Food Security Vision for the Northern Rivers NSW This project is a staged approach to strengthening the regional food system in the Northern Rivers Region for a resilient and food secure future. Several projects will be developed to lead incrementally to a better understanding of the regional food system - its gaps, constraints and opportunities-,

Wild Community's Design Principles This document provides a list of design principles we use when designing projects and running the Wild Community organisations. The list is not complete, so use it add any extra items to the list. If you do have any additions or suggested changes please feed them back to us so we

Australian Village Projects This document provides a list of Village projects in Australia. Open Source It is part of our open source village project. If you'd like to contribute to the document then please contact us. Creative Commons All content in these documents is licensed under under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Link

Wild Community takes an Advisory Role on the Future Thinkers Smart Village Wild Community Fund and Founation has announced that Mike New, CEO and Founder, is an advisor to the Future Thinkers Smart Village project in British Colombia, Canada.  Future Thinkers, a leading online community and podcast with over 5 million downloads, is building a

Wild Community's Land Selection Criteria This document provides a list of considerations for when buying or leasing land. It helps to ensure all aspects of the land has been considered. You can set what your ideal requirement for each criteria is and then compare it objectively with what is actually on the land. The list

Wild Community's Culture Introduction One of Wild Community's core design principle's is self determination. Each village in the network is self determined within the agreed boundaries of "regenerative living" - however we will define that. The below document refers not the the culture of the villages, though to the culture of the Wild Community Social

The Communes of Rojava: A Model In Societal Self Direction An in-depth look into the inner workings of the commune system in Northeast Syria (Rojava) and how they work in practice to give people direct say over the decisions that affect their lives at the most local level. I also call for people to form

Kensan - Group Deep Enquiry Technique The History of Kensan Kensan is a Japanese, non-hierarchical decision making / deep enquiry process which was developed after the second world war in ecovillages in Japan. Kensan comes with 60 years of experience and is practised across Japan and worldwide. Kensan meetings are held regularly, or any time

Humanities Phase Shift Have a listen to Daniel Schmatchenberger's Humanity's phase shift. Deeply insightful and slightly frightening. This conversation with David Fuller of Rebel Wisdom looks at the growing civilisation-level crisis that we are beginning to see around us, and looks at what a genuine 'phase shift' for human progress might look like. We face

Joanna Macy - The Hidden Promise of Our Dark Age | Bioneers The Hidden Promise of Our Dark Age: Discovering Our Wisdom, Strength and Beauty in the Midst of Crisis One of the great activists and spiritual teachers of our era, Joanna Macy, brings a hopeful message: If we can free ourselves from the delusions

1-acre permaculture farm in Australia feeds 50 families A tour of Limestone Permaculture Farm in New South Wales, Australia. Brett Cooper manages the 1-acre property as a productive farm helping to feed around 50 families. The tour includes a look at the orchard, caravan farm gate, chicken and duck areas, and shade house, and Brett

Rewilding Knepp Estate - East Sussex, United Kingdom Isabella Tree writes for publications such as National Geographic, Granta, The Sunday Times and The Observer. Her articles have been selected for The Best American Travel Writing and Reader's Digest Today's Best Non-Fiction, and she was Overall Winner of the Travelex Travel Writer Awards. She published her

Rewilding Scotland Documentary exploring the concept of rewilding and the arguments surrounding its application in Scotland, including the potential impact on both humans and wildlife..

THE NEED TO GROW – BEAUTIFUL DOCUMENTARY ABOUT SOLUTIONS “No human being on the planet should miss this film.” — Society of Voice Arts and Sciences “Perhaps the best film on sustainability I have ever seen.” — Teddy Grouya, Founding Director - American Documentary Film Festival “I loved this movie...it was one of those environmental

Peak Moments Video list  Peak Moment is a biweekly series about resilient, locally reliant living for these challenging times. Programs feature host Janaia Donaldson's conversations and tours with guests responding to accelerating energy and resource decline, climate chaos, and economic uncertainty. Diana Leafe Christian Diana's mission is to help intentional communities get started successfully, function

More and more people - both experts and laymen alike - are understanding we are in a climate emergency with predictions of environmental, and hence social collapse, anywhere between 3 to 10 years time (2022 to 2029). The likely consequences include economic collapse and loss of services such as education, social support and health services,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GJFL0MD9fc Thriving 23-Year-Old Permaculture Food Forest - An Invitation for Wildness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSNc13cmknE Beautiful 1-Acre Small Scale Permaculture Farm - Limestone Permaculture Farm