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A big HELLO to all the lateral thinkers and non-conformists!!!!
The aim is to create an EcoVillage based on the principles of a flourishing environment, including humans, animals and plants...
This
is about to be our participation in the world, our political statement,
our fight against injustice, our responsibility towards our children,
our share in the unpredictable,
self-destructing-reforming-redustructing-recreating waves of
evolution...
Short intro: Finestras is an abandonned village in the Spanish Pyrenees. Our vision is to create a self-organizing EcoVillage based on principles of Perma-Culture, Artistry, Spirituality, Community Life, and the Leitmotif of aesthetics+functionality
Description:The region we want to introduce to you is called Viacamp y Litera,
which is in the Ribagorza in Aragon in Spain.... Viacamp y Litera is an
almost completely deserted place with about 5 or 6 (!!!!!!!!) abandoned
villages and one or to inhabited. All in all it is an area of about 50km
to 30 km with no more than 30-40 people.
The region is halfly encircled by the river "Noguera Ribagorzana" and
the "Embalse the Canelles" whose turqouise water reminds on most
beautiful Ibiza-Mallorca-Portugese-rocky-coasts just without the trash
of modern civilization or party-people..........
The particular village we're talking about is named "Finestras", which
is not too difficult to identificate as a word for windows.
"Finestras" also, because for every visionary gifted spirit it provides a
wonderful outlook on "How-it-COULD-be"!
 Principles of PermaCulture
We are just about taking the
first steps. What we want is, however, not the dream of an individual.
In times of economy crisis and increasing aggression and hatred among
people, who "actually have everything" more and more people are looking
for an alternative way of living.
We found Spain as
one of the countries that welcomes our ideas with much love and
benelovence. Therefor we are trying. Our project is an experiment, but
it is alive and the concept spreads around and gets more and more
concrete with every new person engaged with it. We have a few but are still looking
for eco-village experienced or intrested people, water-workers, house builders etc,
sympathicizing with the idea and pushing it forward.
If you feel similarily about
what-you-concretely-want-to-do-with-your-life, come around, find us,
meet us, throw a glance on a life as it could be, participate and help
to create a place to find harmony for yourSelf - oThers - natUre - worlD
- unYverse - EXISTENCE .....................................
Reasons: It is easy to romanticise life in an EcoVillage as a peaceful,
harmonious living together with nature, animals, other people and
oneself. One of the first answeres you get to this may be: "Hmmh: I think
life in an EcoVillage is imposible. Human nature is bound to come
in conflict with each other and it will end in a total catas-trophy....I rather stay here - its safe..." I
don´t know if it is a cultural sickness to initilly block everything new... it is, however true that also life in EcoVillages
provides problems....
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Well: Good sides and bad sides you will find
everywhere and it is always a challenge to overcome these "problems" and
find peace. In wide parts of our society the problem is that you have to
spend almost half your life working more or less disciplined for
something you more or less believe in to earn money and buy safety and
isolation (like fences, walls or "my car, my house, my boat...). Half of this is true for the life in EcoVillages: You have to
spent lots of time for work. But what you work on has direct influence
on yourself and your surroundings. You have to work hard on yourself, the
community around you and the area you live in. So this is the challenge
we chose: We say YES to our being as humans and nature, even if it is hard. And we
say NO to money-crazyness, alienation and ignorance towards the world and its sensitive
networks
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