permaculture

[<dwoodard@becon.org>]

It's an attempt to achieve a sustainable future with a drastically
lower level of resource consumption, for capital equipment, materials
and embodied energy as well as current energy consumption.

I think that the technology may interest some permaculturists, perhaps 
especially Koreen Brennan for the Pine Ridge project.

See for example

http://www.livingenergyfarm.org/newsletters/2016mayjune.pdf

and
http://www.livingenergyfarm.org

note the newsletter file.

LEF gains some of its efficiencies from being an income-sharing 
community

(for a larger and more mature example of the form see
http://www.twinoaks.org  )

but the cohousing pattern also offer possibilities for joint use

http://www.cohousing.org


"Living Energy Farm is a project to build a demonstration farm,
community, and education center in Louisa County [Virginia] that uses 
no fossil
fuels."

For some more thoughts by LEF's founder see
http://www.conev.org


Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada