Plat-Based Education System – NewVistas Education Structure
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Plat-Based Education System – NewVistas Education Structure
Introduction Education is key to the overall wellbeing of the community. It is a lifelong quest that is pursued not just by the young but also all participants throughout their life. Besides being an essential engine in providing the social…
Recording sample
transcript David Hall: So what are you going to do next? Tim Mbau: I’m doing stewardship. I think now that the banking part, according to what I have been seeing during the week, is that it is a really important…
The origins of Apostolic Seniority
By Don Bradley “I’d like to be released.” It was not the first time a fellow Latter-day Saint had asked First Presidency counselor Gordon B. Hinckley if he could be released from an ecclesiastical calling. But 87-year old Spencer W….
Organizational structure for Zion Communities in the Latter Days
There are several key elements that are provided in D&C section 94 and 95 that provide useful information about how the organizational structure for Zion communities is to be in the latter days. This combined with the Plat of Zion, the House of the Lord design, and the…
Dimensions of the City of Zion
In the Plat of the City of Zion, one of the statements describing the drawing states, “On the north and south of the plot where the line is drawn is to be laid off for barns stables etc for the use…
Producing meat and other animal products
A view held by arguably a majority of food experts is that meat production is a far less efficient means of producing food than crop-based agriculture. The USDA estimates that it takes 20 times more land to get the same…
Solving Urban Sprawl: the NewVistas way
Urban sprawl is a big problem. It causes pollution, which makes our environment less appealing to live in, and diseases that claim lives, and economic resources in wasted time and treatment. Urban sprawl dilutes economic power, affects social cohesion, and…
Value-added food processing
More than at any time in the history of our civilization, people live a considerable distance away from where their food is produced in 1960, twice as many people lived in rural areas than lived in urban centers. By 2007,…
NewVistas Livability and design excellence
Value of views NewVistas is so named because all apartment windows and community buildings offer beautiful, green views, something that would be extremely hard to pull off in modern urban designs. The built-up area is quite small compared to the…
The three witnesses to the details of the organizational structure
The Plat of the City of Zion and the design for the House of the Lord, revealed in 1833, give specific instructions, with some of them as follows: Building 5 with two identical courts was one of the two buildings…