It has been our experience that these are some of the solutions
for personal and planetary transformation:
 Bioregional
communities: We have been involved with the formation
of intentional communities for over 20 years. We feel community living is
an important solution for living more sustainably. We live in one in San
Mateo, CA ....primarily,
and have helped create several others. |
| Social/Political
Activism: My activism includes being a member
of the San Mateo County Council
of the Green Party
in California and I am also the co-chair of the CA delegation to the National Committee of the Green Party of the United States. Most currently, I am supporting the campaign of Cynthia McKinney for president. And if you are saying to yourself, Green Party, they are spoilers, think again. |
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Communi-tea: This project provides solutions to improving
your soil biology so that your plants grow better. This is based on a scientific
next step to improve organic agriculture provided by Elaine Ingham, founder
of the Soil
Foodweb. |
| Networking:
We work with others to demonstrate our values and
have provided links to resources on a variety of issues reflecting our values
relating to sustainability: community, sustainable
agriculture and
building,
holistic health, and spirituality. |
So
who are we?
These
are websites I have developed for communities which we are helping to grow.
Websites
that are significant to us and reflect our values:
Sustainable Building
(a local resource center dedicated to reducing waste)Sustainable Architecture, Building and Culture(a local resource for salvaged materials)Holistic Health and Natural Food
Political and Social Activism
Beautiful Zapatista Corn Art--see opportunities to support these courageious indigenous people through Schools for Chiapas.
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Heifer International
Help hungry families feed themselves- .
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As an active Green, I often encounter the challenge that we are spoilers. I totally disagree. As I said once to a former congressman, a truly progressive Democrat, John Vasconcellos, when he expressed concerns about us leaving the Democrats, I replied that they left us. Though after I read the Avocado Declaration, I was not sure that the Democrats, on a national level, ever truly supported a progressive agenda. Anyway, I wanted to share a few websites that I found that talk about the fallacy of the spoiler effect.
- Who Really Spoiled in 2000?
- Still Blaming Nader?
- Correcting the Spoiler Effect
- Nader and the Slander Begins Again
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and I also want to share some websites for my candidate for president in 2008, Cynthia McKinney......
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Spirituality
- So who am I?
I am an intensely passionate person with values to which I am deeply committed. I am involved with sustainable communities including a connection with Cohousing and other forms of Intentional Community. I most relate to the principles of ecovillages, which include aspects of Social/Community, Ecology, and Cultural/Spiritual. I began a community house in San Diego in 1978 which is still functioning and is called the Enchanted Garden. Brian and I got married in 1986. He shares my deep commitment to these values. In 1989, we moved to the Olympic Peninsula in NW Washington and began developing what would be called Dragon Belly Farm. For a variety of reasons that you can read about on our websites, I returned to California in 1993 with my husband joining me in 1996. We are currently involved with developing an urban retrofit mini ecovillage community in San Mateo. We had expected to retire to Dragon Belly and travel a lot....but that is currently more of an unknown. It looks like we will be spending our retirement years at the farm, at our bay area suburban ecovillage, wtih our "family" in Damanhur in Italy, and continueing to travel.
And of course my life also includes dancing, travel, and .....
My husband, Brian, works for United, and we make very good use of the flight benefits provided by that job. As a teacher, currently at a year round school, I have more holidays than he does so have taken some trips without him. My first trip using the benefits was to Costa Rica in 1997 for a month in an attempt to improve my Spanish followed by a trip to Thailand in 1998. We took a trip together to Europe in 1999. I went to Germany for the World's Fair with my sister in October 2000. In December 2000, Brian and I celebrated the summer solstice in Australia. Some of the highlights of that trip include a visit to Kookaburra Ecovillage (photos can be found in one of my Yahoo albums.) We also visited the Osho Mevlana Community near Byron Bay and had an interesting stopover at a beautiful Taoist Temple. In April 2001, we traveled to Thailand. In June, it was amazing South Africa. In October I revisited Damanhur, a spiritual community in Northern Italy and then back to South Africa in January 2002. In April 2002, we went to Cuba with Global Exchange and in October, I returned to Damanhur. In December, Brian and I visited Panama. In April 2003 we both returned to Damanhur to check out the house we had helped purchase, Villa Cornucopia, and to make contact with the Italian family with whom we would share that house and again in the fall of 2004. In December 2004, we went to Beijing, China with a day trip to the Great Wall. We returned to China in April 2005. In October 2005, we traveled closer to home, to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico where we became quite enthralled with the art of the Hichol Indians, and purchased pieces from several galleries. In December, we made a last minute decision to go to Egypt. Look for more pictures on line soon.....
Dancing
Travel
...and more
Any thoughts you want to share with me....
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