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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@gilanet.com>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Fwd: [**] Ecovillage Checklists
  • Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 16:58:50 -0600


Interesting, but I can't endorse it as is. The idea is how "individuals and
communities can become more sustainable" but the focus is misplaced, IMHO.
Nothing is sustainable if it does not sustain the livelihood of families and
communities. Concern for the environmental resource base is needed,
certainly, but if you don't focus on the needs of ordinary people to make
their income and feed themselves and their communities, then the rest is hot
air. Above all it must sustain people. Our focus is making a living and
sustaining ourselves in ways that sustain the natural base we live on.

paul tradingpost@gilanet.com

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
--Henry David Thoreau

That is well said, replied Candide, but we must cultivate our garden.
--Voltaire [Francois-Marie Arouet] Candide


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>http://ena.ecovillage.org/English/index.html
>
>Ecovillage Network of the Americas have recently published their
>proposals for assessing the 'sustainability' of
>ecovillages/communities around the world.
>
>http://gen.ecovillage.org/activities/csa/English/toc.html
>
>Community Sustainability Assessment
>
>Table of Contents
>
>Introduction to the Ecological Checklist
>
> Sense of Place - community location & scale; restoration &
> preservation of nature
> Food Availability, Production & Distribution
> Physical Infrastructure, Buildings & Transportation - materials,
> methods, designs
> Consumption Patterns & Solid Waste Management
> Water - sources, quality & use patterns
> Waste Water & Water Pollution Management
> Energy Sources & Uses
>
>Introduction to the Social Checklist
>
> Openness, Trust & Safety; Communal Space
> Communication - the flow of ideas & information
> Networking Outreach & Services - resource exchange internal/
> external)
> Social Sustainability - diversity & tolerance; decision-making;
> conflict resolution
> Education
> Health Care
> Sustainable Economics - healthy local economy
>
>Introduction to the Spiritual Checklist
>
> Cultural Sustainability
> Arts and Leisure
> Spiritual Sustainability
> Community Glue
> Community Resilience
> A New Holographic, Circulatory World View
> Peace and Global Consciousness
>
>----------------------
>
>http://gen.ecovillage.org/activities/csa/English/index.html
>
>Introduction
>
>With the aim of creating and presenting to the world outstanding
>examples of what it means in live in harmony with nature in a
>sustainable way, GEN promotes and facilitates communities--whether
>rural or urban--which develop and implement technologies and
>practices such that human activities are harmlessly integrated
>into the natural world in a way that is supportive of healthy
>human development and can be successfully continued into the
>indefinite future.
>
>The Global Ecovillage Network is developing the concept of
>sustainability auditing to provide measuring rods for individuals
>and for existing villages and communities to compare their current
>status with ideal goals for ecological, social, and spiritual
>sustainability. In addition, these tools are learning instruments
>- pointing out actions aspiring individuals and communities can
>take to become more sustainable.
>
>The process of community sustainability assessment is an
>exploration and cultivation of the qualities needed to bring
>mankind through the 21st century.
>
>_____________________________________________________________________
>
>

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