ZPEnergy.com - Requirements for building an 'Off-Grid Community'

Garry Voss writes (intalek yahoo group): The following article is an "excerpt" which contains something we must all take to heart if our community plans are to thrive. Please review this article and give us your feedback! in order to get a jumpstart with our community plans & Trust (underway) we need to start hashing out these related issues and discuss them prior to the announcement of our ground breaking ceremony.

---Gary Voss
TAP-TEN Research
http://www.Tap-Ten.com

After September 11 - Brian O'Leary, Nov 2002

Forward from 'Re-Inheriting the Earth' on the state of America, politically, economically and environmentally.
http://www.newenergymovement.org/a_after_september_11.htm

We need to develop a new global community in both real and virtual spaces. In his classic book The Different Drum, Scott Peck reminds us that community-building includes a chaotic phase which often discourages the founders. This period of ego-posturing usually precedes a surrender to a feeling of emptiness, the next phase. Then it would be possible to enter into the spirit of cooperation and selflessness comprising true community.

Perhaps, in those moments of inspiration, we could turn crisis into opportunity. Perhaps we could express our grief first and then move into responsible and compassionate roles. I hope this book will help shed some light on the solutions themselves. They wait in the wings for their opportunity. In addition, some of us are forming a coalition, which intends to facilitate a new world citizenship which would ensure an enduring civilization through proper human action.

After a death in the family and an unsettled year, Meredith and I have landed on our feet in a place of great natural beauty on the Yuba River near the village of Washington, California. May this New Washington represent the vision for renewed spirit of a peaceful, sustainable and just global future, in sharp contrast to the massive corruption and violence now coming from the old Washington of my past.

Brian O'Leary, Ph.D.
Washington, California
November, 2002

***** Please Note*******
This article was an "Excerpt"
To review the article in it's entirety, please visit the following URL...
http://www.newenergymovement.org