Being It Eco Village
Vegan1forPeace, 05.03.2008 17:42
I'm proposing a name for the proposed eco village up at the old quarry site, "Being It Eco Village" in honor of Bennett Tanner. I've also begun trying to picture what the village might look like, with a 24 foot dome as the community center, 10'x10' huts on 12'x12' spaces, and a garden which is drip irrigated by a pond on the site.
From this spot by the pond...
...looking down....
...an eco village....
....with a 24 foot diameter dome....
...right here.
The dome could seat about 30 people with a cookstove in the center.
The hut sites would later be booth sites for festivals.
Yesterday, I stumbled upon Bennett's email address, from a comment he sent to the city council supporting standards of treatment for animals within the city, "beingit" at his choosen email provider. It recalls the quote from Gandhi:
"Be the change you want to see in the world."
That's the main point of the eco village, besides helping homeless folks have some decency with a legal place to sleep and contribute to the community.
I envision this eco village to be at the old quarry site, above where Granite Street and Glenview Street meet, for about 5 years, after which it'll become a place for festivals, with the hut sites becoming booth sites for selling and other forms of transactions.
During the memorial circle for Bennett last Saturday, there was a general agreement where a community building might be put. Here I'm supposing it to be a dome of 24 feet in diameter. I laid out some scraps with a measuring tape to be 24 feet in two perpendicular directions, then took pictures from various perspectives.
There's one hill that was below a pond up the hillside, and that's where I would put a garden so it could be easily drip irrigated from the pond. There will need to be some kind of bucket brigade to restock the pond with water, and the pond could also be a reserve in the unlikely case of fire.
Where to put the 10'x10' huts is more open, but there was one specific spot where I could imagine 3 huts in a row.
The pictures here are very general ideas. Oh, the only fire allowed would be the one in the cook stove in the dome.....
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