Last updated 10.25.23

If you do not understand what climate change and global warming are or what is causing them, first click here for this essential explanation of how climate change works, then come back to this page and continue with the six-part action checklist below.

Step 1: Click here (or on Greta Thunberg's image below) to sign a simple climate change and global heating emergency personal action pledge.

Greta Thunberg, the teen global climate activist, urges declaring a global climate change emergency and committing to personal climate education and action! Humanity's future survival depends upon getting as many individuals as possible through the climate change action steps on this page and, most importantly, getting our politicians to get our governments to fix climate change before it goes out of our control sometime between 2025 and 2031.

Step 2: Click here or the image below to discover the most dangerous things people do not understand about the runaway global heating emergency. 

Step 3: Start telling everyone you love and know about climate change and the global warming emergency. 

Now that you have read the above ten most important climate change facts and read about our Job One for Humanity Plan B, it is up to you to get our climate change and runaway global heating analysis and remedial climate actions to all of your open-minded friends, neighbors, work associates, and local media. If you do not tell others, they will believe the grossly underestimated climate summary reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change spread by the media worldwide.

Then, falsely thinking they are safe and there is little urgency, they will do little to nothing to prepare for the coming climate consequences or help fix this escalating emergency. Consequently, we will ALL suffer needlessly, and far too many of us will perish.

We need everyone working on this! Please do not wait to start educating. We are almost out of time. We only have until 2025-2031 at best, to prevent a near-total extinction event from occurring over the following decades! Getting others aware of the real urgency of the climate and global heating emergency is the absolute least anyone can do to do their part to help themselves and humanity out of this rapidly worsening climate nightmare! 

We have provided the following suggestions to help you get started educating others as everyone's climate Project 1. You can do the following in any order you like, but it is critical that everyone does their part in reaching out to others before it is too late to prevent the worst coming runaway global heating consequences:

Part a: You can begin by using our simple climate change and global heating "elevator pitch" found here to start conversations with friends, neighbors, work associates, and strangers and let them know how serious the current climate emergency is. In these conversations, personally share what you have learned about the runaway global heating emergency. Or,

Part b: You can start conversations with friends, neighbors, work associates, and strangers and let them know the many wondrous benefits they, the society, and the world will receive when we get the runaway global heating emergency under control. Click here to read about the many benefits of global heating and climate change if you have not done so already. This benefits page is the most read page of our website, with over 2 million visits. Or,

Part c: You can email your friends or the people you talk to this critical link to the ten critical climate facts on the Job One website. This one page and its links will quickly educate anyone on our perilous climate change condition. You can also email them the global heating benefits page if you think that will be better.

Step 4: Get busy letting your local, state, and national politicians know they must act now before it is too late to avert unconscionable accelerating climate change consequences.

Click here or on the image above of our inactive, bumbling, and sad politicians (above) who are not protecting us from the accelerating climate change emergency. This link has effective ideas and tips for getting the climate change emergency message to your politicians.

Step 5: Become a Job One for Humanity volunteer and do more to help clean up our climate emergency and nightmare.

Click here or on the image below. We will immediately email you a set of possible first volunteer projects.

Step 6: Become a donor and supporting member of the Job One for Humanity non-profit organization and community.

All donors will also get five free amazing climate-related ebooks, a $42 value!

Click here or on the image below to become a member or make a donation.

Four things you can always be sure of in the climate change emergency and about our climate future 

Despite all of the climate change challenges and severe global warming consequences that are possible and discussed on this website, the single constant truth for the best possible outcomes for humanity is that; the faster we reduce global fossil fuel use toward meeting or getting as close as possible to the 2025 global targets:

a. the more time we will "buy" and have to prepare and adapt to the many global warming consequences that we can no longer avoid! (See Part 1 and Part 2 of the Job One Plan.)

b. the more people that can survive longer and more comfortably to carry on human and biological life, and our beautiful civilization into the future (See Parts 3 of the Job One Plan for how we can still get our governments to act in time to save us from climate destabilization and catastrophe.)

c. the surviving future generations will suffer far less from accelerating  global warming consequences and catastrophes, and most importantly

d. we preserve a fighting chance to avoid our own near-total extinction.

e. we can also obtain these other amazing benefits and even bring about a Great Global Rebirth.

More people surviving longer and more people having time to get themselves, their families, and their businesses prepared to ride out what is coming is an undeniable good, particularly when you weigh it against the consequences of doing nothing or the failure to make the needed sacrifices to get climate change under the decent survival-for-humanity, level of control. 

Never forget, we still have time left (until 2025 and maybe as long as 2031 if humanity is very, very fortunate) to:

1. get close to the required radical 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets and after that,

2. complete the necessary emergency preparations and,

3. adapt to soonest-arriving global warming consequences, which, unfortunately, are already "baked in" and which we can no longer avoid or change!

For Information about the Job One for Humanity climate change think tank and organization, click here.

Last updated 3.29.23 

Welcome to the original CSV master model for everything you ever would want to know about ClimateSafe Villages (CSV), the climate-resilient eco-communities of the future. Of course, the ongoing discussion forums at CSV will continue to add to the factors found in our 6-page CSV master model. 

Review this page only if you are seriously interested and are near to making a final decision about creating a local version of your own or if you want to join one of our four ClimateSafe Village models. If you are browsing or want to get a beginning sense of who we are and what we are doing, we strongly recommend you explore the new ClimateSafe Villages website to more easily introduce you to the many benefits of these unique and now necessary communities.

Please click here to go to our new, far less complex ClimateSafe Village website to start exploring the many positive possibilities.

A social contract is a document that spells out the basic principles that members of a group or community agree to use to guide their actions and decisions. It is also something they agree to live by.

The following is the base social contract used in the Job One for Humanity ClimateSafe Village four models. Each independent Job One for Humanity ClimateSafe Village may add additional items or delete items as that ClimateSafe Village so chooses. Fully independent ClimateSafe Village may construct completely different social contracts.

When someone is accepted into one of the Job One for Humanity ClimateSafe Village models, they are asked to sign the following social contract signifying their agreement with its principles for guiding our ClimateSafe Villages.

The Basic Social Contract

At present, there are only 11 principles all members must understand and agree to live by:

Principle 1: Society shall respect and protect the Quality of Life for each individual. That is, this new Principle turns the focus of a new society away from the distraction of “solidifying government power” to understanding the goals of life for each individual on our planet.

Principle 2: ALL ORGANIZATIONS created by society are for the benefit of the individuals in the society. That is, every organization in society must be organized for the primary benefit of the individuals in the society, not the other way around.

Principle 3: Respect for individual thinking but not individual conclusions. While the “right” of each individual to “think” whatever they want, would still be “respected,” what they “conclude,” and specifically, “what they say or express,” is no longer unlimited. In fact, every statement or expression a person makes would be weighed according to the other principles.

Principle 4: Rewards in proportion to social contribution. This principle recognizes an inherent human need for motivation to produce effort. It also recognizes that each individual shares their space and activity on the planet with many others. It also recognizes the need to replace luck, which is an unearned reward, with the reliability of results, which are earned through effort and wisdom. 

Principle 5: Sustainable world, sustainable society. This principle forces societies to use system methods and scientific measurements to plan their actions for long-term sustainability with respect for the ecosystems in which they live.

Principle 6: Efficiency to support sustainability. This requires the application of system analysis to minimize waste in both material and effort. When done in harmony with Principle 1, the human benefit is greatly increased. And with the application of wise efficiencies in a sustainable productivity there are surpluses for charity and unexpected emergencies.

Principle 7: Beauty should be captured throughout human environments. To understand this, consider the images of the architecture of the ancient world. Why has humanity replaced this with slums and miles of “strip malls”? Why have we “paved paradise to put up parking lots”?

Principle 8: Responsibility for personal, family, and local society development. A primary goal for all eco-community level actions would be to understand how to nurture value in personal, family, and social efforts for how social coordination benefits all people.

Principle 9: Respect logical thinking based on material reality. This principle rejects organizing society in any way that relies on appeals to magic, superstition, human intuition, or supernatural interventions, without proof based on tangible and verifiable natural observations. It also prevents an individual or group from imposing their views on others.

Principle 10: Understand Human Psychology, Evolution, and History. This stresses the need for society to study, in a formal and global way, the immense and often negative impact that human psychology, evolution, and history have in shaping the behaviors that create human culture. New wisdom that results from these studies should be incorporated into the guiding principles that shape world culture. Understanding human psychology, evolution, and history is also critical to understanding how to avoid the mistakes of the past and how to create a better future.

Principle 11: Understand that ALL individual and community freedoms have corresponding and equal responsibilities. This principle also creates healthy boundaries with others and the community. This principle is essential for individual and community peace, stability, and growth.

This set of 11 fundamental principles was developed to build a new foundation for an improved society. These principles capture the wisdom of the great sages of history and the discoveries of underlying flaws that caused modern society’s collapse. While superficially appearing to be simple common wisdom, they are actually a rigorous system derived by applying System Analysis design methods to over 3600 vital concepts related to social harmony. The results provide answers to many of the enduring questions of the ages. They also lay out a path to understanding the major social puzzles of our time and eliminating the world insanity we are living with.

Please also note that in the Job One for Humanity ClimateSafe Villages, members also agree to strive to achieve and live the individual and community values expressed on this page.

Other Pages in the ClimateSafe Village Guide

Page 1: Introduction, Overview, and Goals

Page 2: ClimateSafe Village Qualities, Processes, Income Sources, and Safeguards

Page 3: The Four ClimateSafe Village Models and Their Operations

Page 4: Our New Personal Democracy ClimateSafe Village Management Model

Page 5: About ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham, a Unique Rural ClimateSafe Village

Page 6: Our The ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham ClimateSafe Village Application Process

Appendix Materials

The ClimateSafe Village Social Contract Page

Online Rules for Our Virtual ClimateSafe Village

Procedures and Policies for Exiting Our ClimateSafe Villages or Applying for Membership 

Personal Democracy White Paper

The ClimateSafe Villages Issues FAQ of frequently asked questions for only issues directly relating to ClimateSafe Villages issues

The ClimateSafe Villages Climate FAQ of frequently asked questions for every question you have about climate change

Click here for our ClimateSafe Village online guide master table of contents

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Your tax-deductible donation also helps pay for all CSV models' ongoing research and development. This funding allows us to add more knowledge, tools, forms, contracts, and architectural net-zero and climate change-resilient building, home, and community designs for all worldwide ClimateSafe Villages, other eco-villages, and intentional communities. Our information is always shared with everyone trying to manage the climate change emergency in an open-access manner.

Review this page only if you are seriously interested and are near to making a final decision about creating a local version of your own or if you want to join one of our four ClimateSafe Village models. If you are browsing or want to get a beginning sense of who we are and what we are doing, we strongly recommend you explore the new ClimateSafe Villages website to more easily introduce you to the many benefits of these unique and now necessary communities.

Please click here to go to our new, far less complex ClimateSafe Village website to start exploring the many positive possibilities.

Overview

This vision page provides a high-level overview of a new form of democracy called Personalized Democracy (PD) that addresses the cultural environment of modern society. It was designed using modern “Systems Analysis” methods to capture all the cherished hopes and dreams of past civilizations. The challenge was doing so in the face of the totally new requirements of large populations, overlapping cultures, instant world-side communication, and precise interaction requirements needed for complex technologies. This page takes on the additional challenge of showing how such a complex governing structure was also designed to be manageable for use by everyday people in small communities.

The section titles found on this page are:

1. Introduction to Personalized Democracy for Eco-communities

2. Background: Problems with Current “Democratic” Governments

3. Personalized Democracy – Some Basics

4. The Basic Concepts in Practice

5. Some examples of how it might work in Eco-communities

6. How to introduce Personalized Democracy in small communities

7. Conclusion

1. Introduction to Personalized Democracy for ClimateSafe Villages

World society, as it enters the 21st century, has many serious problems. This paper presents the view that all modern governing forms, including all current democracies, are founded on social and governing models that date to ancient cultures. Those early societies all exhibited the homogeneity of a low-population agricultural community with a single national religion. The technology of the time was simple and mechanical. Every person understood, and could interact with, all of this. Interaction with other cultures was rare. For the Western world of 500 BC, Athenian Democracy fully captured these structures. Tragically, that model of democracy is no longer applicable to a modern world with a very complex, diverse, massive, and completely interwoven global population.

A new form of “democracy” referred to as “Personalized Democracy” was developed to address all these factors of modern society. System Analysis methods were used to capture the highest ideals of cultures around the world over the full timeline of organized civilizations. After extensive modeling, a new social and coordination structure was found that finally describes an approach that can solve most of the inequities and confusions of the modern world. At the same time, it amazingly provides a path to the most cherished goals of “full personal inclusion” and “inherent social harmony” sought, but never achieved, by the original Democracy. 

Before continuing, please click here for a short summary of Personal Democracy benefits. 

2. Background: Problems with Current “Democratic” Governments, Current governments are in serious trouble

The status of world society, as it enters the 21st century, is in serious trouble. This century started with average citizens having access to goods and services that, only a century earlier, were only “pipe dreams.” In less than a day, common people could travel to any corner of the globe in relative comfort. A century earlier, this option was not only unavailable to most people, even the richest couldn’t do it in less than many months, and with great difficulty. These same average people could also talk with people worldwide in an instant, again something not even achievable a century ago. Humans have walked on the moon, and traveled to the deepest floor of the oceans. In advanced cities, shopping “warehouses” are filled with goods from every corner of the globe. 

The internet has also brought access to a great swath of world knowledge for most people. Ironically, there is so much knowledge available, no person is capable of assimilating and understanding more than a small fraction of it. As they encounter new knowledge, they are not easily capable of discerning what is truthful. The free rein of giant corporations to dominate the internet, has allowed them to design programs that control what each person sees. The result is, when political groups want to force people to make decisions about national and regional leadership, they are easily able to selectively push information at every individual in society. This includes information that is purposely untrue and misleading.

Yet, in the face of this immense knowledge explosion, government legislative bodies, like congresses or parliaments, essentially use the same forms of interpersonal interaction that they used 2 centuries ago! That is, they sit down in groups, around large tables, for face-to-face verbal discussions and negotiations.

Because of the prevalence of “majority-rule” democracies in the late 20th century, many Western countries have developed two-party systems. The dynamics of such structures lead most citizens to support one view or the other, with third-party views much less considered. Populations tend to be split about equally between the two-party views. Legislative groups do the same. The same dynamic that divides the viewpoints, unfortunately, leads to both views taking extreme positions. This leads to the implementation of fragmented and often competing programs as the party in power switches back and forth over time. From a citizens’ perspective, the social structure appears to continually have broken parts.

For example, despite the “overabundance” of hard goods now available, about 10% of humans worldwide still live daily with hunger (1), and 28% live in slums (2). In the last decade, in the U.S., students graduating with college degrees find well-paying jobs so hard to find, and the cost of housing so high, they are forced to live with their parents for extended periods. 25% of renters now pay more than 50% of their income on housing. (3) 70% of current homeowners could not buy a new “median price” home in the U.S. (4), and nearly 70% of millennials, at their current level of income, say they cannot afford to even purchase a starter house. At median incomes and expenses, it would take 15 years for them to save sufficient funds for a down payment. (5)

In the face of clear “existential” threats to life quality and liberty worldwide, the same extreme divide is preventing governments across the globe from taking appropriate action. All of this failure to take action, or to implement a rocky road of alternating extreme and ineffective actions is what led to the opening statement of this section.

{ While this paper is focused on democracy, it should be added that the current “siren song” attraction of “authoritarian” leadership will face many multiples of the impact of the knowledge explosion due to the inability of any single person to make complex decisions.}

The foundation for current democracies

Democratic governments in modern society are derived from the governing principles of Athenian Democracy and the Roman Republic. Citizens of these modern governments believe their democratic forms “vest power in the people,” as the term “democracy” implied in Greek. But this is far from the actual situation. In addition to this common misbelief, pronouncements from leaders of these modern governments reinforce the belief. The strife of America’s Civil War, for example, relied on this democracy myth, assured by the words of Abraham Lincoln, “a government… OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE.”

The internet now allows people worldwide to examine and compare the processes of governments throughout history and in current times. Such an examination produces very different observations.

The social environment in Athens, Greece – 550 BC

The first examination might be to compare a modern democracy to the democracy that was originally created in Athens, Greece, in 550 BC. As a basis, it is important to understand the social environment of Athens itself.

At that time, most of the population were farmers and soldiers. When there was no war going on, the soldiers also worked on the farms. This means:

1. The lives they lived were based on similar interactions with the environment and each other.
2. They all understood the principles of growing and processing food. They all understood the functions of the simple tools they used for farming and how to make most of the items needed for personal use, like clothes, transportation, and housing.
3. In addition, nations at that time all had a “national religion”. In Greece, this was the belief in the gods of Mount Olympus, the world those gods created, and the interactions expected of humans with those gods.
4. It was also common at that time for nations to be “ruled” by a king or queen, who would prescribe a “singular” set of social rules to be followed!

The key importance of these four factors is to realize that the entire population had a very uniform structure for their social beliefs.

In 550 BC, the Athenian population no longer believed that the unitary decision-making and control by a king fairly represented the wishes of the people. They didn’t, however, challenge the fact that their social order could be described by a single set of rules that all should follow. Their agreement was broad enough that they were able to convince the then-current ruler, Cleisthenes, to restructure decision making as a “joint effort” with the populace. They called the new system of coordination “Democracy,” which translates: “strength of the people”.

A major observation to draw from these factors is that, when there were disagreements about social policy between what the king wanted, and what the society wanted, the basic factors to be considered were very well understood by all parties, and the options to be considered were largely constrained by the simplicity of their common lives.

