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Dear Friends, Please enjoy the Paradise Echo February 2010 edition. Any feedback, suggestions would be most welcome.
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Hey I loved it! Thanks Girish and others for putting this together! A great way to end 2009 and look forward to 2010! All my love, Porena.
January 10

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Posted by teejoo on December 5, 2009 at 5:24pm — 1 Comment

Porena  Pomilio

We just made a giant leap towards our RL Intentional Community

Just to say that six of us here in Sweden, after years of planning, talking, learning, finally bought a farm to convert to an IC. The farm is about 2 hours from Stockholm, and has building permission for several houses and we believe after consultation with the local authorities, we can put up to 17 homes on it.

The first year we'll all be in the big house living communally, and probably during the summer months we'll set up a campsite.… Continue

Posted by Porena Pomilio on February 24, 2009 at 10:00am — 3 Comments

Porena  Pomilio

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There are people who like to point out all the problems, and in a way, I’m glad they do. But I think there should be some people who point out the good, the beautiful, because this life, despite all the problems, is beautiful. And sometimes, caught up in our troubles, our turmoil, our ideas, our concepts, we forget what we have been given. Who are we?

Prem Rawat
http://www.man-of-peace.com

Posted by Porena Pomilio on February 12, 2009 at 11:47am

Max Wahlter

Connecting to The TransitionUS movement

The Post Carbon movement, which I have been involved in since 2003, is now merging together with the TRANSITION movement. This movement is aiming to create a worldwide movement of towns and cities transitioning to the post-carbon world.

Interestingly, the US Transition movement is using NING and there are groups already in every state! And there is now a SECOND LIFE group. started by WIlliamthe Wise, the founder of ETOPIA.

I do urge those of you who are into preparing for the inevitable transi… Continue

Posted by Max Wahlter on February 1, 2009 at 1:59pm

 


About Perfect Paradise The island serves as a platform for our group to experiment with living in intentional communities. Apart from trying the idea ”in practice” we hope to be able to inform visitors about Intentional community.

See the YOUTUBE video of the Island

Read our purpose statement here.

Why Intentional Community (IC)?
Some of us are genuinely concerned about the state of the world and what we are handing on to coming generations. We feel the materialistic culture, and racing to fill the world with as much concrete as possible, is not a worthy legacy to leave.

One key to turning development in a sustainable direction is the power of community. Together, with respect for the dignity of individuals and with kindness and love we can create a better life for ourselves on a lot less, treading lightly on the planet. Yet in practice we know little of how to work together. Nine of ten attempts at intentional community fail.
SL provides a “safe” environment to try out this other way of living.

What we want to achieve on our Island.
We want to try out living together in a simple way in a beautiful place. Second life allows us to focus on just the community aspect of sustainable development, leaving the technical side to other sims like the fantastic creation of our friends at Etopia.

What we offer
As a visitor you are welcome to explore, meet us, and share the experience as our community evolves.

Above all, we hope you will enjoy your time on our Island and with us, so your SL experience is one of fun, good company and learning.


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Do take a look at the blogs about our community, from some of our members.

Max, a.k.a Porena

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Our Purpose

Created by Max Wahlter Dec 4, 2008 at 10:26pm. Last updated by Max Wahlter Dec. 4, 2008.

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Created by Porena Pomilio Dec 2, 2008 at 2:39am. Last updated by Porena Pomilio Dec. 2, 2008.

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Girish Navaratna

Paradise Echo January 2010 1 Reply

Started by Girish Navaratna in Promotion of Perfect Paradise Intentional Community. Last reply by Porena Pomilio Jan 10.

Girish Navaratna

Sustainability Facts 25 Replies

Started by Girish Navaratna in Handy Things For Us To Know and Share. Last reply by Girish Navaratna Dec. 31, 2009.

 
 

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