"From my point of view, Native Roots is the most efficient, most creative, and most highly leveraged way of increasing the contribution of the experience, culture, and ideas of indigenous peoples to our knowledge, understanding and appreciation of our world, and to demonstrating how we can create community and excite creative community enterprise around our common human interests." The Native Roots Story is an idea, a creative hypothesis, an opportunity to create connections, an intercultural contribution, and a creative community enterprise contributing to our common social interests. Native Roots is a network of communication centres giving our native cultures the opportunity and ability to explore, learn from, and contribute to their understanding and appreciation of their cultural heritage, contribute what they have learned from their experience of the world, and contribute to creating a marketplace of opportunities for the world to explore, experience, learn, and create connections with creative contributions and contributors to the cultural and creative evolution of our world. The idea is to develop Native Roots communication centres as cooperative, self-financing, community enterprises operating independent of the need for government, philanthropic and corporate funding but creating highly leveraged, high return opportunities for government, philanthropic, and corporate investment. The hypothesis is that we can develop a creative community enterprise by agreeing to operate beyond integrity with one another and by contributing information, ideas, stories, and opportunities to create connections, relationships, cooperative enterprise, and community around common social interests. The opportunity we have is to engage with one another to create the systems, the processes, and the art of communicating across cultural differences to create opportunities to learn from our cultural differences, discover the interests and ideas we have in common, and explore and create opportunities which contribute to our ...
In 1989 NatureScape, Inc. began serving residential customers in the Greater Birmingham area. With over 20 years of experience, a team of degreed horticulturists and a desire to make your property look the best in your neighborhood, NatureScape is the clear choice for your landscaping needs.
Whether you are interested in landscape maintenance or landscape installation, our team of trained professionals can help you. We can partner with you to create a maintenance plan for your property that will promote a healthy and beautifully manicured landscape. We can also create a landscape design and plan that will meet your unique needs and fit into your budget.
| The Ecology School |
The Ecology School transforms how people think about science, food, the environment, and themselves through joyful, hands-on learning for all ages.
At The Ecology School, we study the relationships that all living organisms have with one another and with our shared environment. We explore ways that we, as humans, can build communities that sustain the very ecosystems that in turn sustain us.
We approach the science of ecology through wide-eyed, hands-on exploration of the ecosystems outside our door, making nature’s lessons memorable with play, humor, and games, and applicable with real life models of sustainable farming and living.
School Overnight & Day Programs, Summer Day & Overnight Camps, Public Programs for All Ages, and More! Learn more→TheEcololgySchool.org
| River Bend Farm |
In 2020, The Ecology School will truly transform as it transitions to a new home at River Bend Farm, a historic 105-acre farm located on a scenic bend in the Saco River, just twenty minutes from the Maine coast. The move will propel our educational initiatives by increasing program capacity and providing “live what you learn” opportunities for participants through hands-on exploration of Maine’s ecosystems, sustainable living practices, direct connection to food systems and farming along with modeling conservation-in-action.
Our growth to River Bend Farm will feature construction of a dormitory and dining commons, both built to the specifications of The Living Building Challenge, a green building certification program and sustainable design framework. It’s also considered the world’s most rigorous proven performance standard for buildings, taking into account the impact buildings have on the environment and the health of community.
To join us in our Capital Campaign, or to simply learn a little more about the project→TheEcologySchool.org/Capital-Campaign