It is also important, however, to clarify that at that time, the term “people” did not mean “all” people. It only meant the “adult” leaders of land-holding families, and soldiers, who, at the time when decisions were raised, were also working on the farms. This further constrained the range of options.

Another factor was the population size. In 550 BC, the entire population of the Athens area was about 200,000 people. These were divided into 10 “tribes.” Each tribe was allowed to select 50 representatives for their democratic process (the council of 500). This meant, each representative, represented about 40 “people” (i.e., the owner or soldier per farm) who had a “world view” very similar to his own, as well as to all the other representatives. For Athens, all of these people were also located close together. Athens would typically call together an “Assembly” of the representatives every week! The Assembly was open to all citizens, and drew an attendance of up to 60,000 for important questions! Note, this was 30% of the entire population of voting “people.”

The way Athens chose to make decisions for issues that were raised was through the process we call “voting” using “majority rule.” The purpose of the detailed description above for Athenian society is the importance of being able to visualize such a “majority voting” process in the context of the homogeneity, simplicity, and small localized population of the society. 

When a decision was needed to resolve a social issue, no matter what that decision was:

a.) it wasn’t going to force anyone to change their role in society much from the social structures already in place. 

b. ) No matter what the issue to be discussed was, everyone in the society had most of the knowledge needed to understand all the implications of the decision and any options presented. 

c.) No matter what option was presented, it could usually be constructed to minimize the impact on, or even to compensate those impacted, if the decision did not favor them.

The social environment in the U.S. at the time of its founding in 1786. 

At the time of the U.S. revolution against the government of King George of England, the social conditions in the American colonies were not much different from those just prior to 550 BC in Athens. Most people were farmers. The technology of farming and industrial equipment was not much more complex. The speed and technology of communications and travel, being based on the horse, were similar and family structures, including slavery, were not much different. And while there was no specification of a single “national” religion, most people followed the similar fundamental beliefs of various versions of “Protestant” Christianity - even if there was constant argument among them over details.

This means, ironically, when the Revolution occurred, the formation of the new U.S.A. as a “Democracy” was made under social conditions very similar to those in Ancient Greece! This included the similarity of the first 13 colonies to the 10 tribes of Athens. The population of the Colonies, for sure, was a lot bigger - 2.5M. Because of the much greater geographical spread, and time needed to travel for a “democratic” meeting, however, it was not possible to directly involve the high percentage of citizens that Athens could, or address issues as quickly as a one-week cycle. Despite these differences, the 4 key foundations of “Athenian” democracy listed above could still be achieved. The constitutional government established at that time could therefore, “still,” be considered, and conducted, in the form of an “Athenian Democracy” fashioned as a republic.

The social environment of modern society

The modern world is now radically different from that of ancient Athens. Specifically, we can no longer describe any modern population as “mostly” farmers! The number of “employment” roles for citizens is now counted as many thousands or even millions! These vary from farmers to astronauts, from house painters to Olympic event planners to neuro surgeons. This diversity scatters individuals into living conditions ranging from small homes in rural towns with a single country store, that they rarely move from, to diverse specialists, who are always on the move and fly around the world continually. If some social decision is placed before the public for a vote, the impact on many of these lives can be drastic!

Along with the huge variety of employment and life roles, our world is now filled with an explosion of products and technology. To coordinate the use of these items, our society has also been flooded with very complex processes and institutions.

We must now admit, no matter what issue is presented to the public for discussion, NO ONE in the society will have the knowledge needed to understand all the implications or consequences of the decision and the related options presented! In fact, most people will not even be able to understand the highest-level summaries of the issues or their related consequences. In addition, we now have a massive breakdown in modern communications from a rapid-fire saturation of poorly informed voices, and a media filled with outright lies and deception.

The result is, modern society can no longer even pretend to have a population where every person has the knowledge needed to understand the implications of the decisions and options presented to them. The “common knowledge” in all world societies, has become insufficient to either understand the complexity of most issues presented, or the impacts of any option presented on every other person. It is now impossible to construct any broad options that reliably maximize the positive impact on most citizens and minimize the negative impact on the smallest number. Instead, average people, elected to be in charge, use their power to install their own “limited knowledge” agendas, or, even worse, “punish” those with opposing views.

In summary, the great promises of “Democracy”, in the vision and version developed in Ancient Athens, can no longer even come close to working in the modern world. Ironically, the same analysis completely applies to, and is even more detrimental to, any attempt at forming an “authoritarian government” where decisions are in even few hands. 

3. Personalized Democracy – Some Basics, The overarching goals

The social framework called Personalized Democracy (PD) was developed, using methods called “Systems Analysis,” to specifically achieve the following high-level goals:

1. Create an entirely new social model that captures the “fundamental hopes” of Athenian Democracy, as well as the highest universal moral codes that have existed throughout history.
2. Uncover any critical flaws in these past universal moral codes, as well as in humanity’s fundamental institutions, that have blocked the achievement of a high level of shared prosperity and equity.
3. Ensure that none of the new principles being developed would reintroduce any of the discovered flaws or current world problems into the conditions or environment of an anticipated new world.

The outcome of the initial historical review effort produced the following fundamental social goals:

1. Life decisions for the entire society must include the direct involvement of every individual for both the structure of society and the implementation of that structure for each individual. 
2. New characteristics of the modern world that have never existed before must be addressed:
3. large population size and density
4. advanced, widespread, and pervasive technologies
5. a scope that includes the entire world
6. the hard realization that humanity must live within the limited stocks of natural resources
7. the technologies of telecommunication and transportation have spatially and non-uniformly merged cultures all around the world. , What were formerly isolated beliefs about religion, social structures, and social ideals, are now viewed by youth and young adults around the globe against an endless sea of alternatives and contradictions.
8. Logic, based on the truths of material reality, must be used as the ultimate guideline for action. Only human action can be relied on to achieve results.

To successfully guide any new society toward conditions of sustainable and equitable living, any new set of principles must address all of the previous issues, simultaneously, and in great depth.

Based on these fundamental goals, the following guidelines and changes were seen to be necessary:

1. Since most of the structures of current democracies have been implemented using the principles that addressed the social conditions in ancient Athens, and not the modern world, to be workable, any future government structures must redesign the existing forms.
2. All social planning must be based on future-looking dynamic system models, not models that only look at the past and project future trends based on the past.
3. While nationalism and spiritual organizations should be shown “respect” for positive roles they have formerly played, no “element” of such beliefs can be tolerated that prescribe harm to any other organization of society at both national and global levels.
4. The need to ultimately depend on logic and truth-based material reality does not mean the views of religion or intuition must be excluded from consideration. Supernatural views, or intuition, may not, however, take precedence over material reality as the final determinant.
5. Modern life has become so complex, it is no longer possible to address any problem, with broad social implications, in isolation. Since almost every form of the current legislative process still uses an isolation approach – education bills, budget bills, job bills, etc. – society’s entire approach to legislation must be changed to an integrated system analysis method involving many qualified people with the correct skills, education, and experience for the issues at hand.

Factors That Personalized Democracy Must Correct 

This part describes key elements of current governance that Personalized Democracy would replace.

We have to give up majority rule and voting

While most people believe these processes are the only way to make decisions for society, and believe majority rule is a basic principle of life, it isn’t. It was just a convenient and practical simplification for the social conditions of ancient Athens. The system analysis review of past moral codes revealed new solutions.

In critiques of democracy, “majority rule” has been criticized as actually just producing a “tyranny of the majority.” That is, once 51% or more of a population decides on some policy, those not in this group are “forced” to accept that policy against their wishes. For the minority, it appears they are living under an autocracy. This is a problem because it directly conflicts with society’s desire that each individual still has personal freedom. To date, society has not been able to resolve this contradiction. This is especially true for the protections collected in documents with labels like a bill of rights. It is especially problematic in the hands of functions like “supreme courts,” where the agreement of such a small group of people overrules the “rights” of millions!

We have to give up two-party systems

The occurrence of such systems – 2 political parties; 2 houses of parliament – is a fluke of the 51% majority concept. With the “51% wins” rule, all one of the 2 groups needs to do is work extra hard to reach that 51% level. They can then use this narrow 1% advantage to restrain the other group to 49% or less. This approach was designed into governments through a process referred to as a “spoils systems”. It is another throwback to the model of ancient wars, where the winner would “erase” the leadership of conquered nations.

Once there are two parties in place, it is “assumed” that each would produce a legislation “bill” that favors its members, and a “vote” would be taken to choose one for implementation. Each of these “bills” can contain many provisions, hundreds in some cases. Because the provisions for each bill will favor its own members, however, the result will be two very different bills. When a vote is taken, and one bill is chosen, its “collection of provisions” is very likely to be mostly or completely unwelcome to many in the other group. 

Furthermore, in modern society, because of the large differences among millions of individuals, there will be elements in any chosen bill that offend many people in both groups!

A first thought for a solution might be to increase the number of parties. In many countries, that is the case. It is a better approach, but still falls short because social diversity is so high, and handling the multiple parties introduces other problems, like consent as power-seeking.

Personalized Democracy replaces both of these approaches by adopting a very strong support for diversity and inclusion of everyone! That is, by intention, PD expects very wide differences in people’s attitudes, including on an individual-by-individual basis. So, rather than having any political parties that develop only two or a few alternative bills for representatives to choose from, PD again applies the process of systems analysis. In this application, however, it views every individual citizen as their own political party.

Because of modern computer systems, the promises of Personal Democacy’s benefits are attainable. Here is how it will work.

In practice, the Personal Democracy systems analysis process is organized at the highest levels as one single oversight process. That highest level process is actually composed of many smaller “subsystem” processes, each with a different technical or economic focus as needed. Those combined processes, working together, would be able to find “optimal” solutions for the interaction of millions of individual requests, desires, or needs at the same time.

To make this new system work, for every situation in an individual’s life that involves the larger community, that individual would be expected when needed to describe their personal condition and viewpoints to the “coordinating” system. Those personal condition and viewpoints inputs would then be routed to all the subsystems area that need them for the collective planning and implementation processes.

What is eventually produced would be a set of guidelines for each individual that best captures their entire set of conditions and viewpoints on a viewpoint-by-viewpoint basis! The following example should help make this more clear.

If you are a young student, living in a desert climate, interested in reading and music, with goals to be a rock star, these and many other details about your life would be entered with the Personal Democracy system. In return, you would be given a set of suggestions for alternatives to follow to best walk that life path. In coordination with each suggestion for your “life plan,” arrangements would be reserved with private and system services to help you through each step in the plan. The system will continually follow your progress and adjust to any changes you request, at every step. 

As another example, if you were an older “senior” living in the north woods, interested in art, gardening, and travel, you would also periodically update your “life plan” on the system. A very different set of Personal Democracy-related life plan suggestions would be provided. In fact, no two individuals would be expected to be given the same life plan guidance.

In summary, each individual would have given up the process we call “voting,” which is a: “one-way” transfer; of a “single opinion,”; a very simplified opinion selected from only a few options; that only occurs as a single vote every few years”; and where the single “opinion” is mashed together with millions of other opinions.

In return, with Personal Democracy, they would get a: “two-way” interaction; that accepts an unlimited number of opinions and observations; expressed in complex and interactive form; without limitations as to scope; on a continual basis; and where collective and individual action is taken on every one on a completely individualized basis!

Furthermore, to ensure that actions are being taken in response to their inputs, the system will continually check with the individual to determine how well their viewpoints are being respected. This continual feedback system will also provide supporting information to explain how the suggestions and opportunities being provided represent the “best” opportunities that can be provided within the sustainable conditions of life and culture.

A question that often arises after readers see this explanation is, “how will people ever find the time to enter and update all this information?” The answer is for each of us to realize how much data we already manage to conduct our lives and that the needed information can be added to the system piecemeal as situations arise, or all at once, much like what we already do. 

For example, if a person wants to drive a car, they provide and frequently update a lot of identification information. If they want a bank loan, they provide a lot of financial information. Every year, to pay income taxes, we provide a huge amount of data. To visit a doctor, we provide extensive amounts of personal information. In a well-organized and coordinated world, we wouldn’t be required to keep reentering this information.

We have to change the roles of representatives

The current “representative” system is a broad failure. First, the representatives do NOT know the viewpoints of most of those they “represent.” They predominantly “represent” only a handful of extremely rich people who are their major financial supporters. For those contributors, they still only express and act on a very small number of issues.

Personal Democracy changes the role of representatives to that of a “social philosopher-interpreter.” That is, a PD representative would actually be charged with knowing the “spirit” of their community in a detailed way: what defines it, the range and number of similar viewpoints within it. They would be selected for skills interpreting such knowledge between the community and the global coordinating system. Their role becomes more like an ambassador and highly respected teacher and coordinator for their community. They would also work directly and indirectly with those qualified experts who had the needed education, skills, and experience with the issues being discussed and managed. 

We have to change the expectations now placed on individual citizens for their role in social coordination

It is often said that the foundation of democracy relies on “educated” voters. In Athens, in 550 BC, that was actually possible because of the uniformity and technical simplicity of the society. Modern society has now become so complex that this is no longer even remotely possible, especially in the face of corruption in governments, the media, and academia. No one, in any community, now has the knowledge or brain power to comprehend all the elements of society that must be dealt with. Furthermore, they can’t even begin to visualize how all those elements interact with each other, and with all the people on the planet.

A disaster arises when the political arena tries to convince individuals that, through voting, they have the responsibility to choose the “right” person to save the world from disaster. The psychological stress this places on individuals is devastating. Violent actions taken by groups who get caught up in that propaganda cause harm to many people.

With PD, every citizen would only be expected to take on a role that represents their true impact on the world. They would only expect to understand how to help themself, and those people they know, to achieve their best level of well-being and social achievement within the framework of global sustainability, social equity, and social stability. Understanding the “large” issues that impact global society would still be encouraged. Activism related to these issues would actually be supported. But with much higher levels of global knowledge and cooperation available, the crises that pervade current society would mostly be gone. So individuals would be able to take meaningful steps for involvement in global issues, with clear knowledge of the value of their contributions.

4. The Basic Concepts in Practice

The new practices that Personal Democracy would bring to society relate to how community members interact with each other and jointly manage their common goals and efforts. This is especially so for small communities. The major ways the previous observations would be implemented are as follows.

1. The concept of “LEADERSHIP” would change

In current thinking, people always envision a “leader” as someone with power. When someone has a problem with a product, their first thought is to contact the “president” of the company to get action. What those individuals are actually trying to achieve is to comfort their minds by believing that they can manipulate the “president’s power” through personal contact.

Giving up this illusion is hard for modern individuals to comprehend, especially for a small community, because such a structure has been baked into human brains for millions of years. It has to be evolved into something better, for the reasons described above, because of modern complexity. When we do see such misuse of power, it is usually observed as corruption.

For a group’s interactions with the outside world, a member would be chosen from time to time to wear a “speaker’s badge.” Regarding community activities, however, this role would specifically be that of a community “coordinator - spokesperson” (as described previously.)

To make this easier to visualize, in a typical community, at least the following additional area specific “coordinators” would ALSO be needed: medicine, psychology, fire, home upkeep and repair, finance, banking, employment / HR, law, education, recreation, electricity, communications, sewer, water, agriculture, purchased food, purchased equipment, land use, and transportation. When questions came up, or decisions were needed for those specialties, the specialty coordinator would be expected to speak first for them. Ultimately, however, actions would depend on the views of all community members.

This raises the questions, “What about the “direction” of the community? Without a “leader,” isn’t the community just blowing in the wind?” In a Personal Democracy community, the directional “leadership” is not established by a person. It is established by a document! Such a document would typically be referred to as a social contract. Every person, including children, who joins a community, and is able to read and reason, would only be allowed to join if they freely agreed to, and signed the community contract. 

2. The concepts of voting and majority rule would be replaced

Voting: Because each of the categories listed above represents such technical specialties, in almost every case, the members of the community will not have sufficient background in the category to make important decisions about it. They also wouldn’t be able to meaningfully select individuals to lead such positions. So, the idea of “voting” for candidates is no longer meaningful. The way individuals would be chosen as area-specific coordinators would be more like current methods in companies or institutions. This is, they are chosen based on demonstrated background criteria. For the position of community Legal Counsel, for example, as a minimum, they must have “legal” credentials. For a “Public health” leader, they must have some level of “medical” credential. During the early stages of a community, it may be necessary to pay an “outsider” to play the role of a consultant to the community.

Majority Rule: One of the cornerstones of Personal Democracy is the acceptance of diversity. Along with “voting” to elect individuals, current society presents a lot of cases where “issues” are presented for a vote. In those cases, there is a presumption that there is a group of people, who want to do something, that another group doesn’t want to do. This is the traditional way that minorities were suppressed. A community designed as a PD would never encounter this situation.

PD handles this in a number of different ways. The first attempts to manage it through the “Social Contract” by the acceptance provision that all members must strongly accept diversity. Any appearance of minority discrimination or suppression would not be tolerated or accepted.

The second way is by respecting the competence of credentialed or experienced specialists. If an unexpected “water” issue arose, for example, the first approach would be to ask the water specialist to find or create a process that automatically provides the answer based on natural conditions and individual user needs and views. That is, this is not a “human” preference decision. It is based on natural factors.

A third approach would be to let other related specialists get involved, all the way up to letting all of the specialists be involved. Again, they are not involved to make the decision through “personal” choice. They are involved to find quantitative natural criteria that determine the answer. If that fails, another process at the scientific research level would obviously be needed.

