[Gallery] Exclusive look at a BC ecovillage preparing for societal breakdown
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.
-
- Milking the goats
-
- Ecoreality (Gordon Katic/The Terry Project)
-
- Steve is travelling across the country in a quest to find himself.
-
- Rudy went ‘back to the land’ in the 60s, and he hasn’t turned back.
-
- Jan is very well-read, and he drops an author name or book title into almost every conversation
-
- 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.
-
- Milking the goats
-
- This building used to be a Qugong studio.
-
- The main road down Ecoreality.
-
- Pickled produce.
-
- The farmhouse.
-
- Gary is says Jan’s unpasteurized goat yogurt is doing wonders for his health, so he buys it every week–without fail.
-
- The veggie Van Gogh runs on biofuel.
-
- The main greenhouse.
-
- Steve’s dijurido.
-
- Steve practices Qigong, an ancient Chinese practice that translates to “life energy cultivation.”
-
- Jan’s truck, that “roars” because he had the muffler taken out.
-
- Jan repairs old things, like this kettle. He complains they’re built to fail.
-
- Rudy’s greenhouse.
-
- Jan Steinman died his beard orange in what he describes as “a dare gone wrong.”
-
- Jan is building an end of civilization library, and he plans to distribute them online.
-
- A woman lives on the land in this trailer.
-
- Ecoreality’s makeshift wood-splitter.
-
- Eco-reality’s makeshift goat house, the Goat Hilton.
-
- 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
-
- Jan’s library
-
- They dry peppers and sell them to people on Salt Spring Island.
-
- My gear.
-
- Milking the goats
-
- Fixing the goat hilton.
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.
