Your Healthy Planet.com's Living Institute

In nature, every plant and animal (including human beings) have a purpose. That purpose may be 'hidden' from them, but it is generally a design function of ensuring it's survival.

Often it includes a demonstration of abundance. There is no scarcity in nature ... in fact scarcity no longer exists. We have the capacity, and the knowhow to cloth, feed and house every human being on earth at a high standard of living.

A Living Institute or living learning centre (LLC) is an "on the ground working demonstration" and learning centre of healthy sustainable lifestyles.

Living Institutes will be designed to be appropriate to their location and built to work with the environment and support the local community. While they may often be predominantly agricultural and architectural education facilities, they will incorporate elements of the arts and physical and spiritual wellbeing in an holistic learning environment. 

We are currently working to secure our first Living Institute to be located in the Tweed Valley, NSW, within a 60 minute drive of the Gold Coast International Airport.

This would make it accessable to International stakeholders and visitors, plus easy access for National stakeholders and visitors and our local stakeholders.

We need 365 "Friends of Tagari" who are each willing and able to invest $97/month into the restoration of this valuable property.

In return for your investment you receive:

• A unique and irreplaceable opportunity to be involved from the ground up, in the refurbishment of Tagari Farm and it’s subsequent upgrading to a world class educational facility.

• A 50% discount on one Permaculture Program run at Tagari for you or a nominated family member each 12 months.

• An invitation to spend as much time as you can working and learning alongside some of Australia's leading Permaculture exponents.

• A standard advertising subscription to Your Healthy Planet.com valed at USD$30/month.

Tagari Layout Map, by Bill Mollison

We estimate that every 10,000 members of Your Healthy Planet.com will allow us to fund one unique Living Institute either as a wholly owned project or in co-operation with other aligned sustainable not for profit member organisations.

"The argument for simplicity is never a political argumant... when people practice it in their lives... they don't even need any politics." (Manus, 17 Oct 1984).

This same statement also refers to the adoption of an ethical basis to action, to the placement of money and resources, and to the determination to act in accordance with one's beliefs. All of these can occur independently of political change, and can be long term (life-long) personal actions of great effect."

"That is, people can act independently of political theory (which rarely, if ever, covers the questions of ethics, simplicity, local autonomy, or life-oriented action.) Such changes in people come about by education and information, and when enough people change, then political systems (if they are to survive) may follow, or become as irrelevant as they now appear to be in terms of real solutions." (Bill Molison, S14.4, Permaculture, A Designers' Manual).

R Buckminster Fuller also believed that "if we are to make it", then individual responsibility will be required and a system of networking will bring those individuals together to facilitate a design revolution.

The Living Institutes will focus on the importance of design integrity in it's own design, and in the information and education it delivers locally, Nationally and Internationally.

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