Jubilados starting Permaculture Designed Community and Symposium in New Mexico

[Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson]

hi everyone
         Here is an event happening Sept 14-17 2000, Ghost Ranch New Mexico 
called Harvest of the Sage Symposium on Cultivating Community cost is $485 
featuring Ram Dass ,Drew Leder Spiritual Passage , Ruth Dennison Buddhist 
Teacher and Regensis Permaculture Design Group. But the more important is 
to look at there website to see the beginnings of a Community Planned with 
Permaculture Principals and Design. Below are copied parts from there 
webpage http://www.jubilados.org/symp.html
                                         Wes


Jubilados is a Spanish word referring to those
                    who, having shed their careers, are joyous.

                    Jubilados is a non-profit corporation dedicated to
                    promoting that joyful way of being in the elder years.



Jubilados is a non-profit corporation dedicated to contemplative practice, 
service and ecology. Our educational program includes symposia, focus 
groups and study groups. As an extension of these educational efforts, a 
community based on the principles developed in the symposia is being 
planned. The community will be open to anyone with a contemplative 
spiritual practice. The community's physical structure will be organized 
according to the principles of Permaculture. Permaculture allows that in 
natural systems, there is no waste; all resources can create benefit.
At Jubilados, old age is seen not as an end point, but rather as a 
rededication to creative service as an expression of the spiritual connection.
The community is in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The site provides a setting 
conducive to spiritual practice, and is close to medical, educational and 
recreational services.
More important, the proximity affords the opportunity for meaningful 
service in many community settings. The Jubilados Community will create an 
integrated lifestyle, based on mutual support rather than dependence.

The physical plant will be constructed in traditional village design with 
clustered buildings, allowing for the greater part of the site to be 
dedicated to open space.

Common areas will include a meditation hall, communal kitchen, dining 
facilities and administrative offices. There will also be a library, a 
theatre, a gym and studios. Residences will consist of eight bedroom / 
bathroom suites clustered around a common kitchen / living area.
Jubilados will begin construction in a year and will be ready to receive 
occupants in 2002.
To live at Jubilados is an opportunity to live in a simple, esthetically 
pleasing, shared environment where one may use the exercises of communal 
living as the basis for contemplative spiritual practice.

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