Ecovillage purpose and values

Lately I have heard a couple of things that I think I’ll adopt. Firstly, Rama introduced me to the notion that the purpose of life is to ‘learn and grow in wisdom’ and last night I chatted with Andrew about his goals and plans for his young family and he mentioned seeking a place with the following values: ‘function, fun and beauty’……….the journey to and through ecovillage can provide so much for me. Thank you both.

Our Neighbourhood

Today is Day 3 of the US 2010 National Cohousing Conference that I am attending in Boulder, Colorado and the theme is ‘sustainability through community’. There are 4 other Aussies here, all from Victoria – more than from any other country in the world!
Cohousing is a contemporary version of an old world classic. I see the concept as a very important part of our ecovillage, whereby we can get smart with our village housing using intelligent, friendly, clever, innovative, inclusive design. It involves participative processes so that we can tap into the wisdom of the group, so please put on your thinking caps and capture what we really want in our daily lives….after all we are not part of the world’s ‘Cultural Creatives’ for nothing. Why not design what we want, rather than adapt to what exists.

Extra ordinary

I am going to pay more attention to doing and being extra ordinary - not extraordinary, that’s too far out for me but extra ordinary, this seems doable, achievable. I am not going to place limitations by defining this but ask for help from others who also seek extra ordinariness in their lives too.