Thanks for this sharing of resources and perspectives, Nicole.
To help ensure the success of new ecovillages or regenerative communities, it seems worthwhile to make a list of common or likely points of failure, then share ideas for how to avoid or overcome them.
This could become a valuable shared resource.
You've approached the topic of failure points obliquely in a few of your articles.
To address the topic more directly, I've started a list of my own. I know it's not very sophisticated yet.
Would you or anyone else you know be interested it working toward something better than what I've begun?
😂😂. I think I've weaned myself off needing 'social connection' starting since c19 🤌🤌 and now just heads-down focus on me + acquiring retirement funds 🤌🤌💰💰👍👍.
People aren't rewarding for me anymore, unless they're directly useful to my personal & financial growth.
I guess i think the opposite, that as pressures increase some greater formation of interdependent living situations (ecovillages, communes, regenerative hamlets, etc) become inevitable. When i was visiting Greece i spoke with an old activist who said, before the EU Greece was filled with collectives and cooperatives and the country was poor - these groups served an important purpose. Enter the EU and there was a significant increase in national income, as the country became more affluent the collectives tended to be replaced by companies. Now that Greece is again facing economic troubles, the cooperative are coming back. I think the economic advantages of collective living will force more people into it. AND there are lots of other advantages to collective living. About where i live - https://paxus.wordpress.com/2011/12/10/re-post-island/
What an interesting pattern! Certainly, you can link the rise in popularity of collectives, communities, and so on specifically after the pandemic, but also in response to tightening financial pressures and continued inflation. There is much economic advantage to collective models. I actually read all of your blog before, because you posted on the Tribes platform. So interesting. What are the greatest challenges you've faced where you live?
Lol MMTM is literally an embodiment of ungrounded western persons who took too much 'plant medicine' & LSD, whatever their emotional or perceived problems were 😂😂. There's no 1-way to do it, but their version of 'community' is so anti-fascist that it's just a clusterfk of ideas that have been misappropriated because of the privilege of travel & supportive ancestry who run regular businesses. They might eventually quantifiably make good with measurable eco-positives in land projects but it's just... Bad. 😂 Pfft. It's probably good for PR and retreats for paying Westerners, though. Three cents!
I'm just cruelly laughing (not really, I'm actually straight-laced rn but there's a comic character in my head that is sneering) at 'g from MMTM' being invited as one of the 'esteemed recommended world-class speakers' for Village Mastermind. Oops.
Imo there's no difference between ecovillage & Regenerative village. An ecovillage that well incorporates great infrastructure, operating model, technology with a good management for mix of people for maximum self-sufficiency, is a regenerative village in my mind. It just lacks the 'random dreamy emotions' factor.
The only thing that provides the "thriving oomph factor" which I guess is what most people associate with "regenerative", is just a cultural & 'fun' aspect, which is like L2 (for processing transactions, hype NFTs w 'low fees', etc.) to a blockchain's L1 (land & resource management). I perceive that this actually comes from Western 'transformational culture'.
Imo 'MMTM' might be included for notoriety/'hip factor' or as an example for cultural innovation - but in actuality it's a VERY POOR EXAMPLE of fundamental good biz model & equity.
Thanks for this sharing of resources and perspectives, Nicole.
To help ensure the success of new ecovillages or regenerative communities, it seems worthwhile to make a list of common or likely points of failure, then share ideas for how to avoid or overcome them.
This could become a valuable shared resource.
You've approached the topic of failure points obliquely in a few of your articles.
To address the topic more directly, I've started a list of my own. I know it's not very sophisticated yet.
Would you or anyone else you know be interested it working toward something better than what I've begun?
Let's combine the lists! And let's look at other reasons why communities fail as cited by other articles.
aaah people people people...cant live without them... damn hard to live with them...and yet, so rewarding.
Bullseye 😄 I am currently in hermit mode writing but gagging for social connection.
😂😂. I think I've weaned myself off needing 'social connection' starting since c19 🤌🤌 and now just heads-down focus on me + acquiring retirement funds 🤌🤌💰💰👍👍.
People aren't rewarding for me anymore, unless they're directly useful to my personal & financial growth.
Hi, Nicole. Good to have you on Substack. Seen you got recommended by Alpha.
Hi Ali! Just read some of your "drops". I am glad we connect philosophically
Thank you Nicole, try the Cloudscapes series, you might enjoy it.
I guess i think the opposite, that as pressures increase some greater formation of interdependent living situations (ecovillages, communes, regenerative hamlets, etc) become inevitable. When i was visiting Greece i spoke with an old activist who said, before the EU Greece was filled with collectives and cooperatives and the country was poor - these groups served an important purpose. Enter the EU and there was a significant increase in national income, as the country became more affluent the collectives tended to be replaced by companies. Now that Greece is again facing economic troubles, the cooperative are coming back. I think the economic advantages of collective living will force more people into it. AND there are lots of other advantages to collective living. About where i live - https://paxus.wordpress.com/2011/12/10/re-post-island/
What an interesting pattern! Certainly, you can link the rise in popularity of collectives, communities, and so on specifically after the pandemic, but also in response to tightening financial pressures and continued inflation. There is much economic advantage to collective models. I actually read all of your blog before, because you posted on the Tribes platform. So interesting. What are the greatest challenges you've faced where you live?
Lol MMTM is literally an embodiment of ungrounded western persons who took too much 'plant medicine' & LSD, whatever their emotional or perceived problems were 😂😂. There's no 1-way to do it, but their version of 'community' is so anti-fascist that it's just a clusterfk of ideas that have been misappropriated because of the privilege of travel & supportive ancestry who run regular businesses. They might eventually quantifiably make good with measurable eco-positives in land projects but it's just... Bad. 😂 Pfft. It's probably good for PR and retreats for paying Westerners, though. Three cents!
I'd love to blend my higher education and learning technologies knowledge and experience with the relevant parts of this!
I'm just cruelly laughing (not really, I'm actually straight-laced rn but there's a comic character in my head that is sneering) at 'g from MMTM' being invited as one of the 'esteemed recommended world-class speakers' for Village Mastermind. Oops.
Imo there's no difference between ecovillage & Regenerative village. An ecovillage that well incorporates great infrastructure, operating model, technology with a good management for mix of people for maximum self-sufficiency, is a regenerative village in my mind. It just lacks the 'random dreamy emotions' factor.
The only thing that provides the "thriving oomph factor" which I guess is what most people associate with "regenerative", is just a cultural & 'fun' aspect, which is like L2 (for processing transactions, hype NFTs w 'low fees', etc.) to a blockchain's L1 (land & resource management). I perceive that this actually comes from Western 'transformational culture'.
Imo 'MMTM' might be included for notoriety/'hip factor' or as an example for cultural innovation - but in actuality it's a VERY POOR EXAMPLE of fundamental good biz model & equity.
*straight-faced (autocorrect typo)