About

For several years now, I’ve been dreaming, scheming and wishing for community-based living. For the creation of an intentional village of shared values, resources and a vision for a more sustainable future. For caring for one another. For providing for the basic needs of each person in the community, leaving time and opportunity for individual and community growth, learning, discovery.

I’ve started this blog as a way to pull together some of these ideas, share them with others, and hopefully connect with other like-minded folks who are ready to get to work on building this ecovillage. I don’t know exactly how to get started, but I do know that I alone can’t create such a place. This is your invitation, therefore, to engage, share, play in this ecovillage emergence.

For more of a description of the ecovillage vision, take a look at this work in progress.

The contributors:

Community, by definition, is not a solitary creature. Community is about togetherness, about people, about the whole. That’s why this blog is open to contribution. If you’d like to contribute, please let us know. And get to know the “us” behind it:

Mickki Langston, a small town, high plains girl, has lived in Colorado (mostly) since 1999. Mickki used to go door to door and talk to people about god and a future paradise earth. Then she realized that all that work was less about religion and more about the promise of a life lived mindfully, in pursuit of happiness, community and harmony. She currently runs a non-profit organization of locally owned businesses based in Denver. All that time in the office means she spends less time in the garden, but she’s hoping to restore a little balance in that area. She loves ice cream and old movies and is likely to get all choked up thinking about ecovillages.

Nancy Peterson hails from a very large family. The youngest of fifteen children, she’s spent her life in a circle of interconnection. She’s raised two kids and had a positive influence on the hundreds of students who’ve ridden her yellow school bus over the last thirteen years. All that time taking care of people initially led Nancy to shy away from the idea of “community-based living,” but now she’s a proponent of intentional community as being our only true hope for stability and long-term security. She loves farmer’s markets, fresh tomatoes and her crazy little canine companions. She works harder than most people half her age, and is the queen of resource re-use, never failing to discover veritable treasure in dumpsters, on the curb, or at thrift stores. She’s looking forward to puttering around in her garden, taking care of babies and living a life of peace.

Arthur Brock has lived in community his entire life, in everything from student dorms to a mountain home with twenty adults, and now lives in Colorado at Bronwyn House. A software architect and uber geek, Arthur designs flow systems for communities to help manage governance and resource distribution. When he’s not scheming new ways to change the world, he’s…oh, wait. Arthur spends most of his time scheming about ways to change the world. However, he’s often drawn into grand adventures and wanderlust, visiting friends new and old across the globe. He loves surrounding himself with passionate, committed individuals and looks forward to designing and building an ecovillage that provides for people’s needs without draining our natural systems.