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Tao Fellowship’s Sedona Mago Retreat Center – Pure Air and Sacred Land
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In its attainment of green results at Sedona Mago Retreat Center, its parent, Tao Fellowship, a nonprofit foundation, simply starts with its mission “Love for the Earth and Love for Humanity.” Then Tao Fellowship sets policies and take actions, from investment to daily practices, to create the ideal ecotourist retreat center.
In two particular areas, air and land, Tao Fellowship’s Mago Retreat stands out with approaches that have been recognized as pro-humanity and pro-earth.
This is how the Mago Retreat has been keeping the air pure, for better heath:
Tao Fellowship established a single 120-space central parking lot near the main gate to encourage guests to walk and with less driving meaning less pollution.
The educational and housekeeping departments use Tao Fellowship’s four electrical cars, and that keeps air quality high.
They provide a van service for guests who arrive from the Phoenix Airport by commercial shuttle, are dropped off at the Mago Information House, Highway 89A and Bill Gray Road, and brought to the Retreat Center.
Naturally purifying the air at the Mago Retreat are 2,000 Juniper trees from 10 years ago, and 1,272 trees and 2,040 plants put in the ground since then.
Here is what Tao Fellowship has been doing and planning to keep the land sacred:
Buildings are constructed by Tao Fellowship to harmonize, in scale and façade, with the natural landscape.
Tao Fellowship installed 163 solar pathway lights, and 138 reduced-output bulbs (converted to 20 from 60 watts), with conversion to all solar-powered lights planned.
The old Casita Guest Rooms at the Mago Retreat were designed by a Frank Lloyd Wright student, into the hillside for esthetic and temperature reasons; constructed in the late 1980s; some have solar-powered water heaters, with more installations planned.
As for the new Casita Guest Rooms, they have cross ventilation; constructed in 2006; conversion to all solar-powered water heaters is planned.
Mago Hall, second largest meeting room with a 200-seat capacity, is a stressed membrane structure, built by Sprung Instant Structures, having a heated floor, and excellent insulation and ventilation.
Tao Fellowship uses much around Mago Retreat’s thousands of trees and bushes, which as been produced on-site from leftover wood from construction projects.
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February 18 2009 05:30 pm | Tao Fellowship