Self-Sustaining Village Projects Path to Housing, Water, Food, Electricity, & Jobs

In Self-sufficient Communities

Current Conditions

• Exploding Population Growth

• 2-billion Without Electricity

• Food and Water Shortages

• Global Housing Deficits

• Resource Depletions

• Overconsumption

• Urban Crowding

• Rural Flight

Achievable Solutions

• Consider the Planet

• Conserve Resources

• Sustainable Longevity

• Cost/performance rules

• Consider holistic impacts

• Apply Disaster-resistant Resiliency

• Rethink Materials, Systems & Methods

Self-sufficiency Paths

1. Start with a plan and end result in mind

2. Establish an industry with good jobs

3. Add housing, services, & commerce

4. Build community base amenities

5. Surround with farms & storage

6. Achieve self-sufficiency

7. Create Opportunities

Practical Methods

• Pay Living-wages

• Train job-related skills

• Produce What’s Needed

• Organize for Self-sufficiency

• Organize Wisely & Tax Fairly

• Measure Embodied Energies

• Use local materials and labor

• Develop Country-relevant Solutions

Anchors for Employment

• Encourage Factory Growth

• Country Appropriate Products

• Educate for Current Technologies

• Train Transferrable Skills & Know-how

• Organize to Make What is Most Needed

• Start by Building Infrastructure & Surrounding

– Homes, Schools, Clinics, Shops, Farms

– Community Centers, & Amenities,

Appropriate Technology

• Best-fits for the region

– Materials, methods, systems

• Best-of-breed materials

– Locally available, low cost

• Most achievable methods

– Match outputs to needs

• Greatest sustainable systems

– Use least embodied energy

Step-by-step Progression

• Self-sustaining Projects

– Housing

– Food

• Farms, Fisheries, Storage

– Electricity

– Water

– Self-sustaining Communities

– New Commerce

Big Business Approach

• Single Employer

– Personnel policies, chain of command, corporate culture, group mission, brand support, appraisal measurements,

• Skill development

– Your specialty, working with other specialties, diverse team performance, metrics, goals, targets, production, reports,

Entrepreneurial Plan

• Multiple-skill Requirements

– Sales, marketing, accounting, advertising, shipping, receiving, contract law, customer care, computer software, banking, tax reporting, inventories, cash management, research, trade press, news, licensing, chemicals, safety practices, disposals, literature, printing, public relations, industry updates, budgeting, reserves, recordkeeping, government regulations, new regulations, employee care, payroll,

Transferable Skills Training

• Teach required skill basics

• Apply to multiple industries

• Build leadership by experience

• Develop on-the-job hands-on skills

• Start living-wages to produce for needs

• Create a productive center for new training

– Building, energy, farming, water, commerce

Feasibility Study

• Create a Plan

– Objective, goals, tasks

• Identify Potentials

– Costs, difficulty, profits, time, effort, risks

• Research Possibilities

– Place, Laws, suppliers, relationships, competition

• Re-work Plan Feasibility

– Timeline, milestones, begin, monitor

Building

• Multi-income designs

– Safety, security, density

• Walk to work & shop layout

– Green-ways, blue-ways, Rest stops

• Markets & Meetings facilities

– Pavilions, kiosks, shops, malls

• Government Uses & Public Places

– Offices, services, schools, clinics, parks

Electricity

• Alternative Energy Generation

– Grid, photovoltaic, wind, solar-thermal, mini-grid

• DC Voltage

– Lighting, cooking, fans, pumps, communications

• AC Voltage

– Some appliances, air-conditioning, heating

Efficient Appliances

• LED lighting

• Pressure demand pumps

• Hot-pot slow cookers

• Fans

• Cell phones

Water & Use

• Gray Water

– Watering, Flushing

• Black Water

– Sewer, Septic

• Water Pillow

– Rain Collection

• Filtration

– Sand, Media, Carbon, Polish

• Purification

– UV, Ozone, Reverse Osmosis

Commerce

• Pavilions

• Kiosks

• Shops

• Strip Malls

• Shopping Centers

• Services

• Maintenances

Hydroponics

• Fish Farming

– Food, sales, export, hobby markets

• Farming

– Drip irrigation, Livestock watering

• Crop storage

– Grains, cash crops,

• Recovery & Recycling

– Earth filtered wells

Other Needs

• Government

• Meeting

• Recreation

• Hobby

• Sports

Rethinking Systems

• Pathways - 5-minute Walks

• Greenways -

• Blueways – Streams & ponds

• Schools

• Training

• Clinics

Alternative Materials

• Holistic Sustainability

– Embodied Energy

– Cradle to grave

– Cradle to cradle

– Reuse

– Repurpose

– Recycle

• Enrich the World, Don‘t Destroy it

Self-Sustaining Village Projects Path to Housing, Water, Food, Electricity, & Jobs

In Self-sufficient Communities