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….

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…

The original LDS leadership was not hierarchical. Decisions would be made by a group of leaders who would rely on logic and revelation to decide what was best for the community. The institution of seniority in the Quorum of the…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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 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…

Introduction As we have seen when discussing outdoor farming and sustainability, we are running out of water. The search for this precious commodity to support large-scale agribusinesses has pushed this vital resource to the limit. Aquifers such as Ogallala in…