Good Morning SuperForest!
Jackson here.
New and exciting things are afoot in SuperForest, and I wanna tell you all about them…
This is 2009, a brand new year, the third year of SuperForest’s existence. At the end of last year, an important decision was made…
We at SuperForest are going to concentrate less on reporting news, and work more towards making the news.
We want to make sure that when you visit SF, you’re welcomed into a world of humor, elevating content, and original thought. In 2009 we’re trying to stress original.
This means that we’ll be concentrating on more regular posts, (like Julius’s Art and Sci-Tech columns,) more D.I.Y. (like Iman’s little rice sack that could,) and more original SuperForest videos, interviews, and entertainments.
Personally, what this decision means for me is that I am going to combine my personal life with my SuperForest persona, as in, I’m really going to try to become SuperForester Jackson, and live in a way that is as SuperForesty as possible.
To live a life of giddy sustainability, and to make media about it, to document it in the hopes of showing as many people how much fun we are going to have rebuilding and rehabilitating our society in the aftermath of the “Petroleum Age.” That is the goal.
(As in, we don’t have to wait until everything collapses to start rebuilding. AND we can have loads of sexy fun as we take up the glorious burden.)
This means that I am now in talks with a group of friends to create an internet show about sustainable co-housing (thank you, Jaell). With the ultimate goal of showing you SuperForesters at home what it is like to try to live sustainably in a big city like New York, while simultaneously building a supportive community. Can it be done? What are the pitfalls? What actions will help such a venture succeed? Has it been done in the past?
We’re going to find out! And you get to watch!
So, I’m going to try by the beginning of next year to be moving into a house or community with a group of like minded individuals, and we will make a reality show for the internet about our endeavors. Our hope is to try to find a cure for unwanted isolation by exploring the balance of public and private modern green living. But green it shall be!
Just think of it… A Harlem brownstone with a green roof, and water catchers, gardens, chickens, laughter, all smack in the center of Manhattan.
Can it happen? Stick around and find out.
Asides from the “Our House” project, SuperForester Carla and I are planning a series of posts about Islam that will hopefully communicate the similarities between us all, in the hopes of spreading both curiosity and greater understanding. SuperForest is also busily trying to keep the momentum going on the potential cultural exchange trip to Iran. Fingers crossed.
What else do we have on the burner?
A children’s book! “Henners the Seal” is a book for kids about a young seal who finds peace. Carla and I are writing that as well.
Christine Norrie and I are busy at work on more SuperForest Comics!
We’re building micro-sites for Socialtaire, the Peace Alphabet, and the Save-A-Seed Coalition. The idea being that SuperForest will be like a tomato plant growing out of a well-seasoned compost heap. The tomatoes will be the micro-sites.
We figure that since SuperForest is all about ideas, and free ones at that, we’ll stick to what we do best and generate more ideas. We’ll leave the making of things to those that wish to make them.
We’ve just got the transcript back from the Josh Tickell interview and that will be going up shortly.
There is an awful lot going on. Please forgive the sporadic posting. It’s not from lack of interest, it’s just that so much is cooking right now.
And…. we’ve got exciting news from the Millennium Seed Bank! But I’ll save it for the next post…
If you’ve enjoyed SuperForest in the past, I think you’ll love the renewed approach.
Love to All.
Yours,
-Jackson
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