Hello and welcome everybody! My name is Maya Greenwood, and I’ve been cajoled into being your tour guide for this special visit to Yerba Buena/San Francisco 2047. Why me, you might ask? Well, for one thing I’ve adored this city since my first glimpse of it in the Summer of Love, eighty years ago. I [...]
Continue Reading →We did it, everyone! We’re 127% funded, thanks to you–and up in the top 50 of Kickstarter’s most funded projects! Huge gratitude to all of you who donated, who Liked the site, who joined our Facebook page, who posted and forwarded our links, who have offered so many different kinds of help, support and [...]
Continue Reading →If you have been wanting to get involved with the production of The Fifth Sacred Thing film, here’s your chance! We have added a production sign up to our website where you can share your talents with us and have the opportunity to join our team!
Just follow the link below and fill out the [...]
Continue Reading →Our Kickstarter campaign is drawing to a close in just a few days. I’ve felt so astoundingly gifted by all of the amazing support we’ve received! From people giving us their hard-earned money, others who have offered us their services or creative work, to all the people who’ve written and told me how [...]
Continue Reading →In the world of The Fifth Sacred Thing, the residents of San Francisco agree to resist the Steward Army with non-violent tactics. Even among those who do agree to engage in active resistance there is a consensus that the machinery of warfare and domination may be sabotaged or destroyed, but not at the expense of [...]
Continue Reading →Permaculture is a system of ecological design aimed at meeting our human needs while regenerating and healing the environment around us. The word ‘permaculture’ was coined by Australians Bill Mollison and David Holmgren in the 1970’s, from ‘permanent agriculture’. But it’s not just gardening or ranching — permaculture principles also work for economics, urban [...]
Continue Reading →Everything is connected.
Abundance, health and happiness come not from things, but relationships. Money can’t buy me love!
As designers, we look at connections in space and time. If we put things in the right place, do things in the right order and at the right time, we save work, money and energy.
“To every [...]
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Less than a week to go on our Kickstarter campaign for The Fifth Sacred Thing movie. We’ve done so well–but still have far to go! However, it occured to me that it was past time to share with you all the Green Plan I wrote up for our production. It’s designed to guide [...]
Continue Reading →In a triumph of optimism and ideology over observation and common sense, I’ve just hung out my laundry to dry in the cold, dank, near-freezing San Francisco fog. There is a reason I love this place—and there’s another reason I generally do my big travels in the summer, which I’m preparing to do now, today—assuming [...]
Continue Reading →Lammas morning—I woke up and saw that during the night we’d reached our first funding point on our Kickstarter campaign for The Fifth Sacred Thing movie. Yesterday, I’d posted the update below on our Kickstarter page—hoping that we’d hit that landmark on Lammas, and we did! Such good magic!
“August 1, Lammas, [...]
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