Creating Nodes of Permanence
Creating Nodes of Permanence
Acknowledging change: peak oil, energy descent, financial insecurity, climate change, political uncertainty - planning for the future providing information, education and skills for the future to the seventh generation.Understanding where we live: geography, climate, landscape and water, access and structures.
Food inputs, vulnerability and centralization. Need for diversity and resilience.
Water supply, storage and control - flood mitigation and community resettlement.
Home energy auditing and retrofits - solar thermal systems, wood stoves, passive energy, solar electricity, recycling, education and opportunities.
Community living – eco-villages and planned communities and institutions, schools and places of gathering.
Communications/ Community feedback – local media, community radio, Internet, data over-supply and burnout. Face to face communications, reading and research groups.
Organic farming on all scales. Designing sustainable systems. Soil building and composting.
Legal structures, zoning and obstacles to sustainability and change.
Reskilling workshops. Alternative education. Learning permaculture.
Natural green building workshops - available teachers and examples.
Non-violent communications - consensus and facilitation
Transportation, bicycles, care share, ride share, rail.
Medicine and health information and sharing, home-birthing, yoga and community connections.
Sewage disposal, placement and biological systems.
Opportunity assessment: energy inputs and outputs in our community and closing the loops.
Complimentary currencies - investing where we live.
