despite the fact that I am not one. I know I’m venturing into dangerous territory, the no-mans-land between opposing trenches. I am conservative, and cautious, sometimes fearful, repressed, yet sometimes driven. People like me keep the world from spinning out of control or at least we like to think we do. We live within our [...]
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I like liberals
Posted in Art, Community, Creativity, Culture & Education, Faith, Life, Love and Wisdom, Politics, Technology, Work on March 4, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The Religion of Science
Posted in Faith, Life, Love and Wisdom, Science, Technology, tagged Abundant Lifestyle, Provident Living, Self-Sustaining Community on February 20, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Is Science the new opiate of the “educated’ masses? In our time, Science has generally replaced religion as the accepted means of understanding truth. Religion has been discredited in our secular world, not only as a means of finding truth. It is regularly vilified as a dogma that produces conflict, war, and the plundering of [...]
Am I John Galt?
Posted in Community, Self-Sufficiency, Technology, Work, tagged Abundant Lifestyle, Galt, intentional community, Provident Living, Self-Sustaining Community on December 3, 2010 | 4 Comments »
An article about the Village appeared on Huffington Post about a year ago. Yesterday, I happened to revisit it and found a number of appended comments. Most were surprisingly angry and critical. I was at once both amused and troubled. On this site, having formerly been an executive is apparently an unredeemable sin. I was also accused of [...]
Hands-On Preparedness Fair – Workshops
Posted in Community, Ecology, Energy, Food, Health, Homes, Nature, News, Self-Sufficiency, Shelter, Technology, Water, tagged alternative fuels, Energy Self-Sufficiency, micro-hydro Power, organic gardening, permaculture, Prepper, Provident Living, rain water collection system, Self-Reliance, Self-Sufficiency, Self-Sufficient Living, Self-Sustaining Community, Tennessee Mountain Land on July 17, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Our call for highly qualified workshop leaders has been answered in spades. The quality and diversity of topics to be covered at the Fair on July 23-24 is outstanding. See some of my older posts for a flyer and overview. Here is a sampling Preparedness Fair Schedule 7-24-2010 A sequence of three presentations, starts with Permaculture [...]
Mechanical Art of Self-Sufficient living at the Village on Sewanee Creek
Posted in Art, Nature, Self-Sufficiency, Technology, tagged Burning Man, intentional community, Mechanical Art, Sustainable Community on January 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I have a dream that some day the Village will be filled with artistic people with varied experience and talents, unafraid of getting their hands dirty and driven to create and share wonderful things that make our lives easier, more beautiful, more fun and more practically sustainable.
Self-Reliant Living: Alternative Energy
Posted in Energy, News, Self-Sufficiency, Technology, tagged Abundant Lifestyle, Alternative Energy, Cost / KWh, Energy Self-Sufficiency, green housing, intentional community, micro-hydro Power, solar power, Solar PV, Tennessee Mountain Land, wind power, Wood gasification on October 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We keep pushing the envelope, learning how to live independently. I love the sense of freedom and peace of mind that gives me. Water and food were our first focus. That foundation is feeling pretty solid now. Our next focus has been energy. We have been seriously researching lots of alternatives for reliable, low cost [...]
Sustainable Living Progress Report
Posted in Community, Culture & Education, Energy, Food, Homes, Self-Sufficiency, Technology, Water, tagged Abundant Lifestyle, active adult community, alcohol as fuel, alcohol can be a gas, alternative fuels, catchment, Community, Community Garden, CONEX Container, Economic Preparedness, EcoVillage, Energy Self-Sufficiency, ethanol, intentional community, methanol, Old Fashioned Neighborhood, organic gardening, Peak Oil, permaculture, Preparedness, Provident Living, rain water collection system, Self-Reliance, Self-Sufficiency, Self-Sufficient Living, Self-Sustaining Community, Shipping Container, Tennessee Mountain Land, Water Conservation, Wood Burning Furnace, Wood gasification on March 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Progress Update OK, so I have been really bad about posting updates lately. That’s because I’ve been working hard on projects and I’m dog-tired at the end of each day. The good news is that we’re moving forward with lots of cool stuff here. Thanks to my wife, the greenhouse is planted and lots of [...]
Optimist’s view of Peak Oil – The new oil end game
Posted in Community, Energy, Food, Self-Sufficiency, Technology, Water, tagged catchment, cystern, organic gardening, Peak Oil, rain water collection system, solar power, wind power on September 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of the great advantages of living in an intentional community like the village is that you join with can-do people who, instead of just wringing their hands about world conditions, are actively engaged in solving problems. That’s a good feeling, you learn a lot and it’s fun. Examples: 1. This summer, we lived about [...]
Amphitheater, Community & Movie Reviews
Posted in Community, Culture & Education, Food, Self-Sufficiency, Technology, tagged Self-Sustaining Community on June 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As some of you know, I’m an unabashed movie lover. I got my start when I worked for Blockbuster Video years ago doing international development in places like Japan, Brazil and Thailand. Since then I have built several home theaters, one with a small stage. From that experience I learned the power of having an [...]
The Bluff Lots are Ready
Posted in Nature, News, Self-Sufficiency, Technology on June 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today, I am announcing the pre-sale of seven additional lots in a new phase (1B) at the Village. Each of these bluff lots is truly spectacular. Deep woods, old growth trees, bluff views. Two of them feature waterfalls and one-of-a-kind Indian Rock houses. They range in size from 5 to 8.5 acres. All have direct [...]
High Tech in the Woods-Work in your Tennessee Mountain Paradise
Posted in Technology, Work on April 19, 2007 |
I met today with an executive from Ben Lomand Telephone Co-op. The Village already has high speed DSL, so a minimally tech-familiar executive can easily set up a home office and begin tele-commuting from his Tennessee Mountain paradise. In an earlier life, overseeing people in over 60 countries, I’ve done just that for about fifteen [...]
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