Ekistics

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On Wednesday, January 21, 2004, at 07:36 PM,

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> Message: 1

> Wed, 21 Jan 2004 03:09:35 -0000

> " Keisha Ann Berry " <flyfiddle

> The need for vegetarian communities

>

> Hello everyone!!

> I am new to the feral vegetarian group and thrilled to be here!I look

> forward to reading the thoughts and ideas of others much like myself.

> I hope to share my own ideas and visions as they come to me. What

> concerns me now is the apparent lack of " actual " vegetarian centered

> communities.

 

For most of us it's just not a big enough deal that we'd focus our lives

on it as the defining factor. There are enclaves in communities where

folks are very vegetarian friendly -- try seeking in CA, where there are

many. In fact the whole left coast is scattered with vegetarian friendly

communities.

 

> It's a constant hope of mine to be surrounded by like

> minded people especially those who share my eating habits.I am

> looking for/ or am willing to help create a village/community that is

> a self-sustained, spiritual yet non-religious, multicultural and

> exclusively dedicated to vegetarian/ eco-friendly ideals.

 

1960s communes mostly didn't work out. The human factor scuttles the best

of intentions.

 

> I desire a

> home environment where though I dont make a lot of money, I can live

> well and at the same time sustain the vision of the community as part

> of the whole. I want a refuge village where I offset my work in the

> mad world with days of gardening pure organic fruits and vegetables,

 

You need to start a veggie restaurant that grows some of its own organic

foods, then.

 

> farming together to feed the community.

 

The Amish do that.

 

> With the pervasive madness

> overtaking the corporate farming industries it is well beyond the

> time for taking an active role in not just food choice and

> preparation, but also in food cultivation.

 

Simple fact of the world is, without corporate farming there is no way we

can feed the population. Just too many people.

 

> I think the the only way

> many of us will be able to live well and eat pure is to re-invent the

> local village.

 

Been tried many times and while it's a lovely ideal, it's not workable.

Too many people.

 

> Places with multi-family homes and common living and

> farming areas. What do ou believe?

 

Study ekistics, as I do. It's the science of community, of human

settlements and how to make them work both for the people and in nature.

 

 

Man can climb to the highest summits; but he cannot dwell there long.

~ George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)