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PLAN FOR SAFE HAVEN VILLAGES - ANNOTATED
SAFE HAVEN VILLAGES With annotations by Jim Miller in blue. This present page, for now, is the official home page for Safe Haven Villages, incorporated as a 501(c)3 on Aug. 22, 2009.
Family Friendly – Our community will be conducive to raising children who are responsible, nurtured, mentally curious, and creative. The adults strive to model healthy behavior. Personal Sovereignty - We support the principles of freedom. We take personal responsibility for our actions and our needs. Work Ethic - We all work minimal community hours while valuing free time and the pursuit of personal empowerment. Spirituality -We have no set religion or spiritual belief. Most have a Judeo-Christian background and a lot of us enjoy Native American or Eastern spiritual practices. Sustainability - Our building practices, water usage, food production, and energy production aspire to a seven generation model. Our goal is a zero impact lifestyle. Alternative Buildings – Buildings are various debt-free and earth friendly types that minimize the use of manufactured products: earthships, domes, rammed earth, cob, etc. Leadership - We strive for consensus, but accept decisions with an 80% majority if consensus cannot be reached. Diet - Most of us are omnivorous with a few vegetarians, vegans and raw. Relationships – Our community consists of families, couples and singles in a wholesome atmosphere. We value exclusive committed relationships. Limitations - Our community is free of all illegal activities including drugs. We have no public drunkenness, public nudity, freeloaders, vulgarity, visible junk, and abusive behavior. Smoking is allowed only in designated areas or personal homes so that the smoke does not impact others in the community. I would attempt, in a friendly way, to help folks who self-abuse with tobacco, to drop the addiction. Conflict Resolution - We commit to constructively and peacefully working out our differences. We need a dispute resolution system which could use expert professionals to mediate “irreconcilable differences”. There are such folks, trained in consensus systems.
Safe Haven Villages are sustainable, green, off–the-grid communities that nurture sovereign and responsible citizens. We are looking for mature, responsible people with skills of all types: teachers, builders, artists, professionals, healers, businessmen, musicians, craftsman, seamstresses and chefs, to name a few. We need a blog so folks could tell us about their backgrounds, interest and skills and their plans to help develop an intentional community. My efforts, thus far are available at: Mutual Aid Society of America: http://masallp.wetpaint.com/ We envision a large community center surrounded by twelve to sixteen homes with a comparable number of guest homes nestled in the middle of eighty acres. The community center plans include a commercial kitchen, dining area, library, media center, rooms for guests, a healing center, craft room, play room, wood shop, classrooms, and greenhouse. We envision a commercial site for businesses, storage sheds, a few farm animals and gardens of all kinds. Working together we can be free of so much: utility bills, mortgages, high food costs, ill health, and stress. We will have creative, fulfilling and personally sustaining work; living and working together, so that people's lives and work are integrated into a unified environment. I have a similar plan which maps-out greater detail: The Eco Campus: http://masallp.wetpaint.com/page/ECO-CAMPUS
While most of us have a Judeo-Christian background, many incorporate other belief systems: Native American, New Age, Eastern and others. We are spiritual rather than religious, though individuals with a particular religion/belief system are supported. The community offers workshops and wellness training devoted to health, joy and living sustainably. Using CHI to represent the spirit of our community our fundamental principles are Commitment, Honor and Integrity. COMMITMENT: (agreement, pledge) Each adult commits to one to ten hours of community service a week on average, depending on Membership type. We uphold the principles and by-laws of Safe Haven Villages. We honor the living earth and commit to use only that which we need. While respecting individual needs, we minimize materialism and the habit of ever-increasing consumption that is common in the West today. We care for all life nonviolently and humanely. HONOR: (revere or hold in high regard) We honor committed relationships between two people and strive to be good role models for the children. All members and guests on the property honor and respect other’s boundaries. We take responsibility for our actions. We reveal, not conceal our frustrations or problems with others in the community. We honor other members by working through challenges with honesty, insight and kindness. We honor personal sovereignty and acknowledge our responsibilities as citizens. INTEGRITY: (adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character and honesty) Our word is our bond. Words are cheap, easily forgotten, changed to fit the new circumstances, very difficult to prove later. I would rather our “bond” be written down and signed by the parties to the written bond. Even a written contract is no guarantee of later performance.
If we say we will do something, we honor that commitment. We abide by the intent of the community documents and not just by the words and legalities. We fulfill our hours of service, and respect and truly care for others. If you are a committed, honorable and integral person who would like to live in a sustainable community of spiritual, fun-loving and kind people, Safe Haven Village is the place for you. While part of our motivation for this community is to provide a refuge from possible civil meltdown, regardless, we aim to create the ideal sustainable community of the future. I'll apply. Check out the websites mentioned and review my resumes at: http://algaloildiesel.wetpaint.com/page/RESUMES+OF+JAMES+E.+MILLER If preliminarily approved, let me know and I will proceed toward membership.
