Sometimes we teach our children better than we teach ourselves. In a Muppet parody of the daily activities of his fellow curmudgeons, all crowded into the various rooms of their house, Kermit the Frog once posed the question, “What if we all lived in the same house?”

Opening the front door to the living space, Kermit reveals that the house is a actually a globe, representing Earth.  Standing in the doorway of this Earth house, Kermit answers his own question “What if we all lived in the same house?” by responding: “We all do!”
 
We ask ourselves; what will it take to insure that all of the life compressed together on Earth can live together in balance and harmony well into the future in the same house, our one and only Earth?

A model seeking to demonstrate that it is possible for we humans to live in harmony with the Earth,
its inhabitants, and each other, is boldly offered here. That model is Manitou Arbor Ecovillage.

We believe that it takes three pillars to make our vision of "One Earth" living possible: