the support of this project. We need to have a certain size here also because Eden Valley is the size it is.

Smaller Communities

We are not just to remain as prisoners here of our own devise which is the eventual condition of a people separated into individual biological units that don't work for the common good because they are set in competition against each other by the system they live within. That system will eventually self destruct. That's why we need to disengage from that as much as we can without cutting off our own Freedoms and Powers.

Community is more than just an encampment on the outskirts of town. We have something more important to do which could be called Human Scale Integration. We need our own real space to do that on to show what we can do if we were going to do something and we are. We are a very new people with a new vision and we need a full sized EcoVillage Community to be a able to Integrate our Vision of  an Earth Restored into a World at Peace.

We have our own People

We will show who we really are by the actions we take in responsibility for the support of this vision of a community that has been set up to be the way it should be from the start. We become very competent people capable of doing almost anything that needs to be done. We work for Eden and we work for peace. We help each other build our houses and we share useful information towards the common good.

Cost Effective

We are still all linked up with many other communities who may now want to become linked up into a loose association of EcoVillage Communities in dialogue who could be called The Emerald Forest.

Each of these communities would be like Trees that we are planting all over the world and as they grow into full maturity and begin to reach out to each other they will become more like a Forest of mutually supporting Trees that does have some control over its own environment.

We don't eliminate all problems. And sometimes we may want to see someone come through with an obvious solution. That is the way we must teach the Children to become self resourceful and not like some of their parents that still don't know which way to go unless somebody tells them exactly what to do. That's why we like people to initiate their very own personal relationship with this community.

Gender Equality

One out of 3 can come in this way. But those who bring less of one thing will have to have more of another. We can't do everything with nothing. We just cannot extend that kind of an offer all around. It would not be Eco-Logical. It wouldn't work. We have to become much more practical and capable of making clear and well understood decisions that will be in the best interests of Eden and for the Earth.

One in Three

Meta-Permaculture

Then eventually we will be able to open our doors to the world so people can see what we have done. And at this point many will wish that they had done what we did when we had done it.

Permanent Culture

Not to get something for nothing but to join in the creation of something for the greater good. And that means that sometimes we have to make some tough decisions. Then after everyone else has died off we will live on as a part of what we have created very much like an Eco-Logical Monastery which has to be formed by an integrated group of people that does eventually build quite a few things out of their own resources of time and money and all the materials they have been walking around on for thousands of years.

Places for those who have become an integral  part of the many new solutions that will be needed as real Humanitarians. A Real Habitat for Humanity has to be more than just an empty box. Places that are for the whole community to enjoy now will need to be built in accordance with a whole new order of priorities.

The Web of Life comes first not the needs of the All Too Many. The Communities of life are like a Forest Ecosystem or an EcoVillage Community or a Tribe of native peoples. Then after all has been done well and good and all has been provided for then the individuals needs may be considered after all that.

When someone disappears, everything is left as it is intact for the rest of the Brother/Sisterhood to be managed for the good of the community. This is the next step on the journey towards true Permaculture. It does have something to do with relationship and the community.

We don't haul our clippings off to the dump like these fools who don't use tools. Here we will be able to apply all these magical principles of right livelihood to more than just the landscapes around us which is what most people think Permaculture is to remain limited to. But we know that there is much more to it.

Most everyone of us will probably want to take the Permaculture Design Course. At least one person from each Homestead would be expected to volunteer to be of service in this way. That will ensure that everybody is well trained and well informed.

We will then bring people in and show them what we are talking about. How to build natural passive solar homes. How to live within our own watershed and the larger NorthCoast Eco Region in a more sustainable manner.

How to grow our own food using only what is there with no outside inputs. How to make some of the things we use and how to live within our own Self-Sustainable Micro Economy in Peace and Balance within the Natural World. Saving the Earth. These are the things we talk about in Eden.

The Post Nuclear Family

What is the Post Nuclear Family really going to look like? And what can we expect to find growing in Eden? I think it might be safe to say that the future of the nuclear family in Eden is going to be broken down to something we have all become quite familiar with.

I think we can expect to see a lot of Mothers at the apex of power, which resides in the family homestead, with any number of children along with a possible current partner, and maybe a few friends.

Ordinary Marriage will no longer be necessary, as we move Beyond Paradise, at least not in Eden but many will continue to practice it. Normally the Alternative Family Model works against all the existing norms.

In Eden this will be viewed as a healthy lifestyle that works and as a welcome addition to our community and as a totally normal family structure.

We continue to support those men who can hang on to any woman under these conditions, but we can no longer continue to put those people first, who still may think they have to conform to the older model as the ideal family of days gone by which is no longer the only ideal family model of the future.

