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09-26-2008, 05:14 AM | #1 |
Avalon Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: USA
Posts: 20
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Forming Communities
Many people (lots) do not have the money resources, land, etc.
There should be a way to organize people, perhaps into a community where not everyone "lives" together, but arranges themselves into some form of community friendship to share resources. For example, lets say things aren't THAT bad, that america limps along with a horrible economy for the next decade. Everyone can't move to a farm, etc. but maybe there can be something like a community that meets and arranges itself around two principles. [1] Food Container gardens, victory gardens, home gardens, and then each "community" could have a bigger plot somewhere (pooling resources) to enhance the "home" garden (which could be small or large). So a smaller home garden, with a larger communal garden on a larger piece of land somewhere else. [2] Energy recruit geeks, engineers, smart people, math majors, etc figure out how to make parabolas, start looking at harnessing the sun, fresnel lenses, parabolic reflectors made from ordinary items. Solar seems the fastest.... so solar cooking, solar steam generation, running a generator? etc etc. things people could afford or build. If you can stay where you are (maybe some people could share houses, etc or places), and grow food and do some energy harvesting it could create a wave that could spread. Communities could form guilds [1] The Tech guild for experimenting with harvesting solar energy, etc [2] The Agriculture guild for growing food. Research can go on in each "community" and report the results, and then knowlege can be passed on. I could see community being broader, not being a plot of land someone buys (what if u cant afford it). weekly meetings to figure out how to generate Food and Energy. There could be a medicine guild, many other guilds. Each guild could share with other guilds in other communities and loosely communicate. Meetings could be announced on meetup.com and people could organize into "communities" and "guilds" .. the guilds are focus groups for people with specialized tasks and knowlege. Main thing once again is food production and energy production. "Communities" would have to adapt to everyone living in different areas but maybe come together for harvesting and other common tasks. I'm just throwing this out for ideas. |
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