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As the Southernmost City in the continental United States, Key West is strategically located in the Florida Straits. For centuries treasure ships and merchant vessels alike fell victim to treacherous reefs and hurricanes. Even more deadly were the pirates who stalked their prey with abandon until the arrival of the U.S. Navy in 1893. Since then, the Island City has seen the comings and goings of the shipwrecking, cigar, sponging and shrimping industries. Today Key West is filled with their legacies and those of the writers and artists who have called Key West home. From Dynamic Duval Street to the splendid Victorian architecture of Old Town, to the Azure waters, Key West has something for everyone. |
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When the earth is ravaged and the animals are dying, a new tribe of people shall come unto the earth from many colors, classes, creeds, and who by their actions and deeds shall make the earth green again. They will be known as the warriors of the Rainbow -- Old Native American Prophecy |
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Located in a wooded setting in Veneta, Oregon, 13 miles west of Eugene, the Oregon Country Fair celebrates its 28th year offering three hundred booths with the best arts, crafts, and good food, surrounded by acoustic entertainment, main stage, and vaudeville acts. |
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Green Tortoise Adventure Travel began in 1974 with one sturdy but well used bus and the realization that beautiful places, good food, and sociable people with an enthusiasm for life and nature, were really the only essentials for economical and gratifying travel experiences. Since then, over 500,000 folks and lots of repeat riders from all over the world have enjoyed the beauty, excitement and inspiration of North and Central America, in the company of gentle, unusual people, aboard our well maintained, stretch-out-and-sleep-while-we-drive coaches. |
 27 years ago, the Cosanti Foundation began building an experimental town in the high desert of Arizona. Arcosanti will house 7000 people, demonstrating ways to improve urban conditions and lessen our destructive impact on the earth. Its large, compact structures and large-scale solar greenhouses will occupy only 25 acres of a 4060 acre land preserve, keeping the natural countryside in close proximity to urban dwellers. |
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This free outside pageant is held every year (usually at the end of August) outside the village of Glover. It's outdoor political theatre on a grand scale, using giant puppets combined with free slices from fresh loaves of sourdough rye bread, baked in outdoor Quebec-style clay ovens. |
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Searching out that hidden hot spring may require a little research. |
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The series of Movements of Tai Chi Chuan comprises the 'open and close' of the arms and legs, the 'void and substaintiality' of steps, the 'continuity' of actions, and the 'softness' of postures. All these obey the definition of the theory of Tai Chi -- 'The unbending breaks while the yielding survives.' This also has two meanings: the promotion of our health belongs to Yin while our self-protection belongs to Yang. |
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"We concluded that, more than anything else, the world needed good examples of what it means to live in harmony with nature in a sustainable and spiritually-satisfying way in a technologically-advanced society. Disgruntled mainstreamers needed physical places where they could go to change their lives. Architects and developers needed to see model settlements that could inspire replication." |
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This is an international community and developing eco-village of about 350 people living, studying and working together in the northeast of Scotland. The community was founded in 1962 by Eileen Caddy, Peter Caddy and Dorothy Maclean in a caravan park a mile from the seaside village of Findhorn. First known for our work with plants and nature, we have since become a centre for spiritual and holistic education as well. |
Located on 3 square miles in south central Tennessee, The Farm is home to approximately 200 persons today. Founded in 1971 with a spiritual commitment to simple living and self-reliance, The Farm has pioneered a wide range of social and physical technologies appropriate to low-cost, high satisfaction community living. The community offers examples of solar building design, micro-enterprise, mushroom cultivation, large scale composting and gardening, and regenerative hardwood forest management. |
 Esalen Institute is a center to explore work in the humanities and sciences that promotes human values and potentials. The Institute exists to sponsor, encourage, and attempt evaluation of work in these areas, both inside and outside our own organizational framework. Esalen's activities consist of public seminars, residential work-study programs, invitational conferences, research, and semi-autonomous projects. As a center to foster personal and social transformation, Esalen offers those who join us the chance to explore more deeply the world and themselves. Welcome to Esalen. |
Omega Institute The nation's largest holistic learning center, offers workshops, retreats, and conferences in health, psychology, relationships, professional development, spirituality, music, the arts, sports, and nature study. Omega's main campus is located in a peaceful rural setting just two hours north of New York City. Other locations where Omega offers classes are Maho Bay--St. John, USVI; The Pathwork Center--Phoenicia, NY; Airlie--Warrenton, VA; Mount Madonna--Watsonville, CA; Ghost Ranch--Abiquiu, NM; and Upaya--Santa Fe, NM. |
