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Mustard Seed Village: an ancient-future model of sustainable faith and sustainable living.

MSA and CCSP To Launch Cascadia Sustainability Semester in 2013

By Christine Sine on 04/19/2012

Cascadia is CCSP’s first North American based program, and the first Christian off-campus study program exclusively focused on sustainability…Author Shane Claiborne calls CCSP Cascadia, “ a space where you can re-imagine the way we live.”

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Posted in Opportunities | Tagged alternative education, CCSP, christian environmentalism, Creation Care, Education, environment, Mustard Seed Associates, Sustainability, sustainable christian living, Sustainable Living | Leave a response

If you are into small living this film is for you (orginial screenshot from TINY on Vimeo)

TINY: A Story About Living Small (Film Trailer)

By Jason Fowler on 09/07/2011

I am fascinated by the Tiny House movement. It is a brilliant way to reduce housing costs, simplify your life and live more lightly on the earth- all the while gaining time and money to more deeply pursue the kingdom purposes of GOD…

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Posted in Architecture and Building, Features, Videos | Tagged alternative architecture, documentary, downshifting, film, frugal living, Green Building, kingdom living, Simple Living, sustainable architecture, Sustainable Living, tiny house movement, tiny houses | Leave a response

One of our favorite new books: Year of Plenty by Craig Goodwin

Year of Plenty (book review)

By Jason Fowler on 06/24/2011

Year of Plenty is an insightful, profound yet humorous narrative that provides a refreshing perspective on the intersection between Christian faith and issues of economy, environment, community, consumption, justice and sustainability…

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Posted in Book Reviews, Features | Tagged american dream, Anti-Consumerism, book review, Christan faith and sustainability, Christian discipleship, christian faith, Christian faith and gardening, Community and Ecclesia, Consumerism, economy, environmentalism, farmers market, Gardening, global, global justice, GOD, Intentional Living, Jesus, justice, justice economy, local, localism, missional, sabbath economics, suburbs, Sustainability, Sustainable Living | 1 Response

O the wonders of GOD expressed in the honeybee

GOD’s Creation: The Virtues of the Honeybee

By Natasha Turner on 04/10/2011

The delightful older gentleman’s eyes twinkled as he amazed us with the detail of God’s creation, the honeybee. He smoked them out and pulled out a honey-filled hive for us to observe. The honey drizzled deliciously into our mouths as we lifted bits of honeycomb to chew…

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Posted in Environment & Creation, Features | Tagged beekeeping, creation, GOD, GOD's creation, honeybees, missions, Sustainable Living | Leave a response

GOD has made us to be fully human and to live on a human scale.

All We Need is to Be Human

By Ragan Sutterfield on 01/28/2011

There was an evangelical environmental campaign several years ago that asked, What Would Jesus Drive?…meant to lead toward the idea that Jesus would be a low-carbon kind of guy who’d probably drive a Prius or maybe a grease bus…But what if Jesus wouldn’t drive anything?…

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Posted in Agrarian Notebook, Environment & Creation, Features, Technology | Tagged Al Gore, christian environmentalism, climate chaos, Creation Care, crisis, environment, future, green living, human scale, Jesus, limits, society, Sustainability, Sustainable Living, technology | 2 Responses

The Household is the Microcosm of All Community (orginal art by Jean-François Millet (II))

The Mad Farmer: Wendell Berry’s Agrarian Poetic (Part 3)

By Thomas Turner on 01/26/2011

“A man who is in the traditional sense a good farmer is husbandman and husband, the begetter and conserver of the earth’s bounty, but he is also…a nurturer of life. His work is domestic: he is bound to the household…the household is the microcosm of all community.

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Posted in Features, Food & Agriculture | Tagged agrarian, Christian agrarian, Community and Ecclesia, Consumerism, culture, culturemaking, family, farming, household, industrial agriculture, intellectual agrarian, local, local culture, Mad Farmer, marriage, place, poetry, society, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Living, Wendell Berry | Leave a response

Stay tuned for the adventures of Big Red Mama [montage: J Fowler]

The Great Chicken Adventure [In Five Acts]

By Sam Ewell on 09/25/2010

This is the saga of “Big Red Mama and Her Friends”: A Great 2-hour Adventure about Getting Chickens in 5 Acts…Papa sets out with James, Bella, and Kats to get the chickens from Mrs. Jan’s farm. On the drive over, they talk about how fun it’s going to be to have chickens…

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Posted in Food & Agriculture, Home and Family, Intentional Living | Tagged agrarian life, backyard chickens, chicken tractor, chickens, Christian agrarian, community garden, community gardening, farm living, humor, Intentional Living, keeping chickens, Poultry, raising chickens, resilient living, stories, Sustainable Living | Leave a response

It's time to relocalize our lives (montage: J Fowler)

Life at a Human Pace in a Smaller Place

By Ragan Sutterfield on 09/05/2010

I set my bike up with a rack and saddle bags. I rode to the grocery store. I rode to work. I rode to friends’ houses for potlucks and parties. I rode the 6 miles to the school farm I help with. But I also found out how much I was dependent on a car for so many little things…

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Posted in Agrarian Notebook, Features, Intentional Living | Tagged alternative transportation, bicycles, local living, oil spill, post-carbon, relocalization, relocalize, scale of living, slow living, Sustainability, Sustainable Living | 8 Responses

For Those Who Struggle With Basic Needs The Environment Is Not A Concern

Poor Folks Don’t Care About the Earth

By Pam Fowler on 02/18/2010

I was not being fair to those that need to think about their basic needs first. So I started to think, how can I help those with limited choices not only have what they need to live but to give them choices?

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