🌍 Global Steem Village News #2: This week from the ecoTrain community
Consolidating our energy towards a steem-based #ecovillage or, indeed, a NETWORK of ecovillages, is an exciting shift for @ecotrain. We are now deliberately and consciously curating those posts which speak to the issues, challenges and needs of the emerging steem eco-communities. To that end, we have RENAMED our weekly @ecotrain 'Nuggets', to be "Global Steem Village News".
GREAT content this week - here are some of the gems, eco-green wisdom & insight shared under the #ecotrain tag this week on the steem blockchain. Even if you don't have VP or RC to upvote, a meaningful comment is usually upvoted by a smart author, so go lavish your appreciation and engagement on this great content.
We truly are an amazing global community - and growing with new contributors every week!! If you want to help @ecotrain give juicier upvotes and haven't yet delegated or increased your delegation post HF21, please do! It matters! You loaning us your steem to make more money for you? Bit of a no-brainer, really!
@ecotrain is a artisan-hand-curated community built around the concept of gift economy and actively making our world a better place. We engage around sustainability, eco-green, permaculture, the glories of Mother Earth, inner transformation, alternative energy, earthships & earth building, recycling - in short, all the practical and conceptual underpinnings of paradigm shift.
Each week @eco-alex and @artemislives scour the steemit blockchain for people using the tag, and upvote-comment-curate in the best way they know how.
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Upvote this Nuggets curation and our featured posts if you can. Comment, resteem this curation and a few of the posts. Follow, engage and enjoy.
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@pennsif
Five Things I have Done Today To Help The Planet
"Ask not what the planet can do for you..." @pennsif picked up the very issue that was discussed in different ways in our first Village News - the question of what we contribute. Returning to his popular tag #five4thepanet he challenges us to be accountable in what we contribute every day to our families, to communities and to the world.
@ayjoe
Introducing Environmental Awareness Since Early Childhood
Where does eco-community start? Here - in the quiet spaces drawing with a child. @ayjoe shows us first had how a littlies colouring project is the beginning of global change - how awareness starts with really simple things.
@papapepper
This is Why I Do Not Want To Be A Consumer
The basis for eco-community is a different set of values, and a respect towards others we live with. @papa-pepper calls out the "milking factor" of so much traditional commerce and clearly announces his decision to call profiteering when he sees it. Announcing - and discussing - different social values is critical to great community.
@senorcoconut
The First Footing For Our Pole Barn is Finally Done and Nobody Got Hurt
Building skills are SO IMPORTANT to eco-community. We're thrilled @senorcoconut survived pouring the first footing for the new pole barn and is sharing the journey so generously with pictures and good humour. Follow @senorcoconut for great eco posts, and just for the inspiration of following his self-building
journey.
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@steemmatt
Retiring from the corporate world is a surprisingly common life goal for many, but HOW do you begin to finance the transition towards self-sufficiency? @steemmatt continues to share his inspirational scavenge-sell journey with us - where he forages other people's cast-off 'waste' and makes a living - a good living! - from it! Keeping all this stuff out of landfills whilst giving someone else a bargain and a different set of consumer values? win-win!!
@riverflows
The Beginnings of Community Abundance
Eco-community starts in small ways, with people sharing their organic abundance and coming together around seeds, plants, growing things and caring for one another. @riverflows shares the beautiful beginnings of a Free Food Pantry in her local area, and raises the bar on abundance, caring for each other and sharing from our own place of abundance. Indeed, the challenge is to PLAN to create abundance for sharing.
@artemislives
Fish, An Education and the Unseen Tragedy of Monsoonal Flood
Most people start their journey to organic and sustainable self-sufficiency in the middle of the regular, chemical-laden world. @artemislives shares the heartbreaking story of her Thai worker's lost fish farm due to the toxic farm chemicals washed down with local monsoonal flooding. She highlights the need for eco-community to choose its siting well, and to be mindful of climate and seasonal influences.
@fundakantoria
Our Visit to the Ancianate or FundaKantoria Social Activities
Community in action - sharing food, music and the joy of community. @fundakantoria continue to inspire us with their work in Venezuela - not just sharing and teaching music, but supporting elderly people whilst bringing joy, and bringing skills and hope to young people weighted down by the economic collapse in Venezuela.
@wildhomesteading
Diversity in community is a lot more complicated than just your hippy neighbours, their LGBTQ status and what languages they speak. @wildhomesteading takes us back to one of the ecological core values of eco-green - the little critters and bugs! Encourage them into your garden-space-life and be amazed at what grows.
We hope you have enjoyed these eco-village related posts - please LAVISH them with upvotes, reblogs, comments and engagement.
Most importantly, consider writing under the #ecotrain tag this coming week - we love all posts eco-green, earth building, spiritual and natural, but mostly as those things relate to the building and evolution of eco-community.
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Thank you so much for including my post - much appreciated.
So much great content consolidating & focusing around the nucleus of community. Grateful to our Train Driver for constancy & leadership. 💜
Ah, thank you so mich for the feature!!! I just wish at some ppint we will be building foundations without concrete! Old school has to work.. we just saw a 13th century castle that is standing as straight as can be!
U could use tyres;))
Yes, I wanted to look into tyre foundations! Of course you suggested tyres 😁.
Liking the more focused @ecotrain News curation!
You've bought together some wonderful posts here from some of my favorite people!
Thank-you! And now to get on with reading them!
Ageing with @porters on this one. I like how the focus has gone in more towards the eco theme. All wonderful posts chosen.
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First of all I must say that everyone did an incredible job, a moment ago I voted and left my comment to @pennsif for his good mood and he return to Steem, to @ayjoe for his work with his son, to @papapepper for his views on the economy, to @senorcoconut for his projects full of energy and construction adventure, and my dear @artemislives for the sad real story following a flood on a friend's land.
Thank you friend @ecotrain @eco-alex for creating this beautiful Network of #ecovillage
@artemislives, sorry about the fish farm, we've heard similar stories in Cambodia.
A more common thing in Cambodia though is to dig a hole in your neighbor's fish pond, and strain all the fish as it drains out. More and more Thai and Vietnamese chemical modern chemicals and fertilizers flow into the market everyday, and it's getting harder for farmers to resist.