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Ecological, Cooperative, Intentional Communities
with J Peter Fleury
Peter will provide an analysis of ecological, sustainable, cooperative communities, past, present and future, including the components proposed by P.R. Sarkar's vision to make them vibrant models and centers of creativity for a healthy society fully integrated into the natural world.
J Peter Fleury BLA Resume
1976 Earned a 5 year degree in Landscape Architecture, specializing in eco-village design, and taught university classes on sustainable energy conversions.
1977-1980 Converted a house to solar, by installing a greenhouse in Denver, and worked on an eco-village in Fort Collins, Colorado.
1980-1983 Studied and worked in Kyoto, Japan, Hopi Arizona, Bali Indonesia, Kathmandu Nepal, and Ananda Nagar, India.
1980-present Conducted design conferences/seminars for 18 eco-villages in 9 countries, each having unique ecosystems, cultures, needs, skills, and priority timelines, but all needing the same basic fundamentals. All striving to be sustainable, ecological, cooperatives as models for future communities. (including Brazil, Portugal, Denmark, Australia, Mexico, U.S.A., India,..)
1984-2022 Established and managed Oasis Gardens Inc. a design/build landscape architecture company in Austin with 16 employees.
1993-1995 Designed and built a 3 acre ecological homestead with an orchard, large gardens, and a solar envelope home with rainwater storage, greenhouses, insulform and Hebel block.
2002 Graduated from yoga-meditation teacher training in Benares, India
1985-Present Teaching yoga meditation courses at the University of Texas, Austin to students, professors and staff.
1997-2011 Designed and built a 10 acre urban organic farm in Austin with greenhouses, amphitheater, 30 families as members, student cooperatives as members, stone farmhouse, tractors with spaders and microbial inoculants. It is now a non-profit called Urban Roots.
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