The Thousand Year Plan
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The large spaces of nature National Parks offer are invaluable. But they need to be connected with small spaces of nature, where we live and grow our food. 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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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.
Half the land is for people to live and grow the plants and trees to make everything we need, and half the land is forest for nature's biodiversity and to combat desertification and erosion and to store rainwater and act as a buffer against extreme weather and provide the air we need to breathe. |
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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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In the morning one can work for one's community and in the afternoon for one's family and in the evening for oneself.
For example each village has some people who love making clothes. They are responsible for what clothes to make. In the morning they work in town with people from other villages who also love making clothes. In the afternoon they work at home, gardening, housework, cooking etc. And in the evening for themselves, reading, socialising, relaxing etc. (more) Each village grows its own raw materials. The raw materials are taken to town to be processed and the finished goods are then returned back to the village. |
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1) manufacturing 2) processing 3) entertainment 4) tech and design 5) healthcare 6) horticulture 7) guesthouse 8) swimming pools 9) sports fields 10) home care 11) gardens 12) 18th hole 13) club rooms 14) gymnasium
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A closer view of town.
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There will be some people who are too difficult for their families and their village to care for and will need away from home care in town. (more)
And there will be some people 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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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.
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Further Reading
