1. Action through being:
Become a demonstration site where people from around the world can come and see examples of sustainable living. Models of food, water, shelter, energy, waste and many other systems will be here for anyone to learn from and enjoy. Exemplify ways of leading our lives that work in synthesis with the earth and each other.
2. Preserve and restore:
Preserve and restore local biodiversity, ecosystems and habitats. We are witnessing the miracles of restoration everyday as the forests here at MELC regenerate. We will aid the land in its healing from the destructive practices of the timber industry over the last century. Using our demonstration forest as an example and classroom, we hope to help, encourage and inspire others to do the same with their own homes, lands and communities.
3. Preserve and propagate:
Preserve and propagate a wide variety of open pollinated and/or wild crafted food, fibers fuel, medicinal and agricultural crops. Maintain plants, seeds and animals that are free from genetically modified genes or ingredients.
4. Support appropriate scale:
Support appropriate scale ecological farming and sustainable food systems, both locally and world wide. Encourage and help facilitate visits from farmers and land owners in the so called "Third World" or "Developing" countries. Help facilitate the training of community leaders and enable them to take the knowledge back to their homelands, where they can share, teach and inspire others.
5. Work with schools:
Work with schools to create eco-literacy programs designed to empower students with the knowledge of ecological systems and sustainable living. Topics include water conservation and purification, organic farming, natural building, renewable energy systems and many other subjects relating to ecologically sound and socially responsible practices in our lives, businesses and communities.
6. Create working models:
Create working models of community based sustainable alternatives to corporate globalization and privatized economic systems. Exemplify conservation and regeneration in our systems, rather than the common business practices of rampant growth and consumption.
7. Promote profound understandings:
Promote profound understandings of the evolutionary and sacred connections between one another and the natural world.
