tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11899992806945086382024-02-20T13:47:23.788-08:00ECOCULTURE BUKIT LAWANGThe mission of Ecoculture¹ Village. nonprofit entity, is increasing personal and community resilience {If prepared, then resilient.}… putting the rural back into community… rediscovering, rejuvenating, and reinventing small rural communities [to increase the quality of life for, and to increase public awareness of the actual and potential benefits inherent to, small rural communities].Lantunanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05609701704749206520noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1189999280694508638.post-16561599433215669042016-01-11T23:52:00.002-08:002016-01-11T23:55:47.514-08:00ECO - CULTURE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<u><span style="color: #ed1a1a; font-size: x-large;"><strong>ECOCULTURE</strong></span></u><br /><br />Mission & Vision<br /><br />The
mission of Ecoculture¹ Village. nonprofit entity, is increasing
personal and community resilience {If prepared, then resilient.}…
putting the rural back into community… rediscovering, rejuvenating, and
reinventing small rural communities [to increase the quality of life
for, and to increase public awareness of the actual and potential
benefits inherent to, small rural communities].<br /><span></span>¹ The
word ‘ecoculture’ can most easily be broken down as a noun… to mean
‘ecological culture’, which immediately brings to mind traditional
culture’s, past and present, of people who lived, or who are living, at
one with the ecology; but also as a verb… to mean ‘to culture
ecologically’, which not only implies the cultivating or farming of
food, medicine, and utility species within an ecological framework, but
also the human transmission of human lifeways from one generation to the
next in an ecological framework as well. Ecoculture emphasizes ecology
as the basis for all life, and is the ecoculturalist’s foundation for
land use design and community values interpolation. Ecoculture is my
main strategy, and for the purposes of Ecoculture Village’s mission
statement, I define it as the demonstration, documentation, and
dissemination of subsistence-level¹∙¹ self-sufficiency and ecologically
sustainable¹∙² design and principles, and ethical intentional community
practices.<br /><span></span>¹∙¹ Subsistence-level, being understood as
logically conceivable, here refers to all necessities inherent to whole
being or real existence and is intuitively supportive of healthy
individual and group human evolving.<br /><span></span>¹∙² Ecologically
sustainable here refers to the provision that all human activities be in
the very least compatible with the healthy functioning of the natural
world, and at most be somehow enhancing to it; and providing for that,
that all human activities can be continued indefinitely.<br /><span></span>²
Villages are the smallest full featured rural settlements; larger than a
hamlet and smaller than a town; often inherently offering religious
and/or spiritual gatherings/services (possibly a separate or subsidiary
non-profit interfaith [respecting and engaging in dialogue and
cooperation of all religions/understandings] organization nearby or
onsite) in addition to all other base necessities.<br /><span></span>My
original inspiration was and is, to communicate something along the
lines of… a way to live fully without imposing personal spiritual
beliefs (or lack thereof) on others; I believe ecoculture is how our…
creator… wills for us to live our lives and that it encompasses all that
we may need, might want, and desire.<br /><span></span>Another way I
define ecoculture is: the harmonious union of the environmental dynamic
(ecosystem) and the social dynamic (culture), which I believe is both
the underlying determinant for and the end result of rational land use.
