Co-Creating Bounty & Beauty
Welcome! Just to give you some background, EarthWays Eco-Academy is a part of Church of the Earth, a 501c3 NonProfit dedicated to stewarding the earth, and assisting others to find ways to co-create in balance and harmony.
We help people learn how to curb global warming, live more sustainable lifestyles, use alternative energy systems and renewable resources.
This is a place where we can all share: questions and ideas; projects we've been involved in or want to start; networks that support green living.
Its a proven fact at this point that whatever one of us does affects everything else in the universe. That makes it imperative that we examine ourselves before we make decisions and take action, rather than after. For me, that means discarding as much negative programming as I can, and working hard to create only that which brings bounty and beauty to all. We ARE all related! Whether we're talking about the smallest microbe or the tallest mountain, we all belong to this Mother Earth, and it's high time we gave her and all our relatives the respect and honor they deserve.
Let's share all those positive ideas, emotions, projects and common denominators that bring us together in the family of humanity.
AHO! Mitakeuyosin
Living Sustainably, Loving Mother Earth
Black Elk, Oglala Lakota:
"Here at the center of the world where you took me when I was young and showed the goodness and the beauty and the strangeness of the greening earth, you have said that I should make the tree to bloom..."
Share your ideas!
"What is inspiration, anyway? For me, it is following inner guidance towards the co-creation of a new, healthier and better reality for all." Rev. Robin Tekwelus Youngblood, October, 2008.
Our Legacy
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
Go Green! Curb Global Warming!!
Join us on the beautiful island of Maui, Hawaii, and learn how to steward your small part of the earth in ways that honor and respect all life.
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We're Here to Serve!
EarthWays Eco-Academy's Founders 
EarthWays Eco-Academy is dedicated to teaching people how to live sustainably and care for Mother Earth. Our founder, Rev. Robin Tekwelus Youngblood, is of American Indian descent, and her Elders have charged her with passing on the wisdom that helped Indigenous peoples to live in balance and harmony for many centuries before the advent of modern technology. Co-Founder Rev. Nahi'ena'ena Guzman, is of Hawaiian lineage, and teaches the wisdom of the Polynesian culture, sharing Ho'o Pono Pono ~ The Art of Excellence.
With the assistance of other staff members, EarthWays Eco-Academy blends the teachings of the ancients with renewable resource technologies to assist our students to live the life they want in ways that sustain the earth. Techkua Ikachi!! (Hopi Saying: Celebrate Life and blend with the Earth)
BIOS:
Rev. Robin Youngblood - Shares the wisdom of Indigenous Elders. Facilitates ceremonies for Mother Earth. Offers the teachings of the Native American Medicine Wheel.
Rev. Nahi'ena'ena Guzman - Shares the values and widsom of Hawaiian Huna Medicine. Facilitates Hawaiian ceremonies and rituals to bring balance and harmony to the Earth and All Our Relations.
Christina Satyo Dosland
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Dr. Steven Blake - Teaches students how to build their own solar and wind power systems, and become a knowledgeable consumer if they will be buying a system.
This class gives you the knowledge to use solar and wind power systems to run your home. Learn how to set up photovoltaic solar panels and wire them to produce power. A colorful slide show surveys the various types of wind turbines.
Learn about the parts of an independent power system. Explore new and old battery technologies. During the class you will see the systems working and producing power. We look at the latest in charge controllers and inverters, the electronic boxes that control and convert the power. You can see how much power is available and learn how to adapt your home to become more energy efficient.
Even if you don't intend to build your own renewable energy system, this will make you an educated consumer if you decide to hire a contractor.
Thoughts for the Day
With our technologies--ones of incalcuable power: earth-restoring, planet preserving--we can rediscover an intimacy, a mutuality with the natural world, that is not primitive (though based in part on fear), but knowing. It might even be possible to relearn a life of awe. And inhabit the landscape with the least violation. ~Janet Kauffman
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. ~Aldo Leopold
I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend? ~Robert Redford
