“How do you take a bunch of overeducated suburban refugees and help them train themselves to build a village in the woods?”

Find out, while reading about Earthaven, “a low-budget, backwoods advertisement for the alternative view,” in The Washington Post:

Its members are attempting to craft a new society, built not around economic growth but around the idea of sustainability and what they call “permaculture,” the goal of creating modes of living that will never damage the planet.

I’m not ready to leave the city anytime soon, but this Washington Post feature made me think long and hard about energy, modern living, and the choices we make without any awareness of the consequences.

The key to modern life is strategic ignorance…. We live in a world we didn’t make, by rules and customs and laws we didn’t invent, using tools and technologies we don’t understand…. Power comes from a switch. We have the consciousness of small children. We can conjure power at will. It’s a dream world, but one that might not be sustainable.

I’m even more motivated to get my ecological footprint down to 1 earth –

Thanks to Jerry for sending me the link :)

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