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| Dedicated
to learning and sharing with others the innate
wisdom of sustainable living.
The
mission of Ways of Wisdom is to help people learn
how to live a lifestyle characterized by
simplicity and sustainability. |
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began presenting workshops on this topic in 1998.
In 1999 we used the Y2K issue to get people to
look seriously at their lifestyles to see if they
truly were sustainable. We presented six workshops
that year, including two of them at the Midwest
Renewable Energy and Sustainable Living Fair in
Amherst, Wisconsin. |
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are trying to live a sustainable lifestyle on a
144-acre farm in Northeast Minnesota near Lake
Superior and the Canadian border. Our home, North
Light Farm, is a demonstration site for
appropriate technologies. We recently completed
construction of a 24' diameter yurt so we could
investigate if this type of building would be a
viable low cost housing alternative for our
county. We have the first grid-intertied wind
energy system in our area. In 1995 we received a
grant from the Minnesota Department of Agriculture
to design, construct, and demonstrate a means of
collecting and utilizing rainwater to irrigate a
large organic garden. The garden not only produces
food for our family but has also grown produce and
herbs for sale to restaurants, resorts, and the
local farmers' market. Further information about
North Light Farm and its sustainable systems will
be available soon on this web site. |
| Ways
of Wisdom is currently completing a study of five
families in Northeast Minnesota who are living a
sustainable lifestyle. This work is funded through
the Northeast Minnesota Sustainable Development
Partnership. The results of this study will be
written up in a report and also presented in workshops.
The first workshop was presented at the Midwest
Renewable Energy and Sustainable Living Fair in
Amherst, Wisconsin in June 2001. If you are
interested in learning more about this case study
work you can click the Case Studies link on
the navigation bar. This link will take you to web
pages with information on the project's
background, goals and methodology. There is a
photo gallery with images from the site visits
made to the homesteads of the five families in the
study. The photographs are organized by life
support areas such as energy systems, heating, housing,
and food systems. Each picture identifies the
participants and has a description of the image.
For further information on the Northeast Minnesota
Sustainable Development Partnership click the
Contacts Page link on the navigation bar. |
| If
you would like additional information about Ways
of Wisdom and our workshops please e-mail us at info@waysofwisdom.com
or click the Contacts Page link on the navigation
bar. |
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