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The evolved nature sanctuary: a community space for all species, even humans!
I'm at the very beginning stages of starting up a project to promote intelligent land use that uses small garden plots of public and private space to provide a healthy living sanctuary for the wh*** community - focusing on the four main elements of a thriving living system:
1. physical needs: food, water, air, warmth, and light
2. emotional needs: a feeling of personal connection with others
3. intellectual needs: information about how things work
4. spiritual needs: a sense of contributing something to the evolution of life itself
In preparation for that, I'm working on both the physical aspect of helping people create these wise and artistic gardens and as well as the intellectual aspect of promoting the project and getting support. Right now, I'm growing as many tiny seedlings as I possibly can to use in the spaces I'm creating and to give to others to help them start creating spaces, too. And I'm working on some grant proposals to help get more garden materials and find some website start-up help.
My vision is to have a place where anyone, of any species (well nearly any species, anyway), would feel welcome visiting and even staying for a while, if necessary, when they need some community support and a place to feel safe. Part of my inspiration comes from the World Wildlife Fund's Backyard Wildlife Habitat project, combined with my own love of creating art gardens, combined with my experiences as a homeless/nomadic women who very much appreciated the few wild-ish spaces in the city and suburbs that I could go if I needed a place to rest and recharge for a while, and maybe get a drink, or a nibble of wild edibles, or some warming sun, or a breath of fresh air, and I imagine that many other people of all kinds would also appreciate something as wonderful as a highly evolved nature sanctuary, as well.
1. physical needs: food, water, air, warmth, and light
2. emotional needs: a feeling of personal connection with others
3. intellectual needs: information about how things work
4. spiritual needs: a sense of contributing something to the evolution of life itself
In preparation for that, I'm working on both the physical aspect of helping people create these wise and artistic gardens and as well as the intellectual aspect of promoting the project and getting support. Right now, I'm growing as many tiny seedlings as I possibly can to use in the spaces I'm creating and to give to others to help them start creating spaces, too. And I'm working on some grant proposals to help get more garden materials and find some website start-up help.
My vision is to have a place where anyone, of any species (well nearly any species, anyway), would feel welcome visiting and even staying for a while, if necessary, when they need some community support and a place to feel safe. Part of my inspiration comes from the World Wildlife Fund's Backyard Wildlife Habitat project, combined with my own love of creating art gardens, combined with my experiences as a homeless/nomadic women who very much appreciated the few wild-ish spaces in the city and suburbs that I could go if I needed a place to rest and recharge for a while, and maybe get a drink, or a nibble of wild edibles, or some warming sun, or a breath of fresh air, and I imagine that many other people of all kinds would also appreciate something as wonderful as a highly evolved nature sanctuary, as well.
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Tags: Gardening, Permaculture, UrbanFarming
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Comment by Nick Heyming on March 23, 2010 at 5:52pm -
Great idea! We should team up...
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Comment by Turil Cronburg on March 23, 2010 at 6:35pm -
It would be great to get together all the EVOKE folks who seem to be especially interested in gardening/food. There's already a guild for electricity geeks that recently started up. Maybe we should do something similar...
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Comment by Patricio Buenrostro-Gilhuys on April 14, 2010 at 5:31am -
Nick and Turil you are right we should all team up. I really like this idea!!! There is so many unused spaces. Food not lawns!!! I like that you are incorporating an Art ingredient to it. Cool!!!
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Comment by Sarah Shaw Tatoun on April 14, 2010 at 6:20am -
That's so funny... I was just about to suggest you should all get together into one big international team! Contact Ursula, too, about her Next Step Ecological Units. You all have either similar or complementary ideas and it would be a shame for you to be competing against one another. I think with an international team - and a world-wide project like that your chances of funding would be excellent.
I don't have any grant-proposal writing experience, but I'm good for editing and research, so please call on me for whatever you need.
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Comment by Turil Cronburg on April 14, 2010 at 11:44am
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Just FYI, this isn't my Evokation (that would be the Whatworksipedia aka, Human Powered School website that I've been talking about). The Evolved Nature Sanctuary is just something I already am doing, and putting it out there for you folks promotes my Maslow 2.0 theory to an audience that I think is highly receptive. :-)
I'm totally happy for others to incorporate this basic structure into any and all other projects! And I'd be happy to offer more background on the theory, and more details about how it might work in practice.
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