Written Rules in ecovillage Big Stone
Volunteer programmes
There is a lot of work in ecovillage Big Stone for different people (men and women, adults and children, strong and week). If you want to become a volunteer, you should agree with the Written Rules and the Meaning of Solar Festivals. Then you should contact one of our leaders and choose the activity. You may:
- build houses for participants of festivals
- prepare firewoods
- fix and prepare instruments and inventory
- make vegetable gardens and gardens on the territory of Solar Festivals
- make a design of the landscape of festivals
- gathered and prepare wild herbs for food
- write and translate informational texts and prepare the virtual territory of the festivals.
Volunteers pay for round trip to the Big Stone. We give volunteers instruments, special clothes for the work, food and place to stay.
Festivals
We invite you to participate in our festivals. You should discuss the details of your visit with one of our leaders. The leader will help you to solve any problem you may face during your visit to Big Stone. Don't leave any garbage at the territory of the Festival. You can take out from the territory those things which can be renewed by nature (if the keepers of the territory agree with it). Look after yourself and take care of the words you say. Leave a good memory about you!
We made a list of ecological and ethnocultural rules which you should follow during our Festivals.
- Do not take any stones near Big Stone
- Do not leave any garbage
- Do not leave an unfinished work for the territory keepers
- Do not bring tobacco, alcohol, meet products, pyrotechnics, fishing tackle and hunting guns
- Do not undress in front of children of the other sex
- Do not teach native inhabitants how to live even if their way of life is incorrect according your understanding
- Do not discuss or criticize the other participants of the Festival, solve all the problems together with the leader confidentiality.
- Do not use foul language
- Do not take pictures and do not make video without the permission of the participants. Parents give the permissions for children.
Inhabitants of Big Stone are those who have an ecological mind and ecological behavior. That means that every time there is a choice you choose the most ecological action. Nowadays those who want to live in an ecovillage have a chance to become an inhabitant of Big Stone. If you want to do so we offer to become a member of our volunteer program and seasonal Solar Festivals. You should express your agreement with the ideas and rules of our ecovillage and get a public agreement from inhabitants of Big Stone. Then you should become a participant of volunteer program and Solar Festivals of Big Stone at least once a year. The Big Stone ecovillage represents a trial of a new conception of ecovillage, a kind of a transitional step from the city life to the country life. There are one family of permanent residents there, and about 20 people of 'seasonal residents who love country life, share environmental ideas, and regularly take part in the Big Stone’s programs/seminars.