Blog of Zoe at Galien Valley
Galien River valley, southwest Michigan, North America

 

Holistic Community Culture Activities Culture is a way of life, a way to live, learn, work. Community Culture is a way of life, and a way to live, learn, and work that supports the local community, people, nature, and the world. Often, living, learning, and working happen simultaneously.

 

A culture is a way of life and a set of values. A culture is how the way of life relates to communities, people, and nature. A culture includes how a society uses, sustains, enriches, and values nature. A culture includes how living, learning, and working affect communities, people, and nature. A culture includes how the process of making stuff (including art) and getting stuff affect community, people, and nature. A culture includes how people take care of the land, nature, people, and communities. A culture includes how science, art, music, food, clothes, housing, etc. relate to local nature and help the local community, people, and nature. A culture includes values that influence education, ecologic, and economic values, goals, and success indicators. A culture includes an education and how well the education teaches students how to run a local community economy in ways that helps people and nature thrive together. (See the Changes Needed in Education and Economy: 7 Goals and Success Indicators of culture, education, ecology, and economy, in order to help communities, people, and nature.)

I use the word "holistic"
not to narrowly mean herbal medicines alone,
but yes to broadly mean whole culture, including economy, education, science, art, the way we live, learn, work, etc. 

Holistic Community Culture. On many days, my whole day supports community culture by engaging in morals, (science) learning about nature, (art) making stuff from scratch from nature, permaculture food, landcare, and celebration of community culture - all six of these activities together help to take care of the local community, and beyond.

See definition of community.

Six Community Culture Activities
1. Morals, Love, Awareness, Health
2. Nature Science
3. Nature Art and Economy
4. Permaculture Food and Economy
5. Landcare
6. Celebration of Community Culture

I practice the six community culture activities (and basic holistic skills) to help to support many good things simultaneously: love, peace, joy, morals, awareness, safety, health, economy (people having enough stuff), social and economic justice, nature, habitats, sustainable education, community culture, freedom to do good, and freedom from harm.  Furthermore, I practice the six community culture activities (and basic holistic skills) to help to diminish many local and global chronic-problems: poverty, greed, boredom, loneliness, depression, violence, wilderness loss, pollution, climate change, war, illness, cultural madness, daily grind, bad education, poor economies, people’s disconnection from nature, destroyed communities, etc.

Some days, I practice the cultural activities, at regular specific times, in the order listed below. I try to do each cultural activity at least a few days a week, if not every day.

Daily Community Culture Activities
(Live, Learn, Work to help communities)

9:00 AM, Morals, Love, Awareness, Health
and Quality Calendar
Morals includes love, as in moral love, spiritual love, community love, brotherly love, world love, a love for the goodness in all mankind, and helping mankind. Morals and love include awareness. Increasingly become more aware of good possibilities and opportunities for communities, people, and nature. To be moral is to love and be aware.  Morals, love, and awareness boost people's health. Furthermore, morals, love, and awareness sustain and enrich the health of communities, people, and nature.  Morals-love-awareness-health is the most important action, motive, outlook, and first step in being sustainable.
● A moral community culture encourages people to take time to be aware of and promote good qualities, safety, health, supply, wisdom, love, peace, joy, and harmony, in the community; as well as, to be aware of, avoid, and diminish hazards, harm, danger, limits, lies, evil, greed, disease, and discord, in the community.
Take time to do mindfulness, meditation, prayer, and think on these things.
The Quality Calendar supports good qualities in communities, people, and nature.

10:00 AM, Nature Science
Culture includes how much people value and pay attention to the local land and natural wild habitats, how often people do science, and how well society educates their children to know about local nature.
Science is observation, questions, research, knowledge, and learning the patterns of nature and how nature works, etc.
Learn about local nature. Learn about local geography, plants, animals, ecology, phenology, tracking, and awareness.
(See the Holistic Sustainability, 40 ways, including science, to sustain communities, people, and nature.)
(See the Changes Needed in Education and Economy: 7 Goals and Success Indicators of culture, education (including science), ecology, and economy, in order to help communities, people, and nature.)

11:00 AM, Physical Fitness
Culture includes popular types of exercise. The popular types of exercise differ from one culture to another.
Some of what I do is walk, jog, swim, climb trees, hike, and stretch.

**12 Noon - Lunch**

1:00 PM, Nature Art and Economy
Culture includes economy, art, what stuff people have, and how people get their stuff. Culture includes how well the society educates their children to make art and their own stuff from scratch, and how to participate in the local community economy.
Academic schools teach kids to first do simple math (e.g. count from 1 to 10) and to later do more complex math (e.g. algebra). Likewise, community schools teach kids first how to run a simple community economy, and later, more complex economies. A simple community economy begins with handmaking art and stuff from scratch from local nature.
Get a community education, learn how to run a simple economy, and learn how to make art and stuff. Learn skills to make stuff: supplies, shelters, water filters, fire, clothes, soap, tools, and other arts and crafts, functional art, festive art, fine art, etc.
(See the Holistic Sustainability, 40 ways, including art, to sustain communities, people, and nature.)
(See the Changes Needed in Education and Economy: 7 Goals and Success Indicators of culture, education (including art), ecology, and economy, in order to help communities, people, and nature.)

