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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.

Welcome to Page 5 of the ClimateSafe Villages Guide

Overview

On an earlier page of our ClimateSafe eco-community overview, we promised to list the benefits of a new form of personalized democracy. We believe that Personal Democracy (PD) will create a superior new form of democracy that resolves current deep structural problems in all political systems and can be used at scales from community "political" operations to city, state, nation, and even global political operations.

Personal democracy will play a significant role in managing the New ClimateSafe Villages. Personal democracy will hopefully also become a substantial part of our new eco-communities management system. (Independent eco-communities may or may not choose to implement its principles.)

A white paper that explains Personal Democracy processes and benefits  linked at the bottom of this page.

Here is the promised benefit shortlist of our new form of direct Personalized Democracy 

1. Each citizen's voice is captured and directly implemented in all government actions that affect them. This means "majoritarian" voting oppression is eliminated.

2. To achieve the equivalent of current legislative action, a group of coordinators who are experts in each needed aspect of a social rule or area are formed. Their oath is to create a process that fulfills as many requests as possible within sustainability and social equity boundaries. That is, a government body no longer selects laws from 2 polarized bills created by representatives. Laws are constructed using community communication processes that fully address and implement every citizen's voice within the constraints of a sustainable natural world and in balance with community needs.

3. Every citizen is given a direct voice to track and evaluate all programs' implementation and effectiveness. This ensures accurate and fair outcomes for all programs.

4. Because governing actions directly represent all people's will, there are no longer elections of people to whom the power of decision is granted. This means there are no longer political parties that divide society. Joint social action is instead steered to the optimization of the Quality of Life for each person.

5. Because both laws and implementation are based on all citizens' direct involvement, corruption and racist or favored group-biased implementation are inherently eliminated.

6. This new form of direct democracy directly eliminates authoritarianism and destructive predatory competition from all businesses, institutions, and organizations. The currently needed warning "Buyer Beware" is eliminated from society and replaced by a much higher cooperative competition principle. All organizations exist first for the benefit and well-being of citizens and the society, then for the benefit of their specific purpose.

7. Discoveries have been made that identify severe limitations in human mental abilities to deal with modern complexity. The operating principles of Personalized Democracy incorporate methods to eliminate these limitations and the interpersonal strife we observe as gridlock in governments, the polarization of society, and war.

8. Here is a white paper explaining the above benefits and processes of Personal Democracy in detail.

How to Join Any One of Our Four ClimateSafe Village Models

If you have read enough and see the value and need for our various eco-community models, please join and help with this worthy and meaningful work. We invite everyone interested to help us grow and enhance our eco-community models with your ideas, wisdom, and efforts.

If we cooperate and get started now, we can still be prepared for the critical 2025-2031 threshold. From 2025-2031, climate change consequences will go from their current linear progression into an exponential progression because of many climate change tipping points crossed and climate feedback loops triggered.

Here are the most critical initial areas where new members, volunteers, and especially project managers are needed. These areas are law, fund-raising, finance, eco-friendly architectural community design, online and offline education, sustainable general contracting, construction, plumbing, electrical, administrative management, recruiting and human resources, medical services, wellness services, therapeutic psychological services, internet security, software design, permaculture, organic gardening, animal husbandry, and public relations. 

There are just four simple steps to get started:

Step 1. Sign up for our eco-community information and alert mailing list for this virtual by clicking here.

Step 2. Please email us at ([email protected]). Tell us which model of the four eco-community models you want to join.

Step 3. In that email, let us know any skill or experience you have that could be helpful to any needed skill or knowledge area mentioned on our five eco-community pages. 

Step 4. In that email, be sure to let us know which location you are in now or which location you plan to move to so we might connect you with others working in or near that location.

Once we receive your email, we will get back to you, let you know your next membership application steps, and as applicable, connect you with the eco-community project leader or lead member in the area closest to you.

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 4.16.24. 

Prologue

Review this specialized membership application page only if you are seriously interested in joining the Universe One Bellingham urban or rural CSV or if you want to create a local CSV version of your own modeled after the Universe One CSV. 

To apply to Universe One Bellingham be sure you have read this page first!

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.

Introduction

After discussing this with other CSV team members, it was decided that each CSV location would create its own membership applications and requirements. The following is what we are using for the unique Universe One version of a CSV in the Bellingham, Washington, USA, area.

We are also in the process of significantly improving the following Bellingham membership application page by creating two additional levels of Bellingham urban and rural community memberships. 

These two new lower-level membership levels are:

• An easy low-level commitment general membership for the Bellingham urban community.
• An intermediate, higher-level commitment membership for the Bellingham urban/rural community.

This page below contains the requirements for the highest-level co-founders' commitment membership for the Bellingham rural community. Each level of Universe One Bellingham membership will have different membership fees, acceptance requirements, and community responsibilities and obligations. This also means that until we can complete upgrading this page, much of what you find below will apply only to the highest-level co-founder's commitment membership.

Welcome to Page 6 of the ClimateSafe Village (CSV) Guide, the ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham Application Process

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

The sections on this page are:

1. Introduction, Why this application process is useful to all ClimateSave Villages models

2. Who We Are Looking for as New Universe One Bellingham Members

3. Our Application Requirements for Only Universe One Bellingham Membership

4. The Steps for Applying for Universe One Bellingham Membership

5. The Universe One Bellingham Membership Disqualifying Issues 

6. Other Pages in the Job One  ClimateSafe Village Master Model Materials

7. Application Process Updates

1. Introduction

Each of the ClimateSafe Village (CSV) model variations will create a unique application process appropriate to the conditions and functions of that model. The application process below is the most complete and comprehensive CSV application process designed only for becoming a ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham member now being created in the Bellingham, Washington area. 

Individuals creating the other non-ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham models may use as many or as few of the ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham membership application steps below that would apply to their particular ClimateSafe Village version. For instance, the application process for the virtual eco-community would be relatively short and very different from what you see below.

Likewise, the application process for the urban ClimateSafe Village where everyone lives in separate locations, will be much more straightforward than the ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham application below. 

However, by selecting and using appropriate and essential parts from the full Bellingham Washington application process below, each model of our new ClimateSafe Villages will be able to provide a significantly enhanced layer of member safety, security, and stability that should not be underestimated. 

The Bellingham CSV membership application process below is particularly applicable to use in reverse to help you determine if you want to join a specific ClimateSafe Village. Before joining any CSV anywhere in the world, we strongly recommend you use the applicable member application questions below to interview the coordinator/leaders of that village to find out how well and how much they have screened their current members for potential problems or issues. The quality of individuals living cooperatively in any CSV will be a major factor in that CSV's long-term survival.

You could also use the CSV frequently asked questions list or the critical topics in our online guide table of contents to ask how that village will or is handling the issues you are most concerned with because every village is slightly different and runs itself and may or may not follow some of the values, principles, and actions of the Bellingham headquarters CSV. It is entirely in your hands to do your due diligence when investigating any CSV as a possible place to join or relocate. Treat it as one of the most important decisions you will ever make because as climate change and other factors worsen, it may well be. 

If you want to join one of the other four variations of our ClimateSafe Village (CSV) models other than Bellingham, Washington, please first go to this page and find the specific application instructions for the ClimateSafe Village model you wish to join. Next, email us at [email protected] and let us know which model you chose. That will put you in contact with the project manager.

If you are setting up your own independent community, the application processes below will not apply to you. However, this application process below could help you create your own community application process.

Please also note that the membership process below is not the same as becoming a subscriber on the Job One for Humanity website. To subscribe to the Job One for Humanity website, click this link and enter your email address and other requested information. (This Job One website subscriber link will also sign you up for automatic updates on all our ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham and other ClimateSafe Village projects, alerts, and new articles. Of course, we always keep your sign-up information confidential.)

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2. Who We Are Looking for as New Universe One Bellingham CSV Members

The most critical initial areas where members, volunteers, and project managers are needed at ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham are in the areas of law, fund-raising, finance, eco-friendly architectural community design, online and offline education, sustainable (energy efficient) general contracting, construction, plumbing, electrical, administrative management, recruiting and human resources, medical services, wellness services, therapeutic psychological services, internet security, software design, permaculture, organic gardening, animal husbandry, interpersonal conflict resolution and peace facilitation, think tank analysts, and public relations. 

In general, what we are looking for is what you can do for and bring to ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham that is valuable and needed. As conditions worsen outside our eco-community, what we have within this eco-community (safety, security, progressive values, and resources) will become more and more valuable.

You will be accepted to our team if you have a good background and high-level skills, credentials, or experience in the above areas. In addition, you too can also help us innovate better solutions to the many climate and other challenges humanity faces.

As competent, climate crisis-aware individuals show up to help, the faster the ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham will accelerate into full existence and grow.

