Eden will act as a demonstation of balanced human settlement that is capable of going Beyond Permaculture. That is the basis of Real Self Sustainability, that we will have a healthy ratio of land to people, of 3 to 1, or 3 acres of land for each one person.
And that can be followed throughout Mendocino County, and around the world, to great effect, which we will call the Mendocino Ripple Effect.
Around the outside rim of the valley will be a circle of Homesteads, and along the inside of the rim, will be a circle of Farmsites. We will be capable of becoming completely self sufficient in food production.
Having a large land based and food producing community like that will give Mendocino County a greater degree of resilience, because our food production will not be dependent upon outside inputs, of fertilizers, or pesticides.
Our main source of income will be to sell the surplus of our hand grown produce throughout Mendocino County, adding to the supply of healthy foods available.
Some of this food will be available for trade, or exchange, or using Mendo Greens, our Local currency, which will support our local green economy, and the re-localization of our food supply.
What that will do is reduce dependency on foreign oil, and the many miles that most food has to travel just to get here.
It will also help us to stop the downward slide into total dependency, on these multinational food manufacturing industries, who do not have our best interests at heart, when we can do a much better job producing our own wholesome and healthy food supplies, and that is done by the radical relocalization of our food producing systems.
We will be using a whole new way of understanding it all, and that was built by T, because food is not a thing, according to T, as much as it is a flow, which can only continue to flow, out of a whole and healthy system, which is the one ecosystem, whose main job is to feed itself, and our main job is to help it to do that, and for doing that, we will be entering back into the process, as a part of the whole ecosystem, which deserves to be fed first, and then the people can eat only later, as it might be said, only after the Earth has been Fed.
We can all help to save the Earth by reversing the Carbon Imbalance, just by using a simple process invented by T.
When you have a fire in your wood stove, you shut it off before it is fully burned out, leaving you with a black bed of charcoal in the morning. That is then scooped out with a screen, and is then spread upon your lands, or buried in the garden, or on your farmsites.
That is a supremely easy low tech way, of not only sequestering Carbon, because charcoal does not break down for a very long time, so it remains in your soil as a soil amendment for a very long time, like over 50 years, unlike ordinary compost, which will greatly help to improve the soil, as well, because these charcoal chunks are like little apartment houses for micro-organisms, and not only that but they also trap nutrients and minerals, which makes them like apartments that are well stocked with food.
That is a 3 way win,and that is what makes this a supremely sustainable system to die for.
By taking care of the whole system first, we will have a fair share of the abundance which will follow, and that begins with local action, and by intentionally putting carbon into our soils, and by teaching others, how to do it, we will have a chance to Save Mendocino County Farmlands.
Re-Localization is about gaining control of the power to protect our local Life Flow Relationships, and by gaining control of our own Resources, and our own economies, we do not have to become part of the next wave of casualties, of the global economy.
Re-Localization will help us, to become much more resilient, to economic changes in the near future.
For that we will have to set things up now, so that we will all be able to sustain ourselves in Eden First, as an example, for the rest of the Country to follow, even when the monetary manipulation money stops flowing, which is something that most people are going to choose to remain totally dependent upon, to get their food, while we will be moving on into a whole new world.
Well that is what we plan to be able to disengage from, at a moments notice, in Eden, which will be completely Off-The-Grid, to begin with, and beyond the power lines, and we will be getting almost all of our power from the Sun, the Wind, and the Water, and we will have our own money, which will make us mucn more resilient, to any ups and downs.
But we are not planning on becoming completely isolated from the world, which still needs our help, since we are the leaders, even though we will be able to become completely self sustainable, if need be, at a moments notice, which is a result of competence.
But we will normally be staying fully connected up, with the rest of Mendocino County, and the rest of the world, through our work in Local Watershed Restoration Activism, through the North Coast Watershed Council, and by providing good locally grown food, and we will remain fully involved, and even deeply involved in our whole world, as world change makers, as we will connect up with other communities, around the world, through the Emerald Forest of Sustainable Communities, because the very fragile economic systems of the world may well crash and burn very fast, from time to time, just like a forest fire, which will necessitate a rapid disengagement, once in a while, so while the others run for cover, we will just stay home, which may be necessary, from time to time, just for our own survival.
When that happens we will still have our own money, and our own economy, with jobs, housing, food, and other hand made products for sale and for trade among each other, within a village sized economy which is to be Human Scale.
But this village will have enough land to be able to support the right sized economy, which is the village sized economy. But a village without enough land, and too many people, just does not have the basis for any kind of an economy.
Each Family or Communal Living Group, will have a 3 acre Homestead, overlooking the valley, on which to build their own Solar Homes on, and most will have a 2 acre Farmsite, on which to feed themselves, and to use as a source of income. But only if they use it. We don't want any of the good farmland to go to waste, as it is not there to act as a possession.
We have a vision of becoming capable of being almost totally self sustainable, in food production, which means that almost no one in the community will ever need to eat any Manufactured Foods, or any Imported Foods, or any foods from outside our local area, except for the grains, which will all come from Northern California, if at all possible.
We will probably be among the first on Earth to have redefined sustainability, as something that is only possible, as a part of a sustainable land based Tribal Community.