The proposed qualified expert solutions would then be referred back to all members of the community for further comment, and to have community members propose personal consequences of such recommendations that might not have been considered. This way, the expert coordinators could adjust their plans once again.

What should be clear after these three examples, is that, the traditional way of letting people with minimal skills make the decision makes very little sense. 

All of these example approaches would also include considering diversity as a goal. That is, when an issue arises, a solution to explore would always be, “Why can’t it be handled through diversity? Why has the “issue” been defined in such a way that there appears to be only 2 or 3 solutions? Etc.?”

3. Direct Social Coordination

One of the major benefits of Personal Democracy is how it improves overall social coordination. As stated above, for every situation in an individual’s life that involves the larger community, as a situation arises, that individual would be expected to submit details about their personal condition and social viewpoints to one of the appropriate “coordination groups.” This would be done using the most efficient methods available to each person. Automated processes available in the groups would produce suggestions and connections to help the individual achieve their life goals. Social “coordination” is automatically produced by the overall interaction of all these group processes working together. Acceptance of the “flow” of society results because the criteria that guides the automated processes is fully transparent to all citizens and based on the principle that its foundation includes, and tries to achieve simultaneously, the values and well-being of every individual citizen.

4. The Social Contract

A concept called the “Social Contract” was mentioned above as a requirement for participation for every member of the community. That document would be the “guiding structure” that defines the requirements of interaction between all members. During the process of developing PD, a list of 10 principles emerged that would form the basis, and sections, of the Social Contract:

1. Quality of Life
2. All organizations exist to benefit individuals
3. Respect individual thinking, not conclusions
4. Rewards in proportion to social contribution
5. Sustainable world, sustainable society
6. Efficiency to support sustainability
7. Beauty throughout human environments
8. Personal, family and society development
9. Respect logic and material reality
10. Understand Human Psychology, Evolution, and History
11. All individual and community freedoms have corresponding individual and community responsibilities

The key concepts behind the development of the principles shown in the list can be summarized as follows.

While humans have many differences, there are commitments to certain procedural universals which must be followed as fundamentally necessary. These are referred to as social constants. One of the more important constants is the recognition that, to form a civilization, shared attitudes, beliefs, and values are needed. This has been a basic but unstated justification for governments to force society to follow common sets of principles. They did it by creating common sets of laws, which commanded specific behaviors.

Current forms of democracy, however, have followed only one piece of this model. That is, there are no substantive universals in democracy. This means, democracy is simply a process for establishing laws to compel action. It is not a process that understands or expresses specific principles. For a society to operate in harmony, it must understand this distinction thoroughly and find new and appropriate principles that guide both needed processes and values.

The understanding of the effect of complexity and technology on Athenian democracy led to the new process steps described above. But that wasn’t enough. To arrive at these 11 principles, the process required using Systems Analysis methods to review: the history of humanity’s successes; the basic goals of worldwide peoples; and the failures of past empires. 

While The Principles, as stated here, are presented as simple statements, they are only “labels” to represent concepts that are very far from simple. It is therefore important that readers prevent the same mistake of oversimplification that has occurred in the interpretation of many foundational documents like the U.S. Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, Christian and Jewish Bibles, the Koran, the Hindu and Buddhist books, and the teachings of Confucius.

For each of the 11 sections that these principles create in the Social Contract, an explanatory document like a “constitution” would also be needed to expand the Social Contract into structures of laws that can be acted on appropriately by different peoples around the world to get very different results appropriate for their local situation. This point needs to be emphasized. The process of describing principles and constitutions does NOT lead to only one result. It has been specifically designed to respect one of its own basic principles: diversity. It would take all of these documents, when viewed together, to essentially define “multiple” appropriate moralities for a new global civilization that would also work at national, state, city, and local community levels as well.

An expanded title for each principle is shown here, with a short note. Again, even as shown here, they are only generalized summaries:

Principle 1: Society shall respect and protect the Quality of Life (QoL) for each individual. That is, this new Principle turns the focus of a new society away from the distraction of “solidifying government power,” to understanding the goals of life for each individual on our planet.

Principle 2: ALL ORGANIZATIONS created by society are for the benefit of the individuals in the society. That is, every organization in society must be organized for the primary benefit of the individuals in the society, not the other way around.

Principle 3: Respect for individual thinking but not individual conclusions. While the “right” of each individual to “think” whatever they want, would still be “respected,” what they “conclude,” and specifically, “what they say or express,” is no longer unlimited. In fact, every statement or expression a person makes would be weighed according to the other principles.

Principle 4: Rewards in proportion to social contribution. This principle recognizes an inherent human need for motivation to produce effort. It also recognizes that each individual shares their space and activity on the planet with many others. It also recognizes the need to replace luck, which is an unearned reward, with the reliability of results, which are earned through effort and wisdom. 

Principle 5: Sustainable world, sustainable society. This principle forces societies to use system methods and scientific measurements to plan their actions for long-term sustainability with respect for the ecosystems in which they live.

Principle 6: Efficiency to support sustainability. This requires the application of system analysis to minimize waste in both material and effort. When done in harmony with Principle 1, the human benefit is greatly increased. And with the application of wise efficiencies in a sustainable productivity there are surpluses for charity and unexpected emergencies.

Principle 7: Beauty should be captured throughout human environments. To understand this, consider the images of the architecture of the ancient world. Why has humanity replaced this with slums and miles of “strip malls”? Why have we “paved paradise to put up parking lots”?

Principle 8: Responsibility for personal, family, and local society development. A primary goal for all community level actions would be to understand how to nurture value in personal, family, and social efforts for how social coordination benefits all people.

Principle 9: Respect logical thinking based on material reality. This principle rejects organizing society in any way that relies on appeals to magic, superstition, human intuition, or supernatural interventions, without proof based on tangible and verifiable natural observations. It also prevents an individual or group from imposing their views on others.

Principle 10: Understand Human Psychology, Evolution, and History. This stresses the need for society to study, in a formal and global way, the immense and often negative impact that human psychology, evolution and history has in shaping the behaviors that create human culture. New wisdom that results from these studies should be incorporated into the guiding principles that shape world culture. Understanding human psychology, evolution, and history is also critical to understanding how to avoid the mistakes of the past and how to create a better future.

Principle 11: Understand that all individual and community freedoms have corresponding and equal responsibilities. This principle also creates healthy boundaries for others and the community. This principle is essential for individual and community peace, stability, and growth.

In summary, this set of 11 fundamental principles was developed to build a new foundation for a new society. These principles capture the wisdom of the great sages of history and the discoveries of underlying flaws that caused modern society’s collapse. While superficially appearing to be simple common wisdom, they are actually a rigorous system derived by applying System Analysis design methods to over 3600 vital concepts related to social harmony. The results provide answers to many of the enduring questions of the ages. They also lay out a path to understanding the major social puzzles of our time and eliminate the world insanity we are living with.

5. New level of “RESPONSIBILITY” for civic knowledge and action placed on citizens

Personalized Democracy brings major new recognition for each individual in society. This recognition is personal to them, allowing each to be heard, and their voice to carry high weight in establishing policy for the community. It should be clearly obvious that, having been given this new visibility and respect, there should also be a reciprocal element of “responsibility.” In fact, principle 4 of the 10 fundamental principles says right out: Rewards in proportion to social contribution. In short, this means, by accepting membership in the new community, each person must stand up for their contribution of responsibility.

In the full description of Personalized Democracy, the book goes into this concept in depth. It especially addresses principle 10: Understand Human Psychology Evolution and History. That is, recognizing that all humans have psychological traits based on evolution, that don’t always make it easy to take on responsibility, a successful implementation of PD requires that many cultural practices will be needed to make “responsible” decisions easier to make.  

A quick example might help visualize this. This need has been recognized from the dawn of time. We actually see it quite frequently. In ancient societies, titles were given to people who held significant roles. In recent times, where authoritarian rule existed, there were titles like kings, queens, dukes, earls. In the military, there are ranks also identified by titles: general, major, corporal, sergeant, etc. Each of these had visual identifiers like stripes worn on the shoulder, or stars for hats.

It is also common for institutions to give out awards for special performances. An example is the Oscars for movies and Emmys for TV shows. Personalized Democracy adopts similar programs, but in much greater variety. Most important, however, they are “never” associated with either money or power, always with “social contribution”. This process, along with others, hopefully, will help every individual find social responsibility something of high value.

5. Some examples of how Personalized Democracy might work in Eco-communities

In this section, a number of examples are given to show how current practices might change under Personalized Democracy (PD).

Decisions for community action

Under PD, the concept of “voting” to make decisions would no longer be used. Instead, the new PD process would be used. For each issue that arises where the need for some change is suspected, a task would be created for an appropriate coordination team to determine or develop an understanding of why the need came up at all. That is, why, based on existing scientific and operational analysis, an answer wasn’t already obvious? Understanding this explanation may best be seen using an example.

Presume the community is planning a climate information rally for an upcoming weekend. Two reasonable choices are apparent: next weekend or the following weekend. In current society, getting this answer might be done by calling a “vote.” The weekend getting the most votes would win. PD takes a very different approach.

A coordinating group involved with “climate information outreach planning” would typically pull out an event planning guidebook. Such a guide would have a section titled: “How to choose the date for an event.” It might have a consideration like number of people available for each date. But it might also have many other considerations listed as well:

• Do any of the possible dates conflict with other events?
• Does the later date provide more time that would be critical for planning or advertising success?
• Does the earlier date benefit from surprise, etc?

A good guidebook would also suggest methods to evaluate each of these answers. This is the first point at which community members participate in the decision. Every member of the community would be asked their opinion about many factors: which date could you attend? Do you have any contributions for the following 4 approaches? Do you have any additional suggestions for approaches? Do either of the days conflict with a personal event you have planned? If you had more time to plan or prepare, would it help with your involvement? If we had the rally the first week, can you think of how this might be made a surprise? 

The initial choice made would then be sent back to the community members for additional feedback and to add any missed consequences that that date might have on that member.

Using all the information provided, the process outlined in the guide would actually make the choice! If a simple “voting” approach were used, it would exhibit the typical flaws of voting: voter ignorance of an issue’s complexity; voters responding through emotions they aren’t even aware of; the volume of votes for or against not being the most significant factor for success; etc.

With the PD process, the outcome would always be very different. Each community member would be provided with options that apply, directly, to them personally. For example, Mary Smith might get the following example reply:

Mary. Thanks for your input. It appears you can go either day. People you’ve already attended rallies with are more available for the second weekend. The advantages of that weekend are a, b, c, etc. However, it appears many members would like to go both weekends. In that case, here are the advantages and possible plans for the first weekend as well.

Notice the differences that this approach presents:

1. The elements of only 2 choices are not predetermined by some small groups of representatives for reasons that benefit them.
2. Because no vote is involved, even if the weekend of choice for a majority of the members is not what you would have chosen, a program that supports your choice has also been developed.
3. The program that has been provided for you to join addresses every input you provide on an individual basis with an attempt to include that input. 

Decisions for selecting representatives

One of the most common applications for voting in current society is the election of “representatives.” The fundamental purpose of such a role is simple. The person selected is expected to present to some legislative body, accurate and comprehensive summaries of the views of those they represent. This, however, is never done! 

Instead, the citizens of some “geographical” area, are presented with a number of “candidates” to choose from. Each citizen is expected to pick “one” candidate they believe will best represent their interests. When this candidate later acts as a representative for them, the candidate is then only expected to express mostly to only their own viewpoint. This approach has led to widespread corruption through the “buying” of candidates by special interests and “gerrymandering” of election areas.  

PD completely eliminates both forms of corruption, by accurately implementing the fundamental purpose of having representatives to begin with. But it goes one step further. It directly collects every view of each individual, and inserts that view directly into the processes that representatives were supposed to accomplish. Understanding this explanation may best be seen using an example.

Presume a community is doing an expected update on how transportation of children will be done for “social group schooling.” Because education would look very different under PD, this example focuses only on one aspect: bringing students from their homes to a centralized learning environment. Such decisions are now typically made by elected representatives called “school boards.”

With PD, all educational activities would be organized by a qualified and experienced educational coordination group. The members of this group are not elected. They are paid or unpaid professionals with extensive training in coordinating and delivering educational activities and extensive knowledge or experience on the educational subject. Instead of members of this group meeting to discuss and decide on plans, the entire foundation of the process is direct information provided from every member of the community – including the students themselves! As in the previous example, the coordinators do not come together to present their personal knowledge. 

They turn to a large collection of education planning guides. From that large collection, they gather the appropriate guides for the size, culture, and geography of the community. The guides would provide a large number of questions that each community member would be asked to address, possibly when they first joined the community. For parents, It might have questions like:

• What is your address?
• How many children do you have? What is each of their ages?
• Do they have active educational profiles already submitted to the system?
• Does your household have personal transportation that would be convenient for transporting your children to the education area? Provide details.
• Is there convenient public transportation access nearby? Provide details.

This community questionnaire could be constructed piece by piece over time as needed or, done all at once. If the answer to the previous question about do you already have an “active educational profile” of life is yes, many of these answers would already be filled in and presented to the proper coordinators to verify they have not changed.

Where PD really shows its “Personalized” responsiveness, when the process nears completion, it is not just the publication of “bus schedules.” Each student would be provided a suggested “optimized” plan for transportation. Upon review, changes, and finalization, the plan, for each individual student, would be activated.

On any single street in the community, each student might have a different solution, for each day of the week. Why? During some months, for example, when the educational plan includes field trips, a small group of students might be assigned to a local carpool to go directly to the training location – a local hospital, for example. Also, notice that the process is not locked in for an entire year. If a student’s needs change, for any reason, the system would automatically adjust for a new optimum plan. And to make this very clear, no current representative method can come anywhere near doing this. 

6. How to introduce Personalized Democracy into small communities

Starting from scratch

The examples above assume the existence of large, complex, computing structures that accept thousands of inputs, from thousands of citizens, address thousands of options, and produce thousands of individualized outputs. When communities are just forming, and have under 200 members, the processes can be reduced to very simple approaches, most only requiring simple spreadsheets and document storage. What's critical for these communities, is to have access to just basic elements: a public access document storage mechanism like Google Drive for their Foundation documents, members familiar with Personalized Democracy, and a program to train members how PD works for their community. 

The Foundation Documents

It is assumed that the community has a written FOUNDATION. That is, the founders have collected a comprehensive set of documents that describe what defines the community and how it differs from other communities and social structures. Such foundation documents would include things like the following.

Identifying the social goals and common beliefs that have pulled the group together. Some examples would be climate change, social justice, environmental conservation, fresh food, reduction of poverty, or poor living conditions.

Providing an Index of the foundation documents that summarizes and organizes the foundation documents. This should be a "working" document that grows and changes as the community develops. It would include sections like:

1. 1. 1. 1. The community's goals and beliefs. These might include:
2. What are the social changes that the community would like to achieve?
3. What benefits do you believe working together as a group can better achieve than working as individuals?
4. What defines survival in a collapsing world?
5. What structure will be set up to prevent the group from falling apart due to arguments or factions?
6. What tradeoffs do members make going from being "single actors" to part of a group? What "obligations" for "mutual support" would working together imply?

These questions will probably raise quite a bit of discussion. Most people intuitively understand that group membership implies responsibilities. Modern society is so lax at discussing this that we are oblivious to the denials we have. For example, many people believe, since we live in a "free society," we all have complete freedom to do what we want. Explaining why this is not so and what is expected otherwise is critical.

The primary purpose of this effort is to describe how the benefits of joint work require an investment in the care of each other through things like time, effort, and resources.

Familiarization with Personalized Democracy

A key factor for launching a community with Personalized Democracy is finding one or more people who are able to envision and apply a coordinating structure different from what exists. All the basics are contained in the 2 volumes of Collapse 2020.

ClimateSafe Village Education

Personalized Democracy Terminology

Many of the elements that describe Eco-communities, including Personalized Democracy (PD), use terms that already have established meanings in society. The term "Democracy" is an example. The terms "Eco," "Community," and "leadership" are also examples. That means, new members, when they hear or read those terms, will try to understand them from their learned experience. The roles of "leadership" in Eco communities are better understood as mentoring or coordinating. Like all social efforts based on PD, the initiative for all activities is focused on contributions by all the members, not a directive from a "leader" or any government. Over time, it means that all members of the community should expect to be called on to help educate other members.

The effort of education coordinators will be to create educational experience models that members can use to clarify how important terms are used in the new Eco-communities. Since so many community features are approached in a "NEW" way, the opportunities for education will occur continuously. This especially applies to situations where the concepts of education "coordination" and "interaction" themselves apply.

The concept of COMMUNITY and membership

A key element of PD Eco-communities is that they are communities! This implies that such communities are not intended to be places for "hermits" or "isolationists" to come and hide out for protection. When people complain that "they want a voice in their government," when they get that wish fulfilled, it means they need to take an active role in providing that voice. If they expect the community to "provide" considerations for them, they must also accept that the community expects that they return value to the community. This means, for education "coordinators," a major focus will be helping members understand what "committing time, effort, and resources" to the community means.

The modern citizen takes for granted how many community interactions we each already do. To visualize this, look at the following list: food, housing, clothing, transportation, medical, psychology, education, information resources, employment, legal, childcare, meeting space, planning, financing, communicating. All of these will still occur in an Eco-community. An education element is therefore needed to teach the new PD process of coordination expected for each of these.

For example, consider the process of creating education experiences itself. A community, based on PD, will NOT have the "role" that we now associate with a "traditional leader." The traditional "leader" role, adopting a true "democratic" model, would be dispersed to many people in the form of a mentor or coordinator. Each would be identified as a "knowledgeable" spokesperson or coordinator for their specific areas of knowledge. These people would not be chosen for their personality alone using "elections." Each would first be identified and come forward based on demonstrated specialized knowledge and experience.