It is critical to see how people will work together as much as possible before giving them permanent status in any physical CSV community. The main reason for carefully reviewing a person's virtual CSV activity history is that if you grant them CSV physical community membership to a high degree, you will also be depending upon them to contribute to the community's future overall well-being and survival consistently. You definitely will want to know if this person will be a dependable and active community contributor and will have your back as things get worse and survival gets tougher. 

If a new individual who joins us in our virtual community, after a certain point of learning about who we are and what we do, does not actively help newcomers to the virtual community with their questions or does nothing in any of the advisory group projects, they are clearly telling us what kind of future CSV physical community member they will be. 

This careful review of an individual's virtual CSV contribution history is even more true for those who want to join a physical CSV in a work-share arrangement where they are not well funded. In this arrangement, the community needs skills they have, and the community, in exchange, would support their housing, food, and other needs in exchange for their essential ongoing work and contributions within the community.

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3. Our Application Requirements for Only the Universe One CSV Bellingham Membership

In their initial launch, our ClimateSafe Village models require competent, interdependent individuals with safe and stable backgrounds who already possess many of the individual values described in our ClimateSafe Villages online guide pages. In addition, the initial co-creators of ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham also need to have a high level of agreement with that community's vision, goals, and social contract for that particular model. 

The reason that carefully selecting your founding and co-founding members is critical is because

a. the initial eco-community model building and start-up challenges for new members will be far greater than if the community has been established physically and culturally.

b. culture building is critical to any eco-community's success. It will be far easier to build the all-important culture of a new community if its first members hold and have already been living many of the values and sustainability actions for that particular model. It will be a long and very challenging educational process if your initial founding members do not already embrace and live many of the values and actions that you are forwarding in your eco-community.

Another important thing must be said about wise culture building. A group's culture holds and forwards that group's values and behavioral expectations. Culture then acts as a strong but invisible, ever-present influence that naturally and continually guides and molds group member behavior in most situations.

Therefore, if new CSV communities do not carefully pre-select founding and co-founding members with values and a history of actions similar to their cultural values and goals, it will be much harder for them to get out of their start-up and culture-building phases with their vision still intact.     

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4. The Steps for Applying for Universe One CSV Bellingham Membership

It is valuable to join one of our new eco-community models, particularly ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham, our first ClimateSafe Village and eco-community. The ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham membership is particularly valuable as the runaway global warming emergency and the world's other 11 global crises are rapidly worsening.

Here is why:

1. ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham seeks to meet the highest standards for safety and security in creating its survive and thrive eco-community. (You have been reading about our high standards on the other eco-community pages.) And,

2. ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham seeks to attract only the brightest, most motivated, and most creative individuals. This is because ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham rural community is the flagship village designed to be much more than any other currently envisioned ClimateSave Village.

The application below is only for applying for membership in the ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham eco-community project, where many of us will live together on one large piece of land. Each adult applying for ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham membership must complete the following application process steps.

We will evaluate new ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham memberships using the entire application process and individual information submitted and their online history with CSV, particularly in their history of interactions in the CSV online forum and advisory committees. We realize that no new member application will be perfect, and we will make allowances for different issues as deemed prudent and fair. 

Please note we have all potential new members of ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham do a significant amount of reading about our community vision for three crucial reasons:

a. So new members have informed consent and a realistic understanding of the challenges, difficulties, qualities, work, grit, and sacrifices it will take to build these new resilient eco-communities and be successful. 

b. For us to see if potential members are willing to put in the considerable initial effort to get through a significant amount of reading, thinking, and evaluating. And,

c. For us to see if they will do well in an eco-community firmly grounded in and always prioritizing lifelong education and learning.

ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham has by far the most challenging application process. So, if you are not accepted into the ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham flagship village in the Bellingham area, do not worry. You will very likely be accepted in one of the other ClimateSafe Villages in other locations.

Step A. Become a Job One for Humanity website subscriber and fill out your user profile information.

Do this by clicking the Sign In link in the upper right-hand corner of every webpage and then creating a new account for yourself using the sign-up boxes on the right side of the page. Be sure to use the same email address to subscribe as you did if you have signed up elsewhere for our website alerts, news, etc.

Once you have become a new website subscriber and are logged into our website, at the top right of the page, you will see your name and Account Setting link. Click the account setting link, and it will take you to your user profile. Please fill in all the applicable profile information so we can connect you to the right team and support. 

Step B, We want you to have realistic expectations and informed consent concerning your Bellingham CSV membership. 

1. Be sure you have read all six pages of our community overview linked at the bottom of this page.

2. Please click here on our article for more about what will happen within these new communities to be successful and what people will need to be and do within these eco-communities. This new, slightly emotionalized, more free-form description of some of the functions of these new eco-communities will also be helpful. We believe that you will be surprised, and your spirit will be lifted by what you read in this article.

3. Read our Club of Rome three-article series on the recently adjusted time frames for global collapse in crucial areas, including population loss (mass extinction.) By about 2025, various critical global systems will begin steep downward declines and move toward eventual collapse. This collapse process then gets much worse from 2030-2040. Click here to start article one of the three critical collapse timeframe verification articles covering five different collapse and collapse verification studies.

4. We are not trying to create a Utopia but four new types of eco-communities that will learn, evolve, survive, grow, and thrive through the hard times and many severe consequences ahead. We can do this by living successfully and modeling necessary new practices and ideals intended by example to create a more sustainable, equitable, and just eco-community. Hopefully, this will also make our eco-communities "beacons of light" and living examples of the new worldview, behaviors, values, and goals that the post-mass extinction and post-collapse world will desperately need. 

Please click the following link to read, Is the Universe Eco-Community (our old name for the CSVs) Anything Like Traditional Survivalist Community? This page also includes our inspiring attitude about how we feel about humanity's future.

Here are several books we strongly recommend reading something during your application or provisional member process. The first two books speak to some of the most profound causes behind the world's 12 major crises that our new eco-communities will eventually be forced to deal with. We believe the more you understand what is coming and why it is happening, the better you will be as a team member in these new eco-communities. Also, when read, all the books below will help build a healthy, strong, well-aligned, shared culture at ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham.

a. Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change by William Catton. This is the one book that everyone seeking a more sustainable life must have in their library!

b. Read the new book, An Inconvenient Apocalypse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity, by Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen. This book will help you understand much of the thinking and reasons behind our new eco-community vision; it will also help you develop new attitudes, beliefs, and expectations about what is realistic, needed, and possible for our shared futures. Here is a short review of this must-read book if you are still seriously considering joining our eco-community or creating one of your own. This review contains "Cliff"s" type notes on the book's contents.

c. To help you understand the extensive preparation and adaptation challenges for the Bellingham community at a profound tactical and psychological level, we strongly recommend everyone wanting to be part of Bellingham or any other CSV for that matter, get and read a book called Spiral Dynamics: Mastering Values Leadership and Change by Don Edward Beck and Christopher See Cowan published by Blackwell publishing. This book is required reading for advanced-level membership or management in the Bellingham community. 

This must-read book is an accessible summary of 50 years of research by a Syracuse University professor, Claire Graves. This professor spent 50 years of his life focused on answering just one question. Why do people change?

His powerful layered answer is simplified in Spiral Dynamics. 

Understanding his answer is essential because it will help every CSV member realize what will happen as things worsen and how we as a community will have to be willing to adapt and evolve to the changing Bellingham situation while still maintaining our humanity. 

If you are worried about how we defend the Bellingham community, this book will help you understand what we must deal with. And, even if you're not concerned about the climate change future security issues, this is a must-read book for everyone trying to live the best life they can.

In our strongly recommended book list, there are also several must-read Clifi fiction books (2 by an award-winning writer,) that will humanize the intimate details of the approaching global climagee (climate refugee) social, economic, and political catastrophe and meltdown.

A. Here are two of the best spellbinding fiction books on the horrible consequences of global warming.  It is about individuals who waited too long to prepare for the climate emergency or migrate away from it. These books are by an award-winning black female writer, Octavia Butler. They are:

Butler, Octavia E. Parable of the Sower. Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993. This is part one of the two sequential novels. It is set in 2024.

Butler, Octavia E. Parable of the Talents. Seven Stories Press, 1998. This is part of two of the Parable duology. It is set in 2032

These two books are absolute must-reads to see the day-to-day ordinary and extraordinary suffering that our current runaway global warming will impose upon our future. These two books are emergency preparation must-reads! Even back then, she pretty much got the global warming consequences right.

These two books will educate you in detailed ways we at Job One for Humanity have not yet been able to do with the many climate facts and consequences found on our web pages. Frankly, our website lacks the finely detailed, phase-by-phase emotional power and astute psychological and character insights into what happens to and between people, families, and communities in deep crisis as things keep getting worse with the climate.

