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Sample Village Characteristics

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Sample Village Characteristics

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The following list of characteristics is a start point for your discussions.

Our Publications reach deeper into these topics.

These are suggested areas for discussion. Refine as you and your Community see fit.

Selecting one of the headings in this table will take you to the topic. Or, scroll down to browse the topics.

Agriculture

  • Greenhouses
  • Gardens
  • Fruit trees
  • Poultry
  • Root cellar
  • Forest farms
  • Regenerative agriculture
  • Permaculture
  • Organic Farming
  • Agroecology

Biosphere

  • Education and Mentoring
  • Application of Indigenous Principles
  • Interactions with animals independent of Conventional-Commercial Animal Husbandry Practices
  • Learning a healthy coexistence with wildlife, flora, fauna and other life forms

Communication-Educational Services

  • Video (recording and outbound to mentor other Clusters)
  • Online Forums, meetings, and similar functions (e.g., TED Talks)
  • Symposiums
  • Publications
  • Website

Construction and Building

  • Materials Storage – various materials and stages (Raw, WIP, Finished)
  • Construction Areas – various disciplines and trades
  • Learning and Mentoring areas
  • Workshop(s)

Economies of Scale Functions

  • Shared or group buying functions
  • Purchasing optimization
  • Make, buy, make-do, recycle

Education

  • Apprenticeships and Mentoring
  • On-the-job training
  • Workshops, Forums, Seminars
  • Academic and non-academic
  • “Workaway” models – working on-site to acquire new skills through hands-on participation. Consider other sites or terms like “au pair” or WWOOF (Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms)
  • Volunteer opportunities coupled with travel
  • Research and hands-on with alternative building materials
  • Indigenous mentoring for biosphere understanding
  • Healthy food and dietary practices – modeling and teaching
  • Agricultural research – mentoring

Food Preparation and Storage

  • Commercial kitchen
  • Coolers, Freezers
  • Root cellars
  • Shared equipment (e.g., food dryers, larger barbecues)

Hands On, Cultural

  • Crafts
  • Maintenance-related, handy person
  • Woodworking and other similar “trades-like” skills (e.g., workers with metal or stoneworks)
  • Visual and performing arts

Housing

  • Housing – Tiny Houses (modular and expandable)
  • Housing – as required for larger family units
  • Temporary Housing (guests, in-transit) and support services (e.g., laundry)

Humanitarian-Community

  • PTSD Recovery (various industries and lines of work)
  • Disabled
  • Eldercare and Age-in-Place
  • Places of refuge (e.g., abused individuals)
  • Humanitarian and refugee related

R&D | Innovation

  • Alternate energy source utilization (to reduce environmental impacts)
  • R&D across various disciplines (e.g., vertical farming, new greenhouse methodologies to reduce supply chain risks)
  • Community models and mental-emotional wellbeing – innovation

Shared Gathering Areas

  • Larger room(s)
  • Meeting rooms
  • Family gathering rooms (e.g., reunion or vacation guests)
  • Guests studying the village model cluster
  • Integration with food and beverage components
  • Shared dining and eating areas (complementary to private residences)

Shared Services

  • Computers and networks
  • Printers, copying, binding
  • Basic office services
  • Reduce, Reuse, Recycling, Recover including related terms (Repurpose, Upcycle, Repair, Circular Economy)

Situations and Changes

  • Temporary lodging
  • RV Hookups & Sanitary Dump
  • Potable Water Supply
  • Washrooms & Showers
  • Camping area

Social & Interaction

  • Coffee shop
  • Bistro or small restaurant type activities
  • Catering
  • Unique places for participants to talk and connect

Storage – General

  • Storage – Village-level
  • Personal (e.g., storage lockers or units)

Sustainability

  • Retail – crafts, artisanal
  • Retail – food, bistro, catering
  • Writers, artists
  • Light manufacturing (e.g, furniture making)

Wellness

  • Wellness through participation and involvement
  • Volunteering
  • Discussions
  • Counseling
  • Recovery
  • Forest bathing, nature bathing
  • Animal Therapy
  • Service Animals
  • Petting farms for children
  • Aviaries and other therapeutic biosphere points of interaction

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