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COMMUNITIES and CLIMATE CHANGE BILL MCKIBBEN: “WHAT CAN I DO?” Life in Cooperative Culture Spring 2017 • Issue #174 COMMUNITIES and CLIMATE CHANGE Paying for Our Carbon Meal Climate Crisis, Dystopia, and Community Lessons from Dancing Rabbit, ZEGG, Living Energy Farm, Heart-Culture, Ridgewood Ranch, and more Soil, Permaculture, Biochar, and Energy Democracy New Culture is Everywhere! You’ve probably heard of Network For a New Culture’s Intentional (NFNC’s) Village Summer Camps (www.nfnc.org/sc)... but we’re so much more! Spring camp Intentional Communities Fall camps Winter camp Upcoming Camps: NCNW Cascadia: July 1-8, So. WA CFNC East Coast: July 7-16, W. VA NFNC West: July 28-Aug 13, So. OR Allegheny Cres t Mount Storm West Virgini a Intentional Village We uniquely combine sustainability, personal growth, rural revitalization, and social change. This new kind of intentional community creates strong bonds among the members while connecting with and serving the people in the surrounding area as well. New Culture skills, experience, and insights (www.cfnc.us) provide the basis for a positive, joyful, and effective way of living. We welcome new members of all genders, sexes, orientations, and relationship styles. We value: - Autonomy - Consent Culture - Sustainability - Being “at choice” - Entrepreneurship - Personal growth - Leadership initiative - Radical freedom - Diversity - Radical responsibility - Social change - Eective activism New Culture Northwest Cascadia Fall MiniCamp - Clear communication - Skill-sharing Southern Washington - Life in community - Power sharing Thursday September 29 — - Life outside of community - Transparency Sunday October 2, 2016 Honesty Love Peace Curiosity Compassion Held in the beauty of the Gorge at Windward Intentional Community, MiniCamp is a 3½ day tent camp with workshops, CONTACT US: [email protected] 304-825-3555 http://aciv.cfnc.us forum, and much fun! We work to connect deeply, build tribe, explore sustainability, support relationship freedom, create intimacy and step into our power for critical social and personal change. Registration opens August 1, info: ncnw.us Visit www.new-culture.org for a list of all NFNC related organizations and events. at Earthaven Ecovillage | Black Mountain, NC 2nd Bi-Annual CONFERENCE TOPICS, FEATURES & HIGHLIGHTS: Restorative Culture Restorative Circles • Restorative Economics • Non-Violent Communication Financial Co-Repsonsibility • Open Space Technology • Practice & Application Daily Meditation • Farm-to-Table Meals • Unplug & Connect with Nature Conference Pre- and Post-Conference Intensives for a Deeper Dive PRE- AND POST-CONFERENCE INTENSIVES: June 2-4 THURSDAY MONDAY June 1 @ 1-4pm June 5 @ 1-4pm 2017 SPACE IS LIMITED! REGISTER EARLY. Event Brought to You By: Culture’s Edge REGISTRATION NOW OPEN: culturesedge.net | (828) 669-1965 Spring 2017 COMMUNITIES 1 Issue #174 • Spring 2017 12 16 ES I COMMUNITIES AND CLIMATE CHANGE T 10 The Question I Get Asked the Most Bill McKibben I “What can I do?” It’s the right question—almost. 12 Living Energy Farm: An Answer for Climate Change Alexis Zeigler A fossil-fuel-free community empowers its members to dramatically reduce their dependence on the corporate economy. N 16 Limiting the Damage of Climate Change: Lessons from Dancing Rabbit Ma’ikwe Ludwig Committed communitarians cut their carbon emissions to around 10 percent of the American average. U 22 Soil, Communities, and Climate Change: An Interview with Nikki Silvestri Chris Roth As a climate solutions advocate explains, carbon is not a bad thing; it’s just in the wrong places right now. M 25 Addressing Climate Change: Two Generations at Heart-Culture Farm Community Kara Huntermoon For the next generation, planting trees, growing food, and living in community are only the start. 28 Permaculture, Community, and Climate Change Tom Henfrey Community-led action, with permaculture as a key tool, is the basis for many of the most innovative and effective responses to climate change. 30 Ridgewood Ranch: A Mecca For Adaptive Community OM Steve Hellman and Daniel Spiro Numerous projects on a community’s 5,000 acres contribute to climate-adaptive land stewardship. 34 Variations on a Theme: Low-Carbon Communities of All Sorts Ma’ikwe Ludwig Three innovative non-residential groups use community as a tool to C address climate change. 2 COMMUNITIES Number 174 30 44 58 36 Hurricane Lunch: Global Warming Affects Island Nations Philip Mirkin 4 Letters A community in Fiji responds to a category one hurricane— a taste of events yet to come. 6 Publisher’s Note No Hope? 38 Local Solutions to Global Warming: Sky Blue Paying for Our Carbon Meal The situation may appear hopeless, but what we do Daniel Greenberg Compared to carbon offsetting, carbon onsetting may be a more effective strategy together can transform the world. to build sustainability. 8 Notes from the Editor Climate Crisis, Dystopia, 41 Intentional Electricity: and Community The Challenges and Rewards of Community Power Chris Roth Woody Hastings From the personal to the global, In Community Choice Energy agencies, we are witnessing the emergence with hard times undeniable, of Energy Democracy. community may be our life-support. 