Franky, we are baffled as to how Octavia Butler could so accurately depict the tortuous lives of individuals who waited too long to get prepared and migrate because of global warming and then suffered horrible consequences. She skillfully compels the reader scene by scene with a brilliantly written cast of families trying to migrate up the California coast through crisis after crisis. It is impossible not to be drawn into the painful personal lives and details of what happens to these decent, regular families when societies break down at every level because of the consequences of late-stage global warming.

b. For those of you who do not like reading a lot of science and want to be entertained about this difficult subject. Get On Vestige Way by David Spielberg at Amazon.

It is an emotion-packed novel about how global warming affects the future and fate of the world’s Millennials, generation Z, corporations, and the political alliances we take for granted. It is the most scientifically accurate of all of the climate fiction books. It is so hard to put down you will be missing work and sleep wondering what happens next to the story’s heroes and heroines struggling with the very real future climate challenges the younger generations will face most of all.

Not only is it exceptionally well-written with compelling characters and elegant descriptions that seamlessly take you in and through every fast-changing scene, quite surprisingly, it also follows real global warming science more honestly than you will find almost anywhere else except in the newest global warming science books such as Climageddon.  

Step C. Please email us about you, your values, your worldview, and your current situation.

If you have completed the required reading in 1-4 above and you are still interested in joining our new communities, please let us know as much as possible how your current worldview aligns with our worldview, at least in part. The more you share about your current worldview, the better we can understand how you think and feel and how that aligns with what we are doing.

Include your skills and what you would like to do and contribute. If you have one, include your work resume or anything else that you think would be helpful in our getting to know you. If it is not the ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham eco-community soon to be in Bellingham, Washington, please let us know which model of our four eco-community variations interests you and which location you are considering as applicable.

If you have children you will be bringing, please tell us as much about them as possible, particularly health or behavioral issues. (Our community always holds all membership application information strictly confidential.)

Keep in mind that you can do the strongly recommended book reading anytime during the application and provisional member process 

Step D. Make a donation to our non-profit organization that you can afford. 

This helps us buy more land to expand our communities worldwide and supports new members' application and education process if those members are underfunded and in a work trade relationship with us. Click here to make this donation. (If you can, make an automatic monthly donation when you donate.)

Step E. At the end of your worldview and other information email, list any questions you want to ask us during our first phone or Zoom call.

Step F. We will review it and schedule a first phone or Zoom call to get to know each other better once we have your emailed information.

Before we have this call, please also review our eco-community exit procedures for members who want to leave or are asked by the eco-community to leave. It is always important to know your exit procedure before you make an important decision.

Our exit policies are being finalized and will be available to potential members to review before final membership acceptance. These policies will include the ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham eco-community purchasing homes at fair market value that a leaving Universe community member may have built or purchased on the ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham eco-community land.

Step G. If all goes well for both parties on this call, we will ask you to apply formally for membership by doing the following.

If you have not done so already, this will involve you providing your:

a. employment history or resume,

b. work and social references,

c. educational background, and

d. a complete list of your current skills.

e. a. complete medical history (Including all current or past addictions like alcohol, drugs, gambling, sex, etc.)

Step H. If all goes well after we review the information submitted in G above and in your application reference checking and fact verification process, we will then independently engage the following professional services.

a. a criminal history search,

b. a credit history search and 

c. we will ask you to take a psychological or other test relating to your personality qualities and type as a final step to help us determine your compatibility as a potential community member.

When we get to step F, you will be required to pay only the actual costs of the criminal history search, the credit history search, and the price of taking and evaluating relevant psychological or other tests. (We currently estimate those costs to be about $300 - $400. If you are applying in a work trade program, we may waive these charges based on your online action history with CSV.

Once this step is done and everything looks good, we will invite you to meet other members on the eco-community site, where the urban or suburban eco-community group meets, or we will set up a collective Zoom call if you are a distant or virtual member. This process may last one or more sessions. Then, if everything continues forward, we will have you start step I.

At some point, we may have RV sites, tiny home sites, or available open housing where you can live temporarily in a member apprenticeship, and both you and the community can see how the relationship might work. This "try before you buy" option may be best if you have doubts about the major life changes involved in becoming a part of a CSV.

Near the end of our application process, potential adult members will be quizzed to see if they understand the most critical aspects of the ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham community model, vision, worldview, and values.  

Step I. If everything looks good from all of the previous steps, we will invite you to become a provisional member.

Once granted provisional membership, you will be asked to sign our social contract. It is a set of basic and common sense written eco-community rules. After 6-12 months of the community getting to know you as a provisional member, the eco-community permanent members will vote on giving you permanent membership status.

If you are ready to apply, begin the process above, complete steps A, B, and C, and email us at ([email protected]). Put "New Bellingham community Member Application" in the subject line.

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5. Our ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham Membership Disqualifying Issues 

The new ClimateSafe Villages are more vulnerable to possible member problems because they are just getting started. In their beginning phases, these communities will have many internal growth challenges and have to deal with a worsening outside climate, economic, political, and ecological environment.

This steep start-up level of the combined challenges necessitates certain conditions disqualifying a small number of individuals from joining our eco-communities. Therefore, even if you create an independent eco-community using only parts of our ClimateSafe Villages model, you would be well advised to carefully consider the ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham membership disqualifying issues listed below. 

Our membership disqualification issues are:

1. a serious criminal history, 

2. serious medical problems or illnesses requiring extensive or advanced medical care (the early-stage eco-communities may not have group medical insurance or onsite medical facilities to care for individuals with serious medical issues.)

3. serious or unmanaged mental illness or issues such as delusions, schizophrenia, narcissism, sociopathic behavior, etc. (Early-stage communities will most likely not have group medical insurance or the medical facilities to care for individuals with serious mental health issues.)

4. the applying member is financially destitute or deeply in debt with bad credit and without the needed community work exchange skills. (In their early phases, our new communities will not have a surplus of essential resources to be a financial support network for impoverished individuals. However, disadvantaged individuals who can work full time with the needed community skills in exchange for housing, food, insurance, and transportation costs will be considered and welcomed.)

5. the individual does not understand our fundamental eco-community values or does not demonstrate a sincere commitment to our values.

6. the individual does not understand the urgency (the climate change emergency and our other worsening 12 global crises.) Therefore, they do not truly understand either the critical reasons for the urgency for wisely creating these new survive and thrive eco-communities.

7. the falsification of membership application answers or the failure to fully disclose all relevant or requested formation during the membership application process. 

All new Universe or independent communities will have little chance of surviving their difficult and energy-intense start-up phases if they do not carefully screen all potential adult members in their initial membership application process for the above disqualifying issues. However, once a new community is firmly established with the needed facilities and team members and with adequate reserves, it may be able to take in individuals with one or more of the above issues, but it is not advised in the start-up phases.

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6. Other Pages in the Job Cne ClimateSafe Villages Master Model

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

7. Application process updates

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

Sign up here to learn more about ClimateSafe Villages

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 CSV website to start exploring the many positive possibilities.

Welcome to Page 3 of the ClimateSafe Village Guide Overview

If you know which resilient eco-community model you are most interested in, you can skip directly to it and return to the other section titles below later.

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 understand why at this particular time, you should seriously consider joining one of our four ClimateSafe Village models or creating a climate-safer eco-community of your own.

This page has the following sections:

1. Introduction to Our Four ClimateSafe Villages (CSV) Models

2. Urgency Factors for Choosing and Getting Started in One or More of the Four model Variations

3. The Four ClimateSafe Village Structure Variations and Options

4. CSV Variation 1: The "Stay Where You Are" Get Prepared and Resilient Urban, Suburban, or Rural Eco-Communities

5. CSV Variation 2: The Land-Based Rural Community Option  

6. CSV Variation 3: The Hybrid Community

7.  CSV Variation 4: The Worldwide Virtual Community

8. What Services Make Our Villages Worthy of Membership Fees They Will Collect?

9. Factors that Unite the Members of All Four Model Variations

10. Common Similarities Between the Four Variations

11. How Fast the New ClimateSafe Villages Will Come into Existence and Grow

12. Where the First Village is Being Launched, and What are the Best Village Locations

13. Our Projected Timeframes for When the Four Types of ClimateSafe Villages Will Come into Existence,

14. Regarding Joining or Helping to Build Any of Our New ClimateSafe Village

15. How to Get Started or Join Any One of Our Four ClimateSafe Village Models

17.  Links to the Other ClimateSafe Village Description Pages.

Introduction to Our Four ClimateSafe Village Models

Our four eco-community model variations (the urban variation 1, the rural variation 2, the hybrid variation 3, and the virtual variation 4) can do many things. In slightly different ways, the four model variations are designed to prepare for and survive large-scale regional or global emergencies beyond just the climate change emergency.

The four eco-community modes of emergency preparedness and adaptation strategies for various emergencies include dealing with the following:

a. large-scale resource depletion, 

b. distribution breakdowns of critical food and other supplies, 

c. economic crashes, deep recessions or depressions,

d. new pandemics of greater or lesser scale may repeat as often as every 5-10 years, 

f. local and regional breakdowns of law and order, governments, etc. 