Photo taken Sept. 2, 2009.
Left to right, back row: James C. Torgersen (Torg), Charles Ford, Kathleen McIntyre, Renee Shaw, Susan Carter, Cheri Allan, Sterling Allan, Rex Vaughan
front row: Allan kids: Christian, Emilee, Aubrie, Hailee [edit] Land Description
- http://SafeHavenVillages.org - forwards to this present page at PESWiki.
[edit] Social Networking
- http://utahsafehaven.ning.com - primary interface (private)
[edit] IC listing
- http://directory.ic.org/21311/Safe_Haven - The Safe Haven listing at the Foundation for International Communities website.
[edit] Overview
The purposes of the community are:- Emergency - Ensure a safe place to go in times of upheaval. There will be a community center for cooperative ventures. The community is hidden from main roads. Structures will generate their own electricity and collect their own water. There is plenty of dead wood to burn for extra heat. There is a well on the site which will [need to be enlarged]. The wood would be an excellent source of biomass for pyrolysis into syngas, BioCoalLiteTM, and Agrichar. See: http://drumrollpower.wetpaint.com/page/BIOCHAR Surface runoff will be collected using the WellSpring Accumulator and ground water recharged using the Branch Water Accumulator. See: http://masallp.wetpaint.com/page/WELLSPRING+ACCUMULATOR
- Recreation - Members can visit and stay at the community center all year round. Does HSV have plans for a motel or cabins for rent for guest stays?
- Residence - Those who would like to live full time at Safe Haven may either build homes and/or be stewards of the community center. The Planned Unit Development approach would fit this criteria. Those who contribute a significant amount of resources (Cash, labor, trade) will be given rights to a plot. This idea raises the issue of financing to build the house and what rights a mortgage company would have to resell the property to a non-member. The mortgage industry would consider this type of loan a “super-sub-prime mortgage”. The better approach would be to develop a team of folks willing to build the houses of the members of the team. There are §502 HUD loans available for this program and the 501.c.3 could qualify for a grant to administer the SHV “Self-help Housing Group”. My house will be built with the help of the team as a straw bale residence. See: http://strawbalebuilders.wetpaint.com
- Healing Center - The property and community center will be dedicated to the healing arts with seminars and ongoing workshops to teach and facilitate healing, physically and spiritually. SHV should build a small clinic and hire a licensed RN to run it.
- Spiritual retreat - The community, though primarily of Christian background, will be open to all practices that promote spiritual growth. (Eastern meditation, Native American sweatlodges, etc.)
- Sustainable learning center - The community will be off-the-grid Locavore energy would be available using small scale concentrated solar power systems. See: http://solarfurnacechp.wetpaint.com/page/SOLAR+FURNACE+SUMMARY and will have natural buildings. See Straw Bale Builders. We will hold workshops to teach these various methods. We should be open to taking on-line courses and reading ebooks. See: TALIS: http://www.talis.com/
- Natural Building - The Earthbag, cob, Hobit and Earthship homes seem to be the most cost effective. See pics. Any good solution works. My interest is in straw bale insulated buildings.
- Power - Solar, wind and other renewables We could grow algae, extract the oil and make ou own biodiesel. See: Prospects for the Biodiesel Industry: http://algaloildiesel.wetpaint.com/page/PROSPECTS+FOR+THE+BIODIESEL+INDUSTRY
- Gardens - There will be an outdoor community garden during the growing season and green house/houses including wallapinis during the winter. I would offer to plan and implement some agroforestry, namely fruit and nut orchards; agriculture using Agrichar, namely giant grasses for pyrolysis; and aquaculture, namely fish and freshwater shrimp and crayfish; formed as worker cooperatives which would be financed by our own credit union and equity union.
- Livestock - Chickens and goats can be brought in as long as a continual caretaker is there. Hopefully we could recruit a dairyman so we would have fresh milk and cheese.
- Leadership - Consensus
[edit] Documents
[edit] Safe Haven Villages: Values
Approved by the Safe Haven Villages founding members Sept. 2, 2009Family Friendly – Our community will be conducive to raising children who are responsible, nurtured, mentally curious, and creative. The adults strive to model healthy behavior. Personal Sovereignty - We support the principles of freedom. We take personal responsibility for our actions and our needs. Work Ethic - We all work minimal community hours while valuing free time and the pursuit of personal empowerment. Spirituality -We have no set religion or spiritual belief. Most have a Judeo-Christian background and a lot of us enjoy Native American or Eastern spiritual practices. Sustainability - Our building practices, water usage, food production, and energy production aspire to a seven generation model. Our goal is a zero impact lifestyle. Alternative Buildings – Buildings are various debt-free and earth friendly types that minimize the use of manufactured products: earthships, domes, rammed earth, cob, etc. Leadership - We strive for consensus, but accept decisions with an 80% majority if consensus cannot be reached. Diet - Most of us are omnivorous with a few vegetarians, vegans and raw. Relationships – Our community consists of families, couples and singles in a wholesome atmosphere. We value exclusive committed relationships. Limitations - Our community is free of all illegal activities including drugs. We have no public drunkenness, public nudity, freeloaders, vulgarity, visible junk, and abusive behavior. Smoking is allowed only in designated areas or personal homes so that the smoke does not impact others in the community. I would attempt, in a friendly way, to help folks who self-abuse with tobacco, to drop the addiction. Conflict Resolution - We commit to constructively and peacefully working out our differences. We need a dispute resolution system which could use expert professionals to mediate “irreconcilable differences”. There are such folks, trained in consensus systems.
