Natural Villages

A NEW CULTURAL OPTION – PEACE OF MIND AND SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLES

Our Team

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From left:  Johanna Parry Cougar with her husband, Michael Cougar.

Photo taken near Omkarnath Temple, Himalayas, India.

 Mike is our PhD. (psychology), JD, legal council.

Michael is retained for obvious purposes including financial review and documentation and development of processes and contracts between communities and builders.

Johanna is our Executive Director.  Johanna has been working with leaders of the Earth/Cob and natural building movement and with people in native nations for more than two decades. Johanna has served as a non profit director and environmental/community protection organizer for decades using non profit models/economic communities to accomplish these goals. The organization’s Johanna has helped build and handed off into their communities include: the Redwood Coast Writers Center, Democracy Unlimited Of Humboldt County and People For Healthy Forests (who are responsible for the nation wide stop to Hexazanone spraying over national forest lands). She also worked for many years in the Mental Health field designing programs for autistic and mentally/emotionally challenged children of all ages. 

 

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Steve Travis with his wife, Joan Donato:

Steve is an Architect, engineer and highly respected board member. Steve helps us with design decisions,

materials choices, making tailored plans for family homes. Steve brings an amazing knowledge of earth based

and natural force designs, styles and connected energy saving systems. www.http://steventravis.wordpress.com/

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Corrina McFarlane: A core member of WomenRise For Global Peace, a weaver of majic and mystery.

Corrina holds space in native nations, crosses continents for ceremony, and shows up unexpectedly whenever

she is really needed. Her wisdom, support and hard work remain invaluable for founding and continuing this work.

As a treasure, she serves as treasurer and financial coordinator to Natural Villages. Corrina’s site is www.timetoshine.com

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Elmer Bear Eagle: is a board member and advisor to the Wounded Knee Building Camp program.

Elmer provides community support while we are in his nation. Noticing the size of our trees, Elmer likes the

plains just fine but wants his nation to know that our building programs will sponsor their learning. This is a

great opportunity for the kids.

 

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Roy Kaylor; Roy is an electrical engineer and holds an honorary PhD in engineering from Eurotechnical Reasearch Institute. He attended West Point and Stanford, getting an MS in physical science. He has created breakthrus in solar generated electricity that caused the electric car industry to begin. On his land sits the very showcar, the electric beauty that Roy built and drove in a national science parade with then Governor Jerry Brown.  He is known for his switch system technology that was used in the Prius, by Toyota, and sound system technology currently used by Dolby.  A designer of power supplies and switch systems, the Voyager space craft currently uses some of Roys invented technology. He designed power supplies that a soldier could repair under rapid fire with a quater and a bullet. Roy is a board member, and owns the local Little Basin Natural Villages day use education  properties outright. Roy has also made a rare, unreviewed proving of cold fusion, and can teach this as well as provide proving kits if anyone has an interest. He also provides electric car conversion kits for VW’s.

We are currently seeking a skilled biographer to write Roys Autobiography: The hidden history of electric and solar power in America.

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Sally Walsh, MA: Sally has been doing conflict resolution within the prison system and the family services systems

for decades. She is invaluable in offering and supporting communication, solutions and strategies. Without Sally, we

would be truly wondering, and perhaps even get lost out there…Thanks Sally, we love you! She is an advisor to our board.

Yurock Storyteller and Acorn gourmet, Dianne Seymore

Dianne Seymour is an amazing Yurock Storyteller and gourmet Acorn preparation chef. She works like a horse, talks like a sage and keeps us all on our toes or holding our guts, bent over in laughter. Thank you, Dianne for joining our board, our team, our village. Without Dianne’s loving concern, genuine heart, careing eye, and quiet, knowing, helpful support we definately would not have gotten as far as we are today. We are humbled by her courage, and we envy her woodsmanship, wildcrafting and culture…

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  1. 1 On October 8th, 2009, admin said:

    Natural Villages is seeking a Biographer for Roy.

    We also seek applicants for Our Team who are familiar with or skilled at building with the earth, working with diverse races and cultures of people. Speaking Spanish, Portuguese, Hindi or Lakota would be an advantage. The successful candidate will be knowlageable about the public educational processes for the social profit system and be confident at public speaking, articulate, skilled at board development and group facilitation and completely committed to environmental and cultural recovery in our lifetime, seeing the natural villages approach as optimal. To apply for this position; send an email with a letter of introduction and your resume to: light-rain@msn.com The position pays $2,000 per month, ONCE our pay for services programs are running. Our board beleives our pay for services programs are ready to open, now, hence our first search for qualified environemntal and cultural recovery agents. Lifelong, dedicated Social Change activists rank high on our list of qualified persons…

    Autobiographer: This person will already have connections with a prominent publishing editor. This person is skilled and proffessional with writing projects already in print. The qualified autobiographer will recognize the profundity of Roys gifts to our culture, and be highly invested in our nations green technology elders getting thier due respect and recognition in a marketplace that robs hearts, steals ideas and doesnt make sure our profoundly contributing geniuses who have leaped our nations technological discoveries forward, get their day in the SUN. Especially if solar technology is part of their biggest contribution. Roy, in college, had one of the White House red phones in his frat house, where some of our brightest minds were instructed to call the big guys upstairs anytime they made a new technological advancement…now do you understand why few recognize Roys name?

    This project might make you well known as a skilled autobiographer, trust us, his life has been FACINATING!!!!!! Send a letter of introduction and your resume to: light-rain@msn.com

    posted on October 8th, 2009 at 9:37 am

  2. 2 On January 26th, 2010, Michelle Salvatore said:

    I would like to know if the project for Leola in Wounded Knee, South Dakota is finished….and if not why not? Is it possible you plan to finish the project you started this summer before moving on to others….because she is still without a home living in an inadequate condemned trailer…..and she is still healing from heavy metal toxicity poisoning and I believe funds were and are still being collected for her. Thank you for your information. ***as you can see by reading other responses, money raised for Leolas house went to Leola and her house and no where else. No, we havnt raised any money recently for her or her house because we are no longer putting energy into solving this situation for her. We gave it everything we had…the rest will have to be up to her and her family…many blessings and I pray for the miracle of Leolas finished home. You might approach the House Alive! team to see if they might have energy for this. They will be in Manderson, at the Weasles house building site.

    posted on January 26th, 2010 at 4:43 pm

  3. 3 On April 6th, 2010, Admin said:

    Hello Michelle, Natural Villages has not raised money for Leola for quite some time, and everthing that was raised on her behalf, went directly to her, and into her house and all the attendant materials, much of which got stolen.

    It was not a solveable situation, once Leola began to allow the house to be deconstructed. It was literally ready for the roof, and due to some poor choices in volunteers, the house under went deconstruction when Natural Villages teams were no longer on site.

    Because of the extreme difficulty in coordinating high labor house building from several states away, we decided the task was more difficult than we had the time and funding to do a second time.

    We remain in love with the people of Wounded Knee, and hold the intention of continuing to support the several earth homes that are now emerging in this community, and many young men and women are now familiar with, have helped with or own a how – to book on this simple building method that is remarkably appropriate for this community.

    WE ALSO HOLD the desire to complete this model house, if enough folks stepped forward to make this journey, or local folks asked for our return (which they have, but the logistics and funding are very difficult to obtain, and people out there need funding desperately just to make it through the next meal), so, if we had the funding, and the LABOR we certainly would jump at the chance to complete it. Namaste

    posted on April 6th, 2010 at 10:19 am

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