The four unique eco-community models allow people to step in all the way, halfway, or at any level they feel comfortable in any different eco-community model. The only eco-community that will firmly adhere to the full eco-community vision described in this six-page overview is the flagship Universe One eco-community in Bellingham, Washington. But, even in that eco-community model, as is true with all of the eco-community models, if you want to participate and contribute, you can still live outside or around the Bellingham area, commute to the eco-community, and participate in much of what this eco-community will be doing as well as share in its many advantages.

If you are reading about our four new eco-community models, you are likely a progressive person who has observed that things in the world are not going well right now. Maybe it is only your gut intuition quietly telling you that you and your loved ones need to make some reasonable changes and sacrifices to prepare for increasing climate change consequences and a world that looks like it is worsening and will be much different from today's world, at least temporarily. 

As we mentioned on the first page of our eco-community information, we are not survivalists or believers that the end of humanity, civilization, or the world (Armageddon) is even close to probable or inevitable. (Here is our well-researched- position on why we are not headed to complete collapse, extinction, or the end of civilization.) 

Our eco-community information and the other emergency preparation-related information on our website exist only to help you create a safer and more secure future and help reduce your anxiety about what is challenging and likely to occur in the future. Our information will help you experience the benefits of a sustainable and equitable lifestyle and livelihood urgently needed to survive the rising challenges of the following decades.

We are often asked what people will do in these different ClimateSafe Villages models

In the initial phases, they will work on climate change preparation, adaptation, and resilience building to prepare the community for climate change consequences that will increase in severity, frequency, and scale of the area covered. This is a considerable amount of work.

These specific activities are covered here in great detail in Part One and Part 2 of the Job One Plan B for Climate Resilience. In the later stages, community members will do all of the other necessary sustainability survive and thrive actions described in this guide.

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2. Urgency Factors for Choosing and Getting Started in One or More of the Four ClimateSafe Village Variations

Sometime between 2025-2031, climate change consequences will transfer from their linear growth curve into an exponential growth curve. Climate consequences intensify because we will cross more climate change tipping points and positive feedback loops at faster speeds. Because of this, prudence dictates that you, your family, your business, and your new eco-community are well prepared long before climate change consequences go exponential.

Building new net-zero homes in an eco-community can take one to three years. Establishing organic gardens and building permaculture soils is also a multi-year process. 

Unfortunately, another often overlooked factor demands a sense of urgency in creating these new eco-communities. It will not be long before many more people cannot deny what they see and their painful experiences with the growing climate and other predicted catastrophes. 

This increased climate catastrophe and other dangers awareness means more people will start buying all of the emergency preparation supplies they need causing prices to soar and many items to be unavailable at any cost because of product shortages. An expanded public climate and other dangers awareness also mean many more people and businesses will begin migrating to safer areas with fewer global warming consequences.

Because safer migration lands are limited and often in countries with strict immigration policies, land prices will soon start to soar in the global warming safest areas as well. So, if you wait too long to prepare and start adapting, you may find you can no longer afford the things you need, or they are no longer available at any cost.

Here is a link to why the threshold period of 2025-2031 will cause an exponential rise in climate change consequences. (Go to the first climate extinction tipping point.)

Click here for a quick summary of the many climate change-related and other consequences we will face over the next 30 years.

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3. The Four ClimateSafe Village Structure Variations and Options

Everyone volunteering for our ClimateSafe Village model variations will have open-source access to all of our evolving information on these communities' creation, maintenance, and expansion. You can join one of our eco-communities as an eco-community member in one of Job One's eco-communities or you can start a separate and independent new eco-community using our open-source community model and picking and choosing which parts of our model you want to use. 

If you create an independent eco-community, you may copy our open-source Creative Commons eco-community materials as long as you always include a link back to our original materials from which they were drawn in your copied materials. However, you can not use our names or logos or claim you are a legal agent or representative of our organization in any way. 

4. Link to the full description of the CSV Urban model:

CSV Variation 1: The "Stay Where You Are" Get Prepared and Resilient Urban, Suburban, or Rural Eco-Communities

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5. Link to the full description of the CSV Rural model:

CSV Variation 2: The Land-Based Rural Community Option  

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6. Link to the full description of the CSV Hybrid model:

CSV Variation 3: The Hybrid Community

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7. Link to the full description of the CSV Virtual model:

 CSV Variation 4: The Worldwide Virtual Community

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8. What Services Make Our ClimateSafe Villages Legitimate and Worthy of the Membership Fees They Collect?

For a new eco-community to be truly legitimate and have the right to collect membership fees, it must do the following things both fairly and well. It obviously will not do all of these things initially, but each eco-community must strive to eventually do them all as the eco-community grows.

Our new eco-communities must:

promote the common life goals, vision, and worldview supported by its population. (Or, it must provide a new and better worldview.)

provide for the education of its population on common goals, values, worldview, and needed skills,

create and maintain public works infrastructure such as water, waste management, energy, communications, monuments,

provide for sanitation and basic health care for its population, particularly children,

provide for the delivery of food and other materials through highways, bridges, etc., and storage facilities,

provide for the creation, management, and distribution of adequate reserves of food and other critical items vital to the resilience of society should there be a catastrophe,

provide temporary emergency services and survival reserves to the portions of the population hit by natural or other emergencies,

provide for maintaining internal order in the form of law, police, courts, etc.,

provide for external defense, and,

promote the common culture and art.
 

In the step-by-step provision of the above services, our largest eco-communities will earn their full legitimacy and the right to require membership fees for their operational costs.

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9. Factors that Unite the Members of All Four ClimateSafe Village Model Variations:

1. They share many common eco-Community values and a sense of urgency to cooperate and work together.

2. They can depend on other eco-community members for mutual survival and support. This earned trust over time draws on the history of eco-community members supportive actions and the eco-community's shared values and evolutionary worldview. Eco-Community members also understand that an individual or family alone will not have all of the knowledge, skills, and resources needed to survive the later phases of what is coming.

3. Eco-Community members are strongly driven by a mutual "love of knowledge and truth." They understand the importance of having and using a compendium of knowledge based on reliable science-grounded facts for evaluation and decision-making.

The previous three items define important activities of the eco-community.

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10. Common Similarities Between the Four Model Variations

Given the above specific differences for the four eco-community types, all four eco-communities also have the following similarities:

1. 1. A primary goal is bringing together, either physically or virtually, a very diverse group of individuals working peacefully toward completing the actions needed to realize the eco-community's purposes for existing and their goals. 
   2. After being secure and established in their eco-communities, individuals or groups would also begin to guide newer members.
   3. All members will be expected to be tolerant of other members' diverse "heritage cultures." This tolerance factor can be enhanced using the creative new approaches of Personalized Democracy.
   4. All members will be expected to accept and practice the member "Qualities" listed elsewhere in this overview (and linked in the Job One website materials.)
   5. Interactions within the eco-community and with others will be approached as mutual learning experiences based on our foundation of natural knowledge and scientific inquiry processes.
   6. Actions will be taken to prepare for long and even persistent social and material disruptions. These include establishing stockpiles of food and materials and manufacturing facilities for necessary items.
   7. Actions will be taken to establish "preferred" trade links and transportation systems to supply "necessities" that can not be produced in the local community.
   8. Actions will be taken to organize the community to overcome outdated or corrupt political processes causing or facilitating the world's current breakdowns. (Because of eventual and anticipated breakdowns in social structure and governance at many levels, we are working on a new form of democracy.)
   9. All established eco-communities will have to live and work among existing cultures at some level of harmony despite many differences from those of the eco-community. We will seek to maintain peaceful adherence to and interaction with local customs in the surrounding larger macro-community wherever possible. 

The above illustration is from our Club of Rome three-article series on the recently adjusted time frames for global collapse in crucial areas, including population loss (mass extinction.) By about 2025, various critical global systems will begin steep downward declines and move toward eventual collapse levels. This collapse process then gets much worse from 2030-2040. At some point, it is crucial to read our three collapse timeframe verification articles covering five different collapse and collapse verification studies. Click here to start article one.

