The Earth Lounge

[Chandra]

Tune in this Thursday evening from 5:00-6:00pm to 30A Radio for the Earth Lounge. Chandra will be the host this week and I'll be interviewing Bruce White and Julie Starr Sanford, co-creaters of Sky Development. We'll be discussing what Sky is about, how the vision came to be, and we'll also take a quick look at other eco-villages around the world. Please join us either locally on 107.1 FM or streaming worldwide at www.30aradio.org.

The Earth Lounge, celebrating our community?s journey toward natural sustainability is every Thursday from 5-6pm and features a different host each week. The Earth Lounge hosts are Christian Wagley, Chandra Hartman, Snookie Parish, Jenifer Kuntz and Arix Zalace.

 

[Teresa Cline]

SOUNDS GREAT! I will be listening!

 

[Chandra]

Sky

Thanks T! And thanks to Bruce, Julie, and Bo (Julie's intern) for the interview. We had a bumpy first few minutes as I was unfamiliar with the buttons to take call-ins, but we worked it out thanks to Leslie, the studio manager. I hope to have them back in the future for a follow-up show.

If you missed the interview, Bruce & Julie really went into detail about the vision for Sky, an environmentally styled, zero-energy development, surrounded by luscious orchards and gardens. I've visited the site and it's truly beautiful country and so cool that it was once a gladiolus farm. Gladiolus abound everywhere--in the fields, amongst the pine trees, and in multiple hues.

I could gush on, though you can read about it on their website, which I failed to mention last night, skyflorida.net

Bruce & Julie are top notch and though some may say their vision is unrealistic, I say their vision is timely and will serve as a model for another option of how we can live graciously, while reconnecting the human spirit to the natural world through the built environment.