Regenerative Communities: How big should they be? I was reading some more of Chapter 14 in the Permaculture Design Manual and found some useful insight on village size. I’ve been asked many times and have thought about ideal sizes for…
Ethical Basis of an Alternative Nation I started reading the final chapter of Permaculture: A Designers’ Manual with the hope of gleaning insight into how to create resilient and regenerative communities. The title of the chapter is: Strategies for an…
What is Community Resilience? How will our communities adapt to global warming, peak oil and the confounding influence of global-scale resource depletion, pollution and continued economic upheavals? It will be different everywhere but the successful communities will share one thing…
Canadians: Let’s Adopt a 100 Litre Challenge I awoke this morning with the idea of a 100 Litre Challenge. It looks like the memes driving me successfully mutated 🙂 (see my last post). James and Alisa added to the popularization…
Regenerative Community Development My terminology on the subject of community development has evolved a little since my first post on the topic. Since beginning at BGI and increasingly so, I’ve had the sense that “sustainable” is not a high enough…
Community Resilience As part of my social web for social change class at BGI I get to choose a topic and research it during the semester using the tools we are learning about in class. Since my team marketing plan…