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11. How Fast the New ClimateSafe Villages Will Come into Existence and Grow

Several factors will drive the creation and growth rates for establishing the four different models of eco-communities worldwide:

1. 1. When you step up, volunteer and help us build ClimateSafe Villages as a coordinator/leader for one of our advisory groups or a specific ClimateSafe Villages sub-project or location. You are the coordinator/leader you have been waiting for! We initially need primarily self-organizing get-it-done people to step forward for themselves, their families, and their community. 
   2. The dynamics of how fast things in the macro-culture and in the environment worsen and where they worsen will also be a decisive urgency and selection factor for eco-community growth speed and which eco-communities grow the fastest,
   3. How fast existing members recruit other new members, they know. We want to grow organically, which means primarily by word of mouth. There are several advantages to grow in this manner. Existing members will naturally want to recruit new members who they can rely upon and trust as things get worse and who already have many qualities discussed on the CSV online guide page here.
   4. At the beginning of any community's recruitment of new members, when it is still relatively small, it will proceed slower than in later larger stages because of the time and resources it takes to get each new member up-to-speed and familiar with the procedures and values of the CSV community model.
   5. ClimateSafe Villages, like the ClimateSafe Villages movement, will grow organically. Although local CSVs will use the master CSV model as a guide, local growth speed will be determined by differences in local conditions, member abilities and resources, and member individual and collective choices. No two CSVs will grow at the same speed or in the same sequence of actions because of the inherent organic nature of self-organizing evolutionary development.

We already have advanced website project management software called Basecamp to help these new CSV communities manage their growth. They can have their own CSV location's project management operating in our Basecamp project management software. Additionally, our current Nationbuilder website software package allows each location worldwide to have a traditional website with all the typical blog, discussion, and event calendar and event functions. These professional level software tools will assist  aligned communities can quickly share their experiments, successes, and failures. 

We are already growing very fast. We urgently need volunteer website administrators willing to learn the easy Nationbuilder website tools and manage the daily website operations as administrators or moderators. Our many NationBuilder tools for community building will be highly useful for individuals within our virtual VSV communities. (If you are curious about all the professional online tools available to us to build the virtual CSV communities and connect all of the worldwide eco-communities in an eco-community network, go to Nationbuilder.com and review a near-endless list of features and plugins.)

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12. Where Are the First ClimateSafe Villages Being Launched, and What are the Best Locations

Almost all of the currently forming eco-communities listed below are close to the 45th parallel North in the US or Canada. The rural areas listed below are generally safer areas from climate change and other coming global emergencies. Urban areas in some locations are safer than others.

If you are seriously considering migration to a safer place anywhere worldwide, please first see our detailed migration relocation and preparation checklists here. They discuss the safest areas worldwide and contain highly detailed safer migration checklists. To view this information you must be logged into the Job One website and be a member. There are many special discounts and incentives to help you decide to become a new Job One for Humanity member and for you to help support our unpoliticized, uncensored, and 100% publicly funded non-profit climate think tank speak truth to power.

Each area listed below now has a community liaison living in that area or knowledgeable about it that can help with local migration information. Please also note that the B and C areas below still need to recruit more eco-community managers, coordinators, co-founders/co-creators, etc., to bring them into reality as established communities.

The locations of our first new eco-communities community "seed" areas are:

A. the Vancouver, Vancouver Islands rural area in British Columbia, Canada, and the Northwest Washington State area near the west coast and Canada. 

B. the rural upper Northeast of the US. And,

C. rural northeastern Upper Wisconsin/ northeastern Upper Michigan. 

As new eco-communities form in new areas, we will add them to the running list above. We are also currently looking for new eco-community project leaders for Northern England and Scotland, Northern France and Northern Germany, Southern Tasmania, the South Island of New Zealand, and the southernmost parts of Argentina and Chile.

If you are interested in being part of our eco-communities in any of these areas or other areas worldwide, please let us know by following the "how to join" information further below. Be sure to let us know which current location above most interests you.

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13. Timeframes for When the Four Types of Villages Will Come into Existence, Our Projected Timelines 

The four new eco-community types will be launched in the general phases and time frames described below. The roll-out time deadlines or sequences for the projects listed below will vary depending upon:

1. having enough skilled new members show up to help co-create and manage each particular phase and,

2. new information requiring adapting and evolving these time frames and deadlines accordingly. And most importantly,

3. the rising level of urgency as the consequences from the worsening of our 12 major global crises increase in severity, fluency, and scale.

For instance, stay-where-you-are hub variation communities are easier to build in existing locations than migration-dependent communities in safer global-warming locations. The stay-where-you-are communities may start sooner than the timelines below. An early start for these stay-where-you-are communities will be especially true if volunteers in existing cities let us know that they want to get started immediately with the Job One for Humanity emergency preparation and adaptation steps found on our six eco-community description pages and found in Part 1 and Part 2 of the Job One plan.

The most current projected climate change-related consequence timeframes for planning to either join or build a new eco-community or to enhance the future stability of our lives and businesses are found here. 

If you are interested in any eco-community variation, let us know, even if it is before the project officially launches. Please email us at [email protected] and put the Project number (1,2,3,4,5,6) in the subject line so your email is routed to the correct team member.

Project 1: August 2023-2024

Basic, person-to-person recruiting for all communities starts. In Phase 1, and as the first priority for the virtual and other types of eco-communities, we will need volunteers for the following areas:

A Community Project Director will be key to developing the four eco-community types.

Volunteer Community Member Manager who will help inspire, train, and manage the first community members/volunteers.

We need to have the above key volunteers in place before we can launch and/or expand any of the four kinds of new communities listed below. Having dedicated volunteers trained and ready to help others will ensure our success and a smooth launch. 

Project 2: Sept- November 2023

We have already begun recruiting for the first eco-community described here.

We have set up Zoom group video "question and answers" meeting for those accepted as soon as we have completed some critical administrative and volunteer staffing requirements for the Universe One project.

Project 3: Dates to be determined by new volunteers self-organizing this project

For the Virtual Community, we will be recruiting volunteers for the following areas:

Computer Science Specialist to help us find or create the best labor tracking software. We want to find or make the best barter/time tracking software so that volunteers and members without adequate finances can trade/barter their services with other better-financed community volunteers and members. They could also use this barter/trades software for community housing, health, and other community services.

Human Resource Manager to assist the sustainable community project director on all eco-community personnel issues

Discussion forum moderators 

Software programmers - online Forum development

Software programmers - large-scale database experience

Software programmers - project management software

Software programmers - new virtual work credit currencies

Individuals or organizations with topic interests that have temporary data storage resources

Many topic specialists willing to be topic managers or to contribute– to be announced in detail one the JobOne website

Complete software systems testing for new eco-community communication, coordination, contribution tracking, and new volunteer training 

We will set up an early-bird Zoom group video "question and answers" meeting for those most interested in getting started as soon as we have completed some critical volunteer staffing requirements for this particular project.

Project 4: Dates to be determined by new volunteers self-organizing this project

Recruiting for the ground-up Hybrid eco-communities starts

This will be primarily for community leaders or key implementers who will begin a hybrid eco-community in their chosen migration area.

If you want to join any of the above types of eco-communities, go to this joining and getting started page now.

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14. Regarding Joining or Helping to Build Any of Our Four New ClimateSafe Village Models

Our eco-communities need many kinds of new members and volunteers. We need community liaisons, coordinators, and leaders/co-creators:

1. Eco-Community liaisons already live in the area or are highly knowledgeable about it. They share that information with new or potentially new members.

2. Eco-Community coordinators are more involved in greeting and supporting new or potential new members and assisting them in coming up to speed on what the community is doing. Among other things, a coordinator might set up and oversee a local community buying cooperative.

3. Eco-Community co-founders/co-creators do everything necessary to create and guide these new eco-communities.

All active members and eco-community volunteers helping to create these new eco-communities will receive free annual membership and access to all members-only areas of our Job One website during their first 90 days of volunteering. (Please click here for the many other volunteer positions and projects currently available within our organization that will help make these new eco-communities possible.)

To get on our eco-community mailing list and to get more information on eco-communities worldwide, click on the image or link below.

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15. How to Join Any One of Our Four ClimateSafe Village Models

If you have read enough and see the value and need for our various eco-community models, please join and help with this worthy and meaningful work. We invite everyone interested to help us grow and enhance our eco-community models with your ideas, wisdom, and efforts.

If we cooperate and get started now, we can still be prepared for the critical 2025-2031 threshold. From 2025-2031, climate change consequences will go from their current linear progression into an exponential progression because of many climate change tipping points crossed and climate feedback loops triggered.

Here are the most critical initial areas where new members, volunteers, and especially project managers are needed. These areas are law, fund-raising, finance, eco-friendly architectural community design, online and offline education, sustainable general contracting, construction, plumbing, electrical, administrative management, recruiting and human resources, medical services, wellness services, therapeutic psychological services, internet security, software design, permaculture, organic gardening, animal husbandry, and public relations. 

There are just four simple steps to get started:

Step 1: Sign up for our eco-community information and alert mailing list by clicking here.

Step 2. Please email us at ([email protected]). Tell us which model of the four eco-community models you want to join.

Step 3. In that email, let us know any skill or experience you have that could be helpful to any needed skill or knowledge area mentioned on our six eco-community pages. 

Step 4. In that email, be sure to let us know which location you are in now or which location you plan to move to so we might connect you with others working in or near that location.

