so curious to hear how others are seeing the larger ecosystem>?
Great question! The FIC has been a member of the New Economy Coalition for a number of years now. It’s a broad network of all kinds of organizations working at the intersection of racial, economic, and climate justice. It’s been an important place for FIC to network, share, and learn.
Other movements we’ve had connection with over the years include the Transition Town movement, the permaculture movement, and the worker co-op movement.
There’s also the various submovements of intentional community with their respective organizations, including cohousing, student housing co-ops, ecovillages (which is a much more international movement), and more. There’s also adjacent groups like NuMundo, which has been trying to organize experiential learning centers internationally, and there’s the Holistic Centers Network, and many those kinds of places are also essentially intentional communities.
That’s what I can think of off the top of my mind. Curious if there are others people are tracking!
https://Game-b.org/ is looking broadly at alternatives to individualistic capitalism
https://ecovillage.org/ was mentioned by skybluestar but cannot be overstated and has several regional networks: Region Pages Archive - Global Ecovillage Network
Going out on a tangent, https://aanr.com has a many communities that people live in and work out of. The focus of these communities is not wearing clothes, so they have more residents when it’s seasonal, but they are a version of cohousing (multiple residences on a shared-ownership property). They also tend to be a lot lighter on the air conditioning, for that aspect of ecological living.
Some snowbird communities could also be seen as cohousing, if they have a board of trustees and shared ownership. I’m not aware of an association for them, though. I’ve also read about standard trailer parks becoming resident owned.
I’d also say the Social Health movement would be one that is emerging and has IC as big overlap in terms of community aspect
The environmentalism and sustainability movements, and the homesteading and self sufficiency movements would both be related to intentional community and to each other.
I’m thinking about an off grid micro nation. In no way am I political, but it would be a spoof of governments and a contradiction of the way things are done.
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Flat hierarchy work perhaps? Consensus decision making, Sociocracy, Holacracy and all of this world?
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I think ruled-based “Consensus decision making” is good for our 5 unit cohousing project. However, DAO could work as well.
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That is one of our potential options, to buy a modular home in the Clackamas River Community Cooperative Resident Owned Community. Its something we may be able to afford unlike other options. Our other idea is to eventually join the community that our friends are trying to put together. We realized we weren’t cofounder material, which sucked hard, so we are working on accepting that, and accepting that we’ll have to be joiners instead.
Ok so I was able to create a concept map connecting a few dots of what the heck is going on. The image is much larger but I was only able to zoom out this far. I may try taking more photos. Basically creating an ecosystem that could potentially interconnect. Has many more nodes from what everyone here recommended.
( Wish there were more file types to upload & allowing larger file sizes. I was able to get this .png to load finally. I tried .pdf that wouldn’t work. Tried converting .pdf to .jpg which the file was to large. Then attempted at compressing the file. Which still it wouldn’t work. So I have no clue how to upload an image that allows for zooming to be able to see it more vividly. )
BoonDockers Welcome :
Boondockerwelcome.com which encourages a bit more of a legit sharing. Yet a good majority of people on there are doing the same concept as hipcamp to turn the idea into a side business model to profit. I’d say most people are doing it because they want to meet other fellow travelers and it creates a pretty cool opportunity for new places to camp for a few days. I recommend it.
Hipcamp
I think websites like hipcamp.com are mimicking airb&b.com so it’s becoming more like a “sharing economy” which is nothing more than late stage capitalism. Which in some sense it’s creating way more opportunities for people to travel. Kind of sad that even tent camping is something that is being turned into a profiting idea. People that own +1200 acres of land needing to making money on tent camping seems a bit of a joke. If it were me I would allow people to stay $35 a month to tent camp. $35 a night just shows the persons intention. Yet with over 3000 reviews I mean clearly people are cool with paying that much.
However, there are some pretty cool looking places to camp. Yet people are more focusing on profiting than really helping each other. Which $111 to stay in a bubble. I mean, its neat looking but it shows what people value for the price.
Nomad list :
Earth ship : We build Earthships and retrofit houses — Earthship Biotecture michael reynolds
Earth ship is a pretty new idea. Kind of reminds me of habitat for humanity where people come together and build a house. Yet people are using things such as tires & bottles to build these structures. Pretty cool designs. I had a friend up in Montana that built one not to far from Red Lodge. I really wish I would have gone to see it before leaving there.