I am so excited to see this effort to pull the creative minds of the world together in an effort to wake up a sleeping world population.
I also am gratified to see the section of the film devoted to the movements of the sixties. I am 55 and grew up in the Western US somewhat insulated from the burning cities of the time but became very much aware.
I have devoted my life to finding an alternative way of living that mostly led to voluntary poverty but gave me the freedom to pursue many different avenues to defining what that alternative may be. I'm still searching.
Fifteen years ago I met, fell in love with, and married one of the original Rainbow Family members. I also was brought into a loose knit but loyal community of people who have been working toward peaceful means of defining what community and cultural change may be for the last 39 years.
Currently my wife Feather and I have thrown our bit of accumulated wealth together with seven other people and bought 40 acres of forested land 30 miles outside of Missoula, Montana. Our intention is to create an intentional green community of people who are working together to create a working model of community that is utilizing extreme green building practices for our houses and working towards as much food security as possible by utilizing permacultural practices.
Our ultimate goal is to build a cooperative, low impact, self sustaining community that can be used as a model for others to emulate.
We are apart of the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN).
One of our members just returned from Columbia where he attended the Call of the Mountain gathering of Columbian ecovillages. He was on the Rainbow Caravan, a mobile EV, that passed through ten years earlier and dropped seeds of change that have grown up to be a vibrant and growing movement through out Central and South America. We intend to plant those seeds in the Western US as well.
Many of us are artists in this group. I am a graphic designer working on a Media Arts degree. I am fired up about motion graphics and the potential for story telling and education. The man I mentioned above is a film maker and teaches documentary film making.
Feather is an art teacher at a Spanish immersion international school in Missoula. When I saw this website and the cooperative nature of the message I found myself seeing the manifestation of a dream that we all share.
By god your doing it! Thank you
Rick Sherman
sundogecovillage.org
rickshermandesigns.com
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Thanks Rick. It's fantastic to learn that our message resonates with what you've been doing. The community you are building in Montana sounds like a dream come true. All power to you! Tim
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