Once we receive your email, we will get back to you, let you know your next membership application steps, and as applicable, connect you with the eco-community project leader or lead member in the area closest to you.

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17. 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

Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to the nonprofit ClimateSafe Villages organization by clicking here. Every donation helps us expand and assist everyone coming to us for climate change resilience-building information and support.

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.

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.

Last updated 4.11.23 

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 Villages (CSV) 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 introduce you to the many benefits of these unique and now necessary communities more easily.

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

Welcome to Page 2 of the ClimateSafe Villages (CSV) Guide and Overview

(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 better understand why at this particular time, you should consider joining one of our four ClimateSafe Villages models or creating a climate-safer eco-community of your own.)

In some ways, this is one of the most important pages in our online guide. We strongly recommend starting with Section Nine.

Section Nine describes the qualities of our members and potential members. It is the first recommended section because the core of any successful project is its people, then its culture, and finally, its physical qualities, all of which are described below for the ClimateSafe Villages project.

Feel free to skip directly to any linked section titles below that interest you. You can return later to the other section titles below as you like. 

The sections found on this page are:

1. Introduction

2. The Physical Qualities of the ClimateSafe Villages Vision and Model

3. The Cultural and Social Qualities of the ClimateSafe Villages

4. The Educational Qualities of the ClimateSafe Villages

5. Religion and Personal Spirituality within ClimateSafe Villages

6. The Potential Income and Funding Sources for ClimateSafe Villages and Their Members

7. The Internal Safety and Security Processes of the ClimateSafe Villages

8. The External Safety and Security Processes of the ClimateSafe Villages

9. Individual Member Qualities That Will Make ClimateSafe Villages Successful

10. How to Get Started and Join Any One of the Four Models

11. Links to Other ClimateSafe Village Description Pages 

1. Introduction

The carefully researched and chosen policies, procedures, and physical and cultural qualities of the ClimateSafe Villages models and member qualities listed below are designed to create sustainable communities worldwide with the best possibilities to survive severe climate change-related consequences, which are now unavoidable. Only by surviving the climate change emergency will ClimateSafe Villages be able to attain the many goals described on these pages.

If you only seek to survive another 10 to 15 years from 2024, you can build your own isolated survival compound. If you seek to survive 15 to 30 more years from 2024, you build a healthy and vibrant community.

If you want to survive 30 to 50+ years for yourself and your children, you build a vibrant community that also helps the communities around it become climate-resilient to the point that it becomes a climate-resilient region and area. But never forget that being in a well-prepared, rational community is absolutely essential if you see your survival horizon beyond 15 years.

What distinguishes ClimateSafe Villages and its members from other types of ecovillages or "intentional" communities and their members. is our values, qualities, commitments, and worldview. What also distinguishes our ClimateSafe Villages from most other ecovillages or "intentional" communities is that we have consciously, carefully planned emergency preparations and adaptations for the many dangerous and interconnected climate change consequences as well as the other ecological, economic, political, and social crises and conditions we will soon face.

Our many preparations and adaptations give our ClimateSafe Villages four models the best chance of surviving and thriving through the worsening climate change emergency and these other 11 major global crises. 

A shared set of values and goals and a shared worldview are among the most potent essential factors determining which communities will survive and thrive in the longest, most comfortable, and safest ways. This long-term survival potential is because a community's shared values, goals, and worldview will provide the critical additional emotional and psychological support and spiritual resilience essential to surviving what is coming. (The spiritual factor only exists if a Climatesafe Village and its members have incorporated some form of spiritual values and practices in their particular ClimateSafe Village.)

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2. The Physical Qualities of the New ClimateSafe Villages Vision

Not all variations of our four ClimateSafe Village models will always have ALL of the physical qualities and other characteristics listed on this page. However, of the four eco-community models, the rural models will strive to achieve most or all of the ClimateSafe Village physical, cultural, and member qualities listed on this page. Virtual models will naturally do and have less.

Many items on the following community physical characteristics list are related to surviving and thriving through the future waves of primary and secondary climate change consequences. The teams that finalize the affordable architectural and construction designs for our new communities and their homes, community buildings, and dormitories will need to be well informed as to the primary and secondary climate change consequences so that they understand those consequences that can be planned for or adapted to as well as seeing which consequences will be difficult to impossible to plan for or adapt to.

We will survive better as a community because we will be prepared, well adapted for the coming changes, and highly resilient to the climate consequences we can no longer avoid. Use the following physical qualities list as a community-building checklist for everything the community should build for long-term safety and security.

We are seeking to create a new ClimateSafe Villages with physical qualities of:

1. affordability and simplicity. (We will use the principles of the Degrowth Movement, the Overshoot information, the concepts of Sustainable Prosperity, and the wise principles of Appropriate Technology usage to help manage the village's physical architecture, affordability, simplicity attributes, growth, and size. Appropriate technology usage is always strongly valued over unlimited technology usage. Affordability in climate change-resilient homes and buildings is always part of our overall design direction. Each link contains a detailed definition of these critical community qualities.)
2. striving for the highest possible levels of climate change resilience-building, preparation, and adaptation to the most probable primary and secondary climate change consequences for that location. Climate change is the primary, continuously intensifying global threat amplifier, multiplier, and disruptor existing today other than global nuclear war. (Hardening the villages against the many consequences of climate change is one of our core competencies. This is partly because of ClimateSafe Villages' relationship with the Job One climate change think tank. On this page, we have detailed lists of the many design factors needed to create prepared, climate change-resilient communities.) 
3. wise location selection where applicable for each climate-safer model. (A major factor for all of our land-based model locations, both rural and urban, is whether they are not located in areas for current or future high-risk climate change consequences. Location, location, location will be the first determinant in how likely any new ClimateSafe Village will be to survive long-term.) 
4. full-cycle, four-season food sustainability, sustainable, non-GMO organic gardens, heat-resistant food plants, permaculture, aquaponics, vertical hydroponics, and small farms. Establishing year-round food security is a first priority. (To do this, we must become land stewards and conservationists. It will also require climate-resilient greenhouses/domes, grow lights, and other equipment necessary for four-season food production.)
5. in-home and buildings high-quality air filtration systems (air and water pollution is increasing, and we must prepare for it and protect ourselves.) 
6. adequate water and clean water security. Establishing multiple secure, in-home, correctly filtered water systems is also a first priority via wells, water capture and storage systems, water purification systems, natural water storage ponds, and water conservation. Food will not grow without water; without clean water, humans will die within three days or rapidly sicken.
7. green, non-carbon polluting wind and solar energy sources.
8. net-zero homes, dormitories for singles, and community buildings using affordable design and affordable construction model options. This will help eliminate fossil fuel burning, a fundamental cause of global warming and air pollution. Net-zero homes between 800 and 1600 square feet, depending on family size and needs. (Net-zero principles apply to tiny homes of any size, new construction, or retrofits of existing structures. Net Zero buildings can be of any size needed for their purpose. )  
9. net-zero homes, dormitories, and community buildings must also be fire and severe wind proof and survive 30-inch rain bombs and river, lake, or seashore flooding. Robust individual building and community water drainage systems and industrial-level sump pumps will be part of all new construction because of accelerating flooding threats.
10. net-zero homes and buildings must utilize natural and backup energy-efficient systems to control heat, cold, and humidity. Temperatures and humidity will soar beyond standard work, and living tolerances and extreme cold spells will be a regular part of our future. In many areas of the world, climate change-driven heat, cold, and humidity have already reached deadly levels.
11. there may even be net-zero medium-rise apartment buildings of about six stories of various apartment sizes. Some research shows that medium-rise living structures provide better land use and other energy and cost efficiencies exceeding individual net-zero homes. All medium-rise apartment buildings would have balconies and views. There could be cafes, bakeries, etc., on the ground level with some waterfall, pond, or other water treatment in a small park or open space surrounding the building. 
12. wise home and building placement will establish large fire break areas surrounding the homes and buildings. Climate change-driven wildfires will soon become a serious escalating problem in urban and rural areas.
13. homes and buildings must have the highest level of air filtration systems available to deal with steadily increasing periodic and longer-term wildfire smoke and the growing amounts of other dangerous air pollutants.
14. Each rural community should also have a community yoga/meditation/prayer/quite room for the community members to gather to reflect and renew individually or collectively.
15. independent environmentally safe sewage treatment as much as is feasible.
16. high-speed Internet connections so members who work remotely can maintain their ecovillage value-compatible livelihoods and for online educational needs and our online college. 
17. full-cycle product and materials recycling, 
18. net-zero service buildings for a shared community center, value-compatible businesses, manufacturing, arts, and crafts that individuals will bring or create in the village. The community center would have a large kitchen and dining area for community meals and events, a laundry area, and areas for the collective watching on-screen events. The community center could also have a fitness area, a meditation area, and other areas for community classes. 
19. intentionally designed physical beauty and art, incorporating beautiful architecture and artworks in the buildings and outside wherever possible.
20. extensive emergency preparedness, including critical systems (food, medicine, etc.) and essential parts redundancies. Here we act in "prepper" terms regarding redundancy, which is "one is none, two is one, and three is two.")
21. sufficient reserves and abundance of all needed types so that once the community is securely established, the community can also reach into the larger outside community using that accumulated abundance to provide effective, wise, and appropriate charity and support to those most in need. 
22. larger villages may have their own community coop store for village collective bulk purchasing of needed items.
23. each land-based community will have its own separate and independent legal structure, funding, and secure financial record-keeping and income management procedures. (To keep the original community land purchase safe and secure, it may be converted into a permanent conservation land trust where anyone living on the land is given a 99-year lease if they build their own home, etc. The lease contract will have provisions that protect both the individual and the community from seeable problems.)
24. defensibility and survivability, From about 2032-2040, as global conditions worsen dramatically, this will become a more critical factor for maintaining the long-term viability of the ClimateSafe Villages. (This defensibility is always designed to be ethical, balanced, appropriate, and in collaboration with local authorities with whom we have built trusting relationships. All defensibility strategies must be designed to maintain human dignity and fair justice processes.)
25. environmentally sensitive, balanced ecovillage policies and practices limiting over-consumption and living a low-consumption lifestyle.
26. wherever possible, the community will use recycled and repurposed materials in its construction and employ other design and material management principles to keep its building and maintenance costs to a minimum.
27. members and come and go from land-based ClimateSafe Villages to work outside the community or utilize outside services as needed. Non-members will be welcome for tours or special events at land-based models by reservation only. Some land-based villages may have an entrance gate and a login and log-out system.
28. Many CSVs will be true multigenerational communities, with on-site assisted living housing and hospice care for the elderly.
29. larger villages may have their own volunteer fire departments and fire suppression systems.
30. appropriate population size. (This is an ongoing discussion on population size management. Some research indicates 100-150 individuals is an ideal size. Other research indicates 200-500 individuals is the maximum size so all members can be familiar with each other. Another growth proposal suggests new ClimateSafe Villages can start and grow with as little as ten to twenty individuals in their start-up phase. When they reach between 100-500 individuals, a possible healthy and natural size limit, that village can help to create and "spin-off" a new ClimateSafe Village nearby. Additional villages could be established close to each other, facilitating trade between communities, cross-pollination, and relocations as needed. The good news is that each independent CSV gets to decide on its final population size and its population growth phases)
31. being able to survive other new crises, such as an EMP pulse (which would disable all unshielded electronics) or some other form of human crisis or natural disaster. 
32. CSVs will also follow the emergency backup principle that one backup is none, two backups are one, and three backups are actually two backups if you truly want to be safe.
33. having indoor food growing areas. In addition to outdoor gardens in farming, indoor growing areas will be critical to community and individual survival. Wealthy countries like Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and others are aggressively funding indoor automated farming. There is a reason these wealthy countries are doing this. They have paid handsomely to know the climate is already out of control, and it's going to get much worse. They know that crops grown outdoors will be randomly hit with record-breaking droughts, heat waves, cold waves, rain bomb flooding, high wind derechos, and other weather-related extremes during that crop's normal growing season. They also know that the weather extremes will increase in severity, frequency, and in size of areas covered as the climate change emergency worsens. Within decades, outdoor farming will become extremely difficult due to crop failures caused by rising climate-related consequences. At that time, only those who have indoor manual or automated farms will have stable, predictable, and adequate food supplies. Increasing global crop failures are handcuffed to increasing temperatures and increasing climate change consequences, and they are our predictable future until we fix the climate change emergency.
34. satellite internet and communications as a backup. When things get really bad, traditional land-based communications systems will become more and more unreliable, and stable communications are critical for survival.
35. a perimeter surveillance and barrier system for the later stages of the coming widespread collapse will be necessary to control access to the community.