We can take the next step, from being all about trying to be more sustainable, by buying all the green products, which is not really fully self sustainable, to actually becoming a part of a Real Self Sustainable Way of Life in Community, which is like that System we talked about, which alone can be sustainable, that the Community is what needs to be supported, as a System, which like the Ecosystem, needs to be put into good working order first, before we can begin to extract a lot of benefits from it, and so there is an order to becoming sustainable, because the Earth comes First, before the people, and the Community comes first, before the people, and then the people will only begin to benefit, when the Ecological System of the Community, is put into good working order.
So the Community is our Project, it is like a work of Art that we all are to be working on Collectively, and yet we have created a lot of places for the people, who are the Earth Stewards, and their families, to live, on their own Homesteads, and all living on their own Farmsites, in deep self sufficiency.
For things to really change, we need to embrace a whole new kind of Ecological Design process, as a group of committed people, who will gladly pay for it all, accepting both the good and the bad, and not to be too choosey, so there really is an all in aspect of this project.
That is why we will have to define it so clearly that the new people, or the other people, who eventually will want to join, much later, after we have gotten started, will know why they just have to accept the new terms of change, of a whole new way of life, which they will just have to accept, as a whole thing, and so the purpose of the Trees, in the Emerald Forest of Sustainable Communities is not just about satisfying peoples needs, which are not being met by consumer culture, but it is about passing our own lifeways on down, as the Stewards of the Earth.
We need to embrace the changes, and get out ahead of them, instead of playing the blame game, which is all that will be left for those who have chosen, to remain behind, and to remain as dependents upon that which is not sustainable.
To live as a part of a Community, is right at the very heart of the change that is needed now, not more bailouts, and payoffs, because the Community is what represents the whole system of life, for the people of the Earth, who historically have all been tribally oriented, if we go back far enough, and so that is the natural way for us to live, while all these bailouts and payoffs are all just short term cover ups that are used by the politicians, to manipulate the issues, for their own personal advantage.
We have been tribal. And we have not ever been individualized down, as we are today, into anonymous isolation, as separated people, who do not even know the people around us, each to be in direct competition, with all the others, with only short term alliances, most of which are based on the stronger members, using the weaker members, and taking advantage of them.
And that signifies an artificial breaking down of the structure of life to the point where it almost cannot now be put back together again, except by someone like T.
That means human society has degraded, and is beginning to decompose, and some of it has even liquified, out of neglect for its integrity, and its proper care and use, so it has dropped down to a lower level of value, and is now only fit for composting, when it once had been good food.
It is getting to the point where our people are not even going to be any good anymore, if we keep this up, as they will not be any good for anything but at serving themselves, and fighting for a greater share of the government controlled resources of the states, which are going bankrupt as we speak, just like Greece right now.
One good thing that will come out of that anonymous isolation, and everyone being only out for their own self interests, will be that these self centric people will not want to take care of children, when that money can go to buy crack, unless they get something out of it, except for the very rich, who can pay other people to do that, but that will be a violently explosive population, like we see in Greece, with no staying power, and all based on universal world dependency.
This is the most important world problem that needs to be solved first, in my opinion, having to do with the premature disintegration of all of humankind, which is going down fast right now, even before the clingons have arrived.
Universal Integration is what is now needed. But the people will not accept any leadership that could help them to move in that direction, since they already think they should have the last word on everything, and that is a trap.
That the people will not accept any leadership, just because they should know as well as any, because they all got the same education, which is now worthless for that reason, and so they will choose to blame the rich, instead of accepting any guidance and direction, from some of those who could help them out tremendously, but only if they are willing to serve the creation process, but they will not follow and they will not serve, and so they are stuck, and the world is stuck, simply because of the lack of any willingness within, to follow the appropriate guidance, even voluntarily, and to accept the directions of those, like T, with a certain amount of voluntary commitment, who could lead us right out of this disaster.
This lack of integrity, could be our downfall, here on Earth, where such people, who are not self sufficient, are in great abundance, because they are totally dependent upon their governments, to support them, with bailouts, and payoffs, which is where the problem lies, when it is time now to start disengaging, from these overly burdened down world governments, with all this need and greed, who simply cannot keep up the pace any longer, of having to provide for all these peoples needs, as if that was the highest priority, when that is not the highest priority. So the key is to decommission Need, as being anything of value in the Natural Order of Priorities.
What would happen if need was to be properly valued, for the first time, in a very long time, at an absolute zero value? Only T really knows.
We are glad to see some of the dictatorships in the arab countries go down into complete chaos, but unfortunately that will not be a very pretty sight to see, when it happens right here, in America, which already has enough, and maybe too much of that self centric consumerism power, which has been slipping in the direction of Greece, for a long time now, so it is time for us to make a change, but this time, not as lone individuals, and this time, not as lone nuclear families, like it was in the wild wild west, but this time it is to be done, on the level of the Tribal Community, which does have to be big enough, to be self sustainable, as well as being small enough so that everyone in the community knows everyone else in the community, so the naturally high level of the explosiveness of the individuals, in deep isolation, to go off, into a chain reaction, because of that isolation, anytime they have reached the critical mass, can be controlled by the Tribal Elders, who are the peace keepers in the community, and so in this way we will not be a threat, to any of the other independent world powers, like the Church, or the European Union, because the very last thing we want to do, is to sit idly by, and just watch the self destruction, of this whole planet, all in the name of providing an unearned sense of personal Freedom, for all the people, who have been prematurely absolved, from any sense of responsibility, or having to earn it before you can burn it, which would only be suicidal, and so we will need to create a whole new system, which will not be suicidal, like the Honor System, just in order to save the Earth. - T
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