Dear friends old and new!
Ideas that have been developing over years have recently started to blossom and suddenly there's a full-time project to design and develop. Very inspiring and very exciting.
Some friends and I are currently researching the possibility of setting up a housing cooperative and sustainable community somewhere in South America and WE NEED PEOPLE who would be interested in joining us for a short or a long time!
This is not a money-making project or an idea to develop a for-profit company. It is also not a charity or a way for us to impose ourselves and our ideas on others. This is our idea for a solution to some of the difficulties we think we, as a human race, are going to face over the next few years. We want to make a place where a group of people can:
live together cooperatively, sharing land and housing
grow food and other plant materials for their own needs and for exchange with the local community,
develop the necessary skills to live in harmony with our environment,
produce as much as possible our own power from solar and wind energy,
contribute and become integrated with the local community,
work on individual ideas and creations, supported in a peaceful place
Ways in which you can participate. By
joining me on a research tour of S America. I plan to visit Ecuador, Peru, Chile and Uruguay from about November this year and I welcome travelling companions.
sharing information and skills during the planning and development phases in areas such as
perma-culture and other organic farming methods
methods for sourcing renewable energy
alternative ways of dealing with waste e.g. composting toilets
building, DIY skills
Spanish language skills
knowledge about legal procedures in South American countries
and anything else you may think of.
This project is a new-born baby who can't grow without input from adults cooperating together for its development. We welcome anyone who comes to the project from a place of love.
You can find us here and at changjiclare@yahoo.com and later at www.notanecovillage.com
The picture is on my desk-top to inspire me all the way. It is somewhere in Ecuador's Cotopaxi National Park.
With loving-kindness to you all,
Clare
