Building a Resilient Community
The Village project is a lot more than an eco-housing estate, it set out with the objective of ‘Building Sustainable Community’ and is now putting in many systems to build resilience. As well as the 130 high performance homes, renewable energy for heating, land for growing food and trees, an enterprise centre and community buildings, the project is championing community supported agriculture, exploring community currencies, introducing local democracy and governance systems and playing a part in the strengthening of the local and regional economy.
To be able to thrive in the 21st century we will need to rebuild our social, economic and environmental systems, localise our communities and most importantly, we will have to learn to do all this together.