Natural Building
Building from principles of permaculture and natural materials
Building from a place of heart, permaculture, with abundant naturally occuring, local, raw materials, to provide safe, healthy, inspiring shelter. Natural Building Materials may include mud (clay and sand) ie cob and adobe, straw, stone, sustainably harvested plant materials (timbers, bamboo), acquired with the minimal impact to mother earth, with the mini ...learn more
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Created: Jun 30, 2008
Updated: Nov 13, 2009
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Interfaith Peacebuilding and Community Revitalization Initiative - 23 Ways of Describing the IPCR
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1) The IPCR Initiative is aware of an urgent need to build bridges and increase collaboration between diverse communities of people; both as a response to the implications of global warming, ecological footprint analysis, and the “peaking” of our finite supplies of oil—and to be proactive about individual spiritual formation, interfaith peacebuilding, and the creation of ecologically sustainable communities.
2) The IPCR Initiative understands that the complexity associated with building bridges and increasing collaboration between diverse communities of people, the urgent need for resolutions to a significant number of critical issues in the near future— and the seemingly chronic nature of many of the challenges of our times suggests a need for problem solving on a scale most of us have never known before.
3) The IPCR Initiative believes that the nature of the “Culture Change” necessary to overcome the challenges of our times will require utilizing the best tools we have in every area of capacity building (physical, ecological, medical, spiritual, educational,social, economic, technical, political, etc).
4) The IPCR Initiative is approaching the above mentioned needs for community and regional problem solving and capacity building by providing practical assistance to people working in the fields of activity described by the IPCR Mission Statement goals, and people working in the “105 related fields of activity” (see "105 related fields of activity" on the homepage of the IPCR website).
5) The IPCR Initiative is an accumulation of documents, resources, and observations brought together to support the propositions that we—collectively—have both the need, and the potential, to be
a) much more organized and deliberate about “… bringing to the fore what is often hidden: how many good people there are, how many ways there are to do good, and how much happiness comes to those who extend help, as well as to those who receive it.”
b) much more multifaceted and participation-friendly in our approaches to peacebuilding, community revitalization, and ecological sustainability
c) much more resourceful in the use of the storehouses of accumulated wisdom and “embodied energy” which are now accessible to us.