Author: Melanie Rios
Melanie Rios is a permaculture teacher and Executive Director at Lost Valley Center. She is also an activist, gardener, and musician, and has lived in intentional community for 35 years.
Articles by Melanie Rios include:
- Network for a New Culture Camps (Issue # 142)
- A ""Wife Swapping"" Adventure (Issue # 137)
- How to Add Zest to Your Sustainability Education Program (Issue # 147)
- Sociocracy (Issue # 153)
- Bringing Home Lessons from Community Living (Issue # 159)
Five Tools to Help Groups Thrive
Posted on December 21, 2016 byA clearly articulated evolutionary purpose, a welcoming of the whole self, and governance through self-management are keys to collective success.
It Takes All Kinds to Raise a Village
Posted on September 21, 2015 byAfter an engaged local citizenry creates cultural shifts, a city endorses rather than prosecutes code-bending strategies that promote resilient community.
Sociocracy
Posted on December 7, 2011 byLost Valley Educational Center avoids collapse and reinvigorates itself by applying a new approach to governance combining the best of diverse models.
How to Add Zest to Your Sustainability Education Program
Posted on June 7, 2010 by2 Comments
A permaculture teachers hits upon a gold mine of effective methods for enlivening her teaching—by drawing from the principles of permaculture itself.
Network for a New Culture Camps
Posted on March 7, 2009 byParticipants in NFNC’s Summer Camps explore intimacy, transparency, freedom of choice, personal responsibility, sexuality, and new ways of being, teaching, and learning.
A “Wife Swapping” Adventure
Posted on December 7, 2007 byCan an ecovillage gal live for a week in a mainstream household–with a microwave oven, processed food on paper plates,five SUVs, and six tiny pedigreed show dogs–and make a difference?