This is what real Social Change really looks like. And you can see that it really is quite different than just feeding into algae bloom which thing accomplishes nothing towards a sustainable way of life. People don't need any outside inputs and that would be an endangerment to the local and global environment.

Death is Eco-Logical. We know that death is just a necessary component of the natural workings of a healthy ecosystem that is normal and natural, and we rely upon that to keep the population healthy and strong and in good working condition.

What we are doing in Eden is moving towards an Eco-Logical system of ethics and rights and responsibilities that cannot be contaminated with any of these false beliefs about what is right and what is not right, most of which have come from various religious sources which do not hold up to Eco-Logical Scrutiny.

New understanding about how ecosystems work is what will set us free from these doctrines of dominator culture. We will use this as a new basis of sound judgment which really is the closest we can ever hope to come to absolute justice.

People are perhaps a bit defensive about the nuclear family meltdown sometimes, like that is something that needs to be propped up forever, like the family farm, which seems to be disappearing at a rapid rate, along with some of the best farmland which is now being used up, as fast as oil, for cheap developments of mac-mansion subdivisions, which are just not sustainable. But then when you offer them something new, like an EcoVillage that was more than just another housing development they pull back, like it was a great danger and a threat.

But that means no improvements will be tolerated and that leaves no room for the change makers to be able to grow and to expand into their own rightful domains and an integral part of the EcoVillage Community.

There is a whole new kind of marriage that we are proposing, and that is to become married up to the whole community, and not just to one man or one woman or one child or one dog or one cat, as it has been badly crippled in the past by these less than imaginative ideas and people, who have always held us down by the power of numbers, and that is what we must now begin to disengage from, as well as the politicians who surf in those treacherous waters, before the end times are upon us all.

Let's try something new.

That could even be the missing key to a good marriage and that could be the key to a good wholesome well rounded family life with happy children and old folks in a multi-generational community with a real connection to the land, and where you know that everybody there will be held seriously accountable to the community.

A willingness to marry into the whole community is what we should all be looking for among the many prospective new members and not just more babies having babies out of need and greed.

We do have to have a new plan here to take some of the best of the new people into some new territory, and not just to take them off to die somewhere, as otherwise we would be just setting people up with a series of mac-mansions in the deserts of obsolete living for another lifetime of anonymous isolation that can only come to a screeching halt because that would not be sustainable.

The proof of that is that most people would not even dream of insisting upon having a 2 acre Farmsite as well as a 3 acre homestead in an Intentional Community all to themselves. But why did people think they didn't ever have to become self sufficient in food production? That is what they were taught.

We accept all good folks who can make a real contribution. All that has been rejected only needs to be further worked on, and built upon, and that did not need to be discarded, or misplaced and devalued within the natural order of priorities except as a defense against the Truth in Eden which we all must live by.

And yes in a real world, and within a whole new way of life that works, you will be able to know not only where your food comes from, and who the fathers of your children are, but you may also know exactly where you are going to be buried, when you die in Eden, so you can go and make peace with that spot in advance.

Some of the best among us, may even choose to have a tree planted right over their graves right here in Eden, where there friends and family, can hike over to plant some flowers on anytime they might want, that may grow up to be a great big Tree.

But why not have it understood that all teenaged children of Eden will be expected to put in at least 4 to 8 hours a week of light weight community service work within the uncompromised lands of our growing community of peace and plentitude, alongside the adults, which should be fine as long as there are no power tools involved, which is for their own safety.

Our Children don't need to be trapped behind a desk with a whole lot of pointless paperwork, and to be endlessly trapped in the nursery school environment, when they are already old enough and mature enough to go outside, and to join in with the ongoing work of this community.

But how can we expect the children to follow where the adults will not lead. Eden is very Personal. Community is about relationship.

Permaculture is about relationships. Please do feel free to chime in with something that you think is useful. We do welcome your  active collaboration.

How many have gotten the message and can resonate well enough with these things is just one of the first questions. But we do need to see your best contributions in full participation and sharing your self and maybe even some small amount of monetary support and some good words of encouragement, and an honest expression of hope and good will for the project might be expected.

We now have well over 700 great big fat members in our main email group which is huge for any single community email group and we have over a Thousand in our other group. So you can see that the foundation of the resource base has been carefully laid.

Thirty Five Dollars from each real member will give us something to work with over the coming year. We have not been slacking off here. Bring us your Best and forget the Rest. Write to Rumor Control about any offensive rumors going around at the address below or email T at the address below.

We do have some great big fat publications in the works that are just dying to be printed, and that will allow us to reach out to a lot more people. But we can only do that with your help.

In return for that we will now be able to send you not only The Eden Journal which is something real that you can show to your friends, but now you will get the Free DVD along with that just as a token of our many thanks. - T