Bill : practicioner & free

Re: Can they?

Bill said Jun 29, 2006, 12:52 AM:
 

I struggled a lot with the ideas of building eco-villages when I was younger, and one of the 'lessons' I feel I learned from that long difficult experience was that you can't ask people make too large of a sacrifice to make a project successful.

Or, in other words, don't expect people to be able to come to the community, instead, bring the community to the people.

Which is another way of saying, build the virtual community first.

Rodrigo is talking about spreading ecovillages around the world, and it is a good idea, and it will eventually happen, But we still have a lot to learn about doing it.

Which again brings us back to the need for 'virtual communities' - places to share information, to work out the bugs, to seek out the best ideas so that we don't waste time and money 'reinventing the wheel'.

We also need better knowledge of finances for communities, and of how to finance these kinds of things, of trusts, investment clubs, and grants, loans, and grantwriting.

Virtual communities - like training workshops, or internships, for building eco-villages. I'm not sure if it's right, but that idea just keeps banging in my thoughts.