Paxus
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| First Name | Paxus |
| Last Name | Calta-Star |
| Nickname | Paxus |
| Country | United States |
| State | VA |
| City | Louisa |
| Who do you identify with? | Community Member |
Magic / Passion / Purpose & interests
| What is your Magic/ Passion/ Purpose? | From my banned wikipedia page – Paxus Calta is a trouble maker thinly disguised as a radical. He self identifies as an anarchist [1] and a funologist (a word he takes credit for coining[2]). Calta also claims to be a memeticist, an organizer, a feminist, a political activist and blogs often and irregularly. Calta attained some prominence beginning in the 1980s as an anti-nuclear power campaigner in eastern Europe and the U.S. He is a member of Twin Oaks Community (and since March 2013 concurrently of Acorn Community) in central Virginia, in the southeast U.S., where he has lived for over a 18 years. He is also an active proponent of and propogandist for polyamory, the idea that consenting adults can honestly practice multiple simultaneous romantic relationships. In 2004, he wrote a chapter of the book The Impossible Will Take a Little While (compiled by Paul Rogat Loeb, in which he detailed a successful campaign to overthrow the Bulgarian government launched by an 18-year old [1]. Calta’s philosophical belief include that progressive and radical groups are principally social groups rather than political groups and thus “to spark the revolution you need to build the better party”. |
| Housing topics | Land development |
| Sustainable Systems Topics | Energy |
| Ecosystem topics | Marketing Outreach |
| Human experience topics | Personal Development, Collective development / Human relations |
Life Experience
| What skills do you have? | Marketing products and recruiting for communities I make hammocks and tofu at the community businesses. I organize festivals and gatherings. |
| What kind of projects have you worked on? | I currently manage the Twin Oaks Communities Conference I am the former principle organizer of the QuinkFair transformative festival. I am a general manager of a casual furniture business. I am the principal author of the http://www.funologist.org blog |
Bio
| Share about yourself with the community | Calta studied engineering and economics at Cornell University, where he was elected to the Board of Trustees as a student representative and was selected as the “most Outstanding Senior” in 1979. After which he worked as a software designer, helping to found and ultimately selling two small software consulting firms. In 1982, he changed his name to Paxus Calta. In 1988, he hitchhiked on sailboats across the Pacific, settled briefly in Australia and then moved on to Hawaii where he worked for Makai Ocean Engineering. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Calta moved to the Netherlands and worked for The World Information Service on Energy (WISE) in Amsterdam. Calta has adventured extensively, having smuggled monks out of Tibet into Nepal, having protested a top Soviet tanks in Estonia immediately preceding the collapse of the Soviet Union, having hitchiked across the Pacific Ocean on sailboats [5]. Calta’s employment career is eclectic. He guided submarines between the Hawaiian Islands laying test power cable power. He worked for Standard Oil of Ohio briefly on the North Slope of Alaska. He operated CAD/CAM software for a Dutch real estate firm. Calta worked under a “Secret” level security clearance for the Beltway Defense Contractor BDM as a management systems analyst. Calta was invited by the Czech Deep Ecology organization, Hnuti DUHA, to run the international campaign against the Temelin nuclear power plant from Brno, Czechoslovakia in 1991, which remained his primary home base for most of the 1990s and where he became a prominent activist against nuclear power. In 1998, Calta and partner Hawina Valkenburg (Falcon) moved to Twin Oaks Community in the United States. Calta has a personal webpage and a blog |
My Dream Community
| Location | North America |
| Other Locations ( if any ) | I have written extensively about Twin Oaks where i currently live. I’ve also lived at Acorn Community, where i was asked to leave. I have written fondly about Acorn. I have also lived at Cambia, which i think is an especially interesting community model. I was also asked to leave there. I am the principal organizer of the Twin Oaks Communities Conference over the Labor Day Weekend. If you are seeking intentional community please consider attending. |
| What kind of property agreements are you looking for? | Fractal ownership (Co.purchase a space with others) |
| What is your living style preference? | Co.live housing (Multiple people in one residence) |
| Intention Of Neighborhood | Co.live, Co.work, co.create space., Human connection, Education, Entrepreneurship |
| Amenities | Community shared house, Shared kitchen – dining area, Co.working space, Temple, Activities space, Gym, Body of water (pool, lake, river, cenote, ocean), School, Community Garden, Art Space, First Aid Space, Children's Area, Yoga Space, Library, Other |
| How many neighbors would you like to have? | Large – up to 150 |
| Any other things you are looking for in a regenerative neighborhood? | To be clear, under amenities i listed the things that Twin Oaks (where i currently live) already has. Here is some information on Twin Oaks and Sustainability But the short answer is we have 20% the carbon foot print of our typical US american counter parts. If you are serious about averting climate disaster, then you need to be willing to share things. And the communes are models of sharing things. |
| Do you know any regenerative neighborhoods you would like to see on the platform? | Acorn Community Dancing Rabbit Earth Haven |
| How did you find this platform? | Personal Recommendation |