In modern society, every person in a trade – plumbers, electricians, hair dressers, doctors, lawyers – is required to demonstrate competence through some qualification process. To run for president of the U.S., or a senator or representative, there are zero requirements other than citizenship! It's complete madness!

In an Eco-community, each coordinator would also need to demonstrate some skill in communication of information related to that knowledge and experience. When it comes to explaining the community to external organizations like the news media, no single person would be expected to provide more than a very high-level overview of the community. To present more depth, many different members would have to speak for each of the "elements" listed above. The closest community role that would appear to the outside world as the "community leader" would be a community "speaker." They would essentially be chosen from one of the "philosophical mentors" for the community.

The concept of COORDINATION

For every form of community interaction listed above, and others that will also arise, a methodology for coordination will be needed. These, however, do not have to be designed from scratch. Current society already has "de facto" models in place for all of them. What is needed is to modify the existing models so they include and are based on the benefit of each individual separately, and the welfare of the entire community, not the benefit of any individual business or institution. Understanding this explanation may best be seen using an example.

The entire modern concept of competition developed as a natural progression of life from survival behavior from bacteria to modern humans. The expression of how humans express competition made abrupt changes along the way based almost exclusively on two parameters: human brain changes and the appearance of new technologies.

The key technology changes for the modern age were: the industrial revolution, electricity, medical birth control, and computers. The industrial revolution greatly speeded up the cultural change called the specialization of labor. This brought much of humanity out of a small farmer agrarian lifestyle and into industry, cities, and an explosion of innovation-driven complexity. The last three items, plus electric communication, quickly turned every population center into a Petri dish. How did humanity respond? Did we listen to the warnings? NO. Under the banner of "capitalism" – also known as the bacterial model on petroleum "steroids" - the focus turned intensively to market dominance. Its score sheet is what we call the daily stock market report.

The elements listed, of course, are not compatible with each other. They interact as in a paper-scissors-stone game. For example, innovation flourishes in an environment of freely shared learning. It is stifled, however, by the secrecy of organizations seeking market dominance. Think about how this has destroyed academia! Market dominance flourishes in the environment of aristocratic capitalism: secrecy, ambush, destruction of competition, control of markets, and extreme accumulation of wealth. The last two items, of course, are devastating to "free markets," the environment, and the Quality of Life for those in poverty. 

Resolving these conflicts is where new Eco-communities should make clear changes. Since the growth of "tangible material items" must be greatly reduced to achieve sustainability, modern greed-based capitalism that does not also include the triple bottom line accounting principles and full production cycle sustainability principles should also be completely eliminated. The term "tangible material items" was highlighted because all growth does not "yet" have to stop. The growth of wisdom and knowledge, for example, should still be encouraged. The growth of respect and caring also have a long way to grow. Note the term "yet" highlighted above. The problem of "growth" is tricky. Even for knowledge, unlimited growth eventually fails. Cancer is a good example of the outcome of unlimited growth. At some point, the quantity of knowledge would become so great it would overwhelm any human ability to deal with it, even with computer support.

So, what would be an alternative for Eco-communities? A new society would do as much as possible to limit "society-produced motivations" that drive individuals to "primitive" and simple forms of thinking that, under stress, our brains feel more comfortable with. New models should be depicted that show safe environments with adequate, sustainable resources where cooperation is the appropriate method to solve problems.

To implement models like this, the challenge becomes how to invoke the emotional drivers of competition BUT in an environment of broad cooperation, not mutual destruction! There is a way that we've known about for millennia!

To do this, a specialized form of competition called "cooperative competition" should be applied. The model we have known about from antiquity is the Olympic games.

To understand this example, it is important to first eliminate the use of medals as awards for first, second, and third-place winners. This is a predatory distortion that parallels autocratic thinking. Instead, consider only the events where the criterion for winning is beating an old tangibly measurable record. These are events that measure performance using instruments like clocks and rulers. In such an event, every contestant who beats his or hers old record would get a medal. That medal does not compare any contestant against any other. It records the specific achievement that counts as a new record. For example, in a sprint, it would record the new shortest time for a 100-meter run. There could also be multiple levels of awards for coming close. 

This changes the whole meaning of competition. Every contestant running on the track no longer sees other strong contestants as "threats." Instead, each such challenger actually becomes a "helper"! This occurs because they establish "achievements" of possibility that encourage all the others. The faster each person runs, the harder they push all the others toward winning as well. If the whole field of runners breaks the prior record, it's a win-win-win for all. Every contestant would get an award. If none break the old record, no "new-record" awards are given out. 

The "de facto" models

Above, I provided a list of activities where human interactions occur: food, housing, clothing, transportation, etc. Human interactions for all of these will change under PD. What we shouldn't do is try to envision the new PD model out of thin air. Start with models we already have, and adapt them.

Food as a model

For example, take the first activity on the list: food. How do humans now interact with "food"? The first factor to consider is that there are so many varieties of food experiences in life. These range from getting candy from a vending machine to a feast at a wedding reception. More focus is needed. For each new Eco-community envisioned, try to think of the most basic food issues that will be faced. That is, for a typical day, how would most family groups currently get, transport, store, and process food?

A typical family in a small suburban rural town the U.S. would do the following:

• Drive to one or more grocery stores and buy needed items for the current week.
• Bring the items home, and carry them into the house.
• Divide them up into perishable and non-perishable piles.
• Put the perishables in a refrigerator or freezer.
• Put the non-perishables into cabinets.
• etc., for many more steps.

To use this as a simple process to visualize changes for implementing PD, ask the following two questions for each step:

1. How have authoritarian structures of the past established rituals for daily life that define how we do them?
2. If you now have the ability to approach the ritual based on giving each party involved a chance to have their personal approach to it included, what changes could be made that address the basic principles of PD. These were listed above in the section titled Social Contract. For convenience, 4 of the 10 list items are repeated here:

1. Quality of Life

2. All organizations exist to benefit individuals

3. Respect individual thinking, not conclusions

4. Rewards in proportion to social contribution

Right from square one, the whole issue of buying the "needed items" comes up. If the "family" unit is a couple and small children, the parents may decide this on their own. But, if the family unit is an apartment with 6 adults, this task takes on a whole new level of complexity. Sitcoms are written about conflicts that typically arise when multiple adults live together.

This is where implementing PD presents an excellent way to envision how a new community could be different. In current society, finding housing is terribly handled because it is driven to optimize sales business. Individuals typically only see the financial aspects of joining an apartment.

In a PD Eco-community, based on item 2 of the basic principles, the housing process is optimized for the benefit of both buyers and the people already in the apartment. Both the buyers and current occupants would be expected to provide extensive background information about themselves. The elements of the information would be determined by research showing how sharing such elements can improve the "Quality of Life" for all tenants. One of the information items would describe the "food practices" of the tenants already in the apartment and those of prospective tenants. If the apartment is in a city, and the current members are vegetarian and participate in a local "urban garden," this information would be available.

When it finally came time to make up the "weekly" shopping list, this wouldn't simply be checking in cabinets to see what was missing. If food was an important issue to the residents, it would be typical to have longer-term plans to experiment with their diets.

Education as a model

A second example is a brief look at education. In current society, a basic model we have for education is that it is provided to children as they grow to prepare them to enter the workforce and participate as "citizens" in a democracy. To prepare children, we draw on training material from books and videos. The material is gathered into subject groups and presented in gradually increasing complexity. We can start with that. But PD drastically changes the environment in which it is delivered. 

To begin with, the major focus is not convenience for lecture delivery of the standardized curriculum. The major focus is the individual. Every individual, from their earliest entry into learning, would be given the support for a personalized education. The same "learning modules" that are felt appropriate for what we now call k-4 levels, would probably be included. But each child would be evaluated for both special needs, and special skills. A child with musical virtuosity at age 6, for example, would not be expected to slug through the same music learning as the bulk of children with more common skills. PD also envisions a return to a form of apprenticeship in parallel with general learning. Every business and occupation in the community would be expected, as a community contribution, to support this.

Jumping ahead to adults, PD envisions "education" to be a "lifelong" process. The same "apprenticeship" cooperation that is easy to visualize for children to explore new interests, would also be available to adults. The "education coordination" function of the community would coordinate all of this. In a newly forming community, it would require simple collections of personal information records and indexes of community opportunities.  

Employment as a model

A third example is a brief look at employment. In this example, it only applies to roles considered part of community coordination itself.

The first element to understand is item 4 on the principles list: "Rewards in proportion to social contribution." Notice, this does not say "monetary" rewards. How can we put a monetary value on things like kindness, sympathy, or simple companionship in times of need? Some coordination tasks, however, like accounting, may have financial value. The point is, when someone acts as a coordinator, it is expected that they receive some fair exchange community reward for that service.

The second element is how PD handles the concept of "community." Again related to coordinators, every coordinator would be expected to maintain a "universal" member profile record. Think of this as a community "employee file." As circumstances change, new skills are learned, or personal goals change, a person might want to drop one role and take on another. Because of this community profile, the change could occur as simply as employees now change desks. (Ultimately, on a larger scale, PD uses this same model for all employment - a much longer discussion).

7. Conclusion

The initial description for Personalized Democracy at the beginning of this page was related to a fully implemented large-scale model. The last few sections gave examples of how it might apply to small communities in formation, especially those that are embedded within or near existing villages or cities. In those cases, only a few of its key components would be needed an in simpler implementations. In either case, a much more extensive description of Personalized Democracy is available in the book Collapse 2020 v2: Birth of Personalized Democracy, available at no cost to all members of the Eco-communities project.

Other Pages in the ClimateSafe Village Guide

Page 1: Introduction, Overview, and Goals

Page 2: ClimateSafe Village Qualities, Processes, Income Sources, and Safeguards

Page 3: The Four ClimateSafe Village Models and Their Operations

Page 4: Our New Personal Democracy ClimateSafe Village Management Model

Page 5: About ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham, a Unique Rural ClimateSafe Village

Page 6: Our ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham Application Process

Appendix Materials

The ClimateSafe Village Social Contract Page

Online Rules for Our Virtual ClimateSafe Village

Procedures and Policies for Exiting Our ClimateSafe Villages or Applying for Membership 

Personal Democracy White Paper

The ClimateSafe Villages Issues FAQ of frequently asked questions for only issues directly relating to ClimateSafe Villages issues

The ClimateSafe Villages Climate FAQ of frequently asked questions for every question you have about climate change

Click here for our ClimateSafe Village online guide master table of contents

Sign up here to learn more about ClimateSafe Villages

Last updated 3.18.24.

Prologue

The Job One for Humanity team spent many years anticipating the need to build climate-resilient communities. We designed and helped create the model to save lives in the accelerating climate emergency.

During those years, we designed a master plan for what we hoped would become climate-resilient communities that could simultaneously survive the climate change emergency and other global crises. Initially, we called these climate-resilient communities eco-communities or the Universe One community. 

In May 2023, with the ClimateSafe Villages (CSV) new leadership, Job One helped create a new CSV non-profit organization. The primary purpose of this new CSV organization was to develop new climate-resilient communities and to support individuals in completing the many essential and complex actions of climate change emergency preparation, adaptation, and climate resilience-building.

Job One sponsored the new CSV until December 31, 2023, just after the US government granted it full non-profit status.

We also helped create CSV to collect and share all the information that anyone anywhere in the world would need to develop a climate-safe village in their location.

In March 2024, one of the lead Job One team members resigned from the ClimateSafe Villages board of directors because ClimateSafe Villages had the necessary skilled management team in place and that Job One team member needed to return to their research and analysis work at Job One.

Today, many Job One team members are active ClimateSafe Villages members for the survival of themselves and their families. 

Almost everything on the Job One website describing ClimateSafe Villages is from our original master model research for creating individual and community climate resilience.

The current management of ClimateSafe Villages has full access to these materials for their work. Job One for Humanity continues to collaborate with and regularly promotes ClimateSafe Villages' work.

Click here to visit the new and fully independent Climatesafe Villages organization and website!

Introduction to the original ClimateSafe Villages Master Model

No matter where you currently live, our four models of ClimateSafe Villages are designed to provide individuals and families with a secure, supportive, and sustainable living environment amidst the growing climate crisis challenges. By prioritizing self-sufficiency, adopting green technologies, and fostering a supportive community culture, we help ensure our members have the resources and skills to weather the many future uncertainties.

Even if you are not or have not considered joining our community, we have much to offer you in the form of open-access information on preparing, adapting, and building climate change resilience in your home or business right where you live today.

Embrace Sustainability, Unity, and Resilience Amidst Global Challenges

Understand the Climate Emergency

The climate crisis is rapidly escalating, with devastating consequences for our planet and its inhabitants. Extreme weather events, biodiversity loss, and rising sea levels are just a few of our challenges. In response to this urgent situation, our ClimateSafe Villages initiative seeks to build resilient, sustainable communities that can adapt to these changing conditions. By adopting innovative models and fostering collaboration, we aim to create a more hopeful future in the face of unprecedented environmental challenges.

Ready to take the next step?

Don't miss the opportunity to become part of a forward-thinking community that aims to impact the world positively. First, watch the ClimateSafe Villages Introduction video below, then in the links further below sign up now to get more information and join like-minded individuals who are dedicated to building a better tomorrow.

Experience a unique blend of social, cultural, and environmental values that will enrich your life and help us collectively navigate future uncertainties. Let's create a brighter, greener, and more sustainable future for all.

 

It is time to learn more about our four unique and groundbreaking Urban, Rural, Hybrid, and Virtual ClimateSafe Village models and discover their distinctive approach to sustainability, climate change resilience-building and community.

 

A good quick way to think about who we are and what we do is:

We are a non-profit educational organization providing open-access information and classes designed to help create a network of sustainable, climate change, and disaster-resilient urban and rural eco-communities we call ClimateSafe Villages. 

To do this, we teach the subjects needed to protect, preserve, and expand the viability of humanity to evolve a safer world and a better future. We focus on the world's most dangerous and destructive problems, but more importantly, their solutions (such as establishing climate change-resistant and resilient organic food production and creating climate change and disaster-resilient eco-homes, eco-buildings, and eco-communities.

Sign up here to learn more about ClimateSafe Villages.

Click here for our ClimateSafe Village online guide table of contents.

 

 

 

Read More About Our Innovative ClimateSafe Villages

"ClimateSafe Villages is far more than just prepping for climate change or being a climate change prepper. Among many benefits, it offers uncensored and un-politicized climate change causes, facts, tools, analysis, and effective climate change resilience building, preparation, adaptation, and solutions." Lawrence Wollersheim

When we say we are creating survive and thrive new ClimateSafe Villages worldwide, people have many different ideas of what that means. They often think of similar communities like intentional communities, co-housing communities, sustainability communities, resilience communities, prepper communities, degrowth communities, ecovillages, conservation communities, simplicity communities, deep adaptation communities, evolutionary communities, agrihoods, progressive preppers, eco-prepper, farmers cooperatives, eco-spiritual, even survivalist communities. 

While our four new ClimateSafe Village models may include and combine the best elements from many of these kinds of communities, they are also something new and quite unique. Our four ClimateSafe Village models also strive to transcend what we perceive to be the limitations, missing parts, or flaws in these other types of communities, and they are what you also could call true climate change-resilient survival communities.

Click here for our ClimateSafe Village Online Guide's Table of Contents.

Sign up here to learn more about ClimateSafe Villages

Please Note: Nowhere on Earth will be 100% safe from all climate change consequences. But we can create climate-safer locations and communities using the practices of climate change preparation, adaptation, and resilience building. ClimateSafe Villages will help you make wherever you live as climate-safe as possible using these practices." 

Why does the ClimateSafe Villages nonprofit organization exist?

Why are the wise preparing homes, businesses, and farms for rising climate change consequences? 

The following article reviews, discusses, and links you to a professional video made by ABC TV in 2009 called Earth 2100. We are reviewing it and promoting it because it is even truer today than it was in 2009

This ABC TV video also helps explain why ClimateSafe Villages exist, and it does so considerably easier than all the climate science links on the Job One website or the documentation links at the bottom of this page. It may send a chill through your whole being.

Please watch this gripping video and share it with anyone you know who is seriously concerned about climate change and their future.  

A little Job One history is relevant here

ClimateSafe Villages (CSV) grew from the climate research at the Job One climate change think tank. The networked climate researchers there understood that the climate change emergency would get much worse before it got better. They also could see from their climate research that creating climate change-resilient communities would be essential for long-term climate change survival.

This means that Climatesafe Villages came into existence because a small group of networked climate change researchers understood three things everyone should know about their climate change future:

1. many severe future climate change consequences are now unavoidable. (This is  because our governments squandered the last 60 years with ineffective climate actions or no action.) 

2. because of these unavoidable and soon-arriving climate change consequences, emergency preparation, intense adaptation, and resilience-building have now become mandatory actions that also must be completed at a community level to survive long term. (Individuals or families alone cannot do everything that needs to be prepared and managed.)

3. their most probable unprepared future would be climate change suffering, disruption, and likely death, and they also wanted to protect their families, children, and grandchildren. 

Seeing their disturbing climate change future clearly, a team of volunteers at Job One then researched and developed a framework for what these new climate change-resilient communities must do to provide stable, long-term support and safety for their members. 

The next challenge these climate researchers and educators had was to make the complex climate change knowledge they had acquired from studying tens of thousands of pages of climate science and research understood more easily. Many other individuals also needed to understand why these new CSV communities would be needed.

They did succeed to a degree, but still, few people were willing to spend the time reading long, complex pages of climate change science. Luckily, they also discovered the Earth 2100 ABC TV video that tells the story of our climate change future well without difficult science reading.

