Ecoreality is prepare for a societal and economic breakdown caused by peak oil. But what does preparing look like? Checkout the gallery below, and listen to the full episode to hear what it sounds like.
Rudy went ‘back to the land’ in the 60s, and he hasn’t turned back.
A woman lives on the land in this trailer.
Jan is building an end of civilization library, and he plans to distribute them online.
Steve’s dijurido.
Jan and Steve can’t grow all they need at Ecoreality, so they’ve got to pick a few things up at the grocery store
The main greenhouse.
This building used to be a Qugong studio.
Steve is travelling across the country in a quest to find himself.
Jan Steinman died his beard orange in what he describes as “a dare gone wrong.”
Steve practices Qigong, an ancient Chinese practice that translates to “life energy cultivation.”
They dry peppers and sell them to people on Salt Spring Island.
Ecoreality (Gordon Katic/The Terry Project)
The main road down Ecoreality.
Jan’s truck, that “roars” because he had the muffler taken out.
Gary is says Jan’s unpasteurized goat yogurt is doing wonders for his health, so he buys it every week–without fail.
The farmhouse.
Milking the goats
Jan’s library
Milking the goats
Eco-reality’s makeshift goat house, the Goat Hilton.
Fixing the goat hilton.
Milking the goats
My gear.
Rudy’s greenhouse.
Pickled produce.
The veggie Van Gogh runs on biofuel.
Jan repairs old things, like this kettle. He complains they’re built to fail.
Ecoreality’s makeshift wood-splitter.
Jan says that banks have a systemic bias against ecovillages. He goes to places that serve co-ops, but he still pays higher mortgage and insurance rates than a typical farmer.
Jan is very well-read, and he drops an author name or book title into almost every conversation
Special thanks to the Alma Mater Society Sustainability Fund for helping us buy some equipment.
Find out more about the team that makes this program.
Gordon Katic (@gordonkatic) has been student coordinator for the Terry Project for over two years, and in that time started BARtalk, and the Terry Project on CiTR 101.9FM. A former Ubyssey columnist, and now a student at the UBC Graduate School of Journalism, Gordon is trying to use journalism to tell important stories about global issues.