I know I am late for the challenge but I really wasn't able to get online, and it's never too late to start caring about environment right? Ofcourse you should start ASAP but you know what I mean:)
The blog post that inspired me has been made by Reid Falconer, he is the #1 on the Leaderboard and I think he really deserved it, he made a post about him going to the Lynedoch Ecovillage and you can see there how much EVOKE and the environment means to him, I didn't see anyone else having a blog post like that, I also personally like Ecovillages too, my dad takes me couple times a year to them and I really have an awesome time there and it really inspired me to see that someone on EVOKE network also likes to go and visit that kind of places:)
I promise that when the weather gets nicer and when dad takes me again to some Eco village I will also post a blog post like that because now its a snow blizzard out there where I am (Croatia, and what about you?), I'm really looking forward to it and I hope that EVOKE could put up a challenge for us to go and visit some Eco village and then make a blog post about it and then you reward us with powers you think we deserved for it that would be a really awesome challenge:)
Well, here is his original post to see what am I talking about:
My Amazing Journey To my Dream ( an Ecovillage )
Hi guys, when I wrote a blog about my dream/imagine where i would be in 2020(http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/imagine1-my-future-your-f...), I wrote on how I wanted to be the founder and manager of my very own ecovillage. When got some feed back from other evoke user about maybe writing a blog about an ecovillage near my home. I did so, I found out about the Lynedoch Ecovillage roughly 30 minutes from my home and proceeded to write a blog on that(http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/lynedoch-ecovillage) In my blog i stated that I was going to try and visit the ecovillage.
Today I woke up at 7.00am to set off to go and visit the ecovillage. I arrived there at about 8.00am this is where the magic started. As I walked through the main gates of the ecovillage I was struck by the sense of tranquility and serenity. I only had to walk a matter of steps to be greeted by a friendly worker. His name was Lukus and he was doing the litter clean up. I asked him what exactly the litter clean up was and he explained that every day it is a specific persons duty to walk around the entire village and pick up all the litter that was lying around. I helped him finish off the last bit of the village clean up as we chatted about how the ecovillage worked and how I could possibly get involved. He walked me around and showed me how the village was self reliant on natural energy. He also gave me a chance to take a look around in the green house where they grow and produced all their fruit and vegetables. The main focus of the ecovillage is the eco-school which they have set up. The school students are mainly farm children and a few of them are sadly suffering for foetal alcohol syndrome This school is fully self sustainable. They even have a no energy required air-conditioning system where they have special metal pipes that are place all around the school that help reduce the temperature.
I unfortunately was unable to meet the professor in charge today but have arranged a meeting for next week saturday because I would really like to get involved with this project. I have heard that evoke are going to be supporting projects like these and I would possibly like to make my impact on the Lynedoch Ecovillage.
Here are some pictures of my amazing journey today:
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