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From Plan B to meditation, it's about sustainability and harmony
Great-Grandpa built the old home place with his two hands. May our children one day enjoy such a legacy. Image copyright 2007. All rights reserved.
The Village of Ordinary
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When you need a rest from a hurly-burly world, grab a soothing cuppa and spend a few minutes in the Village, where folks are comfortable in their skin and in their famiilies.
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Village of Ordinary
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What if ... every child grew up feeling wanted, loved and completely supported by family and community? What if ... we could all do work that gave us joy? What if ... we were so full of love ourselves that we viewed all other beings with compass...
MAKING THE DREAM REAL
One way or another, every aspect of Ordinary exists or has existed somewhere in the world. Many people are working to create a more harmonious environment. These lenses show us how to begin.-
Crystal Waters Permaculture Village
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Welcome to Crystal Waters Permaculture Village. Located an hour and a half north of Brisbane, Australia, Crystal Waters is a fun place to live where everyone, from kids to grannies and grandpas, pitch in and get their hands dirty. A diverse community...
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Welcome to Earthaven Ecovillage
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Earthaven is an aspiring ecovillage in a mountain forest setting near Asheville, North Carolina. We are dedicated to caring for people and the Earth by learning, living and demonstrating a holistic, sustainable culture. Earthaven EcoVillage Image: Ke...
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Building Ordinary Headquarters
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Welcome to the Building Ordinary Group Come on in. Explore our community. This group is about ways all of us can make the Village of Ordinary--a fictional place where people live together in harmony with each other and the earth--real today, right now...
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Building Ordinary--Sustainable Community
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They're known as eco-villages, cohousing or intentional communities. This lens explores several of them and answers these questions: What is cohousing? What do we mean by sust...
Making peace in my life, ten minutes a pop
... is simple--taking time out to let go of everything and focus only on the breath going in and out my body, because peace--all peace everywhere--begins with me, right here, right now.-
Ten minute meditation
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When you can't drop everything and take a walk in the woods, try the ten minute meditation for instant relief. You can do it anywhere. Use it when tensions rise in a meeting. It will calm you and help you focus on the task at hand. Take ten after wor...
Green choices made easy
Got lawn? Mow and grow with grasscycling and cut mowing time by 1/3. Veteran greenie or just starting? Find and share top tips tips for living the good, green life and become part of a Twitter Storm. Baby coming? Lots of eco-friendly gifts under $10.-
Eco-friendly baby gifts under 10 dollars
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It's easier than ever to give green--and fair trade--to the wee ones in our lives. Eco-friendly, earth-friendly, green and fair trade gift items exploded onto the market last fall. Competition is making for some very good eco-bargains right now, a pl...
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Shout out your top green tips here
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Polar ice caps melting. North Pole nearly liquid by summer. Whole islands going underwater, taking homes and villages with them. Almost no one disputes that global warming is a fact of our lives. Lots of folks wonder what they can do to make a differ...
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Grasscycling--Easy way to a healthier, greener lawn
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How much time do you spend each week cutting your grass, stopping every few turns to remove the grass catcher, shake the clippings into a garbage sack, and reattach the bag? You can save as much as one-third of your total mowing time by removing that...
Greening the desert
WATCH THIS AND BE AMAZED
Geoff Lawton
One of my next lenses, currently in production, is on greening the desert and includes this amazing video. Got a patch of hardscrabble? Turn it into a fruitful garden.
Greening the Desert
They laughed and said it couldn't be done...
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In the works
ECO-VILLAGE LENSES I'M RESEARCHING AND BUILDING NOW
Cohousing - An in-depth look at the cohousing movement across the United States and around the worldFindhorn EcoVillage - One of the oldest, famous for its workshops on living well in community and in the world
Image: Autumn
Courtesy The Commons on the Alameda
Plan B 3.0
FOR ALL THE WORLD'S CHILDREN
To build a better future for all the world's children, we have to rethink our economy. These lenses tell us why, show us what needs to be done, and provide steps each one of us can take--small and big--to assure it happens. It's up to us. Get busy!-
Lester R. Brown
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From tomato farmer to "one of the world's most influential thinkers" (Washington Post) and "the guru of the environmental movement," (The Telegraph of Calcutta), Lester R. Brown's roots are deep, his vision wide-spreading. Learn m...
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Plan B 2.0 - Rescuing a Planet under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble Headquarters
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Plan B 3.0 - Mobilizing to save civilization Lenses in this group focus on aspects of world-renowned economist and visionary Lester Brown's plan for saving civilization. If you would like to submit a lens on Plan B 3....
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Join the Plan B 3.0 Team!
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Word of mouth made Plan B BIG. People bought extra copies to give their friends. They sent them to their mayors and congressional leaders, sent them to the president. Author Lester Brown and the folks at Earth Policy Institute realized they had a hug...
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Plan B 3.0: What's it all about?
