{"id":1655,"date":"2013-01-27T21:17:39","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T05:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.villagelab.net\/?page_id=1655"},"modified":"2014-05-16T14:26:18","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T21:26:18","slug":"villages-emerging","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.villagelab.net\/why-villagelab-2\/villages-emerging\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergent Villages!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Communities of Intent”<\/span><\/h3>\n

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What defines these small groups?<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Most of these groups have a strong social cohesion, have developed a strong sense of community and unite behind a common purpose or cause.\u00a0 Some create land or urban based residential communities. \u00a0 \u00a0Some are communities of learning or communities of practice or are civic groups rallying for community resilience and sustainability. \u00a0They are all striving for a sustainable way of living on the earth.<\/span><\/p>\n

Who are these communities?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

They include ecovillages, intentional communities, community resilience groups, transition town initiatives, ecocity & integral city projects, First People’s groups, permaculture and regeneration projects, transformational learning communities, communities of practice, and even disaster relief projects.
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Why are they significant?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

We see these “villages” as “imaginal cells” – they are the pioneering crucibles – the on-the-ground laboratories\u00a0f<\/span>or developing the solutions Humanity needs. They are researching and developing tools, technologies, processes and life styles that demonstrate balanced ways of living in harmonious relationship with each other and the Earth.<\/p>\n

Their work holds immense value for us all – for the Commons. These villages and their gifts to the world represent one of the greatest repositories of wealth on the planet. \u00a0They are on the ground \u00a0– and they are building the future now.<\/p>\n

How can we ensure they will succeed?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

By empowering them – by connecting them with the other great wealth streams of the world<\/strong> \u00a0–<\/span> by providing access to wealth of all types – the funding, the resources, the tools and the expertise they need to do what they do best. \u00a0We ensure they will succeed by engaging with them – and with you – to foster the wealth of the Commons. \u00a0Collectively these groups represent a powerful distributed laboratory. \u00a0A laboratory from the Commons – for the Commons.<\/p>\n

To this laboratory we will provide\u00a0and facilitate an ever evolving but highly systematic framework for research, development, and demonstration<\/strong><\/span> of leading edge practices in sustainable and regenerative human systems design. \u00a0This framework will be co-generated by VillageLab and the participating communities themselves and designed to optimize the cross-pollination, harvest and integration of the best leading edge practices the movement has to offer.<\/p>\n

Note: \u00a0Some use the term\u00a0“ecovillage”<\/strong>\u00a0to refer to the full spectrum of communities listed here. \u00a0See our\u00a0“What is an Ecovillage”<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0page for a fuller explanation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gaia Villages Emerging!<\/span><\/h3>\n

What defines these small groups?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Most of these groups have a strong social cohesion, have developed a strong sense of community and unite behind a common purpose or cause.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 Some create land or urban based residential communities. \u00a0 \u00a0Some are communities of learning or communities of practice or are civic groups rallying for community resilience and sustainability. \u00a0They are all striving for a sustainable way of living on the earth.<\/p>\n

Who are these communities?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

They include ecovillages, intentional communities, transition town groups, First Peoples groups, ecocity & integral city projects, permaculture projects, transformational learning communities, regeneration projects, community resilience groups, and disaster relief projects<\/span>.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Collectively we call them\u00a0“Gaia Villages”<\/strong>. \u00a0Some use the term\u00a0“ecovillage”<\/strong>\u00a0to refer to the full spectrum of communities listed here. \u00a0See our “What is an Ecovillage”<\/strong><\/a> page for a fuller explantion.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why are they significant?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

We see these groups as “Imaginal Cells” – they are the pioneering crucibles – on-the-ground laboratories<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0for developing the solutions Humanity needs. They are researching and developing technologies, processes and life styles that demonstrate balanced ways of living in harmonious relationship with each other and the Earth.\u00a0 They represent one of the greatest repositories of wealth on the planet. \u00a0 They are building the future now.<\/p>\n

How can we ensure they will succeed?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

By empowering them –\u00a0 by connecting them with the other great wealth repositories of the world<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>– the funding, the resouces and the expertise they need to do what they do best.\u00a0 By facilitating flows of wealth to – and from – this movement, we envision greatly expanding their effectiveness, their progress and their contribution to Humanity.<\/p>\n

And we ensure they will succeed by providing them with an actively facilitated research and development framework – <\/strong><\/span>the processes, tools and guidance they need to cross-pollinate, to coordinate and to exponentially leverage their collective potential<\/strong>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span> Collectively these groups represent a powerful distributed laboratory.<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span> To this laboratory we will provide a cross pollination generator – a periphery to center and back again to the periphery process – harvesting and concentrating wisdom and knowledge and leading edge practices – resulting in a collaboratively produced framework for research, development, demonstration and dissemination of leading edge and best practices in sustainable and regenerative human systems design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1429,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.villagelab.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.villagelab.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.villagelab.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.villagelab.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.villagelab.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/www.villagelab.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2519,"href":"https:\/\/www.villagelab.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1655\/revisions\/2519"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.villagelab.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.villagelab.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}