May 30, 2014 | Experience Institute, Learning
Two experiences down, we’re in the home stretch now of this learning journey year, but its really just the beginning. In the last meetup, there was much action around the idea that reflection is learning. Sure, I’m a founding student of the Experience...
Mar 18, 2014 | Learning, Musings
The Earth Village Project is a regenerative rehabilitation response to Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines. In collaboration with the community of Batug, we have built a Windship, planted a community garden, helped a family build a mud house and set up base camp....
Mar 18, 2014 | Learning, Musings
There was a tremendous amount of work that went into preparing for the Windship Build with Earthship Biotecture and The Earth Village Project. Earthship had done a similar humanitarian build in Malawi where they planned for 6 months in advance, yet they were still...
Mar 18, 2014 | Experience Institute, Learning, Musings
On February 23, 2014 more than 70 people from around the world and the Philippines converged in Batug to build the first Windship the world has ever seen. A Windship is an Earthship-inspired typhoon bunker built using recycled materials employing a closed loop waste...
Mar 18, 2014 | Learning, Musings
The Earth Village Project is focused on regenerative rehabilitation; we’ve taken the word relief out of our vocabulary. There are no beneficiaries; we work collaboratively with the community, learning together. It comes back to the age-old adage of “If you give a man...
Mar 17, 2014 | Learning, Musings
Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) was off the scale. A category six storm that devastated the Philippines, it was the strongest storm to wreak havoc on land in the history of humanity. I have been working with the Earth Village Project since January in the Barangay (village)...
