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The City as Ecology
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this reminds me of the 'tired light' theory (zwicky) in physics, which while essentially rejected or disproven suggested that the 'redshift' which suggested distant planets were moving further away was actually due to light getting tired and slowi...
i may have a schedule conflict, so i was wondering if maybe you have a map---where i can find you---i may just wander around to look if im late. or maybe i can get to ecac at 4 to hear what you found. i guess sourgrass may be what looks like clove...
12 to 15 block radius? since ecac is around 7th, i guess that means all the way from around 7th st n.e. to rock creek park area, and from around p st in shaw all the way up to petworth. or maybe you meant radius. i wonder if any of that land aroun...
i might be interested. i really only know a few of the wild edible plants in the areas i go and have forgotten most of them, but have found the few i know are good enough as a start. (i have been willing to eat nettles everyday for greens, for exa...
Calling all foragers, street salad chefs, tree climbers, berry hunters, backyard physicians, naturopaths, freegans and dumpster divers. Dinner grows between cracks in the concrete. Grab your pocket knife. Let's eat!
just looked back at this site. as for edutainment, that is one way to go----i guess everything from the Last Poets to HipHop (eg read a book, or the decypher block at 10pm on WPFW), some of which is political and some about anything (eg raps about...
sounds like a start; i wonder how long it will take before one will have to move this to Tyson's Corner, and have other locations like rockville and wheaton plaza, to keep up with supply and demand. also, whether the potomac bioregion's entire for...
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- What is your motivation for joining this group?
- i am interested in the concept of 'intentional community' though i have never known any i wanted to live in----visiting was ok. the idea sounds good (better than, say, 'disfunctional communities' like the ones i am more familiar with).
I tend to think if intentional communities are going to be more than the fairly marginal things they are now (eg the Federation of IC, which puts out a mag) they may need to diversify in a variety of directions---especially off from the more common 60's commune type of thing.
in fact my ideal would be what some indigenous peoples have, especially in mountain areas like tibetans and swiss; a mixture of a home community, and a nomadic lifestyle, at different seasons----if it was me, i might be outside all summer exploring my bioregion.
also, i noted a discussion was here on the DC General site, and thought i'd add a comment.
- What skills or experience would you share? We need architects, artists, planners, scholars, farmers, web wizards, fundraisers, vintners, vegan chefs, grant writers, carpenters, beekeepers, scientists, dreamers, lobbyists - you get the idea ...
- it would depend on the terms of the sharing. (i tend to be a utilitarian (contract oriented) since the 'mutual aid' or 'gift economy' or 'handshake deal' doesn't work for me.)
i am somewhat into 'dreaming', science, planning (eg 'to do (tomorrow) lists' or 'what others should or should not do' lists), and being a 'scholar'. If music is art, then i'm into that too . I can write some. I appreciate farming, but I am more into hunter gathering mode (but think trades might be alternative commerce). cooking and construction are not my thing, but sometimes are neccesary. I'm not a web wizard, but I am into the science of the web, of social/networks, from the complex systems view.
- What are your areas of interest?
- alternative commerce, intentional community, wellness
- What level of commitment to an intentional community would you consider at this point?
- supporter
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- At 11:58pm on February 1, 2009,
Larry Chang said… - Hi Ishi,
I'm glad you joined so we can share these thoughts. I can identify with you not wanting to live in any communities you've known. I've visited several with the intention to join but was not drawn to any, so i decided to start one. Rather than repair to the country where most of them are, i figured why not here in DC? We do not need to spread our "development" any further into virgin territory. We need to fix what we've already messed up, so in building we will repair and restore as well.
I also agree that ICs, as they are typically organized, are marginal in the sense that they cannot include or address the massive social and environmental problems that beset us. They were not meant to, having been designed to be isolationist and escapist, the idea of a retreat from a corrupt and degraded society into a more ideal situation. In the event of catclysmic devastation, it's good to have pockets of self-sufficient homesteaders, more likely to survive for regeneration, but short of that, those of us who have the vision serve better as yeast to leaven the urban loaf where the bulk of population is found.
Your ideal of a mixed community is plausible and is probably closer to what would emerge if we were able to develop a site such as Hill East. The IC would function as a policy and administrative core, integrating all aspects and occupants of the complex with the surrounding neighborhoods and communities.
- At 11:02pm on February 1, 2009,
Ecolocitizen said… - Hi ishi, thanks for joining us. Feel free to customize your page, post questions, thoughts, articles, photos, videos, add cool apps, make friends, message privately, join or create groups.
We look forward to your participation in anchoring our vision with your scholarship and music as we seek to live more sustainably and equitably. We plan a wide range of programs and your input will be welcome.
We meet WEEKLY due to the enormity of the challenges and the urgency needed to address the issues that face us - Tuesdays 7 pm at Emergence Community Arts Collective, 733 Euclid Street NW, WDC 20001. We've been following a schedule something like this:
1st week - Food & Farming
2nd week - Transition
3rd week - Film
4th week - Planning & Networking
5th week when there's one - Special guest
but any can be trumped by urgent matters arising. For example, we devoted the first meeting in 2009 to building the infrastructure for an alternative local economy based on time banks and/or local currency, such as Anacostia Hours in circulation in Mount Rainier.
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