where to from here?

components of the vision going forward.

Find others / inspire others to organize and host a festive earthen building event and build a small structure in their community. This will begin the formation of a community of festive earthen builders who can come together in the future for larger projects such as building a home and a village cluster of homes.

To build a small model unfired earthen home that forms the basis of the Freedom Home concept.

(The freedom home concept is a home that is part of a neighborhood cluster of homes within a village, with both private space and shared common space and shared open space for agriculture and nature. The homes are made mostly of unfired earthen mixtures using the festive earthen building event methodology to give inhabitants the maximum freedom from debt and freedom from toxic emissions such as the carcinigenic VOC's that are being released from virtually every component of the modern home. The festive earthen building event process and the freedom home concept is a tool that can be used towards enabling humans to return the process of creating shelter, community, neighborhoods and villages back into the realm of the sacred. The vision is to take steps towards transforming community shelter and neighborhood creation, into a form of shared creative self and community expression of the highest magnitude.)

Potentials / possibilities / visions...

To maintain, develop and strengthen existing relationships formed over these first 3 years and to expand our list of partners and relationships that will bring us closer to the goals and vision of the program.

Relationships and partnerships include:

The Georgia Citizen's Coalition on Hunger, Atlanta USA

Hands on Atlanta, USA

Georgia State University Youth Enrichment Program, Atlanta USA

The Amestoy family, Atlanta USA 

Lake Claire Land Trust, Atlanta USA

Mad Housers, Atlanta USA

Sevananda, Atlanta USA

Whole Foods, Atlanta USA

East Lake Commons, Atlanta USA

WRFG, Atlanta USA

HOT 107.9 Atlanta USA

Conalep High School, Chiapas Mexico

Pan Chan Community, Chiapas Mexico

Nueva Batania Community, Chiapas Mexico

Stanwell Park Arts Theater, NSW Australia

Country Womens Association, NSW Australia

Peats Ridge Festival, NSW Australia,

Bragadoon, Qld, Australia

We have an invitation from the principal of Conalep High School in Palenque Chiapas Mexico to start a festive earthen building program in the school system of the state of Chiapas Mexico. We introduced our program to this school in 2006 and it was well recieved.

We have an invitation from the Nueva Batania indigenous (Mayan) community outside of Palenque,
Chiapas, Mexico. This is a beautiful area that is very fertile with adjoining jungles and a fresh water river with cascades. People from this community attended our event in Palenque and we visited their community to discuss future possibilities.

Tech High School in Atlanta wants to involve all 250 of their students in a festive earthen building events program in the spring and summer of 2008.

We have been invited by Natural Villages (www.natural-villages.org) to incorporate our program into theirs in the summer of 2008.