Intentional communities and eco-villages talk at City University of Hong Kong
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This is the slide deck I used for a talk I gave at City University of Hong Kong on Intentional Communities and Eco-villages, and what can we apply to Hong Kong.
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Intentional communities and eco-villages talk at City University of Hong Kong
- 1. INTENTIONAL COMMUNITIES & ECO-VILLAGES BY RIJA MÉNAGÉ
- 2. CONTENT • Introduction • what is an intentional community • Interlude • What is an eco-village • What is Permaculture • Interlude • Sustainable communities across the world • Interlude • What is happening in Hong Kong • What can we do to grow sustainable community in Hong Kong • Fundraiser Video • Q&A
- 3. INTRODUCTION • Certified Permaculture Designer • Working on permaculture designs and teaching in Hong Kong • Planning eco-villages projects in South East Asia
- 4. WHAT IS AN INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY ?
- 5. An intentional community is a planned residential community designed from the start to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork. The members hold a common vision and share responsibilities and resources
- 6. Non Intentional Intentional spiritual religious gated community political apartments complex ecological artistic inter-generational university campus refugee camps survival tribes street neighbourhood
- 7. Traits of successful communities Traits of failing communities 1. Founding member(s) must be skilled in entrepreneurship, leadership, vision, physical building 2. Clear, shared vision exists and is documented 3. Fair and appropriate decision-making process is used 4. Clear agreements in writings 5. Clear communication, good group process and conflict resolution is sought 6. Careful selection of members 7. Community is seen at the same time as business and marriage 8. Will to adapt and to learn new skills 9. Realistic expectations and management of finances 10. Patience, tenacity, gratitude and acknowledgment, good communication 1. Unclear vision or understood differently by members 2. No due diligence on budget, finance and legal matters 3. Not proactive at resolving conflicts 4. Misunderstanding of consensus decision-making 5. Missing processes for accepting and rejecting members 6. Missing processes for running meetings and taking decisions
- 8. INTERLUDE
- 11. WHAT IS AN ECO-VILLAGE?
- 12. human-scale full-featured settlement in which human activities are harmlessly integrated into the natural world in a way that is supportive of healthy human development, and can be successfully continued into the indefinite future. (Robert Gilman, 1991) intentional community where the shared vision is the pursuit of ecological, economical and social sustainability …and has multiple centres of initiative (Robert Gilman, 1999)
- 13. WHAT IS PERMACULTURE ? An approach to designing human settlements and agricultural systems that are modelled on the relationships found in natural ecology Permaculture is governed by three ethics: Care for the Earth, Care for the People, Share the surplus A catalogue of principles provides guidelines to a permaculture design
- 15. “Work with nature rather than against it” “Take responsibility for our own existence and of our children. make it now” “Focus on building the new rather than fighting the old”
- 18. INTERLUDE
- 20. ECO-VILLAGES ACROSS THE WORLD dancing rabbit findhorn panya, pun pun
- 21. DANCING RABBIT location Missouri, USA ecoregion Mississippi Valley Loess Plains land area 300 ha population 60 Creation date 1997
- 23. FINDHORN location Moray, Scotland ecoregion Caledonian Forest land area 30 acres population 200 (450) Creation date 1962
- 25. PANYA PROJECT location Chiang Mai, Thailand ecoregion Central Indochina dry forests land area 4 hectares population 10 Creation date 2002
- 27. PUN PUN location Chiang Mai, Thailand ecoregion Central Indochina dry forests land area 4 hectares population 7 Creation date 2003
- 29. INTERLUDE
- 31. WHAT’S HAPPENING IN HK (1) intentional community permaculture village Mapopo Farms Community Yes Partial Yes Ark Eden No Yes One home Perma Club No Yes No
- 32. WHAT’S HAPPENING IN HK (2) http://youtu.be/KVtQhUjYSVU
- 33. WHAT CAN WE DO TO GROW SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES IN HK • education • more people to the farm more often • start Transition initiatives
- 35. Q&A
- 36. –Mahtma Gandhi “Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
Editor's Notes
- order: Spiritual, political, religious, gated community, serviced apartments, ecological, artistic, inter-generational, university campus, refugee camps, survival, tribes
- 3. resentment over power imbalances 4. sensitive subject while connected, each other accountable for agreements, group process 6. members who are not in line with values and vision, emotional immaturity
- Where are you from?
- Bioregion: An area constituing a natural ecological community with characteristic flora, fauna and environmental conditions and bounded by natural rather than artificial borders Ecoregion: "large unit of land or water containing a geographically distinct assemblage of species, natural communities, and environmental conditions"
- What’s an acre: 2.6 square metre = 1 square mile 1 square mile = 640 acres 2.47 acres = 1 hectare
- What’s an acre: 2.6 square metre = 1 square mile 1 square mile = 640 acres 2.47 acres = 1 hectare
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