Comments - The Arrogance of Ignorance:Hidden Away, Out of Sight and Out of Mind - The Four Worlds International Institute2024-03-28T21:22:05Zhttps://www.fwii.net/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=2429082%3ABlogPost%3A39742&xn_auth=noGreat comments, WinterStar, y…tag:www.fwii.net,2010-09-15:2429082:Comment:397872010-09-15T23:56:41.190ZSusan Georgehttps://www.fwii.net/profile/SusanGeorge
Great comments, WinterStar, you are most intelligent! I would like everyone to know that there is a revolution going on in the hearts of all people! In the natural healing field, I am learning and now teaching to my community how to use herbs for health! I am also studying Ayurvedic medicine, this is most powerful! I am part of a community garden, and will be funding an aquaponics greenhouse system for this community! Thank you for sharing this article by Stephanie, I just was with Grandmothers…
Great comments, WinterStar, you are most intelligent! I would like everyone to know that there is a revolution going on in the hearts of all people! In the natural healing field, I am learning and now teaching to my community how to use herbs for health! I am also studying Ayurvedic medicine, this is most powerful! I am part of a community garden, and will be funding an aquaponics greenhouse system for this community! Thank you for sharing this article by Stephanie, I just was with Grandmothers in the water ceremony who were from this reservation. We need to stop requiring the Indiginous Peoples to live on reservations! How do we get this going???? It seems like so much has bee…tag:www.fwii.net,2010-09-15:2429082:Comment:397552010-09-15T05:12:44.924ZWinterStar ManyRootshttps://www.fwii.net/profile/WinterStar
It seems like so much has been rediscovered about sustainable building, and building with recycled or cast-off materials, also returning to improved traditional housing structures, that SOMEthing should be good to use in that region, that would be impervious to the harsh weather. The concept of Earthship houses, made of earth-packed tires, with totally self-contained systems for each, comes to mind. I have been in thse things, and they were extremely pleasant.<br />
Houses get moldy when circulation…
It seems like so much has been rediscovered about sustainable building, and building with recycled or cast-off materials, also returning to improved traditional housing structures, that SOMEthing should be good to use in that region, that would be impervious to the harsh weather. The concept of Earthship houses, made of earth-packed tires, with totally self-contained systems for each, comes to mind. I have been in thse things, and they were extremely pleasant.<br />
Houses get moldy when circulation is bad, and when propane ovens are used to heat the house~propane has lots of water in it~close a house, and use a non-vented propane heat source, and within a few hours, there can be rain indoors! Therefore, all propane heat sources need vented. Also, there needs to be air exchanges happening--the more people indoors, the more air exchanged are needed.<br />
Air exchanges can be done low-tech, by pre-tempering air via pipes buried under at least 6' of dirt, with air intakes protected, and air exits small enough that the house does not lose heat too fast.<br />
These earth-tempered air tubes can then temper the indoor air of the house, if done right, to about 55 degrees F. with just that air alone, which means, if the propane tank is empty, at least nothing indoors freezes!<br />
Earth berming and partial burial of houses, in those extreme climate areas, are excellent for keeping inddor temps even and pleasant, even without any heat or cooling source, and, the added advantage of being massively protected from tornadoes, wildfires [of done with living roofs], and whatever else nature or man throws at them.<br />
New Mexico took many years of drought, before they paid attention to those quirky people building self-contained Earthships out near Taos....once they paid attention, they saw what benefits are reachable for very little, by harvesting the rain water, and reusing all water via indoor gardens [which grow food and temper indoor climate and clean the air].<br />
The original Earthship designs are entirely self-contained, durable, as well as low-cost and low-tech to build~they only get expensive when owners start adding expensive extras, or having to deal with unrealistic permitting agents.<br />
THOSE designs and ideas can be extrapolated and used in other forms, with other materials, to build houses more in line with tribal traditional preferences. The houses have LOADS of light indoors from all the south-facing windows. They feel--welcoming, nurturing, peaceful inside.<br />
One can also revert to using the old 4-square mining framing to build Mike Ohler's "$50 Underground House".<br />
His little books make it very easy to learn how to do it, just about anywhere.<br />
Water is a big problem, particularly when considering chemical pollution.<br />
However, there are some low-tech maneuvers one can do; cues to learn from those who help 3rd world countries get water~one of them involves making simple sand and gravel filters in containers such as 55 gal. drum outfitted with a few bits of plumbing pipe...these can be made more complicated but more durable by making the container of cement. To filter out the chemical's though, one must add certain activated charcoal post-filters. These are gravity operated...they can process enough gallons of potable water per day to supply a household. It will not make enough to give showers to everyone, but it at least helps folks get sink-baths.<br />
