Mission: Thinking small has us up to BIG things
We've made it our mission to offer low impact, truly affordable housing options, produce fresh organic veggies to eat and sell at market, operate a natural herbal healing center, sponsor an artists colony, offer eco-nomad excursions, operate our own school and spiritual church, and support female and nubian empowerment. We were founded in November of 2010 by first americans, holistic architects, healers, afrikans, artists and farmers.
The purpose of our work overlaps where simple living, creativity, and leading an examined life overlap with activism and cultural re-engineering.
Simply put - we just can't go on ditching our responsibility to help provide answers for the planet and it's inhabitants.
The facts are not nice - but they are the facts. Every year 60 million people die – all causes, all countries, all classes in total. One third – about 20 million – will die before their time because of poverty.
Nearly all of those poverty deaths can be prevented by basic infrastructure like biosand filters, rocket stoves, composting toilets and so on.
We have less than 100 years of forest left, never mind global warming, increasing pollution and hyper-consumption. Supporting 1.5 billion middle class people is nearly killing the planet, never mind trying to find the resources for 7 billion. This gap is culturally forbidden to discuss.
The west is bankrupt because as the rest of the world recovers from colonial oppression, they flex their muscles, increase political pressure, and push for a more equal world – making us poorer. Rather than getting poorer gracefully, we have been borrowing at a national and individual level to make up the gap. We are running out of people to borrow from.
We aim to do our part to not be part of the problem - and maybe even provide a few solutions in the process.
"The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway."
~Mother Teresa
