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