For those who do not want to read long climate science pages, this ABC TV video will quickly visualize the basic facts of your climate change future. It provides this information framed in an intriguing story about a girl born in 2009 and what she will face over the decades. We believe it may get you thinking deeply about how you will deal with our escalating climate change emergency. 

This ABC TV video beautifully illuminates the future of humanity from 2009 to 2100. While we strongly recommend how good this video is, we also do so with important limitations and qualifications that we will share with you after you watch the video further down this page. 

When you are done watching the ABC Earth 2100 video below, please fill in the survey below and continue reading the rest of the article because you also need to know the ABC TV video's climate change information has limitations and inaccuracies. Unfortunately, these "limitations and inaccuracies" make the concerns expressed in the movie even worse!

To watch the spellbinding ABC TV video, go to  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDqRpM72Odg

Here are a few of the 2009 ABC video limitations and inaccuracies and the 2023 climate updates

Over half of the above video's climate change timeframe and consequence predictions are relatively accurate. But many other critical consequences and timeframes are underestimated by as much as 20 to 40%. We suspect ABC TV was using the widely available climate science funded or influenced by the well-funded global fossil fuel cartel's disinformation campaigns. (Click here if you are curious to see how the global fossil fuel cartel has wholly corrupted the process for fixing climate change, climate change severity predictions, and climate change timetables over the last 60 years.)

1. Most of what the ABC video says will happen by 2100 will probably be happening between 2060 and 2070. 
2. ABC did get very close to James Hanson's research, where he said once humanity crosses the carbon 386 parts per million in the atmosphere level, global warming becomes runaway global warming. That occurred in 2015. (Hansen is one of the world's most respected climate change researchers.)
3. At the end of the video, where ABC proposes climate change solutions, they are far from being in the correct priority sequence, and those ABC solutions will not save humanity in time from the worst climate change consequences! This ABC climate solution error is critical because they assert that our lives could be better by 2050 if we did the solutions they recommend. If we follow their suggestions, half the world's population will die by 2050. (See the documentation section below for the correct solutions governments must enact.)
4. Their proposed climate solutions are also tech and Wall Street finance-friendly. The idea we will "invest our way out of this crisis" is nonsense and shows they do not understand the real climate change timeframes and consequences. We have to radically cut fossil fuels right now to have any hope of having even a much smaller portion of humanity surviving. Climate change "business as usual" means we will cross more extinction-level climate change tipping points from 2025-2031. 
5. Nowhere in the ABC climate solutions do they call for sacrifice for our own families and future generations.
6. More 2023 climate change updates are in the documentation links below. 

Yet, despite all of the video's underestimation problems, the ABC video will walk you through the many layers of what your future will be like if we don't make radical global fossil fuel cuts before 2025 is over. Additionally, because it is doubtful we will cut global fossil fuel emissions by the required 75% by 2025, this video powerfully illuminates why you must start preparing, adapting, and possibly creating ClimateSafe Villages-like eco-communities worldwide so someone survives.

The ABC TV video is also great because it visually helps many understand why so many other individuals are waking up to their climate change-driven future and facing why they must immediately start preparing, adapting, and building climate change resilience in their homes, businesses, and communities. 

After watching this video, we recommend you take the survey below and learn more about how ClimateSafe Villages can help you survive and thrive through the climate change emergency longer and more comfortably. 

Now that you have viewed the Earth 2100 video, here is our brief CSV survey

Click here to do a quick survey about your possible interest in being part of an initial group financially contributing to the first ClimateSafe Village land purchase. This survey is merely a way for us to gauge potential interest and for you to indicate your openness to further discussions about the possibilities of this CSV village or its structure.

CSV is excited to announce that we are in the preliminary stages of forming our inaugural group of co-founding individuals who share our vision of creating a pioneering climate change-resilient eco-community. This community will be founded on the core principles and values that CSV holds dear, which include:

• Climate Change Resilience: We aim to develop an eco-community (and an open access sharable eco-community model) that is not only aware of the challenges posed by climate change but is also prepared to adapt and thrive, and help others do so in the face of such challenges.

• Equity: Our community will champion fairness and justice, ensuring that all members have equal opportunities and are treated with respect and dignity.

• Education: We believe in the power of knowledge and will prioritize continuous learning and growth for all community members.

• Environmental Sustainability: At the heart of our mission is a commitment to the environment. We will adopt practices that protect our planet and ensure a sustainable future for generations to come.

If the idea of being part of this groundbreaking initiative resonates with you, we invite you to express your interest using this form.  Please note that filling out this survey form does not bind you to any commitment or guarantee a spot at this stage. climatesafevillages.org

Here is the documentation for the article above

We have provided documentation links below if you want to read the climate analysis demonstrating the ABC video is overly optimistic and grossly underestimated by 20-40% in many areas. The climate science research and analysis below is based on the most updated climate science of 2023, not when the video was made in 2009.

The video above does a good job of telling the story of our future without having to read the complex climate science below. Here are the critical links needed to understand the current reality of the climate change mass disruption and extinction threat:

Click here to see the ten most critical illustrated facts about the climate and runaway global warming. It and its links will explain runaway global warming, what near-total extinction vs. total extinction means, and why we face only near-total extinction, not total extinction. Finally, it will explain humanity's tiny but real hope for a livable future.

Click here for the four extinction-driving climate tipping points, the first being crossed starting about 2025. This page will explain precisely why we only have from 2025 to 2031 (if humanity is very lucky) left to maintain some level of effective control over our climate future before the immutable laws of climate and atmospheric greenhouse gas physics take over. 

Click here for the climate-driven processes of global collapse and mass to near-total extinction. Here, you will see the cascade of almost 80 primary and secondary climate change consequences unfolding and interacting with humanity's 11 other current major global crises. After reading this page, you will understand why the extinction of half of humanity by 2050 is already an unavoidable reality and that all that remains now is to fight to prevent our near-total extinction. 

Click here to read the surprising reasons why ALL of humanity will most probably not go extinct, but you will not like how bitter this “medicine” will be. 

Click here for accurate climate change-related consequence timetables relevant to massive global disruptions and system collapses in the environment, economics, politics, and society. These predicted timeframes have been reviewed and verified in multiple studies.

Click here to understand why the very painful 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets are our honest, last-chance fossil fuel reduction targets they need to make before it is too late to prevent near-total extinction. In addition, it has detailed technical notes on the many factors behind the correctly adjusted 2025 target calculations.

Click here to review honest climate change solutions that will save the lives of most of humanity.

Click here to read the ten most dangerous things almost everyone does not understand about the runaway global heating emergency. It is critical to understand the gross underestimation and other flaws and factors not being fully accounted for in current climate risk assessments based on the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) calculations and modeling. This will also offer additional critical climate momentum and inertia factors and other climate insights as to why the 1% only have 3-9 years left to maintain some level of effective control over our climate future. 

Click here if you are curious to see how the global fossil fuel cartel has wholly corrupted the process for fixing climate change over the last 60 years.

Click here to understand the long-term history of the IPCC underestimating the consequences, timeframes, and the needed global fossil fuel reduction targets by as much as 20-40% or more. This page and its linked pages will help explain why the current 2025 global fossil fuel reductions are so severe to compensate for the 60-plus years society has delayed and failed to make the required gradual fossil fuel reductions. 

Click here to see precisely how the IPCC "cooked the fossil fuel reduction calculations" and grossly skewed the current IPCC global fossil fuel reduction calculations by including unproven, non-existent, and unscalable "carbon-sucking unicorn" technology into their projections. 

Click here to see the eleven major runaway global heating tipping points that have been all but excluded from the IPCC calculations on how much fossil fuel use the 1% must cause to be reduced each year globally. It also contains the tipping point theory and why crossing these climate tipping points is so dangerous to all aspects of our globalized society.  

Click here to see the four key reasons why the IPCC's 26 global climate change conferences have failed to produce results or legitimate global fossil fuel reduction targets.

Click here to see the IPCC's huge atmospheric methane calculation problem.

Click here to see the latest 2022 IPCC climate change summary report on the critical climate sensitivity error. Because of only this ongoing climate sensitivity error, the IPCC's newest climate consequence predictions, timeframes, and remedial action information will be underestimated by as much as 25% or more. (This 25% does not include the effect of the other IPCC errors described in the links just above.) 

All of the above-linked decades of IPCC error, calculation, and polarization problems mean that the IPCC is an unreliable partner for truthful and accurate climate change information. Their climate consequence predictions, timeframes, and remedial action information are grossly underestimated by 25 - 50 %+ and possibly more!

A bit more CSV history

In 2023, Leonora Camner (now executive director at CSV) came to Job One and proposed creating the new eco-communities as a project separate from Job One's ongoing climate research and analysis. Job One agreed. That was the CSV organization's official birth.

Please also note that since 2019, Job One has been aware of numerous climate change researchers who have been quietly moving their families to locations that are safer from climate change consequences. When climate change researchers move their families away from the higher climate change risk areas, it is reasonable to conclude that the escalating climate threat to our future is real.

We hope you liked the climate educational value of the  ABC TV Earth 2100 video as much as we did at Job One.

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Climate change may not have triggered the recent Fort Lauderdale storm, (24 inches of rain in 24 hours) but it amplified the floods to biblical proportions.

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Prologue

Welcome to the unique Universe One Bellingham CSV master model for everything you ever would want to know about this unique ClimateSafe Village (CSV), a climate-resilient eco-communities for the future. Of course, the ongoing discussion forums at CSV will continue to add to the factors found on this Universe One page and in the 6-page CSV master vision model found on the Job One website. 

The article below contains advanced CSV member information on the unique Universe One ClimateSafe Village in Bellingham, Washington, USA. If you are new to CSV, please click here to go to our new, far less complex ClimateSafe Village website to start exploring the many positive possibilities at a beginner's level.

If you have not yet read this summary of the ten current climate change condition facts, please do so before reading this page. You will then better understand why you should consider joining our Universe One Bellingham CSV community.

Introduction

This is page 4 of our ClimateSave Villages (CSV) master vision online guide. This page is designed for those who are seriously interested in or want to learn more about:

a. Joining the Universe One Bellingham, Washington urban community and potentially the eventual ClimateSafe Villages headquarters (if the new management team of the independent CSV non-profit organization also decides to continue to make the Bellingham area their headquarters location for the future.)

b. The Universe One Bellingham rural community will eventually also become the new headquarters for the Job One for Humanity climate change think tank, the Universe Institute, the new version of the online Universe College, and, at a later date, the Universe Spirit organization and the Universe Day organization. 

c. How to create a local ClimateSafe Villages version of their own. (There will be significant foundational and advanced-level information here not found on other Job One CSV master vision pages.)

Overview

This page mostly concerns Universe One, a unique urban and rural ClimateSafe Village in Bellingham, Washington, USA. Both the Bellingham urban CSV and the Universe One Bellingham rural version of CSV, will be created in close ongoing collaboration and cooperation with the independent CSV headquarters nonprofit organization and the CSV network.

In many ways, the Universe One urban/rural community model embodies the best of the ClimateSafe Village model and vision, and it is also far more than only a ClimateSafe Village, as you will discover below.

Please feel free to skip directly to any linked section title below that most interests you. You can return to the other section titles later.

The section headings on this page are:

1. Important introduction to the unique Universe One  Bellingham CSV.

2. Launch Phases

3. Launch Steps

4. Membership Process

5. At Universe One Bellingham Rural, We Hold a New Worldview.

6. At Universe One Bellingham, We See Ourselves as Universe Citizens, Global Citizens, and Evolutioneers.

7. The Personal Spiritual Qualities and Values at Universe One Bellingham

8. The Universe Institute located at Universe One Bellingham

9. Additional Reading on the Principles of Progressive Evolution held at Universe One.

10. Universe College Online at Universe One Bellingham

11. Universe One and ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham Community Contributors

12. Other Pages in ClimateSafe Villages Community MasterModel Materials

13. Updates to our vision and recent news

1. Introduction to Universe One ClimateSafe Village Bellingham

Please do not think about the Universe One ClimateSafe Village in Bellingham as the same as the other CSV models described elsewhere. While it embraces the climate change resilience-building and many different values and goals found on our 6-page ClimateSafe Villages Master Model Overview, it also has many activities, values, and goals and a unique culture that will not typically be found in the other ClimateSafe Villages models or independent eco-community variations.

Part of what makes Universe One Bellingham unique as an urban/rural community is that, unlike any other ClimateSafe Villages community, it will also be the new headquarters for the Job One for Humanity climate change think tank, the Universe Institute, Universe College, and, at a later date, the Universe Spirit organization and the Universe Day organization. 

After years of searching and researching at Job One, we decided that the global warming-safe and academically friendly Bellingham, Washington, was the very best US area for these organizations' new headquarters. When this Universe One urban/rural village is fully established, the Bellingham area location holds the promise of surviving and thriving for many decades into an uncertain climate future.

As you read the following, we hope that you will come to see the Universe One community as a new way of life and a philosophy for better living based on rationality, science, and living in balance with nature. If this is how you want to live your life to help minimize the greater social, economic, and political dysfunctionality you see around you, we welcome your help. 

Quick Overview of What the Universe One Bellingham CSV Is and Does

The Bellingham headquarters will strive to embody the highest possible level of the complete CSV vision. It will strive to be the most: 

1. survivable, 

2. sustainable and eco-friendly, and

3. healthy (physically, emotionally, and spiritually if you are also of a spiritual nature.)

To understand what we mean by the three qualities described above, please be sure to click this link and read the whole page.

Like other CSVs, the Universe One Bellingham CSV will strive to be a necessary sanctuary and refuge from the world's escalating dangers and troubles during its rapid transition toward widespread ecological, economic, political, and social collapse. It will become a sanctuary and refuge to preserve the necessary peace and stability for a healthy body, mind, and spirit. It also will strive to preserve the best of our art, science, and civilization, not unlike the monasteries of the Dark Ages to seed the next Renaissance and Enlightenment eras. 

While doing all this, it will also be the place for creating, testing, refining, and proving new and better economic, social, political, and even religious models for the post-collapse world that will finally forward true justice, sustainability, and equality for ALL of humanity.  

Universe One Bellingham will actively work toward the many justice, equality, and sustainability benefits that will occur as we create the post-collapse Great Rebirth described on this page. If you are serious about joining Universe One Bellingham, be sure to read about the Great Rebirth described on this page to understand where we see our future going.

Universe One Bellingham will also be unique because if all goes as planned, it will have team members from the Job One for Humanity climate change think tank, the Universe Institute, Universe College, and at a later date, the Universe Spirit organization and the Universe Day organization living on site and contributing to the Great Great Rebirth culture and growth of CSVs in addition to their own mission work.

If you do not feel significantly aligned with the missions of the above-linked organizations, the Universe One Bellingham CSV is not the right fit for you. However, other CSV locations could work well as they would not have the activities of all of these organizations going on within the community.

Universe One Bellingham will eventually establish a highly developed sanctuary and refuge function for its members, along with the many other functions that CSVs perform. Universe One will also be where evolving new master model improvements for all CSV models (urban, rural, hybrid, and virtual) will be continually developed, tested, and refined.

Why Bellingham, Washington?

The Universe One Bellingham community is intentionally located in a predominantly progressive area where many climate safety and security factors converge. The area is also still reasonably affordable to middle-class and lower-middle-class individuals. It has a climate with colder winters and some snowfall alternating with warmer summers. It also has distinct rainy and growing seasons.  

It is off the significant earthquake faults common to Vancouver Island, the San Juan Islands, and the Seattle and Portland areas. While it is not perfect, its negative climate consequences, such as heat domes, rain bombs, and fires, can be managed by climate-resilient building design, drainage design, and fire mitigation design that will be constructed from the ground up in this rural village. 

Additionally, we intend to purchase land within 2 to 3 miles of the Pacific Ocean and at a level at least 25 feet above sea level or any flood plain. This land selection will allow village temperatures to be 10 to 15° warmer in the winter and 10 to 15° cooler in the summer and not be flooded by sea level rise or intense storms coming off the ocean.

Our Bellingham rural location will also be far enough away from the major highways that will transport climate migrants the significantly smaller number of climate migrants that will travel that far north especially in winters. 

Finally, because Bellingham is such a progressive area with a university branch, it will be considerably easier to build a CSV urban/rural community. Most progressives already know that the climate change emergency is accurate, and they need to start preparing and adapting to survive and thrive through it. Some of the best locations to create a CSV are progressive areas of the country, with a university or college located in a nearby town near the 45th parallel north or south.

There is a slight possibility that if we cannot secure an adequate amount of land for a large community within a 25-30-minute drive from Downtown Bellingham, we may move to our second choice location, Marquette, Michigan. It is similar to Bellingham, Washington, in many ways, for example, the university, a progressive environment, etc., but it is much colder and has much more snow.

mIt is even possible that Marquette, Michigan, would be selected as our emergency secondary backup and bug-out location if a crisis occurred in the Bellingham area that made our survival unsustainable. Survival of the most cooperative vs survival of the fittest.

It is survival of the most cooperative and reciprocating vs survival of the fittest

One of the things that's least understood about the CSV vision, notably the Bellingham headquarters, is that the more accurate evolutionary concept for long-term survival is "survival of the most cooperative and the most reciprocating."

Survival of the fittest is an old evolutionary perspective. While valid at a smaller scale, it has only limited applicability when facing widespread global climate change catastrophe and the global collapse the CSV communities will face.

