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8th Life Panama
A collaborative work-life initiative forming an intentional community in rural Panama based on permaculture ethics, respect, peace & living an “on-purpose” life.
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HELP MAKE A CHANGE
Let’s work together for sustainability.
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The most important and urgent jobs to be done are: building soil, restoring ecosystems & learning to live in community starting locally. If supporting the transition to a sustainable world is your first priority, you will love this & we are looking for you. -
ARE YOU A PIONEER SPIRIT?
We are looking for Co-founders, visionaries, eco-entrepreneurs & other like-minded people.
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THE PROJECT
Come create community.
8th Life Panama is a permaculture-based Eco-village Project in formation. We're designing our intentional community to provide a social support structure and a low impact lifestyle for our members, residents, volunteers and guests. We envision an intentional rural community where the values and ideals of community, respect, peace, and living an “on-purpose” life will be rediscovered by the diverse, multigenerational group of people who’ve joined us.
We are currently forming our core team.
THE REASONS
We can live more lightly.
As human beings we weren’t designed to live disconnected from nature and each other. As a society we’ve gone astray and as a result we’re damaging our mother earth and soon she won’t be able to sustain human life. We seem to have also lost the ability to relate with one another as human beings.
It’s time to transition from a destructive society to a sustainable world. We need to stop the destruction, build soil, restore ecosystems, heal our addictions, change organizational structures of the global economy, & learn to live in community.
THE LAND
Be a steward and protector.
Our Eco-village land, Finca Ubuntu, is 21Ha of rolling hills, grasslands and forests bordered by a river and stream. It is located 11 km from the town of Antón Panama, which is 2.5hrs from Panama City.
The finca, which was in its natural state when we acquired it, now has a .5Ha food forest, bunkhouse, kitchen, common room, nursery, and toolshed. There's electricity, well water, raised bed gardens, and a camping area as well as lots of areas under reforestation.
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“… The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens.
If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone”
Bill Mollison – father of permaculture -
“Arrested personal growth serves industrial “growth.” by suppressing the nature dimension of human development . . . , industrial growth society engenders an immature citizenry unable to imagine a life beyond consumerism and soul-suppressing jobs.”
Bill Plotkin – founder of western Colorado’s Animas Valley Institute -
“It would be an understatement to say that the path toward great relationship is not necessarily a straight one. … it has plenty of curves, switchbacks, and rocky sections, asking for a clear eye, courage, flexibility, and steady footing, all centered by the willingness to turn toward the difficult and painful.“
Robert Augustus Masters –
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IS THIS FOR YOU?
We're looking for visionaries; people with an entrepreneurial spirit who believe, like we do,
that it's time to transition from a destructive society to a sustainable world.
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