Welcome to Envisioneer.net, our aim is to become a resource for anyone who feels "someone (else) should do something" is no longer a viable option. "Be the world you wish to live in" is certainly no simple task. This site aims to provide the means to empower ordinary folk to develop/exchange skills and improve their personal environment beyond recognition, signposting other avenues along the way in need of exploration, yet also lived, since no lasting external change can be accomplished without first transforming the world within.

As soul cannot know truth without directly accessing the divine, so body cannot know the true gifts of creation without direct access to the living environment and its resources. Sensitivity to what lies beneath and around our own feet is an essential step towards healing the Mother. Sustainable, just access to her resources equally so if we are to regain our own truest freedoms, but such freedom is rarely welcomed by those accustomed to living at other's expense.

Many of these designs inevitably require precisely such freedom, precisely this justice.

Is it not telling that having assigned ourselves dominion over all that lives, most people's experience of such 'divine' generosity is that life takes much and gives little? Ancient extortions still thriving to this day are easy to discern, the breathtaking deceptions of modern banking require effort, but the real question is why in our heart of hearts we cannot trust each other enough to live and let live, to enrich what is available rather than steal what remains.
No protection racket can thrive without a third party to threaten you more.

By continuing to act as each other's jailers, we chain ourselves to a dismal future.

Such compounding fear creates a desert of much that could be fruitful. Here in Scotland the endless green desert infested with wooly maggots and deforested bog march across our once fertile hills solely because its legally annointed owners can neither afford, nor are obliged to use their holdings sustainably, thriving instead on billions in annual EEC handouts, whilst those who could sustain themselves and enrich the land, literally pay for the handouts in taxes and reduced services yet cannot access or afford to own more than a minute fraction of the land they support day in day out.

If we truly were living in an advanced and free society would this still be the case?

Thousands of years of violence, distrust and self-deceit cannot be undone overnight, or even within a generation. But until we start the attempt, plus ca change. And time is short. Climate change is only the tip of the iceberg confronting us.

This site won't save the world ~ but it might help you to.

 

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Links to various published articles by envisioneer, and in the media about the Gatehouse itself.

A potted history of media visibility good and bad.

Music by envisioneer, Lammas Hubcamp Volunteers and others, recorded at the Gatehouse and other places.

Improvised music is my passion. Here are some of my favourites, recorded with friends over the years. Many, many thanks to all those who share the love of riding the wave.

Ideas and plans ranging from simple components and DIY solutions through complete low-impact homes.

 

Photo Galleries of various projects undertaken by folk involved with this site.

Self-Watering Greenhouse (as featured in Permaculture #66)
Large selection of pics in gallery here
(Use Extras menu on left in gallery for Slideshow)

Details and schedules of actual projects currently in construction. Your chance to be part of the solution and/or gain practical experience before launching your own projects.
Growing collection of detailed instructions, drawings, photo's, video's etc. Everything from complete beginner's guides to the finer points of sewage handling! Useful place to learn from other's mistakes ~ you've read the books, now discover what's really in store for you!
Enjoy the Gatehouse as a venue for your courses or just a holiday break. The Gatehouse, though fully functional is now lying empty and unused. Contact the owner to arrange a visit, or to run a short course there.
Discussion / Planning forum for those who want to get serious. Apply to Join a Project to work with active groups.

 

Contact envisioneering.net, join mailing list etc.

 

Sources for materials, courses, skill exchanges, on-site tuition, volunteers, expert advice, planning & legal assistance, networking etc.

Any other resources we have found relevant to changing yourself, your environment and our common future.

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