[edit] Safe Haven Villages: Vision Statement
Approved by the Safe Haven Villages founding members Sept. 2, 2009Safe Haven Villages are sustainable, green, off–the-grid communities that nurture sovereign and responsible citizens. We are looking for mature, responsible people with skills of all types: teachers, builders, artists, professionals, healers, businessmen, musicians, craftsman, seamstresses and chefs, to name a few. We need a blog so folks could tell us about their backgrounds, interest and skills and their plans to help develop an intentional community. My efforts, thus far are available at: Mutual Aid Society of America: http://masallp.wetpaint.com/ We envision a large community center surrounded by twelve to sixteen homes with a comparable number of guest homes nestled in the middle of eighty acres. The community center plans include a commercial kitchen, dining area, library, media center, rooms for guests, a healing center, craft room, play room, wood shop, classrooms, and greenhouse. We envision a commercial site for businesses, storage sheds, a few farm animals and gardens of all kinds. Working together we can be free of so much: utility bills, mortgages, high food costs, ill health, and stress. We will have creative, fulfilling and personally sustaining work; living and working together, so that people's lives and work are integrated into a unified environment. I have a similar plan which maps-out greater detail: The Eco Campus: http://masallp.wetpaint.com/page/ECO-CAMPUS
While most of us have a Judeo-Christian background, many incorporate other belief systems: Native American, New Age, Eastern and others. We are spiritual rather than religious, though individuals with a particular religion/belief system are supported. The community offers workshops and wellness training devoted to health, joy and living sustainably. Using CHI to represent the spirit of our community our fundamental principles are Commitment, Honor and Integrity. COMMITMENT: (agreement, pledge) Each adult commits to one to ten hours of community service a week on average, depending on Membership type. We uphold the principles and by-laws of Safe Haven Villages. We honor the living earth and commit to use only that which we need. While respecting individual needs, we minimize materialism and the habit of ever-increasing consumption that is common in the West today. We care for all life nonviolently and humanely. HONOR: (revere or hold in high regard) We honor committed relationships between two people and strive to be good role models for the children. All members and guests on the property honor and respect other’s boundaries. We take responsibility for our actions. We reveal, not conceal our frustrations or problems with others in the community. We honor other members by working through challenges with honesty, insight and kindness. We honor personal sovereignty and acknowledge our responsibilities as citizens. INTEGRITY: (adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character and honesty) Our word is our bond. Words are cheap, easily forgotten, changed to fit the new circumstances, very difficult to prove later. I would rather our “bond” be written down and signed by the parties to the written bond. Even a written contract is no guarantee of later performance.
If we say we will do something, we honor that commitment. We abide by the intent of the community documents and not just by the words and legalities. We fulfill our hours of service, and respect and truly care for others. If you are a committed, honorable and integral person who would like to live in a sustainable community of spiritual, fun-loving and kind people, Safe Haven Village is the place for you. While part of our motivation for this community is to provide a refuge from possible civil meltdown, regardless, we aim to create the ideal sustainable community of the future. I'll apply. Check out the websites mentioned and review my resumes at: http://algaloildiesel.wetpaint.com/page/RESUMES+OF+JAMES+E.+MILLER If preliminarily approved, let me know and I will proceed toward membership.
[edit] Safe Haven Villages: Membership Documents
- Safe Haven Villages Membership Agreement - approved Aug. 2009
- Exhibit A: Mission Statement, Values Statement
- Exhibit B: Membership Agreement: Payment Plan
- Exhibit C: Utah Residential Lease Agreement
[edit] Other Documents
- Community Concept Overview
- Membership Overview – brief explanation of what involvement entails
- EcoVillage Membership – more detail on the levels, expectations and benefits of membership
- Community Center – desired components
- Safe Haven Village -- PowerPoint - by Susan Carter, July 2009
[edit] Group Photos
Photo taken Sept. 2, 2009.
Left to right, back row: James C. Torgersen (Torg), Charles Ford, Kathleen McIntyre, Renee Shaw, Susan Carter, Cheri Allan, Sterling Allan, Rex Vaughan
front row: Allan kids: Christian, Emilee, Aubrie, Hailee [edit] Land Description
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