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That's what it's all about. Saving our planet and ourselves. Here's what author Lester Brown says about why he wrote the book. Plan A, business-as-usual, has the world on an environmental path that is leading toward economic decline and eventual colla...
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Plan B 3.0 road map: Start here
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Destination: Global prosperity, sustainable lifestyles worldwide, an end to poverty. Can you imagine it? In Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to save civilization, world-renowned economist Lester Brown hands us a road map to worldwide prosperity and sustainabil...
Get the book
It just may be the most important book you'll ever read
Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, Third Edition
Amazon Price: $12.20 (as of 07/12/2009)
List Price: $15.95
While our polar ice caps melt, oil supplies dwindle and, increasingly, we take food from the mouths of babes to fuel our cars, it's easy to think it might be too late already. Lester Brown says there's still time, if we act now, and he lays out the plan. It's going to take all of us. Find out how to work the plan. Get the book.
Plan B 3.0 lenses in the works
WHAT I'M RESEARCHING AND BUILDING NOW
Consumers rule!
VOTE WITH YOUR DOLLARS
We buy stuff. My family does. Most of you do. These lenses show us how to make sustainable--conscious choices in our everyday lives. Shop Green, is a work in progress. Why buy organic cotton and That's Bamboo are updated regularly. More to come.-
That's Bamboo? Wow!
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Bamboo is the eco-wonder of the world. It pumps oxygen into the air faster than trees, feeds the hungry, clothes the body, soothes the ear, carries water, digs potatoes, shelters the homeless as well as the privileged, and in case all that is not eno...
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Why buy organic cotton
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The scent of it, fresh from the dryer, the rich plush of thick Turkish towels in the bath. And who doesn't feel comforted the moment they crawl between freshly laundered cotton sheets? So what's all the buzz about organic cotton, and why should you c...
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Eco-friendly baby gifts under 10 dollars
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It's easier than ever to give green--and fair trade--to the wee ones in our lives. Eco-friendly, earth-friendly, green and fair trade gift items exploded onto the market last fall. Competition is making for some very good eco-bargains right now, a pl...
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Shop Green!
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These days, it's easy being green. We've tons of choices, from the food we eat to the homes we build and furnish to the vehicles we drive and the fuel that powers them. Got green? Buy green! Photograph courtesy Free Nature Pictures
Finding right livelihood
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Five deadly resume sins
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Recruiters receive hundreds, sometimes thousands of resumes for a single job posting. Whether you're competing with 5 or 27,000 people for the job of your dreams, you want your resume to float to the top. To assure it makes the first cut, avoid the f...
Books almost always at my fingertips
The Great Silent Grandmother Gathering: A Story for Anyone Who Thinks She Can't Save the World
Written for the author's granddaughter, this book has spawned a wave of people standing silently for peace all over the world
Amazon Price: $10.95 (as of 07/12/2009)
List Price: $10.95
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Light in a Time of Darkness
In her gentle, unwavering and immensely powerful voice, Walker shows that we are indeed the ones we have been waiting for. Accept the call.
Amazon Price: $17.96 (as of 07/12/2009)
List Price: $23.95
Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World
Next to Ancient Futures, this is the most inspiring book I've ever read. These folks are turning a desert back into jungle and making peace while surrounded by war
Amazon Price: $14.80 (as of 07/12/2009)
List Price: $16.95
Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh
I've given this book to dozens of people because for thousands of years the Ladakhi lived in total harmony with one another and with their environment and had plenty of time left over to party
Amazon Price: (as of 07/12/2009)
List Price: $16.95
You have the power to make a difference
WE ALL HAVE THE POWER TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE
Black Balloons - Greenhouse Gas
Victorian Government campaign created by George Patterson Y&R Melbourne strongly demonstrates the result of energy use in the home and greenhouse gas emissions using a black balloon as a tangible and easy to understand unit of measurement. 1 black balloon = 50 grams of greenhouse gas. 20 black ballons = 1kg of greenhouse gas 200,000 black balloons = 1 tonne of greenhouse gas. The problem becomes very clear.
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Words of encouragement
Suggestions too
If you have some, this is the place to put 'em.
JaguarJulie wrote...
Dropped by for a visit today -- nice to see so many cool lenses -- would love to see more from you! ;)
Posted May 20, 2009
EelKat wrote...
Great lens you got here! I've just added it to The Lensography Index.
(http://www.squidoo.com/lensographies)
Keep up the good work!
~EK
Posted March 15, 2009
gcarone wrote...
5*!!! I work on sustainability and I believe that we all can and help help the environment for a better world for our sons and grandsons. Thanks for Your contribute
Posted December 29, 2008
jacquelinestone wrote...
This is a wondrful, and timely, lens. 5*, Fav, bookmarked,lensrolled.
I kept taking canvas shopping bags to WalMart. Now, they've started selling them!
I live in the desert and have quite a lush garden. The birds and bugs love it! We can do this.
Posted July 20, 2008
Susan52 wrote...