Recently, at Job One For Humanity, we had to do our annual update and forecast for future climate change conditions. We once again had to face the climate change emergency not being honestly addressed or fixed by our governments. We also had to face that once humanity had crossed the carbon 425 ppm threshold (which occurred on February 3, 2024), climate consequences would worsen dramatically and continue worsening. 

This update forced us to re-examine certain assumptions that the projected Bellingham community (about 150 people to 500 people) would have enough community members to provide adequate security for at least 20 to 30 years. Based on Job One for Humanity's newest climate conditions and forecasts worsening faster than they had predicted, we no longer believe that 150-500 people is a large enough community to survive even the next 30 years, much less than 50 or more.

We now firmly believe that we must eventually create a greater Bellingham climate-resilient community of thousands of people to establish a more adequate, secure, and safe zone during the worst phases of the climate change emergency occurring 20-40 years from now. The Bellingham CSV must make it through the coming primary and secondary climate change consequences described here.

Making sure Bellingham expands into many local communities will be part of my (Lawrence Wollersheim's) long-term, top recruiting goals when I return to Bellingham with my wife. We will first establish the local rural CSV and then reach out to the many residents in the Bellingham area to join us. From there, we will continue reaching out to other surrounding communities, helping them become climate resilient.

The urban/rural Bellingham community will and must be well integrated with the Bellingham urban and the greater Bellingham local communities. Over time, it will become heavily involved in helping the local Bellingham communities build all the necessary levels of climate resilience, including managing climate refugees and building surpluses. (Click here to see what building local community climate change resilience-building process looks like.)

The Bellingham leadership from the multiple organizations that will be headquartered there will focus on and provide a persistent driving force for continually expanding reciprocal cooperation and collaboration to greater and greater numbers of communities in the Bellingham area and never stop that process. Eventually, we must aim to encompass cooperation and collaboration on climate resiliency issues within the whole state of Washington.

The reason why Bellingham and other CSV communities must adopt this "survival of the most cooperative" procedure is that unless they create larger and larger circles of cooperation and reciprocality, no matter how well their smaller local community is prepared, it will not likely survive long-term (30 to 50+ years or more.) 

This detailed description of what's coming is so powerful and intense that only having a large number of cooperating and collaborating individuals and communities who are highly climate resilient will give that area the highest probability of long-term survival. Single small communities will simply be unable to survive the continual onslaught of the many consequences described on this page.

When we first looked at the Bellingham location, we estimated that it could survive 20 or 30 years as a single, isolated, and well-prepared community. Afterward, we realized that only by taking our climate-resilient skill set out to cooperate and collaborate with more and more outside local communities could we build something that would last 30- 50 years and beyond.

With the cooperation, defensibility, and reciprocation that is possible with many communities or even a whole state-linked together to solve the challenges we will be facing, the probability and likelihood of the CSV community's long-term survival are increased exponentially beyond any isolated CSV community.

Suppose you're joining or creating a CSV community and want your group to survive 50 years or longer. In that case, you must ensure that you have a group of persistent, dedicated people inside that community dedicated to expanding cooperation, collaboration, and reciprocality with outside nearby communities to build mutual climate resilience and prepare for what's coming. Otherwise, no matter how isolated you are, sooner or later, your small community will be overrun or robbed, and you too will become a migrant yourself, whether it's to your second bug-out location or something else.

With the leadership of the various organizations to be headquartered there, the Universe One Bellingham CSV will have that survival-critical, complete dedication, understanding, and commitment to expanding climate resilience cooperation with more and more surrounding communities until, ideally, the whole state of Washington becomes the US's first climate resilient state. That is the type of perspective and action plan it will take to survive the unprecedented intensity of the many accelerating problems we now face.

One last thing: when we talk about cooperation and collaboration, we are talking about wise cooperation, which includes, at some point, reciprocality in some form. If you cooperate unwisely, you will be drained of all your resources, and you will not survive well.

If you doubt the survival of the most cooperative concept, we recommend that you read our emergency preparations and emergency adaptations fully, which begin on this page for emergency preparations and on this page for emergency adaptations.

Universe One Bellingham has the potential to be one of the longest-surviving CSVs. One of its most important goals is to help turn the city of Bellingham and its surrounding area into one of the world's most climate-resilient and climate-change-prepared areas. With this large, northerly region well-prepared for any eventuality as climate change consequences and other global crises unfold, it should become one of the safest places in the world to ride out the Great Collapse and Great Rebirth.

Long-term survival is impossible without extensive collaboration and climate resilience-building support to the largest possible areas surrounding CSVs.

Bellingham location future security and emergency bug-out location concerns

Like every other wisely planned CSV, the Bellingham rural CSV will also provide a carefully planned number of secure emergency storage facilities and possibly even additional vacant housing facilities for members of the Bellingham urban community who have chosen to create bug-out emergency backups within the rural Bellingham community.

If all goes really bad and far beyond the local Bellingham government's or Washington's state capacity to manage the masses of desperate and starving climate migrants that make it that far north, the Bellingham, Washington rural CSV (like every other wise CSV) will also create multiple backup locations fully stocked for member escape if and when needed. In general, CSVs follow the emergency backup principle that one backup is none, two backups are one, and three backups are actually two emergency backups if you want to be safe.

These locations will most likely be in other isolated and massive acreage CSVs with which Bellingham Rural has built a long-term relationship and has pre-stocked everything needed or required.

No individual isolated CSV could take in ALL the members of another CSV. Therefore, any additional bug-out backup rural location for an existing rural CSV must be carefully planned with multiple very isolated rural CSVs. This will ensure the more isolated CSV will remain sustainable in an emergency if a group of members from another CSV relocates there. This advance planning and stocking must ensure the relocating CSV members do not create internal population overshoot-related problems for the more isolated backup CSVs.

Universe One and CSVs are not trying to create a utopia, but we are doing something urgently needed.

While we do not see ourselves working to create a rigid utopia-like structure, nor do we use utopia language, many of us do see ourselves as experimenting visionaries, aka Evolutioneers.

In addition to our goals of building climate resilience through preparation and adaptation and ending the climate emergency through promoting immediate government climate action, CSVs have other potential goals besides promoting their members' long-term safety, security, and overall well-being.  

Some CSVs, like the new CSV Bellingham headquarters, will, by member choice, also be working on discovering and testing new possibilities for better models for our social, economic, political, and religious systems and interactions. They will be engaged in designing, testing, and proving new evolutionary iterations for those systems. 

They will do this so that after the widespread global collapse driven by the primary and secondary consequences of climate change, there will be better solutions and proven examples available for future generations. We believe that because of the horrendous shared post-global collapse trauma, new generations will be more open to new solutions for sustainably living together.

The preceding means that individuals participating in CSVs are far more than survivalists or progressive preppers with a detailed knowledge of climate change consequence timeframes. They also can be, by choice, future activists and Evolutioneers working to create a more sustainable, just, and equitable future for ALL of humanity despite the worsening global crises we all now face.

The Universe One Bellingham CSV is an evolving climate change-resilient, ecological, social, economic, and democratic new model created to be shared.

A key Universe One Bellingham community goal is to strive to reflect the highest application of the ideas, values, and principles described on the other CSV community design pages. In addition to that goal, Universe One Bellingham is also to become a model for preparing the future survivors of the chain of climate change and 11 other related global crises and catastrophes. This new model is being designed to create a more sustainable, just, and equitable post-catastrophe world for ALL of surviving humanity. 

Preparing for the post-catastrophe world means experimenting and innovating new solutions now for today's most prominent ecological, social, economic, and political problems, then refining, testing, and adapting those new solutions until our ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham community becomes the model and living successful example, and a "beacon of light" for the future we must create. 

"Only a crisis—actual or perceived—produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable." Surprisingly, a quote from Milton Friedman, the economist.

At Universe One Bellingham, we will create better ideas and proven new success models and, more importantly, keep them alive, available, and "lying around" until the post-catastrophe politically impossible becomes politically inevitable.

We will also use an evolutionary new form of Personal Democracy (PD). It will play a significant role in managing the ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham community. Based on PD principles, ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham will not have traditional leaders. 

Instead, it will have a group of coordinators knowledgeable in different crucial areas the eco-community needs. These knowledgeable coordinators will direct essential activities based on current science and the continual input of every member who could be affected by those decisions or actions. (Click here for a quick overview of the new Personal Democracy and its many benefits. Also, see the expanded Personal Democracy White Pape here.) 

Universe One is committed to living and creating Sustainable Prosperity within and eventually outside of the CSV community

Sustainable Prosperity is a series of principles that everyone in the Universe One Bellingham community must agree to live by. These principles also make any CSV community considerably more sustainable and survivable.

Of course, it will take time to implement all of these vital sustainability principles in this new community. Click here to read the principles of Sustainable Prosperity.

Here are some of the qualities and types of individuals we are seeking to join us at the urban/rural Universe One Bellingham 

The Universe One Bellingham community members must be a good fit for our many community values and goals. CSV Bellingham is also a place for futurist thinkers, activists, artists, and educators who agree with most of our "we need to build and live the master models for a better future society now" ideas and new science-grounded evolutionary worldview expressed further down this page.

Universe One Bellingham is a near-ideal place to flourish for those who already see themselves as active and creative global citizens or universe citizens. (More about global and universe citizenship is found in the links further down this page.)

If you choose to be a part of Universe One Bellingham, you will also be a co-creative part of the ongoing evolutionary search for the ecological, social, economic, political, and even spiritual optimal models needed for the post-collapse future.

Initially Bellingham members must be generally healthy and emotionally and psychologically strong and stable. They will face many challenges in creating and maintaining this community as the outside environment worsens because of the climate emergency and our 11 other major global crises.

We seek a senior project manager/leader and a deputy project manager/leader as the most critical additional individuals for the Universe One rural community project. The current Universe One project manager is elderly and will need to be replaced sometime during 2024.

The other critical Universe One rural members we are looking for are in the areas of fund-raising, finance, online and offline education, sustainable and energy-efficient general contracting, construction, plumbing, electrical, administrative management, recruiting, and human resources, medical services, wellness services, therapeutic psychological services, internet security, software design, interpersonal conflict resolution, and peace facilitation, think tank analysts, and public relations.

In collaboration with CSV, we will get most of our information on the following subjects from CSV's current work on eco-friendly architecture, community design, permaculture, aquaponics, vertical hydroponics, organic gardening, and animal husbandry.

If you want to be one of the above Universe One individuals, please fill in the following survey by clicking here. Next, please email [email protected] and let us know:

a. you want to join either the Bellingham urban or rural community,

b. you want access to the private CSV group and Bellingham urban/rural discussion forums, and

c. let us know about about your skills and experience. (More about the Bellingham formal application process is found further down this page.)

d. If you are already living in the Bellingham area and interested in getting involved in the Bellingham Urban CSV model before we begin the rural model, please also email Lawrence directly at [email protected] with your skills and experience.

Who will be the temporary lead coordinator helping to launch Universe One Bellingham rural community?

The ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham community project will initially be coordinated and facilitated by Lawrence Wollersheim, a board member of the organizations listed above. Lawrence's move to the Bellingham area will take place soon after Lawrence sells his home in Northern California. Lawrence's wife will join him and, hopefully, his adult children and their families someday once ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham is fully operational. 

The Job One for Humanity San Francisco office will move to the Bellingham area when Lawrence Wollersheim moves to Bellingham or as soon as essential volunteer staff members complete the sale of their SF Bay area homes. ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham will also likely become the relocated home of other willing ClimateSafe Villages members, Job One for Humanity members, Universe Institute, Universe College, and Universe Spirit members, volunteers, and website subscribers, some of whom have been following our climate education and social advocacy work for decades.

The Universe One Bellingham will continue exploring, refining, and testing the master model and template that will be shared with all other ClimateSafe Villages and other individuals starting independent communities.

Our primary focus is building the Universe One Bellingham ClimateSafe Village while we also help support others in creating ClimateSafe Villages in other locations. The Bellingham, Washington, USA, location is also designed to do many things besides being the master model for other ClimatesSafe Villages locations like CSV Upper Peninsula Michigan, CSV British Columbia, Canada, CSV Inverness Scotland, ClimatesSafe Villages Berlin, etc.

In an open-access manner, we will continue sharing the Bellingham community's climate-resilient architectural layout, net-zero home and building designs, legal structure, land leasing contracts, and member contracts, as well as all other design information we have gathered over the years to create a thriving long-term climate-resilient community. Other ClimateSafe Village locations may choose to use as much of the Bellingham master model or as little as they like.

Accordingly, Universe One Bellingham will continuously gather additional information to create and demonstrate the best master model that can be rapidly duplicated worldwide. Having almost every piece of the master model together, done, and easily transferable to other locations will significantly expedite other locations' building and growth process and prevent costly and time-consuming delays or mistakes.

At some point, while reading about the Universe One Bellingham CSV, we believe you will come to realize that Bellingham has also been designed to do what our politicians, governments, and other environmental leaders are either denying or not doing regarding the climate change emergency and its escalating consequence interactions with our 11 other global crises. 

Our politicians, governments, and nearly all environmental leaders are doing essentially nothing to directly prepare and adapt humanity and the world to the cataclysmic climate change and other consequences we can no longer avoid. 

Because of this gross and negligent inaction by our politicians, governments, and environmental leaders, ClimateSafe Villages, particularly the new Bellingham village, are bypassing the inactive (or incompetent) and addressing the many dangers and solutions ourselves. 

This critical bypassing inaction or incompetence action is no different than many other nonprofit organizations often do when their local politicians, governments, and related organizations fail to act or are incompetent in the face of real danger.

If you feel that you are well-aligned with ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham's ideas, values, and principles and are interested in joining the ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham community, please continue reading the rest of this page and then begin the application instructions found on this page. The requirements for joining this unique CSV community will be considerably more demanding than other CSV communities due to its additional focus on CSV model building, experimentation, model testing, and education to create a better future. 

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2. Universe One Bellingham Launch Phases

Here are our launch steps as of 3.10.24

Here are the four major phases for developing the Universe One Bellingham urban/rural community in the Bellingham, Washington, area. (The four phases described below will eventually be incorporated in the detailed launch steps in the next section below.)

Step 1: Get the urban model of CSV going in the Bellingham area with people already living in the area. CSV and Lawrence Wollersheim have already begun working with individuals already living in the Bellingham area to help start the Urban version of ClimateSafe Villages before the Track Two rural version. When the time comes, Urban Bellingham CSV members can also help physically build the needed infrastructure for the new rural version.

If you are in the Bellingham area already and interested in getting involved in the Bellingham urban CSV model before we begin the rural model, please fill out this survey and email Leonora at [email protected] and let her know. She will get you into the online Bellingham advisory group. 

The Bellingham Urban ClimateSafe Village will be an essential resource, creating cooperation and collaboration in the area promoting CSV's climate change resilience-building mission.

Step 2: Lawrence Wollersheim moves the current Job One headquarters from San Francisco to Bellingham, Washington. Some Job One and volunteers or members will probably join us either at the same time or shortly afterward. Together, with CSV we will get the new CSV urban village expanding. Until we have made the Track Two rural land purchase and have started infrastructure construction, everyone joining us will temporarily buy or rent homes in the Bellingham area, start local organic gardens and other emergency-related preparations, etc. 

The earliest Lawrence Wollersheim estimates his home in Northern California will be sold, and he can move up to the Bellingham area to build the urban CSV and search for and help purchase the needed rural Track Two land is June or July 2024 (if his home sells quickly.)  

Step 3: After the CSV urban community is well established the next activity will be to finalize a rural land purchase of the proper size 100-200+acres, soil quality, and other required factors on the land purchase checklist in the Job One members area here. Next we will complete rural CSV infrastructure, buildings, and critical equipment funding. We will use the best possible designs to complete our climate-resilient infrastructure construction for the required community spaces, homes, dorms, gardens, four-season greenhouses, business, art, and online educational production and classroom areas.

Step 4: After the urban/rural Universe One Bellingham CSV community and cooperative is nearly fully operational, we will invite others to join us in the Bellingham area. Our first invitations will go to Job One, CSV, Universe Institute, Universe College, and Universe Spirit members to join us in the Bellingham rural or urban communities. They can temporarily buy or rent homes in the Bellingham area or join the rural CSV version when the home is ready for occupancy. 

Special Software Team Building and Project Management Tool Now Available Online for the Universe One Bellingham CSV Launch

We are now using an amazing project and team collaboration online software tool called Basecamp to launch the Universe One Bellingham Urban/rural CSV. If you want to be involved in this Bellingham urban/rural online collaboration and launch, email Leonora at ([email protected]) and tell her you want to join the Bellingham Urban/rural CSV project team and advisory group.

There are now hundreds of people in the CSV master discussion forum in Basecamp and large groups of people in the various CSV advisory groups making it all happen.

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3. Universe One Bellingham Rural Version Launch Steps

One sould think of the Universe One Bellingham rural CSV as a new type of optimized sustainable sanctuary designed to ride out the worst of the climate and other 11 global crisis collapse processes while preparing for the needs of the post-collapse world.

Each step below will likely become a separate sub-project with a project manager coordinator and a volunteer team. They will use our new project management and team-building software, Basecamp. As more competent, climate crisis-aware individuals show up to help; the full rural ClimateSafe Village Bellingham community will accelerate into existence.

Step 1. 

