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 →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 [...]
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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 →This summer has been a whirlwind of teaching permaculture and working on making a movie from my novel, The Fifth Sacred Thing. But a few days ago I took a break to attend a performance of Guys and Dolls put on by SF Arts Education, in which my fifteen-year old Goddess-child Kore [...]
Continue Reading →“Who is the Goddess, Who is the Goddess? We are!”
We sing these words each year at the big Spiral Dance ritual put on by Reclaiming, the spiritual network of teachers and ritual-makers I work with.
In The Fifth Sacred Thing, the Goddess is a character, much as Aywah is in Avatar. Although the [...]
Continue Reading →Just two weeks into our Kickstarter campaign, and already raised over a third of our goal—thank you, everyone! We still have a long way to go, but the response has been so heartening!
Right now, I’m in the midst of teaching an Earth Activist Training – a course that combines permaculture design with a [...]
Continue Reading →We’re entering our sixth day of this campaign, and we’re almost 1/3 of the way to our goal! I’m seeing some well-loved, familiar faces on the donors list, but so many people I don’t know–yet! I wish I could give you all a big hug and tell you how touched and happy I feel to [...]
Continue Reading →They say movies are collective dreams. If so, we’re in trouble—because our dreams of the future are nightmares: I Am Legend, Children of Men. When we see a vision of harmony and balance, as in Avatar, it’s on Pandora, not on Earth.
When I wrote The Fifth Sacred Thing in the early ‘90s, I wanted [...]
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