02-28-2018, 07:23 AM
Maybe not the last, but that's the headline of a Smithsonian Magazine article about the Kalalau Valley hippies on Kauai. Some have lived there on state land for 40+ years. It's a minimalist lifestyle, but they're managed to build a pizza oven, bamboo furniture, and channel water for their use. Native Hawaiians are not pleased, as they've moved rocks from previously built structures. Probably not too different from some Puna jungle communities and hermits?
First farmed by Polynesian settlers centuries ago, this remote paradise is nothing short of a feral garden, a breadbasket bursting with nearly everything a crafty human specimen needs to survive. “This is the closest that mankind has come to making Eden,” Barca says. “When the avos are in season, we eat avos. When the mangoes are in season, we eat mangoes.”
After half a century, the counterculture squatters of Kalalau Valley are facing a final eviction
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/ha...180968268/
Recycle Puna. Humans, although probably not you personally, have already left 400,000 pounds of trash on the moon. - YouTube's Half As Interesting
First farmed by Polynesian settlers centuries ago, this remote paradise is nothing short of a feral garden, a breadbasket bursting with nearly everything a crafty human specimen needs to survive. “This is the closest that mankind has come to making Eden,” Barca says. “When the avos are in season, we eat avos. When the mangoes are in season, we eat mangoes.”
After half a century, the counterculture squatters of Kalalau Valley are facing a final eviction
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/ha...180968268/
Recycle Puna. Humans, although probably not you personally, have already left 400,000 pounds of trash on the moon. - YouTube's Half As Interesting
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