3:00 PM, Permaculture Food and Economy
Culture includes economy, food, what stuff people have, what food people have, how people get their stuff and food, how people grow their food, how well people grow food in ways that is beneficial to the land and soils, and how well society educates their children to grow food for themselves.
Learn skills to forage for wild edible plants and skills to grow a diversity of local, fresh, organic food.
(See the Holistic Sustainability, 40 ways, including food, to sustain communities, people, and nature.)
(See the Changes Needed in Education and Economy: 7 Goals and Success Indicators of culture, education (including food), ecology, and economy (including food), in order to help communities, people, and nature.)

4:00 PM, Landcare
Culture includes how much people value and pay attention to the local land and natural wild habitats, how well people take care of nature and the community landscape, how well people grow food in ways that is beneficial to the land and soils, and how well society educates their children to take care of communities, people, and nature.
Landcare. Stewardship of habitats, land, water, air, and soil.
(See the Holistic Sustainability, 40 ways, including landcare, to sustain communities, people, and nature.)
(See the Changes Needed in Education and Economy: 7 Goals and Success Indicators of culture, education (including landcare), ecology, and economy, in order to help communities, people, and nature.)

**5:00 PM - Dinner**

6:00 PM, Moral Health, Awareness
(See above)

7:00 PM, Celebration of Community Culture.
(e.g. Storytelling, Show-n-Tell, Blogging, Festivity and Holidays, Games, etc.)
Culture includes values, science, art, music, books, games, holidays, food, clothes, economy, education, etc. Community Culture is making music, books, and blogs that relate to local nature. Community Culture is conversation and show-n-tell about how to help to better sustain and enrich communities, people, and nature. Community Culture is playing games that relate to local nature. Community Culture is having holidays and festivals that relate to local nature and a community economy that sustains and enriches communities, people, and nature. Community Culture is getting a community education that helps people to run a community, do landcare, and run a community economy in ways that sustain and enrich communities, people, and nature.

Culture:
Culture includes values, science, art, music, books, games, holidays, food, clothes, economy, education, etc. Community Culture values communities, people, and nature. Community Culture values people to be moral by helping communities, people, and nature, by living, learning, and working in sustainable ways. A person, who can walk and talk and earn a living for oneself, can better interact with the world than a helpless person, who has someone else talking for him and moving him around and constantly having to tend to him. Likewise, a community, which runs a locally-self-sufficient community economy for itself, can better interact with the world. Community Culture values community local-self-sufficiency and people's sustainable interrelationships with nature within the community landscape. Community Culture is doing science and art in ways that helps the community be self-sufficient. Community Culture is making music, books, and blogs that relate to local nature and a locally-self-sufficient community economy. Community Culture is conversation and show-n-tell about how to help to better sustain and enrich communities, people, and nature. Community Culture is playing games that relate to local nature. Community Culture is having holidays and festivals that relate to local nature and a community economy that sustains and enriches communities, people, and nature. Community Culture is local food and local clothes. Community Culture is getting a community education that helps people to run a community, do landcare, and run a community economy in ways that sustain and enrich communities, people, and nature.
(See the Holistic Sustainability, 40 ways, including community culture, to sustain communities, people, and nature.)
(See the Changes Needed in Education and Economy: 7 Goals and Success Indicators of culture, education, ecology, and economy, in order to help communities, people, and nature.)

What is a community?
A functional community is a local group of people working together (community cooperation) to be locally-self-sufficient. A functional community is a local group of people living, learning, working, doing science, and doing art to sustain and enrich the local community landscape of people and nature, and running a community economy. A functional community runs a locally-self-sufficient community economy. A person, who can walk and talk and earn a living for oneself, can better interact with the world than a helpless person, who has someone else talking for him and moving him around and constantly having to tend to him. Likewise, a community, which runs a locally-self-sufficient community economy for itself, can better interact with the world. A functional community of local people work together (community cooperation) to build all of its buildings, manage its own local water, grow its own local food, distribute enough food to everyone in the community, make its own clothes, makes it own tools, make its own soap, manage its own waste within the community (and not dump it in another community), run its own local schools, generate it own local energy, run its own local banks, have enough local small businesses and cottage industries, have enough jobs for everyone in its community, take care of the community landscape and local nature and habitats, use and sustain its local resources, have its own seasonal holidays that relate people to nature, and run other things locally.

Read about Holistic homepage,
6 Holistic Skills, Holistic Health,
Holistic Landcare, Holistic Science and Art,
Holistic Education, and Holistic Economy, Holistic Design, Holistic Sustainability,
and Holistic Days.

Read more about Culture and Cultural Comments.

Also see CEEE: culture-education-ecology-economy

Also see The Changes Needed in Education and the Economy: 7 Goals and Success Indicators of culture, education, ecology, and economy.