For almost six years now, my wife and I have labored to build a community called the Village on Sewanee Creek. I’ve documented our journey towards self-sustaining community on this blog. It’s been a fertile time for such an endeavor. The world seems to be falling apart at the seams. The poor and middle class [...]
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What will it take to THRIVE?
Posted in Community, Faith, Health, Liberty, Self-Sufficiency, Work, tagged Abundant Lifestyle, Genetically modified organism, Old Fashioned Neighborhood, Self-Sustaining Community, USA PATRIOT Act on May 18, 2012 | 1 Comment »
I like liberals
Posted in Art, Community, Creativity, Culture & Education, Faith, Life, Love and Wisdom, Politics, Technology, Work on March 4, 2011 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
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 [...]
Calling organic volunteers – wwoofers
Posted in Caves, Creeks & Waterfalls, Community, Energy, Food, Homes, Nature, Self-Sufficiency, Water, Work, tagged Energy Self-Sufficiency, intentional community, organic gardening, permaculture, Self-Reliance, Self-Sufficiency, Self-Sufficient Living, Self-Sustaining Community, Wood gasification on March 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Looking for Organic Volunteers – WWOOFers
How One Top Executive Left the Rat Race for a Self-Sufficient Community in the Mountains
Posted in Community, Nature, Self-Sufficiency, Work, tagged Abundant Lifestyle, catchment, Creek Front Property, East Tennessee Mountain Property, EcoVillage, Energy Self-Sufficiency, intentional community, Old Fashioned Neighborhood, Provident Living, Self-Reliance, Self-Sufficiency, Self-Sufficient Living, Self-Sustaining Community, Tennessee Mountain Land on November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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Child’s Play – Sand Box or Sand Mountain?
Posted in Community, Health, Life, Love and Wisdom, Self-Sufficiency, Work, tagged Abundant Lifestyle, EcoVillage, intentional community, Old Fashioned Neighborhood, Provident Living, Self-Reliance, Self-Sufficient Living, Self-Sustaining Community, Tennessee Mountain Land on November 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In our quest to build community at the Village, we don’t think just about the physical facilities that are needed, but how they must come into being. Often the best way to assure that common structures don’t become neglected mausoleums (like so many planned gated community clubhouses) is to involve the community in their conception [...]
On Life and Loving the Land
Posted in Health, Nature, Work on December 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.” —- [...]
Telecommuting from your Tennessee Mountain Property may get even better
Posted in Work on July 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
As I noted in a prior entry, I chose this location partly because it is strategically located for road warriors who can use well-placed airports and internet connections to retreat from the congested, polluted, stressful urban lifestyle. We already have broadband internet here at the Village, soon to have fiber optics direct to the house. [...]
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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