There are SOOooo many sustainable, low-tech but heavy exercise methods of making housing, that would be so far better than what has been offered on that Rez!<br />
It shocks me why no one has appeared to suggest it yet, nor why Habitat has failed to suggest even the kind of [what they call experimental] Durasol or Rastra block houses [those are classed as ICF's in building code books, but are far better than the plain Styrofoam kinds]~a family in Olympia WA got their Habitat house built of these, and got a very heavily insulated roof, too, using sprayed foam underneath the roof deck.<br />
There are many levels of upgrade one can do to a basic, earth-based house.<br />
There are many lessons we need to RE-learn about building simply WITH the earth, instead of outside the earth struggling against all the adversities that cost so many so much.<br />
KEY: study the area considered for building. Instead of thinking in terms of what all those crazed regular americans are doing, and keep doing over and over, getting the same disastrous results, study that land and weather, and the cyclic patterns of the area. THEN consider what alteernatives there are, to determine what is viable there. What makes sense? Doing things the same old ways, trying to get better results? THAT won't happen!<br />
That Rez, and others, COULD become leaders in alternative energy, sustainable building, etc.<br />
I watched a program showing that someone on the Navajo [?] Rez, had developed a filtration system that was capable of being towed TO whatever site needed it, and cleaning up the trashed, chemically polluted waters left from the mining industries that have destroyed so much on/in the 4-Corners area. But does anyone get to hear of it? Where is it getting used? why aren't more of them being built and used?<br />
IF residents on each Rez were open to having workshops to learn how to do some of the sustainable low-tech building things, and work with people who know how to do them, to integrate those principles with their own Cultural designs, something very beautiful could happen there.<br />
I am certain of it.<br />
ON HEALTH:<br />
Granted, those who have been relegated to Rez's, lack the diversity and supply of natural foods they used to have. But surely, there are ways to rebuild some sort of locally grown food supplies.<br />
It might be grains they are not currently familiar with, or, might involve livestock that are small and easier to handle that can eat whatever weeds grow in the yards~crops and critters that do not require lots of water to raise.<br />
I am pretty certain there are plants still growing, that are medicinal plants. But people have forgotten, been so beaten down, they have lost so much! These traditions need to be relearned!<br />
But one needs to start with what is consumed, to get at the root of healing sick bodies, otherwise, no amount of medicines or treatments can do anything but bandaids, at best.<br />
In India, for hundreds of years, they have used Ayurvedic medicine [older than Chinese medicine], that can heal things western medicine cannot touch, when done right. They also took to using Homeopathic medicines, thanks to the British who took them over in the 1800's. They used Homeopathy, because it was incredibly cheap, easy to do, once learned well.<br />
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I offer this information as an introduction to possibilities.<br />
PLEASE give this information to the people who need it; let them consider it.<br />
Though I lack funding, I am willing to email as much information as I have, answering questions, sharing information resources.<br />
There are young people who may have passion to do something good: they need a direction to follow, to see what they can create; we have to get past the blocked thinking that has stymied so many for so long!<br />
It could be astonishingly beautiful and successful,<br />
and it COULD turn into businesses on a shoestring,<br />
with some creative thinking and management guidance.<br />
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Mitakuye Oyasin<br />
WinterStar I do want to help. I have hel…tag:www.fwii.net,2010-09-15:2429082:Comment:397502010-09-15T02:43:01.004Zandreahttps://www.fwii.net/profile/andrea
I do want to help. I have helped in small ways a box here a box there.Now I am unable to help in any financial way. It seems to me it would be so easy to turn things around in the material way. I have seen new homes spring up like so many weeds in developed areas of the US.<br />
there is so much good there. So many things for people to stand up and be proud about.
I do want to help. I have helped in small ways a box here a box there.Now I am unable to help in any financial way. It seems to me it would be so easy to turn things around in the material way. I have seen new homes spring up like so many weeds in developed areas of the US.<br />
there is so much good there. So many things for people to stand up and be proud about. Despite those conditions the…tag:www.fwii.net,2010-09-15:2429082:Comment:397452010-09-15T01:56:53.675Zjim adamshttps://www.fwii.net/profile/jimadams
Despite those conditions the spiritual guardians of Ina Makah are reaching out to all nations, all colours, all directions to seek healing for all of the Creators children. I have no words to describe the love they carry with them.<br />
Mitakuye Oyasin
Despite those conditions the spiritual guardians of Ina Makah are reaching out to all nations, all colours, all directions to seek healing for all of the Creators children. I have no words to describe the love they carry with them.<br />
Mitakuye Oyasin