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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Morgan Jones and David Fojo Partner to Create Eco-Village  and Healing School

Earth Day – April 22, 2004

Morgan Jones, a macrobiotic teacher from Austin, Texas visited Port of Spain, Trinidad on

Earth Day to join local architect David Fojo in announcing their new partnership. Morgan

outlined the endeavor as follows:

 

“As I have often described it, my personal mission is to lead the creation of a residential school

set in an eco-village to marry the teaching of a macrobiotic approach to total healing (in the

largest sense imaginable, including physical, emotional & spiritual aspects) with the teaching

of sustainable and healthy building design and construction (bau-biologie—the biology of

buildings), the importance of layout and placement of the many elements of a community and

each individual structure (Vastu, Feng Shui, and related teachings), and sustainable agriculture

(permaculture).”

 

“I believe that in order to achieve optimum health and happiness, the highest possible spiritual

development, and a natural state of tranquility within, each of us must address the biology of

our bodies, the biology of our houses, the biology of our communities, the biology of our

agriculture, and the biology of our business endeavors. I think we must simultaneously

minister to all aspects of both our internal environments and our external environments,

because these two seemingly separate realms are inexorably connected—they are in fact two

halves of one whole of human existence.”

 

“When I met David Fojo, an intentional architect and green builder based in Port of Spain, I

knew I had found the perfect partner for turning this dream into reality. David’s 20+ years of

study of the importance of building layout and design combined with his study of the positive

health impact for the inhabitants of such buildings and for the larger environment provided by

the careful selection of sustainable building materials and construction techniques seemed to

me to complement my own focus on the role of diet and lifestyle in preventing and reversing

illness. And David’s lifelong commitment to a spiritual path that teaches self-responsibility

and mutual respect harmonizes with my own beliefs that we humans are capable of great

good when we recognize the interdependent nature of our relationships with each other and

the earth.”

 

“I believe David and I share the belief summed up by this wise old saying: ‘You cannot think

your way to a new way of living. You must live your way to a new way of thinking.’ While

there is real value in lecturing in classrooms, we believe the most powerful learning comes

from doing. So we imagine that while we are building and running this "school", what we are

really doing is involving our students in every aspect of the design, implementation, and

operations so that they can absorb the essence of (and thus truly learn) this natural and

harmonious way of living. Thus we see students attending classes when we are defining how

the land will be used and where each structure or function should be located. We see more

classes when we chop down the brush and grind it up into the material we then use to

manufacture the natural bricks we need to construct the walls of our buildings. Tending to the

land to prepare for planting the food we will grow ourselves will be a graduate course in

sustainable agriculture. The work of building rainwater harvesting cisterns to supply all the

water we use everyday and backyard wetlands to turn the sewage that goes down our drains

into more drinking water—these will be classes in self-sufficiency and sustainable living that

could never be taught as well in a lecture hall. And of course, everyone who helps prepare the

balanced and healing meals we want to serve will be studying in the most powerful manner

how food directly affects every aspect of human health, energy, and emotions.”

 

Last modified: 02/21/05