CSVs seek to achieve a safe and secure readiness and a high level of survivability on physical levels. This is a big task because CSVs must survive either a widespread slow or fast collapse, and they must also manage:

1. Rapid climate destabilization as climate change worsens.

2. How climate change will amplify and multiply most of the 11 other major global crises that humanity now faces

3. How humanity will cope with the post-collapse mass extinction transition period of a few to many decades. (This is the time period when the technology and the product distribution we have become used to becomes rare or nonexistent.)

The significant danger in a deep and widespread climate and global collapse process is that so many people will perish who know how to:

a. design the needed technology,

b. produce the resources and raw materials required for the needed technology,

c. make the machines that manufacture the needed technology,

d. repair the needed technology,

e. make replacement parts for the needed technology, or

f. produce and maintain the energy, communication, and computer systems that power and direct the manufacture and distribution of the needed technology.

A-F means that the technology we depend upon will gradually disappear for an extended period after a widespread extinction and societal collapse process and event. This also means that as part of its deeper-level emergency preparation planning, every CSV must gradually collect all essential pre-industrial and post-industrial knowledge (in hard copy books) and all the hand tools or other equipment needed that will operate without power to survive the post-collapse period into a possible Great Rebirth. (In the US, it might not be a bad idea to also develop relationships with Mennonite, Amish, or Native American communities who have extensive pre-industrial knowledge.)

You could call this post-collapse transitional period a new type of temporary Dark Age. Like some past Dark Age periods, it has been fueled by the widespread corruption of existing human institutions to the point that they no longer serve humanity's collective well-being or the survival of the ecosystems upon which humanity depends.

Hopefully, CSVs will not have to endure a temporary Dark Age, but we must nonetheless prepare for the physical qualities of this possibility as well.

Timing is Critical

These new ClimateSafe Villages must be created quickly because things are worsening rapidly. (Click here to see our recommended action timeframe page for how soon we must act depending on location and other circumstances.)

Because many individuals have legitimate and serious concerns about survivalist or extremist-type communities, if still necessary, please see this link for more on how we are VERY different from the survivalist or extremist communities. Also, further down this page, you will find many more safe grades that clearly separate us from survivalist or extremist communities.               

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3. The Cultural and Personal/Social Qualities of the ClimateSafe Villages

Beyond their climate resilience and survival value, ClimateSafe Villages are places of peace where you can live lives and build a culture of sustainability, equality, and justice away from the increasing levels of societal dysfunctionality. In a ClimateSafe Village, you can live in balance with nature and live your virtues in a community that conserves and sustains natural resources and minimizes wasteful consumerism and exploitive behavior as a measure of success.

Building a positive, strong, and consistent culture (common cultural norms) in every ClimateSafe Villages model is essential if you want that CSV model to survive and thrive for the longest possible time.

All CSV models must build a culture that inspires its members' dedication and service to the community's overall long-term well-being based solidly upon the community respecting, valuing, caring for, and supporting the ongoing well-being of each individual community member. (The social/cultural list below is not in any sequential or prioritized order.)

ClimateSafe Village communities will create cultural and social places that:

