Sustainable Sustainability

Sustainable Sustainability

Originally shared by Paradiso Integrale

The example: VillageLab 
We begin to understand that our way of living is not sustainable. The cities are overcrowded and suffocate in trash and poisoned air, the country is either abandoned or destroyed by monoculture and chemical poisonous products. Our health deteriorates more and more by the very way we are choosing to live.

What alternative is there? Many people have tried different ways to live sustainably by moving out and growing their food themselves, by using alternative methods for energy production - working very hard and feeling unsupported. So what about these efforts could be coordinated in collaboration within a community?

In today’s episode experts in this field Ferananda Ibarra and Jeff Clearwater will tell you about their project called VILLAGE LAB. They are operating on the cutting edge of consciousness including the integral map ( INTEGRAL THEORY by Ken Wilber) in their tool kit.

VillageLab is based on the premise that the existing and emerging sustainable and regenerative communities movements represent one of the greatest sources of wealth on the Planet.

A distributed innovation laboratory and incubator.  VillageLab supports and develops projects generating leading-edge knowledge, practices and tools in all aspects of sustainable and regenerative living.  

Check out  http://www.villagelab.net

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About Ferananda Ibarra 

The center of Ferananda’s  work is conscious evolution of social systems, new social DNA and the processes and tools that support it.  Ferananda facilitates collective process for NGO’s in Europe, Mexico and the United States and consults in intentional community design using an integral theory model she co-developed.

Seeding and nurturing the social soil she supports organizations and communities to become healthy living organisms by the means of right relationship in between people, wealth and planet. She is committed to bring consciousness into manifested form by following her bliss and the full expression of her capacities in the realms of the next economies, integral practices, collective intelligence and community living.

About +Jeff Clearwater
Jeff Clearwater has enjoyed a 35 year career in the field of community innovation, appropriate technology, business start-ups, not-for-profit development, and new paradigm economics. He has provided consulting, design and installation of solar, wind, microhydro, micro-grids, integrated systems, water and waste systems, and electric vehicles for businesses, governments and organizations all over the world.
Jeff’s real passion is in the prospects for sacred economics and his work now is devoted to developing the language and understanding needed to bring that forward and applying it to the sustainable communities movement through VillageLab.  Jeff offers a workshop called Economics as a Path of the Heart and is a student of Metacurrency and Collective Intelligence.  Jeff’s blog can be found at The Visionary Commons.

Some information about YOUR HOSTS

About Heidi Hornlein - (or Adelheid Hörnlein)
I am German living in Italy for half of my life. I am wearing many hats. From MA in Lingustics and Mathematics, professional classical singer, voice teacher and therapist, choir leader, organic farmer, Gestalt Counselor, Transformational Coach and Leader, Relationship Expert, Retreat Host  at PARADISO INTEGRALE (Cultural Association and retreat and guest house in Umbria/Italy).
Last not least:  HOA HOST for Connections Forum  and organizer of The Wisdom Factory  a Forum for people inspired by Ken WIlber and Integral Theory. 
You can learn more about me here:  http://thepowerofrelationship.com/

About Mark Davenport
I am an American Midwesterner with a BA, a BE - and an MA in Italian Literature from the University of Wisconsin (1969) which accounts for my background in teaching and interest in education.  A later interest in addictions accounts for my years of alcohol and drug counseling and shows my career directions moving into ever more “inside” directions.  Meeting the work of Ken Wilber, Don Beck and several others launched my efforts into “deeper inside” directions in more recent years. Then my association with Heidi eventually led me to move to Italy and to Paradiso Integrale where we work on +THE WISDOM FACTORY and PARADISO INTEGRALE together.  I have a special interest in men’s issues in contemporary life as well as gender issues in general.

You can learn more about me also at: http://thepowerofrelationship.com/