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Estero River, Florida, 2012
Hello, my name is Mitch Jacobs
and with the help of Ellen Peterson I've formed "Resource Based Communities",
a non-profit organization.
I'm a recent graduate from Florida Gulf Coast University in Sociology.
I've done work with The Coalition of Immokalee Workers, the Happehatchee Center,
the Occupy Movement, Zeitgeist Movement, Hands Across the Sand
and I've done tours with the Venus Project.
We're quickly losing places like this
all over the United States and all over the world
from privatization and people exploiting the property for profit.
As a non-profit organization, that's not our concern.
Our concern is strictly preservation.
I wanted to start a non-profit organization
and when I was working with Ellen side by side I asked her
"Who around here knows the most about non-profit organizations?"
and she looked at me with this ridiculous look and she said
"Me! I know the most about non-profit organizations around here."
She's so humble that, little did I know at that time when I asked her that,
she was running about eight non-profit organizations at the same time
at eighty-seven years old.
So, I told her my idea how I wanted to create the non-profit
to help transition into a resource-based economy,
something that can give people a hands-on
experience when they go out to preserved lands
to reconnect with nature and to learn about sustainability.
There's a lot of materialism and consumerism going on in the United States right now.
I think we all agree with that.
She then helped me organize the non-profit and she also
taught me how to run a non-profit organization.
The experience I had with Ellen Peterson was priceless.
Most of us that are working with resource-based communities
agree that in the future resource-based economy
is an extremely advantageous way to go.
Ellen Peterson was behind this project in the very beginning
and we would truly hope that the rest of the community can come together
and support Resource Based Communities.
Right now we have a website: www.resourcebasedcommunities.org
and we are soon going to have a members section
where people can come and join
the non-profit organization as a member and start off a committee
as a local chapter in their area.
We want this to be a national organization
and we want it to have chapters all over the United States
and then eventually international chapters.
Right now we're trying to acquire a two hundred acre piece of property out in Naples.
The owner has agreed, if we preserve the land,
to sell it from between 690.000 to 800.000 dollars.
We wanna turn it into a nature center,
we want to preserve it, we wanna use it to teach others about sustainability
and how to reconnect with nature.
There's a beautiful canal next to the property.
There's already a house on stilts built on the property
which we would like to use as a welcome center.
We would like to have aquaponics, we would like to use
an organic garden
and have camping and have tours.
Okay, so, you may be watching this on Earth Day
and this is a promo set-up for that.
On Earth Day we're gonna have a big tent,
a creation state park
and hopefully we'll have this video playing on the backboard
and we will have all kinds of stuff to become a part of Resource Based Communities.
We're gonna be taking memberships
and explaining what our goals are, what we're all about.
It's gonna be a lot of fun.
Directed, Shot and Edited by Pat Mitchell
Produced by Mitchell Jacobs
Associate Producer: Kevin Mouchou
Boom Operator: Simon Peninth
Special Thanks: Ellen Peterson, Bobbie Lee Gruninger, Marlene Robinson
Chris Faulker, Drew Scott, Thomas Stalker, Frank Gubasta
ResourceBasedCommunities.org
subtitles with help from:
The Zeitgeist Movement Linguistic Team