With the TAO Metaversity @ Kayenta beginning to take shape, a wonderful opportunity presented itself. The Rural Energy for America Program, REAP, is a grant program being applied for by the TAO Metaversity in conjunction with Intermountain Wind & Solar. This grant helps to purchase renewal energy systems. This becomes a campus where ecology and economics come together. The building will be efficient in utilizing materials that support the environment, utilize natural airflows for heat and cooling, wind/solar power for electricity, water utilization for heating and cooling. The building and surrounding landscape are being designed to be sustainable in energy sources as well as generating a positive cash flow. Building and landscape will extend our ecological imagination by creating landscapes that will provide shade, break winter winds, propagate rare plants, provide habitat for animals, and restore bits of vanished ecosystems.
The TAO Metaversity represents a life giving energy. A direct vibrant, sustainable life giving energy that not only moves through the building and their inhabitants but also radiates out through the gardens into the surrounding land and impacts all form within that area. The TAO Metaversity is an energy generator. It utilizes the ultimate energy source available – the energy in each one of us. As man and nature work more closely together, the energy shifts, clarifies and strengthens, creating balance, which in turn makes this a finely tuned generator. And the life energy contained within all surrounding form is enhanced that much more. Nothing is separate. We have thought in terms of energy as a source accessed outside of ourselves.
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