Iowa Community Is 100% Organic
by TreeHugger on 04.29.05
Planning a trip to Iowa anytime soon? This is a place that you want to see. Maharishi Vedic City, incorporated in 2001, is the first all-organic city in the country. The small town of about 200, located in Southeast Iowa, not only grows and sells organic food, but every building is designed according to Maharishi Sthapatya Veda design, to promote health, happiness, and good fortune. What else will you find in Maharishi Vedic City? Hundreds of acres of greenhouses, The College of Maharishi Vedic Medicine (at Maharishi University of Management), the Raam (the city’s own currency) and the world-renowned Raj Hotel and Resort, offering luxurious and powerful purification treatments to help remove the damaging effects of stress, fatigue, impurities, and environmental toxins. A visitors guide can be found on the city’s website with information on numerous walking tours. This is one city where you’ll want to bottle that air to take with you. Thanks for the tip, Aaron Y.! ::Maharishi Vedic City Via ::The Iowa Channel [by KD]
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Is anyone else a little creeped out by this? Sounds great, but when you start to think about everything they would have to do to ensure 100% organic in everything.... I think I would rather live in a city where I have the freedom to choose organic and not be required to do so.
Why would you ever want to choose non-organic? The only thing that non-organic produce occasionally has over organic is price, and by locally growing everything organically that should become much less of a factor, although I expect it's at least initially expensive to move there. Sounds like an ideal place to settle down actually, the water would be cleaner by the total lack of -icides and you know your neighbors care.