Please read Chapter 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of ‘Painting the Picture’ first. We are going to mix things up here a little bit while George is walking back over to the Blind and figuring out what he’s going to do next. You might we starting to think that he is a separate character from you and that […]
Painting the Picture: The Integral Community Market Experience – Chapter 5
Please read Chapter 1, 2, 3 and 4 of ‘Painting the Picture’ first. Your interest has been really peaked now by what turned out to be just the first half of the tour, but you don’t think you want to spend another two hours starting at 2:00 participating in another tour. You aren’t ready for lunch yet, even though it […]
Painting the Picture: The first two hours of the tour and the Eco-Innovation Center – Chapter 4
Please read Chapter 1, 2 and 3 of ‘Painting the Picture’ first. Walking back over to the Eco-Innovation Center you bump into Jill who is just coming out of the Blind. She is going in the same direction down the sidewalk with a box of what looks like washer parts. She says the Green Beings Grocery has […]
Painting the Picture: A Stranger than Fiction Breakfast at the Let the Sun Shine Inn Again – Chapter 3
Please read Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 of 'Painting the Picture' first. You grab your phone and put a reminder in the calendar to make sure you are back to the Eco-Innovation Center in time for the tour. You giggle to yourself when you recall Rufus shaking his finger at you and saying, “Be here on time. […]
Painting the Picture: Ecovillage Ingots, Pepperjack Goat Cheese and Flying Gardeners – Chapter 2
Please read Chapter 1 of 'Painting the Picture' first. You leave Jill to her tinkering with the washing machine and pick up your $2 coupon from the woman who you assume is Amber. As you turn towards the door and are about to slip it into your pocket, you notice that it says, ‘good for $2 […]
Painting the Picture: The First Integral Urban Ecovillage – Chapter 1
Let’s say you are a European, Asian or South American young person on holiday and upon arriving in St. Louis you decide to check out the Blind Venetian Youth Hostel and Café. It's the summer of 2015 and the project was completed well ahead of schedule last summer. Your Megabus arrived at the Multimodal station […]