Re: [ticmg] Stone Soup Foundation community
| From: | Trip Overholt |
| Sent on: | Sunday, February 19, 2012 11:21 AM |
Tim,
Congrats on your progress!
In 1993, I dedicated myself to living as sustainable lifestyle as possible and have been doing it ever since. Much of it has taken place in the real estate/home living area. My homestead is something of a sustainability lab. I think I can be of service to your community as well as Carolina Common Well. An initial way of doing that might be to have your two groups over to my place. There is a geodesic dome and a salvaged materials/solar powered straw bale house here. I have also moved 40 houses, horse logged a timber frame (here for sale at my cost), have composting toilets, solar heated water, solar heated hot tub, natural swimming pool and organic garden space (under construction). I built a a little gathering place and also a ceremonial fire circle. I also built a beautiful little commercial grade biodiesel processor and ran that for a few years. I ran a green store for eight years and know all about green products. I am also very knowledgeable about salvaging. And I know about community design and interfacing with authorities as I learned a lot from my Veridia experience. Anyway, my suggestion is that we schedule a visit sometime. Since I plan to do this sort of thing to augment my income and this could be a test run, we could do it on a donation basis. Whatever works for whoever comes is fine. We can talk about so many things of interest to your community. It might be fun to do it when it gets a little warmer and the new natural pool is available. Let me know if you want to schedule something in for june? Also, I am teaching a course on "The joy of a spiritually centered sustainable lifestyle" being offered at the community college in Pittsboro for four consecutive wednesday nights at 7 PM starting June 6th. The cost of the course is $55. I am pretty darn sure that a spiritual outlook coupled to a sustainable lifestyle is an excellent underpinning for any community. Perhaps you could spread the word to your members. There is a limit of 12 so that everyone can fully participate.
warmest regards,
Trip Overholt
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Congrats on your progress!
In 1993, I dedicated myself to living as sustainable lifestyle as possible and have been doing it ever since. Much of it has taken place in the real estate/home living area. My homestead is something of a sustainability lab. I think I can be of service to your community as well as Carolina Common Well. An initial way of doing that might be to have your two groups over to my place. There is a geodesic dome and a salvaged materials/solar powered straw bale house here. I have also moved 40 houses, horse logged a timber frame (here for sale at my cost), have composting toilets, solar heated water, solar heated hot tub, natural swimming pool and organic garden space (under construction). I built a a little gathering place and also a ceremonial fire circle. I also built a beautiful little commercial grade biodiesel processor and ran that for a few years. I ran a green store for eight years and know all about green products. I am also very knowledgeable about salvaging. And I know about community design and interfacing with authorities as I learned a lot from my Veridia experience. Anyway, my suggestion is that we schedule a visit sometime. Since I plan to do this sort of thing to augment my income and this could be a test run, we could do it on a donation basis. Whatever works for whoever comes is fine. We can talk about so many things of interest to your community. It might be fun to do it when it gets a little warmer and the new natural pool is available. Let me know if you want to schedule something in for june? Also, I am teaching a course on "The joy of a spiritually centered sustainable lifestyle" being offered at the community college in Pittsboro for four consecutive wednesday nights at 7 PM starting June 6th. The cost of the course is $55. I am pretty darn sure that a spiritual outlook coupled to a sustainable lifestyle is an excellent underpinning for any community. Perhaps you could spread the word to your members. There is a limit of 12 so that everyone can fully participate.
warmest regards,
Trip Overholt
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 10:49 AM, tim williams <[address removed]> wrote:
Christian,
Thank you. Exciting times ahead. At this step, we see who is serious about living a self sustained lifestyle. We chose that area for several reasons, some of which included the network of other communities within the area. We look forward to a cooperative spirit & would love to help you in any way we can. Best wishes to you and Carolina Common Well.
Tim
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><http://www.meetup.com/The-Triangle-Intentional-Communities-Meetup-Group/>On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 10:10 AM EST Christian wrote:
>Congrats Tim. I am very excited for you and your group. Perhaps we can help
>eachother develop our respective communities. I am interested in eventually
>creating a cooperative that communities in the area could benefit from. At a
>minimum perhaps heavy equipment and costly tools that we could share the
>purchase and use of.
>
>Christian Stalberg
>Carolina Common Well
>http://carolinacommonwell.org
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>On 2/16/2012 10:02 AM, tim williams wrote:
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>Good Morning,
>Wanted to take a second to thank all of those who visited
>thestonesoupfoundation.org website and completed the information survey. Its
>great to get thoughts and opinions from not only our current members, but
>those thinking about Intentional Communities. The website will be updated
>with some new and exciting news in the next few days.
>
> We have finally identified and have begun final negotiations on a 45 acre
>parcel of land located near South Boston VA. The site, which is
>unrestricted, contains a private setting of mostly flat, partially wooded,
>cleared pastures, and a running stream on one of its boarders. By the virtue
>of its unrestricted status, we will be perusing a more natural building
>process of rammed earth eco construction, without the hassles of having to
>conform to any zoning, planning or other governmental restrictions. This
>windfall, will greatly reduce our overall cost of community development,
>hence a drastic reduction for our members to become involved with minimal
>costs. We will be utilizing and highly encouraging the use of recycled
>building materials such as windows, doors, natural woods, bamboo and such.
>Our architects and engineers have designed our site plan to center around a
>central common park or "Town Square", lined with traditional styled single
>or two story townhouses, that provide closeness of the community, while
>keeping our own private spaces. Radiating out from our "Town Square",
>individual sites will be available for those who wish to have their own
>single family dwellings. The initial phase of this community will be limited
>to 50 households, and and may at the option of its members increase our
>membership in future years with the addition of purchasing joining land.
>
>Over two years have been spent in the development of this community, and I
>am thankful for those who have helped shape our future.
>
>Tim Williams
>Stone Soup Foundation
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