In light of this understanding, Ecoculture Village is intended to be a
research and design study facility primarily involved in both being an
example of, and also shining light on examples of… living excellence.<br /><span></span>Another
way I define ecoculture is: the relationship between human culture and
the ecology, in the sense that human culture recognizes that it is a
directly proportional function of the ecology.<br /><span></span>While the
most practical vision for Ecoculture Village is oriented toward solving
the common problems of our community time/space… the ultimate vision
for Ecoculture Village embodies achieving, maintaining, and teaching
ways toward the highest quality of life (health, happiness, and
longevity) possible for anybody and everybody on Earth. We will achieve
this vision by way of the implementation of cooperative living, organic
polyculture (both aqua- and terra-farming), appropriate technologies,
wildlife habitat buffer zones, conservation of microhabitats and other
sacred spaces, and other Earthfriendly tactics.<br /><span></span>Although
our nonprofit focus is interdisciplinary research, design,
experimentation, and educational outreach, in striving to promote and
engage multiple sources of initiative, Ecoculture Village dutifully
seeks to be viably interconnected with the everexpanding networks of
likeminded individuals and organizations both local and abroad.<br /><span></span>What
I believe Ecoculture Village can be… is nothing short of and nothing
more than the super potential inherent to the general definitions I have
attributed to my imagining sanctuary… a safe haven… an Earth haven… a
home where I and others of like mind can live respectfully, to each
other and to nature. Ecoculture Village need not be restricted to any
aspect of its potential, nor need it be prematurely focusing on any
aspect of it either… it will be, and is, an entity… the process and
result of its utilizing us in creating itself.<br /><span></span>That
said… Ecoculture Village is in its beginning stages, in other words,
needs people, organizing, and land… people have asked me where "the
money" is going to come from in order to accomplish this. In reality,
"the money" need not and should not be any other than the last
consideration we might need make… even though… most people I have talked
to seem to have financial worries on their minds. People want to know
about "the money"… , so I’ll get this explanation over with promptly…
without trying to sound insulting to anyone’s intelligence I tell them
to imagine the image that hilariously and yet common sensically comes to
my mind… ahem… concerning "the money", we are a bunch of dogs at a
canine circus trying to earn praises and treats… and after we jump
through all "the pooch hoops", aka the legal and business hurdles and
expectations (incorporation articles, bylaws, business plan, executive
limitations, financial statements, etc.), then "the money" will come…<br /><span></span><br /><em>(image credit: unknown)</em><br /><span></span>AND
the more pooch hoops we jump through, the more funding we can expect to
be able to be accountable for, especially as a certified 501(c)(3)
nonprofit organization. It’s about establishing trust in ousincere
legitimacy… encouraging people’s hearts.<br /><span></span>This site is my
strategy for attracting the energy to collaborate in jumping through
all possible pooch hoops, which I believe needs to involve more than
just one person (we need founders) in order for a wholesome community
mindset and framework to naturally evolve from our paperwork and sweat…
ecosustainable, selfsufficient, ethical community! This site exists in
order to facilitate dreaming Ecoculture Village into action. With that
in mind… Ecoculture Village is an experiment in creating an appropriate
history of human cultural evolution, beginning with wilderness survival
skills and the embellishment of those skills resulting in an ecovillage.
For our home base, we will acquire some acreage (~50 to 100 acres)
surrounded by wilderness, preferably National Forest and having a year
round water source at a high point and enough south facing slope to farm
and integrate water courses and ponds to support outdoor aquaculture
and that will keep the deep soil moist throughout the planted areas. We
will integrate living simply "off of <em>the fat of</em> the land" with
more advanced appropriate technologies to the effect of achieving
harmony between the ecosystem and human culture.<br /><span></span><br /><br /><span></span>Showing
how one way of procuring heat in an ecologically sustainable manner has
evolved.Ultimately relying on survival knowledge and skills to
constantly remind us of the inherent necessity of a healthy ecosystem
and each other, we will learn and show others how to truly live at one
with the land.<br /><span></span>We will have several bioregional sites
that each shows how to apply abstractions for success to a multitude of
natural environments and living challenges, as well as techniques
exclusive to those bioregions. These sites will serve as an
organizational network. This is a noble and worthy goal and lifelong
endeavor which possesses enough inherent challenge to satisfy all but
perhaps the most extremely selfcritical person’s desire for personal and
group evolvement.Values, Strategic Principles.<br /><br /><span></span>My
values and consequent principles are inextricably bound to, being the
result of, the ideal that the best intentions must be based on the most
widely agreed upon standards of human conduct. To put it another way, my
ultimate trueness of form is the goal I actively strive for. I believe I
can accomplish this by way of ecoculture.<br /><span></span><br />This
symbol, the sacred hoop (might be called* ‘the medicine wheel’ by some)
represents the ultimate trueness of form of planet Earth. It is not
merely "artistic"; in other words, there is nothing arbitrary about it.<br /><span></span>*called;
meaning "falsely referred to" as in ‘name calling’, but also "summoned"
as in ‘called forth’; so for practical purposes of argument here, the
sacred hoop and the medicine wheel are the same. Even so: concerning
them, they are part and parcel to each other, and yet distinct and
separate entities unto themselves explaining two very similar yet
different ways of looking at various aspects of life, and perhaps even