Continue initial funding through donations, grant funding, government loan guarantee acquisition, large-scale "angel" fundraising, and CSV member land lease and personal building financial commitments or deposits to raise adequate Bellingham rural launch finances for:

a. the salary for the full-time community coordinator/manager who will oversee all CSV Bellingham and international CSV growth activities. (This is a large-scale and time-consuming project. We can no longer rely exclusively on volunteers.)

b. the Bellingham headquarters rural land purchase of 100 to 200 acres or more, depending on costs.

c. infrastructure costs, including the overall climate change-resilient architectural design for the community and all buildings. This infrastructure also includes roads, a net-zero community center, a community event kitchen, staff family homes, dorms for singles, independently owned homes of members on leased community land, gardening areas, greenhouses, agricultural and animal areas, open areas, educational, business, and art buildings, and integrated water, septic, green power systems (solar/wind/hydro) and community integrated high-speed internet.

d. costs for all net-zero climate change-resilient community buildings, dorms, sheds, greenhouses, etc.

Here is the new cost estimator we are continuing to develop for the Bellingham Rural CSV. This cost estimator can be easily adapted to other CSVs.

Step 2.

There is much to be done until the needed phased funding is in place. Individuals in various advisory groups must complete the many planning and research tasks listed below using the following principles of successful project execution.

1. Determine your in-house resources and determine obtainable out-of-house resources such as net-zero open-source architectural designs, volunteer knowledge contributions, etc.
2. Select the first most crucial sequential project that matches those resources.
3. Choose the project managers.
4. Draft a preliminary proposal and goals for a specific area, such as land acquisition quality, needed infrastructure, etc. (Proposal here means a substantial project PLAN - i.e., VILLAGE PLAN.)
5. Find a preliminary sponsor if funding is already not in place.
6. Begin critical development efforts.
7. Specify performance, time, and cost to achieve the goal.
8. Obtain additional funding commitments to complete.
9. Organize for the implementation long haul.

While the above-phased fundraising is being completed and the CSV Urban Bellingham Villages is being launched, special CSV online advisory committees would work on the following with our new project management software:

a. Complete the best legal structure for the new community's land preservation (possibly a non-profit corporation, a social benefit corporation, a conservation land trust, etc.). Having a legal structure that wisely maintains the community's contagious land purchase integrity from all contingencies is critical and foundational. (Most past communities fail when their land is broken up or lost from various causes, like members failing to pay taxes on their individually owned and leased homes, inter-community disputes, lawsuits, etc.) 

b. Complete all legal contracts for member involvement, including equitable contracts for leasing homes or business spaces on community land. This contracts area will also include any other contracts or community exit procedures so that all required community agreements are clear and fair to all parties. Community-related contracts will have an equitable but mandatory binding arbitration clause to prevent costly, time-consuming, or frivolous litigation that could harm the community. 

c. Completing community rural land acquisition evaluation using our existing comprehensive soil, environmental, and water testing and quality standards checklists.

d. Complete all local zoning and building checks and approvals needed for a small educational climate change-resilient farm (an agrihood), a school, a community center for the school and staff, classrooms, dorms, private net-zero private homes, or tiny homes, greenhouses and related service and storage buildings, etc. This process will also include local zoning approval for temporary or permanent RV pads for construction workers, having educational retreats in the community using available housing and classroom and other spaces, septic systems, off-grid power systems, community roads, and drainage systems, and many other zoning and related checks as described in our six-page land purchase, home buying, and migration checklist found in the Members-only section of our website. We must also check to see if local zoning regulations will allow us to eventually build a sanctuary-like structure that would serve the community for interfaith services and individual or group meditations, reflections, etc. (To see this checklist, log into our website and join.)

e. Complete researching community-wide climate-resilience and safety design standards for individually-owned net-zero homes that would be on community land and leased to the owners who paid for their construction on something like a 99-year lease. This lease would specify that the owners or their heirs would be required to comply with common community regulations and standards and keep all related local tax assessments paid. These 99-year lease agreements would have equitable buy-back agreements for the community and homeowner/lessors if the owner/lessor had to leave the community for some reason.

f. Complete the initial community four-season food production organic garden, greenhouse, aquaponics, vertical hydroponics, and agricultural plan.

g. Complete the Bellingham community member screening criteria (found here) and begin new member screenings.

h. Complete the all-community new Personal Democracy vision.

i. Complete potential ongoing income sources and plans for both the community and community members. (Please note that some community members already have income sources to sustain themselves that are eco-community compatible and can be continued within the eco-community.)

j. Recruit first volunteer educator teachers to help design and begin creating member educational materials and teach online courses.

K. Complete all funding requirements for the next phase.

l. Begin eco-community infrastructure construction. Our newly purchased land site will be prepared for several RV or tiny home sites to be used for the community infrastructure building team's housing during construction. These RV and tiny home sites can later be used by visiting members for retreats or new members wanting to experience the community before joining and building their own net-zero homes. (As we raise enough funding, as a community, we may pre-build all net-zero homes and long-term lease them to members or exchange their leasing fees for services rendered to the eco-community.)

m. Select which new or offline barter system might work best within the eco-community between members and the community and with other Universe model eco-communities.

n. While the macro-culture is still relatively stable, once the community infrastructure (community kitchen, meeting rooms, etc.) has been installed, those ready members could begin building their net-zero homes on our new land.

o. Recruit other key member positions needed at the rural village.

p. Help launch introductory online or offline community member education and training courses in the new fully online Universe College software.

Once the Bellingham rural community has become fully operational, raise additional funds to:

a. Establish community food, water, and energy reserves and backup parts and systems. 

b. Enhance community community defensibility to protect against coming emergencies.

c. Initiate outreach to help other new CSV communities form using our community model, tools, forms, contracts, architectural plans, etc. 

d. Initiate outreach to help the greater Bellingham community build stronger climate change resilience as described in part on this page.

e. Initiate outreach to more isolated CSV communities to create an emergency backup and bug-out capacity for those members who have negotiated and established a special mutually beneficial prior relationship with those more isolated CSVs for shelter in a temporary or extended emergency that is facing their current CSV.

f. As needed, recruit and expand CSV, Universe Institute, Universe Spirit, and Universe Day team members. (Universe Institute, Universe Spirit, and Universe Day are described further down this page.)  

Step 3. 

Once we have successfully established ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham and it has reached its growth limit by buying adjacent lands (of about 150-500 people), we will ask qualified members to help establish a network of other ClimateSafe Villages-like eco-communities in other safer locations worldwide. (These closely affiliated new eco-communities could be known as ClimateSafe Villages Berlin, ClimateSafe Villages Tokyo, etc., to distinguish them from the founding flagship ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham community.

Step 4. To be determined.

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4. Universe One Bellingham Membership Process

At this time, Universe One Bellingham is connecting to potential new members primarily through the following:

a.) peer-to-peer word-of-mouth connections.
b.) individuals who are finding us and using our application process below.

In addition to all of the values found on this ClimateSafe Villages social and cultural characteristics master model page, members of the Universe One community should also hold the following Spiral Dynamics Green values:

• Explore the inner beings of self and others
• Promote a sense of community and unity
• Share society's resources among all
• Liberate humans from greed and dogma
• Reach decisions through consensus
• Refresh spirituality and bring harmony

If they also hold the Spiral Dynamics Yellow values even better:

• Accept the inevitability of nature's flows and forms
• Focus on functionality, competence, flexibility, and spontaneity
• Find natural mix of conflicting "truths" and "uncertainties"
• Discovering personal freedom without harm to others or excesses of self-interest
• Experience fullness of living on an Earth of such diversity in multiple dimensions
• Demand integrative and open systems

If they wish to work at and contribute to the missions at the Universe Institute, Universe College, Universe Spirit, or the Universe Day organizations, they should also hold the Spiral Dynamics Turquoise values:

• Blending and harmonizing a strong collective of individuals
• Focus on the good of all living entities as integrated systems
• Expanded use of human brain/mind tools and competencies
• Self is part of larger, conscious, spiritual whole that also serves self
• Global networking seen as routine
• Acts for minimalist living so less actually is more

If you are applying for membership in the Universe One Bellingham, Washington, CSV community variation, initial members should be able to fully self-fund their own net-zero homes and personal startup living expenses. However, if you have the skills urgently needed by the community, we may waive all or part of the self-funding requirement in a work exchange arrangement.

In general, initial founding members will need additional funding to contribute a fair share of the startup eco-community legal costs, community-level land purchase, community center building, and other necessary shared community infrastructure. In addition, once the community is functioning, there will be a reasonable monthly membership fee for group health and additional insurance and ongoing services that we must initially purchase from outside the community. 

Here are the exceptions to the above self-funding requirements:

1. If you have a critical skill level needed to physically build, manage, or maintain the community, such as a skilled teacher, professional carpenter, plumber, electrician, master gardener, human resource administrator, emergency preparation expert, etc., you may be able to exchange your professional skills and time for almost everything you will need to live in the community, and you need not be fully self-funding.

2. If you are applying for membership to one of the other three CSV community models that do not require self-funding for their startup phase.

The volunteer staff and management team at Job One for Humanity and Universe Spirit will manage the Universe One Bellingham rural community building project until construction is completed because it will also be the headquarters location for the organizations and the Universe Institute, Universe College and Universe Day.  

The Universe One Bellingham rural community is seeking new members and is now accepting applications. If you are interested in becoming a member of only the Universe One CSV rural community, be sure to also send a message to Lawrence Wollersheim at ([email protected]). He is temporarily coordinating the launch of the Universe One CSV rural community, and he will keep you informed of progress and developments.

The complete Universe One application process is here.

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5. At Universe One Bellingham, We Hold a New Worldview and a Vision for a More Sustainable and Equitable Future 

Universe One works toward achieving all of the above goals, but it also is much more!

(Humanity's closest evolutionary relative, the chimpanzee, has 98% of our DNA. As evolved chimpanzees and maybe something more, but at the minimum, nothing less than evolved chimpanzees, humanity has evolved many different worldviews.)

Why a New Worldview?

To make all of the many new systemic and structural improvements that humanity must make to survive the coming nightmare of all its bad collective decisions, humanity must now embrace a new, more inclusive, and transcending worldview.  (Please click here if you do not understand the powerful world-changing implications and the power that an invisible worldview has on the population that holds it.)

In a twist of the famous Albert Einstein quote, "The consciousness that created the problem is not the consciousness that will solve the problem." the same can be said for worldviews. This means that "the current worldview that has created our 12 major global crises will not be the worldview that can and will solve our 12 major global crises."

This quote requires the Universe One Bellingham community (and its think tank, the Universe Institute) also see the world from and with a new worldview to be effective in helping to solve the world's 12 major crises and survive what is coming. 

Accordingly, we are building the Universe One Bellingham community to incorporate the many highly adaptive elements and principles from what is called the New Universe Evolutionary Worldview. 

Not every CSV community model variation or location will adopt and use the New Universe Evolutionary Worldview or the ideas in the other links below, which is their choice. However, Universe One Bellingham team members will use and teach it because they believe this new transcending worldview has the powerful potential to:

a. better solve many of the world's biggest crises,

b. bring the world together in many unique and transformative ways,

c. set the foundation of the needed solutions in the post-mass extinction and collapse world and 

d. offer many other practical advantages for building strong communities with the best possibility of surviving what is coming. 

We are at a terrifying point and opportunity in humanity's collective evolution. Either we evolve into a new and more adaptable worldview that will help to evolve our global systems intentionally and create a great transition to a more equitable, just, and sustainable world for All, or we evolve the hard way through widespread to near-total system collapse and mass extinction. This does not even include the painful, slow rebuilding process using the immense collective trauma of the extinction and collapse to motivate and compel us to make the required changes so it never happens again.

Here are advanced links related to the Universe Evolutionary Worldview and its useful evolutionary aspects for our eco-community models:

Click here to read about the many advantages to communities that incorporate New Universe Evolutionary Worldview ideas and principles.

What is the great news and great evolutionary hope provided by the Universe Evolutionary Worldview?

What are the practical benefits of the Universe Evolutionary Worldview?

What is the summary overview of the Universe Worldview?

Why is the Universe Worldview so Important to Our Future?

What are the evolutionary and practical art-of-living skills taught within the Universe Evolutionary Worldview essential for a meaningful, successful, and sustainable life?

How Does Progressive Evolution create a New Worldview: The Universe Worldview?

What is the Evolutionary Impulse and Evolution's Prime Directive? 

In What Ways is the Universe Worldview growing into a Second Enlightenment for Humanity?

Click here to see how the Universe Evolutionary Worldview can become a set of universal guiding principles for individual, community, and national day-to-day activities and right action.

Click here to see how the Universe Evolutionary Worldview can become a set of universal guiding principles for individual, community, and national day-to-day activities and right attitude.

What is the Highest Evolutionary Life Purpose of the Individual and Humanity?

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About the Universe One Bellingham Community Name

The Universe One name was chosen to reflect the additional goals of this new evolutionary community: to develop a universe-level awareness and citizenship that transcends yet still includes global awareness and citizenship. The Universe One name was also chosen to reflect and remind community members of the existential and inherent union and oneness within the universe of all beings and things found within the universe.

6. At Universe One Bellingham, We See Ourselves as Universe Citizens, Global Citizens, and Evolutioneers

Individuals who are a part of Universe One Bellingham not only see themselves as Evolutioneers and global citizens, but they often also see themselves as universe citizens. A major Universe One goal is to educate and create many more universe citizens that have developed what in the book called Spiral Dynamics is known as Turquoise consciousness. 

If you wish to work at and contribute to the missions at the Universe Institute, Universe College, Universe Spirit, or the Universe Day organizations, they should also hold the Spiral Dynamics Turquoise values:

• Blending and harmonizing a strong collective of individuals
• Focus on the good of all living entities as integrated systems
• Expanded use of human brain/mind tools and competencies
• Self is part of larger, conscious, spiritual whole that also serves self
• Global networking seen as routine
• Acts for minimalist living so less actually is more

(At Universe One Bellingham, we also will explore and help create the yet undefined Coral values and consciousness of Spiral Dynamics, which we believe transcends and includes all essential global values but also embraces universal values, universe consciousness, and a sense of universe citizenship.)

What is a Universe Citizen, and what does universe citizenship entail?

What is the Universe Declaration of Responsibilities for Universe Citizens, Evolutioneers, Planetary Citizens, and Universe Community Members? 

What is the Universe Declaration of Rights for Universe Citizens, Planetary Evolutioneers, Evolutionaries, Planetary Citizens, and Universe Community Members?  

What is the Universe Charter for Universe Citizens, Planetary Evolutioneers, Evolutionaries, Planetary Citizens, and Universe Community Members?  

What are Evolutioneers?

What are the Four Basic Attitudes/Actions of Evolutioneers

What do individuals do that call themselves Evolutioneers?

How does an Evolutioneer and Universe Citizen see the creation of a global government for the Benefit of ALL of Earth's People?

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7. The Spiritual Qualities and Values at Universe One Bellingham

Anyone at Universe One Bellingham can choose and practice any form of personal or personalized spirituality they value, or they can choose to have and practice no form of personal spirituality or religion. 

Universe One Bellingham holds or promotes no official religion. This is because of the many historical problems, abuses, and irrational, destructive, and conflict-generating behavior of many organized religions.

In general, you will be a good fit at Universe One, and you are of a spiritual nature, and if your individual spiritual practices and beliefs are found on the third or fourth level defined in Fowler's Four Levels of Religious or Spiritual Faith. If your beliefs and practices are within Fowler's Four Levels of Religious or Spiritual Faith you will most likely be very comfortable within our eco-community models. 

(Click here to learn about Fowler's third and fourth religious and spiritual development levels.)

In all forms of personal spirituality, potentially present at Universe One Bellingham, rationality and the facts of science will always override personal individual beliefs and opinions, whether spiritual or not. In other words, healthy and balanced spiritual beliefs should always naturally align with the realities of science and rationality.Or, as Saint Thomas Aquinas famously said, "If a faith belief contradicts reality, then that faith belief is wrong."

Some members of Universe One Bellingham have adopted the Evolution Spirituality philosophy, a new form of Neo-Scientism grounded in the new Universe Evolutionary Worldview. Within the Evolution Spirituality philosophy, you will also find many secular, traditional, modern, and evolutionary spiritual values. Universe One Bellingham also supports the principles and practices of Eco-Spirituality because of its applicability to our rapidly deteriorating environment.

No one will be excluded from the Universe One Bellingham community for not holding the Neo-Scientism, Evolution Spirituality philosophy, or the principles of Eco-Spirituality. But, if your current religious or spiritual behaviors and actions strongly conflict with the liberal and progressive values of the Universe One Bellingham community model and our principles of healthy spiritual practices described here and on this page in a similarly titled section, the ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham community model will not be for you.

Furthermore, while the ClimateSafe Village models will protect an individual's right to have opinions and beliefs about anything, spiritual or otherwise, and without interference, behaviors springing from those opinions or beliefs are entirely subject to community examination and limitation.

In some ways, at Universe One Bellingham, one could say we support the principles of a new and emerging Neo-Scientism as the basis for our philosophy for acceptable spiritual beliefs and practices within the community.

Neo-Scientism holds that science and scientific methodology are the best ways to discover objective truth about the world and reality and must also be used as a rational grounding basis for any form of self-chosen personal spiritual inquiry and personal spiritual development. 

Science demonstrates through an independently repeatable and verifiable methodology, the reality of reality, or what can be widely agreed upon by rational individuals as reality. History has repeatedly shown us that things go horribly wrong whenever a spiritual or religious practice or group loses touch with reality. Instead of healthy personal and personalized spiritual practices, we get destructive cults and authoritarian crazy cult leaders.

Neo-Scientism is far more than the closed classical definition of Scientism found here. 

Neo-scientism includes the critical realism work of the philosopher Roy Baskar, particularly his critical realism concepts that science (and the social sciences) always needs to function in an open system. This new scientific open systems concept would even allow for undiscovered or yet-to-be-proven possibilities outside of science's standard scientific methodology and falsification processes. Neo-Scientism aligns with how Baskar sees current science as being an always incomplete and ongoing process of increasing probabilities versus absolute certainties.

