Life is sacred. Within all of us there is a yearned for sense of ecological permanence, a desire to ...

1. The Structural Integrity of Ecocultural Systems
Life is sacred. Within all of us there is a yearned for sense of ecological permanence, a desire to
experience an ever-increasing quality of life; health, happiness, and longevity for our neighbors and
ourselves. These things are sought by way of the capacity to function that is our bodies, according to
the outward uniqueness that is our minds, as it is willed by the true spirituality that is the
interactions of our souls.
Yet even within the natural world, the only likely permanence is change, and all desires might only
yet be experienced. Within the limited timeframe that is this mortal coil, we prioritize our goals
according to our perceived abilities to successfully pursue them. To do with one's life what one
wishes requires maximizing one's ability to achieve results from one's efforts. This oft means
working with others.
Cooperative behavior most easily develops between individuals when they have memory of past
encounters with each other, common desires and morals, common values associated with future
outcomes, and a chance of future encounters with each other. Collaboration (an increased or more
dynamic level of cooperation) requires that cooperative individuals solve the same problem(s)
together and oft if not always requires some degree of negotiation between individuals; firstly, to
ensure that all relevant individual expertise is best utilized; and secondly, to ensure that the
teaching and learning of new skills is enjoyably experienced by everyone involved. Collaboration is a
multitude of forms of efficiency.
Efficient efforts strive for the least energy input to greatest energy output ratio as is possible. An
idea behind collaboration is that individual energy expenditures be reduced at the cost of replacing,
for example, individual aesthetic outcome requirements with consequentially group determined
variance in aesthetic outcome. Collaboration requires that cultural integrity and diversity be
respected and inquired of. The value of human dignity and worth is no more than the value of
freedom, meaning, and ideas. Successful collaboration has the effect that what could not be
reasonably individually accomplished becomes reality.
The word 'ecoculture' can most easily be broken down as a noun to mean 'ecological culture', which
immediately brings to mind traditional culture's, past and present, of people who lived, or who are
living, at one with the ecology; but also as a verb to mean 'to culture ecologically', which not only
implies the cultivating or farming of food, medicine, and utility species within an ecological
framework, but also the human transmission of human lifeways from one generation to the next in
an ecological framework as well. Ecoculture emphasizes ecology as the basis for all life, and is the

2. ecoculturalist's foundation for land use design and community values interpolation.
Ecocultural validation of any system demands collaboration; and establishes and maintains practices
for each segment of the system to the effect that the system is as ethically valuable, scientifically
verifiable, and economically viable as possible. Ecoculture Village strives toward an ecoculturally
financed data-driven stewardship for the land, water, and sky...for each other.
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reinventing small rural communities! Ecologically sustainable, self sufficient, ethical community!
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