the whole of life as we know it. The medicine wheel, may it be that its
blessed epitome’s time has already come, is wholly centering and
grounding and functions communicatively most well as its name signifies,
medicinally, more a cure rather than prevention, best used at home
where healing can be full, in anticipation of great celebration of all
life! It can be also further understood that a sapling is not… well,
‘fully well’… until it produces fruit. Whereas the sacred hoop is a more
advanced and less lucid understanding, for warriors equipped to go out
into the world and change other’s hearts and minds so as to be goodness
ready, as well as to further evolve their own understanding and place in
the world, in anticipation of great celebration of all life! This is of
course, just my opinion, a conglomerate insight, no more loved than
anyone else’s, but perhaps better suited to my own understanding than
that of another, perhaps not…<br /><span></span>My basic understanding of
human nature is thus: the more morals we share (the greater our ethic),
the more we collectively inherently value, and by way of the subsequent
cooperation that naturally ensues, the more individually understandable
our principles naturally become, and the easier should be our attaining
our ideal (as high a degree of appreciation [to increase the inherent
value of] for the Earth as possible). When something is understood, that
something is assumed to be successfully (implies uniquely and also
essentially) communicated by those who understand. Knowledge is of
course passed on to others by way of understanding.<br /><span></span>It
can be argued that all the solvable problems we humans face are the
result of ignorance (the inverse of understanding, a lack of appreciable
knowledge). Ignorance is consciously defeated when the knowledgeable
intentionally raise the ignorant to a certain level of awareness as many
times as it takes for the ignorant to realize truth. Realizing truth is
not a mere awareness of truth; it is being able to reiterate it, to
communicate it on and in one’s own terms.<br /><span></span>Ecoculture
comes about when mankind realizes, firstly, that the social dynamic does
not even so much as exist without the environmental dynamic; secondly,
that the rise or fall of both culture and the ecosystem are always
proportionally related to each other; and thirdly, that the ecosystem
must remain, or become and then remain, the active (static, dominant)
principle; and that culture must remain, or become and then remain, the
passive (specific, submissive) principle.<br /><span></span>As ecosystem
provides for culture, culture must be assistive to ecosystem. In order
to establish and/or maintain this balance between the ecosystem and
culture, all true situational facts must be taken into consideration.
This relies upon an interdisciplinary approach to understanding, and
necessarily encompasses the widest observational range possible, in the
very least in terms of the relevant local bioregion(s).<br /><span></span>The
situational elements of any relevant scenario always form the basic
vocabulary of intentional design, the individual meanings of which are
reflective of collective values. We continue to appreciate (to increase
the understandability of) our values by establishing principles
(foundational concepts). The principles constitute the structural
aspects of the individual system components, the collective of which
defines the system that is Ecoculture Village, for example. Values and
principles are the basic drive behind all intentional design strategies,
to put it another way, behind all intent to achieve an ideal.
Strategies are supported by initiatives and are achieved by
implementation of tactics.<br /><span></span>Within the context of
universal design, which must be naturally understandable to all people
to the greatest extent possible without the need for adaptation or
specialization and which I simply think of for the sake of brevity as my
collective values, is bioregional design, which necessarily
incorporates adaptation and specialization and therefore relies upon the
oftentimes very much less abstract idea of the application of unique
strategic principles and tactics.<br /><span></span>The following list of
strategic principles and associated tactics is arranged alphabetically,
as they are all equally valuable, even though some are more
bioregionally applicable or specific than others; and is a work in
progress. Tactics are by no means, as a general rule, exclusive to any
one principle.<br /><span></span><u>Appropriate Technologies</u><br />Typically
thought of as hydro, solar, and wind methods of energy acquisition and
storage, but also wood; only technologies that fit within the
ecologically sustainable ideal will be utilized.<br /><span></span>Examples:<br />Aqua and Terra Polyculture Greenhouses<br />Evaporative Salt Production<br />Residential Passive Solar Heating/Thermal Mass<br />Solar Cookers/Solar Water Distillers/Solar Water Heaters<br />Wood Stove (Catalytic)/Oven/Water Heaters<br /><span></span><u>Bioregionalism</u><br />All
subsystems, including home energy acquisition, food production,
sanitation, soil fertility management, waste management, etc., will be
designed and integrated in a manner compatible with, reliant upon, and
non-disruptive of the local bioregion (climate, habitats, indigenous
species, soils, etc.). Food and other goods will be produced locally, a
surplus of which may provide the basis for economic independence. These
‘endemic’ goods should ideally be exported only via ‘clean’ methods of
transportation; and if less than ideally, only so far that they remain
arguably within the ecologically sustainable ideal.<br /><span></span><u>Clean Energy Reliance</u><br />The use of forms of energy that do not pollute, such as hydro, solar, and wind will be prioritized.<br /><span></span><u>Conscientious Consideration</u><br /><span></span><u>Conservative Use of Precious Resources</u><br />Native plants conserve water.<br />Greywater systems conserve water.<br /><span></span><u>Cooperative Living</u><br />The
ability and willingness to work together toward achieving common goals
encourages independent thinking which is of great benefit to group
decision making. Sharing knowledge and teaching skills:<br /><span></span></div>
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