So happy to have found your lensography, which I'm lensrolling to mine. I enjoy your lenses!
Posted June 22, 2008
Build your own lens
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Got something to share with the world? Build your own lens! If you are building a lens about an ecovillage or other sustainable practices, upon publication, please consider joining the Building Ordinary group.Sign up now. You or your charity will earn $5 on your first lens payout if you sign up using this referral. So will I. It's one of the ways Squidoo rewards us all for helping each other find our way to the land of Squid.
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All Graceonline
I made this list for Caseyfern's Plexography group, (Thanks for the invitation, Casey!), and you can vote for your favorite lenses here, too.
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Village of Ordinary
What if ... every child grew up feeling wanted, loved and completely supported by family and community? What if ... we could all do work that gave us...1 point
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Earthaven Ecovillage
Earthaven is an aspiring ecovillage in a mountain forest setting near Asheville, North Carolina. We are dedicated to caring for people and the Earth b...1 point
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Building Ordinary Headquarters
Building Ordinary This group is about ways all of us can make the Village of Ordinary--a fictional place where people live together in harmony with ea...1 point
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Crystal Waters Permaculture Village
Located an hour and a half north of Brisbane, Australia, Crystal Waters is a planned eco-village. It's a place where everyone, from kids to grannies a...0 points
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Building Ordinary--Sustainable Community
They're known as eco-villages, cohousing or intentional communities, and this lens explores several of them and answers these questions: What is cohou...0 points
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Plan B 2.0: What's it all about?
Plan A, business-as-usual, has the world on an environmental path that is leading toward economic decline and eventual collapse. If our goal is to sus...0 points
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Plan B 2.0 - Rescuing a Planet under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble Headquarters
Plan B 2.0 - Rescuing a planet under stress and a civilization in trouble Lester Brown wrote the book. World-renowned environmentalist and expert in t...0 points
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Join the Plan B Team
Word of mouth made Plan B BIG. People bought extra copies to give their friends. They sent them to their mayors and congressional leaders, sent them t...0 points
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Shop Green
These days, it's easy being green. We've tons of choices, from the food we eat to the homes we build and furnish to the vehicles we drive and the fuel...0 points
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Why buy organic Cotton?
Cotton - You love the feel of it against your skin. The scent of it, fresh from the dryer, the rich plush of thick Turkish towels in the bath. And who...0 points
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That's Bamboo? Wow!
Bamboo is the eco-wonder of the world. It pumps oxygen into the air faster than trees, feeds the hungry, clothes the body, soothes the ear, carries wa...0 points
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Graceonline Lensography
My passion, my mission is to make sure my grandbabies, and theirs, get to run wild in fields of tall grass, get to lie down and make snow angels under...0 points
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Lester R. Brown
From tomato farmer to one of the world's most influential thinkers (Washington Post) and the guru of the environmental movement, (The Telegraph of Cal...0 points
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Ten minute breathing meditation
This is a wonderful exercise for calming the body and mind. You can do it sitting, standing, or lying down. Trouble sleeping? This will help.0 points
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Plan B 2.0 Road map: You are here
Road maps get us where we're going--if we know our starting point and our destination. This lens helps each of us find our starting point on Lester Br...0 points
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Eco-friendly baby gifts under ten dollars
This holiday season it's easier than ever to give green--and fair trade--to the wee ones in our lives. For tree huggers like my family and me, this is...0 points
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Grasscycling--Easy way to a cleaner, greener lawn
How much time do you spend each week cutting your grass, stopping every few turns to remove the grass catcher, shake the clippings into a garbage sack...0 points
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Five deadly resume sins
Recruiters receive hundreds, sometimes thousands of resumes for a single job posting. Whether you're competing with 5 or 27,000 people for the job of...0 points
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Shout out your top green tips here
Almost no one disputes that global warming is a fact of our lives. Lots of folks wonder what they can do to make a difference. If you could give them...0 points
Gracey tidbits
- Green Roofs: An Introduction with Pretty Pictures | EcoGeek | Roof, Green, Roofs, Written, August
- One of my dreams is to live in a home with a verdant roof teeming with growing plants. Look! In some places, you can jog on your apartment-building roof!
- zzilch
- One of my goals is to assure that every dollar I spend helps to make the world a better place. This blog showcases beautiful fair-trade, eco-friendly items and zeroes in on the most fun ways to DYI and recycle everyday flotsam into something beautiful. Enjoy!
- Life Balanced
- After an insightful trip to Thailand, Tina, a world traveler, wanted to keep the bliss and a commitment to "be a better me." This blog chronicles her path. Her writing is gentle, concise and leaves me feeling peace from the inside out. I hope to start my day every day with her words going forward.
- Green-Unlimited
- Green Unlimited is a favorite resource for keeping track of what's hot and green. Take the biodegradable urn for burial at sea, or find out why 2008 has been named The Year of the Frog, and by whom.
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