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Comment on Permaculturalize Your Life by Ethical mortgage on Shaw TV | OUR Ecovillage

Ethical mortgage on Shaw TV | OUR Ecovillage — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:04:16 +0000

[...] Here are links to two other Shaw pieces focusing on OUR Ecovillage: Green Burial, and OUR Permaculture action [...]

Comment on Movie Monday: Shaw TV & Green Burial by Ethical mortgage on Shaw TV | OUR Ecovillage

Ethical mortgage on Shaw TV | OUR Ecovillage — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:39:34 +0000

[...] are links to two other Shaw pieces focusing on OUR Ecovillage: Green Burial, and OUR Permaculture [...]

Comment on Jorden Speaks by Jesse

Jesse — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:39:54 +0000

Chasing Sunlight… What a perfectly apt way of describing it. And indeed polar bears are fuzzy and cute at a distance. Thanks for the insights and wit! Cheers!

Comment on I feel encouraged… groundswell growing by jpatrickj

jpatrickj — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 04:38:04 +0000

Thanks, L – just to be clear, this was written by Brandy (I’m just catching up on the nerdy stuff behind the scenes). The important thing is that there is good energy in the community. Help spread the word..

Comment on I feel encouraged… groundswell growing by Lisa Haché-Maguire

Lisa Haché-Maguire — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 06:59:40 +0000

Way to go P, this is a beautiful post. You make a great web nerd! I feel deep magic in your words and am grateful to read them. <3 to everyone!
L.

Comment on A tribute: 2011 Food Production Interns by kate

kate — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:40:16 +0000

I just love that we gave J-dawg that name pretty much immediately and it stuck forever.
and oh man I really miss all of you. especially on days like this when I’m weeding by myself in the pouring rain.

Comment on From Brandy – founder, placemaker & Executive Director of O.U.R. by Mark

Mark — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:58:44 +0000

Hi Brandy and everyone at team OUR,

It certainly makes for more than a little bit of sadness and worry about this new chapter in the financial story at OUR. but I am holding lots of hope that it will become a springboard for even better things to come, and just one more marker on this incredible road to building better, and more conscious communities.

in support,
Mark

Comment on From Brandy – founder, placemaker & Executive Director of O.U.R. by Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:21:10 +0000

Thanks Jan,
I’ll pass this on to Brandy!
In community,
Lisa

Comment on From Brandy – founder, placemaker & Executive Director of O.U.R. by Jan Donaldson

Jan Donaldson — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 02:41:43 +0000

Hi Brandy, I got this from a link from Carolyn Herriot. We are all connected on facebook. A big hug to you from me. I will pass your newsletter on. It is the most magical of places and the endless hours you’ve put into it every day to make it what it is. If I had money it’s a place I would invest in. Alas I don’t. There is a cob house I still dream of making thanks to a visit there for a wild food party that you and Lochesh hosted many years ago.

Comment on From Brandy – founder, placemaker & Executive Director of O.U.R. by Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:19:16 +0000

Thank you so much for the link to the Social Fund Philip.
I can see how the debt might seem like a lot for a group with clear intentions on public education, but really, It is little more than the price on the mortgage and some of the infrastructure.

It’s funny, I feel a little defensive about the assumptions you made in your comment! But I guess that means that I care deeply about what I stand for as a resident here; I appreciate that realization immensely!

A less emotional response is that we are a non-profit society, which means that the residents here do not make money off of the project and that we are required to pay site and meal fees to live here, which unfortunately is not enough to pay down that debt. Most of us who do get paid here are paid by grants that the village receives for development of educational resources from various organizations.

Thank you for your powerful comment!
Lisa