Neo-scientism's open-system science principles allow for individual exploration of the many numinous possibilities of contemplating the mysteries of the universe and its origin, understanding the unknown Great Mystery, and all of the other great existential questions of existence and life while still using the best of science and rationality as grounding points.

Our Neo-scientism concepts are still being developed. Go to this description of Meta-Spirituality. You will get a sense of how Neo-Scientism can combine the best of Roy Baskar's work on Critical Realism with the new concepts of Meta-Spirituality. In a few months, we hope to have more details about the core concepts of Neo-Scientism.

The good news of Neo-Scientism is that Neo-Scientism and rationality, when applied to a personally chosen spiritual or religious setting, help to prevent the group from being harmed by dangerous or harmful beliefs, faith revelations, beliefs, and practices.

Here are some additional factors to consider on this religion and spirituality topic:

1. Unfortunately, many beliefs and practices in today's religions harm or impede the creation of a sustainable, just, and equitable world for ALL. Therefore, self-selecting spiritual members should continually explore how to include the safe and healthy values and ideas of existing religions for their personal spirituality use while also transcending the no longer applicable, unjust, or unworkable religious practices, values, and beliefs from humanity's vast spiritual heritage.

2. We allow any individual of any spiritual denomination to join our community. Likewise, any humanist, agnostic, or atheist may join the eco-community. But, if their current religious or spiritual behaviors and actions strongly conflict with the values of our community model, it will not work out well. For example, if a potential member's spirituality/religion is intolerant, authoritarian, or "is the only true religion" or requires them to recruit and preach to others aggressively, the four eco-community models will not be a good fit. 

3. While there are many dangers in forming a community around a particular religious or spiritual belief system, there is one crucial benefit if the religious or spiritual belief system is healthy and non-coercive. As things get worse in the outside macro-culture, members within the community will witness unthinkable suffering and death. A healthy faith can provide deep value roots that will give additional psychological and emotional resilience that will be dearly needed to survive. 

4. We always educate every community member about actions of members or community managers that could harm individuals or the community by introducing or using these manipulative and harmful religious or spiritual practices within the community. We also proactively educate our members about the long-established principles of healthy spiritual practices, which apply to all religions and spiritual practices.

5. Small communities with religious or spiritual affiliations frequently adopt one or more destructive cultish behaviors. To safeguard against this, educate every community member about actions of members or community managers that could harm individuals or the community by having all members understand these fundamental tactics of destructive cults. 

6. Furthermore, while the Universe One and ClimateSafe Village models will protect an individual's right to have opinions and beliefs about anything, spiritual or otherwise, and without interference, behaviors springing from those opinions or beliefs are entirely subject to community examination and limitation.

Click here for what is meant by Eco-Spirituality.

Click here to learn more about the concepts of Meta-Spirituality.

Click here for a detailed explanation of the Evolution Spirituality philosophy. (Please note that Universe Spirit is moving to an improved new website here. The old Universe Spirit website is here. Universe Spirt may also change its name in the near future to either Universe Community or something else.)

One of the most important spirtual/religions goals for the Universe One community is to help evolve a new universal form of healthy meta-spirituality that does not separate people from each and foment religious conflicts between different peoples. That has been the main goal of the Universe Spirit organization for decades. 

There is much work to be done to fully refine a workable and tested vision of universal meta-spirituality that would be hugely beneficial to our post climate change collapse world. All Universe One members will be invited to volunteer to help coreate, test, and refine this new vision. (The Universe Spirit organization will have its headquarters at Universe One.)

The Biggest Problem CSVs Have to Resolve to Be Fully Successful

In the later stages of the widespread global collapse (2035-2050), conditions will become unbearable for billions of people who have not prepared for the endless stream of accelerating severe climate and other related consequences. This means billions of desperate, hungry individuals will migrate to survive. 

How will CSVs and their members react to these worsening conditions while remaining rational kind and still maintaining their human dignity? This ongoing discussion must be resolved long before CSV communities face this new challenge. 

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(Please note: Once the following non-profit organizations have been relocated to Bellingham, individuals can join them and work remotely with the Bellingham headquarters of Universe Institute, Universe College, Job One for Humanity, or ClimateSafe Villages. They do not need to be on-site in the Bellingham rural community.)

8. The Universe Institute located at Universe One Bellingham

ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham is focused on education because lifelong education is one of our most essential values, along with honoring the critical role of teachers. Ongoing education for all will be vital to creating safe and sustainable villages and a safe and sustainable future once climate change and other 11 major global crises have been resolved.

At the center of CSV Bellingham will be two educational organizations. One is the Universe Institute think tank, and the other is the online school we call Universe College, described further below.

These two research and educational organizations exist for the following purposes:

1. to discover and educate individuals and groups on how to become more climate change-resilient so that more people will survive the worsening climate change emergency, which is multiplying and amplifying humanity's 11 other global crises. 
(This climate change resilience-building education includes every area that needs to be managed, particularly climate change-resilient small farm organic and sustainable food production necessary to counteract the coming food crises.)

2. To discover and educate about the reasons for how and way our economic, social, religious, and political systems have created the worsening climate change emergency, multiplying and amplifying humanity's 11 other global crises.

3. To discover and educate about the new economic, social, religious, and political models that will be needed for the future survivors of the climate change emergency and humanity's 11 other global crises to prevent these 12 global crises from ever happening again. (We will share these new or upgraded models with all other ClimateSafe Villages and other outside groups and organizations that need and want them in an open access and Creative Commons manner.)

We actively engage in climate change resilience-building and the other actions described in 1, 2, and 3 above because they will reduce unnecessary suffering and death and save more lives. They also will support the evolution of our economic, social, religious, and political models based on painful lessons learned, which will help us to create a more sustainable, equitable, and just future for ALL.

The Universe Institute information below is only for ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham advanced members, advanced evaluator training, Universe Institute training, or individuals starting independent new eco-communities that wish to align closely with ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham. 

We will teach advanced students joining our Universe Institute think tank logic, scientific method, systems theory, and dialectical meta-systemic theory. We will also teach advanced students the new Universe Evolutionary Worldview, (which also incorporates many of the best elements from the Integral Philosophy Movement without this movement's less desirable qualities.

At ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham, we may also sell our climate change think tank consulting services to large corporations and expand the think tank into researching new models of economics, global governance, and other solutions needed in the post-mass-extinction and post-collapse world.              Return to Section Index

9. Additional Reading on The Principles of Progressive Evolution Held at Universe One

The links below contain materials for ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham advanced members, leadership training, Universe Institute think tank training, or individuals starting independent new eco-communities that wish to align with ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham closely. 

John Stewart is an Australian-based evolutionary scientist and member of the Evolution, Complexity, and Cognition (ECCO) Research Group of the Free University of Brussels. Much of his work on the directionality of evolution and its implications for humanity has been published in peer-reviewed papers in international science journals.

Several of his recent papers have focused on psychological development, including the future evolution of consciousness.

He is the author of the internationally acclaimed book 'Evolution's Arrow: the Direction of Evolution and the Future of Humanity.' More recently, he has finalized The Evolutionary Manifesto, which outlines an evolutionary worldview and explores its relevance to humanity. It demonstrates the potential of a new evolutionary worldview to provide meaning and purpose for human existence.

His recent work also focuses on the evolutionary imperative for humanity to organize itself into a cooperative and evolvable planetary society that is underpinned by appropriate global governance.

His latest paper on these issues is The Self-Organizing Society: A Grower’s Guide, which is freely available at http://www.evolutionarymanifesto.com/SelfOrgSoc.pdf.

More about his work is at http://www.evolutionarymanifesto.com/about.html

Click here for the most updated and current evolutionary theory for organizing billionaires (and the 1%) to save us from the climate extinction emergency and other global existential threats. (This link also discusses the pros and cons of getting billionaires to work together from an evolutionary perspective. We do not hide the many negatives that can be anticipated when you try to get billionaires working together on a worthwhile project.)

If you want to see the original evolutionary theory behind the principles of How ‘The One Percent’ of Billionaires can be Organized to Fix Climate Change, click this link.<nbsp;                       

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(Please note: Once the following non-profit organizations have been relocated to Bellingham, individuals can join them and work remotely with the Bellingham headquarters of Universe Institute, Universe College, Job One for Humanity, or ClimateSafe Villages. They do not need to be on-site in the Bellingham rural community.)

10. Universe College Online at Universe One Bellingham

We will restart the Universe College (UniverseCollege.org) in Bellingham to do much of the preceding. It was online for almost eight years before we closed it. We plan to reopen it with new, far more effective online educational software. Here is the link to the original Universe College information.

The online educational courses and services provided by Universe College will be invaluable to effective educational efforts and processes going on within other ClimateSafe Villages.

One of the most important courses we will offer is on dialectical meta-systemic thinking, which creates very advanced dialectical multi-system-level thinking. This type of dialectical meta-systemic thinking is the critical new thinking that is needed for survival in the collapsing and post-collapse world. If you want to work at the climate change thing tank Job One for Humanity, in addition to the usual climate research credentials you will also need to develop the skills of dialectical meta-systemic thinking.

(Click here to learn more about the major thinking analysis and problem-solving breakthrough of dialectical meta-systemic thinking.)

The new Universe College, when it reopens, will educate about many things online relevant to ClimateSafe Village life. Using the Information from the Universe Institute and other sources, Universe College will exist for the following additional purposes:

1. To educate about the reasons for how and way our economic, social, religious, and political systems have created the worsening climate change emergency, multiplying and amplifying humanity's 11 other global crises.

2. To educate about the new economic, social, religious, and political models that will be needed for the future survivors of the climate change emergency and humanity's 11 other global crises to prevent these 12 global crises from ever happening again.  (We will share these new or upgraded models with all other ClimateSafe Villages and other outside groups and organizations that need and want them in an open access and Creative Commons manner.)

3. to continue to educate individuals and groups on how to become more climate change-resilient so that more people will survive the worsening change emergency, multiplying and amplifying humanity's 11 other global crises. (This climate change resilience-building education includes every area that needs to be managed, particularly climate change-resilient small farm organic and sustainable food production necessary to counteract the coming food crises.)

We actively engage in climate change resilience-building and the other actions described in 1, 2, and 3 above because they will reduce unnecessary suffering and death and save more lives. They also will support the evolution of our economic, social, religious, and political models based on painful lessons learned, which will help us to create a more sustainable, equitable, and just future for ALL.

In addition to the above, it will also teach the critical needed dialectical meta-systemic thinking and analysis, described in detail here. Dialectical meta-systemic thinking and analysis is currently the most advanced analysis system, far beyond systems thinking and logic alone. But unfortunately, worldwide, only a minimal number of people have mastered it, and that needs to be remedied.

We believe the time is ripe for teaching the 28 forms of dialectical thinking. Here is just a tiny part of the reason why.

Organizations are fixated on currently applied capability (performance) alone and neglect or deny the existence of the current potential and the emergent potential capabilities of human agents, and since recent ‘breakthroughs’ such as chatbots are used mainly to strengthen instrumentalist thinking and de-agentify work, the teaching the new dialectical meta-systemic thinking and analysis processes could bring together what people COULD DO if given the right advanced dialectical thinking tools to address what is obviously a slow or fast system breakdown our current economic, ecological, and political systems.

Teaching these new thinking skills could help remedy what Zachary Stein called the “cognitive fallacy” – the assumption that everybody operates at a peak level of cognitive maturity and has nothing more to learn about thinking except to be ‘critical’ -- has become a fallacy that is about to engulf us. It is time to teach those who are at least 25-27 years old the advanced dialectical thinking systems that will help save the world.

When the teachers, staff, and funding are in place, we will reopen the Universe College to teach and share everything we have learned or offer at ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham.

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11. Universe One Bellingham CSV Contributors

The Job One for Humanity and, to a significantly smaller part, the Universe Spirit organizations focus on educating individuals and businesses about what is avoidable and what is unavoidable in the face of many rapidly unfolding environmental and social global collapse processes. Its primary mission is to help individuals, as a society, prepare for and optimally adapt to survive the coming levels of extinction and collapse.

These nonprofit organizations will help individuals form groups and communities to evolve and create sustainable lifestyles and livelihoods in global warming-safer locations. Job One for Humanity will also continue to educate governments and support government-driven migration, infrastructure transfer, and emergency backup programs to deal with the accelerating global warming extinction emergency. 

Universe Spirit provides a broad science-based knowledge base, focusing on biological evolution, to explain what is developing in society and the physical world. This "fact-based" foundation is then used to create remedial "survive and thrive" strategies. 

(Please note that at the Universe Institute, individuals will work on better solutions to many of the world's biggest problems. Universe College operated online for about eight years and will reopen at the new ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham site. Universe Spirit is moving to an improved new website here and may even change its name to possibly the Universe Community or Neo-Scientism. The old Universe Spirit website is here. Many pages on the Universe Spirit website are decades old and a bit outdated in some areas. They are slowly being upgraded as they are transferred to the new Universe Spirit website.

The new and independent ClimateSafe Villages continue to be a vital part of the Universe One Bellingham project. The following history of their creation will help you understand CSV's ongoing and past contributions to Universe One Bellingham.

The Job One for Humanity team spent many years anticipating the need to build climate-resilient communities. During those years, we designed a master plan for what we hoped would become climate-resilient communities that could simultaneously survive the climate change emergency and other global crises.

Originally, we called these climate-resilient communities eco-communities or the Universe One community. 

In May 2023, with the new leadership of CSV, we helped create a new non-profit organization called ClimateSafe Villages. We sponsored it until December 31, 2023, just after it received its non-profit status from the US government.

We co-created ClimateSafe Villages so people would have the critical individual and community support needed to overcome the challenging tasks necessary to prepare for and adapt to the coming climate change emergency and other global crises. We also created it to collect and share all the information that anyone anywhere in the world would need to develop a climate-safe village in their location.

In March 2024, one of the lead Job One team members resigned from the ClimateSafe Villages board of directors because ClimateSafe Villages had the necessary skilled management team in place and that Job One team member needed to return to their research and analysis work at Job One.

Today, Job One, Universe Spirit, Universe Institute, and Universe College team members are active ClimateSafe Villages members for the survival of themselves and their families. 

Almost everything on the Job One website describing ClimateSafe Villages is from our original master model research for creating individual and community climate resilience.

The current management of ClimateSafe Villages has full access to all Job One materials for their work. Job One for Humanity continues to collaborate with and regularly promotes ClimateSafe Villages' work.

Click here to visit the new and fully independent Climatesafe Villages organization and website

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12. Other Pages in the Job One, ClimateSafe Village Master Model 

Page 1: Introduction, Overview, and Goals

Page 2: Climate Safe Village Qualities, Processes, Income Sources, and Safeguards

Page 3: The Four ClimateSafe Village Models and Their Operations

Page 4: Our New Personal Democracy ClimateSafer Village Management Model

Page 5: About ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham, a Unique Rural ClimateSafe Village

Page 6: Our The ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham ClimateSafe Village Application Process

13. Updates to our vision and other recent news

A. (4.16.24) The Bellignham Universe One CSV vision now includes partial veganism as a qualification for new members of the Universe One CSV vision. What we mean by this is that we will try to be mostly vegan, but may allow eating some of the fish when they reach maturity from our aquaponics facility. The movement towards near or complete veganism and away from large scale animal consumption aligns well with re-balancing our world's ecosystems and away from the mono-cultures that have taken over so much of the world.

It is also my feeling that in general, vegans or near-vegans will align more easily with many of the other goals, purposes, and directions of the Universe One version of a CSV in Bellingham Washington.

Appendix Materials

The ClimateSafe Village Social Contract Page

Online Rules for Our Virtual ClimateSafe Village

Procedures and Policies for Exiting Our ClimateSafe Villages or Applying for Membership 

Personal Democracy White Paper

The ClimateSafe Villages Issues FAQ of frequently asked questions for only issues directly relating to ClimateSafe Villages issues

The ClimateSafe Villages Climate FAQ of frequently asked questions for every question you have about climate change

Click here for our ClimateSafe Village online guide master table of contents

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For answers to all of your questions about climate change and global warming, click here for our new climate change FAQ. It has over one hundred of the most asked questions and answers about climate change.

Here’s what it costs to do nothing: my neighbours will be in bad shape this year.

Just as a new UN report comes out that says the world is on the brink of a climate catastrophe, a small town in Canada bears witness to the consequences first-hand.

A very good new article was published recently that underscores what we have been warning about for years. It is well worth the read.

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All life is based on energy.  For all but the last one hundred and fifty years, every creature on Earth depended almost exclusively on renewable energy for its needs and wants.  But since the mid-nineteenth century...

We take our climate book recommendations very seriously. Currently, only two books must be read by everyone seriously concerned about the climate, environment, or sustainability. 

Our current institutional coping mechanisms will be inadequate to deal with the coming climate chaos. New ways of living together will inevitably emerge in unpredictable and unexpected forms on an ad hoc basis. Do you know those ways?

Today California is getting speared from two directions: flood water is surging over a landscape that has been parched by a continuing drought.

The link below is to an outside article about a climate concerned 103 year old that also speaks kindly about the uncensored climate analysis work we do at Job One for Humanity.

The 1970 Club of Rome/MIT study and four supporting studies predicted times for the collapse of global population, food production, industrial output, and raw resources. They did not include new climate change research. Our new study does. 

Peter Carter was an expert reviewer for the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) fifth climate change assessment (AR5, 2014) and the IPCC’s 2018 Special Report on 1.5ºC. His video is kind and enlightening.