44 The Carrot in Front of Our Nose: Lessons from ZEGG 64 Reach Tobias Bayr Life in an ecovillage demonstrates that less can be more. 76 Review Permaculture and Climate 46 Communities and Zero Population Growth Change Adaptation Arty Kopecky Amelia L. Williams Cooperative culture helps us evolve beyond the nuclear family toward A new book offers grassroots conscious kinship and reconnection with the land. strategies for responding to climate change. 48 Preparing for the Human Challenges of Climate Change Sara Donna ON THE COVER Deteriorating social and environmental conditions require both spiritual preparation and practical steps. 51 Twenty Principles of Ecoresilience: Personal and Cultural Adaptation to a Changed Planet Linda Buzzell and Craig Chalquist How do we strengthen communities as climate change intensifies? 54 Affordable, Developer-Driven Ecovillages: Meeting an Unmet Need Mac Maguire A replicable ecovillage model is our best hope for achieving essential, global-scale changes. Students in the fall 2016 Holistic Sustainability • Neighborly Questions and Critiques Semester at Lost Valley Education and Event Center (Dexter, Oregon) learn how to craft a biochar stove—a practical, fuel-efficient, multi- purpose tool to combat climate change, capable 58 Wurruk’an: An Experimental Intentional Community of cooking or heating water while producing Bill Metcalf a carbon-sequestering soil amendment that A book on “life beyond industrial civilisation” inspires the creation replenishes and retains soil nutrients and of an ecovillage. enhances plant health. Photo by Jesse Hickman. Spring 2017 COMMUNITIES 3 COMMUNITIES Letters Life in Cooperative Culture EDITOR Chris Roth (Lost Valley/Meadowsong) ART DIRECTOR Yulia Zarubina-Brill Back to Life: ADVERTISING AND BUSINESS MANAGER Returning from the Virtual to the Real Christopher Kindig (Earth-Tribe.org) By Ethan Hughes WEB SUPPORT Pavan Rikhi (Acorn) Stillwaters Sanctuary, a project of the Possibility Alliance, is an electricity-free, computer-free inten tional community located on 110 acres outside La Plata, Missouri. A partner project, the Peace and Permaculture Center, sits on 20 adjoining acres; and another allied group, White Rose Catholic Worker CIRCULATION MANAGER Farm, sits on 30 neighboring acres (both also electricity-free). Here, the group’s cofounder reflects on McCune Porter (Twin Oaks) their choices about technology. Ethan Hughes n 1999 I declared to my family and friends that I was going - to attempt to live car-free. I was already living without per sonal computer use, emails, airplanes, and movies. Some of theI strongest resistance to this new choice came from my grand mother. She feared a disconnect in our relationship as a result of or a human being and nature interacting. I now believe that spending less time together. - movie screens, computer screens, private automobiles, TV screens, My first car-free visit to her home required a half-day of bike cell phones, and other modern technologies simply create a wall and train travel instead of a one-and-a-half-hour drive. The lack - between the human-to-human and human-to-nature encounters SOCIAL MEDIA SUPPORT that can awaken us to love, meaning, and connection. of an evening train made it necessary for me to spend the night at her home after our dinner together. Had I still been driving, of I also know that another way of living is available to us: a life course, I would have driven home afterward. Instead we enjoyed a that emulates the harmonious connection we see in natural ecosys- wonderful meal together, played some cards, and stayed up late as tems, a life that lives out the permaculture principles in full integ Saul Of-Hearts she told me stories about my dad (her son), who had passed away rity. A tree creates zero (unusable) waste, enhances the ecosystem, when I was 13. In the morning, we breakfasted on the second-story and supplies a myriad of gifts to hundreds of species. I invite you back porch while the birds sang. Suddenly, she reached across the to believe that humans, you and I, can do the same, that we can table with tears in her eyes, put her hand on mine, and confessed, shed the trappings of this technological age by conscious choice - “I am so happy you do not drive anymore!” It turns out that I had and once again take our rightful place in the circle of creation. been the first adult grandson to ever spend the night at her house. As a result of this and similar experiences, I began to learn The Impacts of Modern Technology that often love is most easily nurtured when we slow down and Let us evaluate the impacts of modern technology on the earth, ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT remove everything that can get in the way of two human beings creation, society, and our hearts. I believe the greatest conspiracy of our time is the belief that we must kill, enslave, injure, and oppress 14 COMMUNITIES nature and/or humans to get our needs met.
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