By: William Paul, RCP Social Media Manager
The RCP defines a Resilient Community as one that
- nurtures the healing and well-being of members and the wider community
- rejuvenates ecosystems while building soil and benefiting the climate
- provides simple, affordable, low impact housing
- regeneratively produces much or most of its own food and other necessities
Resilient Community features:
– A Resilient Community Land Trust that establishes a permanent commons as a basis for living sustainably on the land within a regenerative economic system (i.e. – circular). Members of the RCP Core Team will help develop a binding land-use charter that will define how the land is to be fairly allocated and stewarded for regenerative purposes. Later on, RCP members can elect or even possibly serve on the board.
– A Resilient Community Housing Co-op that will typically be composed of clustered housing that meets zoning rules while providing desired privacy. The housing co-op’s membership bylaws are crafted to help prevent, manage, or resolve interpersonal problems or conflicts through initial vetting, communication training, mediation, etc. Core team members can help develop the bylaws specifying community rules and member selection policies.
The only feasible way to achieve a livable future for all is for the industrialized world to steadily reduce its energy use to well below current levels. This will require permaculture and regenerative agriculture and appropriate technologies to enable a simplified way of life. Sooner or later most of us will have to move back to the land. Fortunately, rural life is ultimately healthier and happier than city life and that is where most of us will end up anyway. Some have already made the move; more and more of us need to.
Please visit the Resilient Communities Project:
https://resilientcommunities.network/