Why?

Why do you want to build an intentional community?

• Start by learning about some of the perspectives:
  • Permaculture
  • Agroforestry
  • Healing Soil
  • Anti-Fragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
    • Comparing Earthships, Gaviotas, and Arcosanti through this lens
  • The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
  • Self-Transcendent Perspectives
  • Creating Places For People Who Need a Place
    • Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
  • Ecotourism and Proof of Concept Demonstrations
  • Anarchist Perspectives
  • Syndicalist Perspectives
  • Unabandoning Urban Areas
  • Reforestation: Turning Deserts Into Rainforests
    • Pioneer Plants

• Put good systems in place early: These are things everyone needs to agree on before you start.
  • Agree On How To Add People
  • Agree On How To Handle Conflict: It Will Happen
  • Beware: The Tyranny of Structurelessness
  • Agree On How To Remove People
  • Agree On A Shared Ownership Model

• Once you have group consensus on how to add and remove people, how to resolve conflicts, how the land is owned; start raising money and buy the land.
  • Fundraising
  • Buying Land
  • Safer, Equitable Legal Structures for Ownership