From mpludwig@students.wisc.eduWed Feb 26 20:49:16 1997 Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 11:26:37 -0600 From: Mark Ludwig Reply to: permaculture@listserv.oit.unc.edu To: otamatea@clear.net.nz, permaculture@listserv.oit.unc.edu Subject: Re: otamatea eco-village, kaiwaka, NZ A few thoughts on community and PC. I've lived in several group living situation including one ecovillage. I have a few hard and fast rules for sucess. 1. Work is the basis of trust, not lofty retoric, not promises or ideology. Working side by side for a shared goal is the greatest of all comunity building activities. 2. Sharing goals is essential. Thre will most asuradly be folks in your orginization who are more knowledgable than others. They can be tremendous helps to development BUT they can also induse disastrous divisivness if they act as arrogant bosses trying to dictate the groups course of development based on their "authority". There is a fine line to walk here; It is much more efficent to deligate responsibility to individuals or small design groups rather than trying to design/implement by committee, yet on the other hand resentments may build if a portion of your group becomes viewed as autocratic. Open sharing of progress and thinking and ideas is critical to ballancing these tensions, and a good facilitator who can calm dow disagreements will help dramatically. You may avoid some of these problems with your public and private space model. 3. Make sure you get together for fun things too! Eat at least 3 meals a week together, have parties and go on outings! If all the group does together is work, then getting together may start to take on a negitive connotation. You may want to get a copy of the Directory of Intentional Comunities if you don't already have it. Though primarily geared toward American comunities, it has many articals on group process and development that WILL save time and heart ache. THERE IS NO NEED TO REINVENT THE WHEEL HERE! Try to find an established and stable community to advise you, it is much simpler to start these projects with someone elses basic documents and methods rather than try to make it all up yourself. These start ups require too much work to redo things already worked out by others. Good luck! Your goals are laudable and the cosmose really is on your side (most days anyway). Mark 10:15 AM 2/26/97 -0500, you wrote: >* To: > * Subject: otamatea eco-village, kaiwaka, NZ > * From: "otamatea" > * Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 13:06:40 +1300 > > otamatea eco-village, kaiwaka, NZ > otamatea@clear.net.nz > From: mailto:otamatea@clear.net.nz > > I am involved as a founder member of a permaculture eco-village on the > north island of new zealand, being developed on a 251 acre peninsula. >We > plan to be fifteen families having 5 acres each, plus 175 acres of >common > land. We are holding our first course there in March and April - a > Permaculture Design Course for intending residents. I would like to >hear > from others going through the process of connecting through >permaculture, > and forming communities. Namaste, Lynne Hindle >Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii; name="msg00001.html" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Content-Disposition: inline; filename="msg00001.html" >Content-Base: "http://sunsite.unc.edu/london/agricult > ure/forums/small-farm-BB/msg00001.h > tml" > > > > > > > > > > > > >otamatea eco-village, kaiwaka, NZ > > > > > > > >
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>I am involved as a founder member of a permaculture eco-village on the
>north island of new zealand, being developed on a 251 acre peninsula.  We
>plan to be fifteen families having 5 acres each, plus 175 acres of common
>land.  We are holding our first course there in March and April - a
>Permaculture Design Course for intending residents.  I would like to hear
>from others going through the process of connecting through permaculture,
>and forming communities.  Namaste, Lynne Hindle
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