A day spent at an Eco Village, Full Video and individual clips below.
Simon captured this footage on a day visiting Kew Bridge Eco Village in West London in May 2010. He had been intending to visit the village a few months before but never got around to it, until a young lady called Becki passed me on the river one day promoting an event they were hosting at the village. This spurred him on to visit the guys who were living there.
The day had come and what you are about to see is pretty much everything I captured that day. After listening a few times to all the people who spoke to me, I felt compelled to just share the conversations as they evolved and allow each person to express themselves fully. [quote float="right"]Thank yourself for commiting time to learning more about you and reality.[/quote]
This video has been made to share an insight into the people who were living at Kew, I hadn’t met any of them before and they didn’t know me in any way.
I had no plan as to who I may meet or what I was going to ask anybody I may have met. I just wanted to go and meet some new people and have an experience. What I have captured is each conversation as it materialised and flowed along naturally on the day.
I thoroughly enjoyed my experience and all the people I met were extremely approachable, open and welcoming. They all are just tired of the structures of society we have created and want to be the change by attempting an alternative way of living. They know its not a complete way yet buts its evolving very positively.
Individual talks for your convenience and time -
Dom
Gareth Newnham
Mirthful Merriweather
Questions for you -
- What does sustainable living mean to you?
- Do you know how to forage your own food?
- Is society in your eyes falling apart?
- Do you feel an invisible prison around your existence?
- Who decided that the earth on this planet was anybodies to own and let?
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Talking about absentee landlords the quieter villages of Somerset, especially on the Blackhills, are full of empty houses – all second homes by London finance bods – who are absent and therefore ‘not using it’ the land that is… Anyhow I know this because I passed through on a horse and cart as you do. Quiet mostly empty village after quiet empty village. The homes are called ‘The Smithy’ but there’s no blacksmiths. and the closest you get to a bakery is a ‘cyberbakery’. Loads haven’t even got village shops. They’re like ghost villages – You may as well go and take ALL of them back and use them and when the ‘absentee landlords’ return – you can make them feel at home… for the few weekends that they turn up!. Shame Kew got turned out, I’ve heard of a few that managed to stay, but pooling our resources co-operatively and buying up the leftover forest land is a good alternative
“Often the test of courage is not to die but to live”.
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On the Streets At Kew Bridge Eco Village watch here http://t.co/LI4O6JaY