Core Principles

CORE PRINCIPLES

• Environmental sustainability and low ecological impact through appropriate technology, shared resources and facilities, organic growing, and good design.

• Conscious commitment to community encouraging real interdependence and connections among people, through the physical design of the village, shared group activities, and commitment to personal development and the sometimes hard work of living in community.

• Participatory democracy ensuring that everyone has an equal say in decisions, through consensus decision-making and non-hierarchical structures.

• Accessibility and equality striving to make the group open and welcoming to people from all backgrounds, abilities and walks of life by removing barriers to joining and to full participation in the group, and by supporting members as much as possible to participate and contribute.

• Self-sufficiency meeting our own basic needs as far as possible, including food, energy, water and waste management, and child and elder care.

• Education continuing to educate ourselves about ecological and community living, and passing on what we learn to others.

• Interaction with the wider community keeping our village involved in and open to contribution from the wider society.