For our planet to thrive. For people to thrive.
Half the earth needs to be set aside.
Half the earth needs to be set aside.
The large spaces of nature National Parks offer is invaluable.
But they need to be connected with small spaces of nature, where we live and grow our food.
Here's an example of how such a community can be organised.
But they need to be connected with small spaces of nature, where we live and grow our food.
Here's an example of how such a community can be organised.
It takes a community to live sustainably. Too few and there's too much to do.
Too many and transportation and management becomes an issue.
The Thousand Year Plan is based on the theory that one hundred people per square kilometre,
live and work well with each other and with nature.
Too many and transportation and management becomes an issue.
The Thousand Year Plan is based on the theory that one hundred people per square kilometre,
live and work well with each other and with nature.
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Each village is autonomous and has around 100 people living in a sustainable community. In this village people live spread out, but in other villages people live in one long house or in tree houses or underground houses.
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What a sustainable village may look like.
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What a sustainable town may look like.
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Each town is for social gatherings and for people with common interests from surrounding villages to come together to share skills and technology and machinery that would be uneconomical for just 100 people.
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There's no money or trade or other types of exchange. Everyone does their thing for themselves and the people of their village.
For example, each village naturally has 4 or 5 people who love making clothes. They are responsible for what clothes to make, as builders are responsible for what buildings to build etc. They work with gardeners from their village who grow the raw materials and with people in town from other villages who work in each section.
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A closer view of town.
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The dimensions of a village.
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One hectare per person is enough land to grow everything a person needs. There is no need for mining with recycling what we already have and over time replacing plastics with new blends of resins and replacing metals with carbon based materials like graphene.
Half the land is for people to live and half the land is forest for nature and to combat desertification and erosion and to provide air to breathe and to store rainwater and act as a buffer against extreme weather. There are some who are too much for their families and need home care. And there are some who for some time would rather watch the grass grow. In a just society, making food, water, clothing, shelter, healthcare, transport, communication, education and entertainment conditional is like making air conditional. |
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