[Gallery] Exclusive look at a BC ecovillage preparing for societal breakdown
Ecoreality is prepare for a societal and economic breakdown caused by peak oil. But what does preparing look like? Checkout the gallery below, and listen to the full episode to hear what it sounds like.
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- Milking the goats
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- The main greenhouse.
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- Jan Steinman died his beard orange in what he describes as “a dare gone wrong.”
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- Jan’s library
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- Jan repairs old things, like this kettle. He complains they’re built to fail.
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- The veggie Van Gogh runs on biofuel.
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- Eco-reality’s makeshift goat house, the Goat Hilton.
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- Pickled produce.
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- Jan and Steve can’t grow all they need at Ecoreality, so they’ve got to pick a few things up at the grocery store
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- They dry peppers and sell them to people on Salt Spring Island.
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- Jan says that banks have a systemic bias against ecovillages. He goes to places that serve co-ops, but he still pays higher mortgage and insurance rates than a typical farmer.
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- A woman lives on the land in this trailer.
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- Milking the goats
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- Jan is very well-read, and he drops an author name or book title into almost every conversation
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- Fixing the goat hilton.
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- Milking the goats
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- Steve is travelling across the country in a quest to find himself.
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- Jan’s truck, that “roars” because he had the muffler taken out.
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- Steve’s dijurido.
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- The main road down Ecoreality.
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- Jan is building an end of civilization library, and he plans to distribute them online.
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- Rudy went ‘back to the land’ in the 60s, and he hasn’t turned back.
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- My gear.
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- Ecoreality (Gordon Katic/The Terry Project)
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- Steve practices Qigong, an ancient Chinese practice that translates to “life energy cultivation.”
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- Rudy’s greenhouse.
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- This building used to be a Qugong studio.
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- The farmhouse.
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- Ecoreality’s makeshift wood-splitter.
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- Gary is says Jan’s unpasteurized goat yogurt is doing wonders for his health, so he buys it every week–without fail.
Special thanks to the Alma Mater Society Sustainability Fund for helping us buy some equipment.
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