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Community Alchemy – get support for your Regenerative Neighborhood
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4. Plan Your Community & Business
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4. Plan Your Community & Business
Now your community will dream and plan all of the specific physical structures, daily leisure activities, and income-based activities. This section will also help your community make critical distinctions between what will be the private community life and the public-facing and business sides of the community.
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Concept
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Design Lenses
Permaculture Zoning
We can also add a Zone 6 to the usual 5 permaculture zones: the internet! That’s where you go to find knowledge, strategies, and solution you can use in the other zones
Ergonomics
Biomimicry
Digital nomad, entrepreneur, social impact, self sustaining, food growth, human connection, personal health well being,
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Co work space
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Sustainable systems
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Garden
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Ice bath
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Body of water
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Martial arts/ dance room
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Distinction between long term and short term areas and housing
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Transportation infrastructure
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Community Details
Location
Identify details about the location or possible location(s). If you are still in the search for a property, list the features you are looking for.
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Feature 1 Temperature , water bodies, mountains
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Feature 2
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Etc.
Size of the Community
Decide the number of community members you would like to aim for. Outline the size of the community/property needed to uphold the number of people, facilities, and land use.
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This reply was modified 4 months, 1 week ago by Oscar Regen Tribe 🔺.
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Private vs. Public (Community & the Individual)
Ownership
Make decisions about how much is privately versus communally owned or paid for:
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Expenses
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Food
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Utilities (water, gas)
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Maintenance
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Infrastructure investment
Space
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Communal areas
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Private areas
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Who is entitled to private ownership?
Assets
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Tools
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Vehicles
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Natural geographic features
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Natural resources
Private Space/Time
How does your community design for private space and individual downtime?
Guest and Public Areas/Amenities
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Identify which spaces/services are open/free to all, regardless of membership status.
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Identify which spaces/services are available for guests to use, based on their stay at the community
Community Areas/Amenities
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Identify which spaces/services are only open to community members
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Which spaces are available to all members, which spaces are available only to some?
Permanent Resident Areas/Amenities
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Identify which spaces/services are private and require the permission of the individual to enter or use.
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Community Activities & Culture
What will the daily community activities look like?
Education
How does the community pursue its daily education? What does that look like for people of all ages?
Business Activities
What are the daily business activities that the community participates in?
Event Types
What types of events are open to the public? What kinds of events does the community want to host?
Rituals
These are the daily, weekly, monthly and seasonal rituals that your community practices to nurture itself. What are the repeated rituals that serve as the cultural glue for your community? (i.e. daily meditation at 7am, weekly community meetings, monthly events, and seasonal celebrations)
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Daily
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Weekly
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Monthly
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Seasonal
Attractions
What are the main attractions of the community? Geographical wonders, special services/products, curated experiences, educational opportunities, etc.?
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Community Structures
Include several statements here on building methods, land development practices, and any conservation goals.
Wattle and daub
Straw bale construction
Hempcrete
Aircrete
Earthships
Adobe
Green roofs
Rammed earth brick
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Size of lots
Building Methods / Types of Buildings
Sourcing Methods for Building Materials
Land Development Practices
Conservation Goals
Considerations for Land Regeneration
Residential Buildings
Write a list of the types of residential buildings your community has or would like to build. Specify the building method as well (i.e. earthship, cob, superadobe, geodesic dome, reclaimed materials, etc.)
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Example – Cohousing Apartments
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Example – Visitor Lodgings / Hotel
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Example- Intriguing Alternative Structures: yurts/treehouses/domes
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Example – Privately-owned sustainable homes, cabins, tiny houses
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Example – Community-owned, rented homes
Shared Facilities
What are the shared facilities your community has or would like to build? What are the places for play and rest?
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Example – Kitchen & Dining Hall or Restaurant
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Example – Meeting Rooms and Coworking Spaces
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Example – Art Studio, Woodshop, Makerspace
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Example – Movement Shala
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Example – Community Garden
Businesses
What are the community-owned businesses that will require a physical building and what type of building will that be? Will there be space for privately owned businesses to operate? Will you include coworking spaces?
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Example – Organic Orchard
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Example – Apothecary and Natural Cosmetics
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Example – Coaching Services and Workshops
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Example – Retreats / Events
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Example – Farm to table restaurants
Amenities
Write a list of amenities that will be available. Specify which amenities will be available only to community residents, and which will also be available to visitors and the public.
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Example – Swimming pools
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Example – Yoga/dance studios
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Example – Outdoor showers
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Example – Outside sitting areas
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Transportation
Basic envisioning of transportation network within the community
Design for accessibility for elderly and the physically challenged.
Creative transportation (ziplines, gondolas)
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Miscellaneous Community Features
Write a shorthand list of every feature to include in your community. This can include man made and natural amenities, as well as other activities not covered above.
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Example – Butterfly or Dog Sanctuary
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Community Revenue
How will the community sustain itself?
Revenue Stream Projects
Make a list.
Rooms/houses to rent (short-term residents, guests)
Membership
Consumables (eg. jam, kombucha, fragrant balms)
Durables (jewelry, mycelium furniture)
Services (coaching, hair salon)
Events / Retreats / Festivals / Workshops / Ceremonies / Hackathons
Carbon credits
Art
Tokens / NFTs
Attractions – museum, ecological center
Renting space
Revenue Sharing
How is the revenue shared from community activities?
What is the expected revenue?
A financial forecast done across five years.
Proforma
Accounting and Fund Management
Traditional Accounting
Double entry accounting
Multi-value accounting
Transparent Accounting
Double entry accounting
Multi-value accounting
Collective management systems (eg. Open Collective)
Triple entry accounting — double entry recorded on the blockchain
Open Value Accounting
Resources Events Agents accounting
Open Value Network
Beyond Accounting
Full cost accounting — accounting for the planet
Resources:
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ExpensesWhat is the cost of building maintenance?
Assess the cost of maintenance for each project, structure, facility, etc. This is best done by investigating professional quotes from contractors, as well as the average cost of maintaining a similar structure.
Business Plan
No matter what business plan structure you use, make sure to answer the following key points about the unique offer of your community:
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Problem — what is the pain point that you want to address?
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Solution — what is your idea?
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Why now?
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Why you?
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Demand creation — how will you promote and sell your idea?
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Market — how big could this be if it works?
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Competition — who are they and how are you different?
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Knowable risks — what are 50 possible risks and how are you going to
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mitigate them?
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Unknown risks — what are the sorts of risks that you could have trouble
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imagining?
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Financing — how are you going to break even?
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Exit — how can the investors and community get off when they choose to?
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