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Fluvanna County Virginia
We are a growing community of like-minded people taking cooperative action to live and prosper as both caring neighbors and mindful stewards of this realm. We implement practices such as sustainable off-grid energy, recyling/upcycling, and highly-localized self-sufficient living founded on low-input land-based production of life essentials.
Environmental sustainability
We manage natural resources responsibly to meet current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own. We protect the environment by mitigating harmful behavior, conserving resources, and maintaining ecological balance. We strive to repair the environment through life-affirming and regenerative actions. Examples include avoiding synthetics and GMOs, reducing waste and pollution, utilizing off-grid renewable energy, restoring fertility and water resources, sowing seeds, increasing biodiversity, and preserving the natural order and its abundance. We ascribe to wisely guiding nature rather than leaving it to itself. We are the potential answer rather than merely the current problem.
Economic sustainability
Current and future well-being is assured without harming the environment or each other. A strong, resilient, and highly localized economy is empowered by a greatly reduced reliance on fiat currencies and instead an interdependence on "local first" production and exchange. This includes entrepreneurship, bartering, voluntary gifting/sharing of resources, silver coin currency, and a limited cash exchange to foster stable long-term growth and inflation-resistant economic opportunity.
Cultural sustainability
We seek to establish our identity, values, systems, and solutions. This heritage of life-affirming traditions, knowledge, and wisdom is to teach both current and future generations to be resilient to both new and long-standing challenges.
Social sustainability
We strive to improve our neighborhood by focusing on personal responsibility, cooperative effort, individual liberty, education, and effective health choices to bring about life, peace, and prosperity. We hope to show a working model to the surrounding area and to inspire by example.
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