1. value and use rationality and evidence-based science in kind ways to guide all individual and community processes in a sustainable, equitable, and balanced way. If a community does not establish an overarching core philosophy based solidly upon rational thinking processes and evidence-based science, it will not successfully survive all of the challenges it will face in a destabilizing climate and society, as well as those communities that do make such a philosophy the foundation of their community.
2. incorporates the knowledge of qualified expertise in a relevant area in advisory roles and coordinator decision-making bodies.
3. promote wise and reciprocal collaboration and cooperation (Without actively promoting wise. collaboration and interpersonal and community reciprocality, these communities would be significantly hindered in their long-term efforts to survive and thrive.) 
4. is committed to listening and quickly reviewing relevant feedback for the necessary process of continual adaptation. Adaptability is a critical cultural value at CSV. Often, one cannot adequately predict the timeframe that something negative will happen. In those cases, one has to rely on “just in time” adaptation. Every CSV culture must develop the attitude and ability to adapt quickly to ever-changing circumstances as they occur. High-level adaptability and highly adaptable CSV team members are among the best guarantees a CSV community can have to handle the growing list of well-known and unknown risks that we will always face. There are no absolute guarantees that CSVs will survive the coming nightmare. Still, if we are wise, well prepared, collaborative, reciprocal, and highly adaptable, we will have a far better chance of survival, and we will suffer a lot less than those individuals who are not so prepared or organized—no matter what occurs!
5. place an exceptionally high value on preserving and protecting the community's well-being, peace, and stability as an essential supporter, protector, and co-creator of the individual well-being of ALL community members. (The CSV community is the required minimal stable foundation upon which its members will continue to do well in the face of climate change's primary and secondary consequences.)
6. recognizes and rewards merit, accomplishment, and responsibility while recognizing every community member's contribution at every level.
7. are safe, secure, and managed to create lower member stress levels. (It is essential to keep CSV communities at manageable lower stress levels for as long as possible. This value is because of the climate and other stress levels that will be intensifying outside the community. Communities subjected to continuous internal high-stress levels break down far more frequently than lower-stress, more peaceful communities.) 
8. value community members enjoying life each day and the remaining stability we have left for the value of itself and its value to overall community well-being. (See this page for more on why CSV communities must value enjoying life while preparing for the coming hardships. It is in Action Step 1: Enjoy your life now and build psychological and emotional stability, reserves, and resilience.) 
9. value effective conflict resolution processes. Conflicts will always arise. Our community will teach conflict resolution systems and skills, including endurance, determination, tolerance, and patience, which are essential to effective conflict resolution. (Patience is one of our most treasured virtues because we will have to endure and witness the widespread collapse of much of our global society and wait patiently before the world is truly ready for the many difficult changes that need to be made at a global systemic level to finally create a sustainable, just, and equitable world.)
10. incorporate new modes of fair exchange that achieve economic justice 
11. support and promote individual agency, freedom, self-organization, personal responsibility, and holding healthy boundaries,
12. striving for the highest possible levels of developing self-discipline in all members. Without an educational and training focus that will help all members develop self-discipline, the community will not be able to reach its goals and thrive. Without self-discipline, external discipline takes its place and external discipline often turns into abuse and imbalanced power structures.
13. promote community members building trusting relationships with each other based on their "earned" eco-community histories of positive decisions and actions
14. promote a culture of fair and adequate financial support and clear guidelines for all members' financial support obligations for community administrators and for all reasonable administrative costs required to maintain any CSV community model in such a way that it can continually forward and sustain the community's well-being.
15. place education and community educators in roles of primary importance. (Effective ClimateSafe Villages will get community member classes going as a critical initial element in their start-up. Community members must learn about the community culture, policies, and specialized skills if they work in different village areas. There will need to be classes for children and ongoing adult education. Qualified educators will create the courses and break community member education materials into easy-to-follow beginner, intermediate, and advanced classes. Once established, some of these classes could become income sources for the village if put online.)
16. has clear and fair policies for inter-member dispute resolution provided in the eco-community social contract, which all members sign when joining us. 
17. promotes an honest, realistic, and appropriate hope for the future (Click here to see what that precise form of climate change hope surprisingly means.)
18. gives no special attention or privileges to individuals of wealth or celebrity.
19. promote highly productive and meaningful lives and relationships (These communities will not be able to survive the growing climate and other interrelated consequences unless all able-bodied and able-minded individuals are productive community members. Lazy, free-riding, or non-contributing individuals will not last long after several community efforts to remedy this issue) 
20. supports a balance between work, ongoing education, and recreation,
21. promotes current good nutrition, physical fitness, wellness, and preventative medicine-based health practices (and a culture that supports those practices.)
22. initiates and maintains physical and psychological resilience practices to help members deal with the growing stresses of a deteriorating environment. 
23. exhibits high social, racial, gender, gender orientation, ethnic, spiritual, and generational diversity. (Think about us as a model for a fully integrated, fully-functional future community.)
24. provides psychological and emotional therapeutic support services to members, particularly as all types of escalating trauma and climate change-related consequences and other catastrophes take place outside the eco-community
25. promotes a commitment to lifelong ongoing education, personal development, and growth. (If an individual does not like to learn or has severe learning disabilities, they are not a good match for our initial start-up communities because there will be so much new to read and learn.) 
26. provides wellness, preventive healthcare, emotional and psychological support,
27. promotes self-discipline and personal sacrifice wherever appropriate.
28. systematically ensure eco-community management represents the demographics of the larger community (i.e., that there is proportional gender representation, etc..)
29. promotes the principles for creating a sustainable prosperity
30. acts in ways that prevent both population overshoot and resource overshoot. (CSV communities are designed with a profound understanding of the Overshoot work of William Cantton and its meaning for our collective future.)
31. creates individual and community financial well-being without poverty, homelessness, or hunger, 
32. exhibits non-discriminatory individual and collective justice throughout, and practices tolerance of different viewpoints with a commitment to advancing the values enumerated here.
33. will regularly and publicly honor and recognize the actions of members who exemplify eco-community values, or as Plato said, "what is honored in a culture will grow there."
34. base individual community member administrative advancement and reward on knowledge, skill, merit, and community contribution,
35. has a commitment to a self-chosen, mostly vegan or vegan lifestyle. (If you are not a vegan, you are still welcome at ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham.)
36. supports the evolutionary understanding that, although we may be more, at the minimum, we humans are evolving chimpanzees and part of Earth's ecosystems and that we are entirely dependent upon the health of those ecosystems for our long-term survival. (We share 98% of our DNA with chimps.)
37. support regular celebration rituals, holiday and other community and individual supporting rituals, and kind humor because, without these things, the community will not be able to build the necessary emotional and psychological resilience needed to survive the coming outside suffering and hardships. As appropriate, we also will create new rituals and holidays relevant to the eco-community's values and goals, like our existing Universe Day
38. allow for both efficient individual and collective eco-community full consequence capture so that both the individual and the eco-community learn and adapt faster from any action's positive or negative consequence feedback by quickly capturing either the positive benefits or the negative adverse effects of their own or the eco-communities actions,
39. use a new form of personalized, direct democracy referred to as Personalized Democracy (PD) to help manage the eco-community, which efficiently honors the issue input of everyone and marginalizes no one. (Personal Democracy is further described in more detail in this overview.)
40. create adequate surpluses and emergency reserves and a wise and equitable system for distributing those surplus life essentials such as food, water, energy, and health care to out-of-community in-need individuals and families.
41. reflects the best ideas from philosophy from humanity's heritage,
42. works toward creating new models for future effective global governance for a possible post-collapse Great Global Rebirth.  (We would not have our many current global crises nor have to face the coming climate nightmare if we had already evolved effective global governance working for the common good and well-being of ALL of humanity. Hopefully, as a high priority, our eco-community members will forward this critical global governance design and transition work for the post-collapse future.)
43. works to collect and preserve a specialized library of humanity's history of great literature, culture, science, and art on secure computer servers,
44. apply enlightened population management within the eco-community. 
45. prioritizes using the energy and resources inside the eco-community instead of outside in the macro-culture, which is beyond our control.
46. have transparent policies and procedures for members who want to leave or are asked by the eco-community to leave. (These are available potential members to review before joining. These policies include the community purchasing homes that a leaving member may have built or purchased on eco-community lands at fair market value.)
47. protect the natural biodiversity of any lands the eco-community owns or leases. (We will have native bee hives and provide habitat and protection for the natural biodiversity of our lands.)
48. create a community culture that, as its primary function, always treats all community members as assets to the community that must be cared for accordingly and by supporting each member's complete well-being. Yes, the eco-community must always also work to preserve itself, but only to persistently maintain its ability to serve the general well-being of its members. 
49. promote open access in relationship to sharing our critical survival and thrive information with others and other communities (We need to be open access because there is so little time to scale up worldwide preparation, adaption, and resilience building. This does not mean that we are not wise and seek some reciprocality in our open-access sharing. The open-source software community has a great saying for this: "Bring a brick, get a house.")
50. will interact, trade, and help educate surrounding communities in positive ways regarding building local climate resilience wherever possible. Our eco-communities will initially depend on surrounding communities for food, medicines, advanced medical services, and other essentials that we cannot produce or provide in our early stages of development. (Our communities will strive to be living and educating examples to their surrounding communities of healthier and better ways to live and greater sustainability. They will also demonstrate an improved form of democratic management called Personal Democracy. It also will be essential to engage the governments of surrounding communities and share ideas on how they can prepare and make their surrounding communities and residents more resilient for the rough road ahead.)
51. actively supports local farmers and farmer's markets. (Maximizing local food supply from all sources is critical as the climate worsens.)
52. promotes reciprocality within all inter-community transactions. For example, if community members are retired and otherwise unable to perform any shared community maintenance actions, they would need to make additional monthly financial contributions to cover the costs of what others must do for them and to be in fair exchange with other members. The last thing you want in new start-up eco-communities is non-reciprocating individuals who take or expect far more than they are willing to give back. But on the other hand, balanced, reciprocating, fair exchanges within the eco-community make it quite a pleasant place.
53. have 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 contiguous 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.)
54. have contracts for all other critical member involvement areas. All required community contracts will be clear and fair to all parties. This will include contracts for leasing homes or business spaces on community land. Our contracts will also cover community exit procedures and buybacks. Some community contracts may have reciprocal or one-way provisions to allow a wisely fixed number of other CSV members from a location that had to be abandoned in an emergency to join the safer community location, provided that members from the other CSV community have pre-stocked all supplies they will need at the emergency escape CSV community location.
    Community-related contracts will have a mandatory binding arbitration clause to prevent costly, time-consuming, or frivolous litigation that could harm the community. 
55. allow well-behaved pets, 
56. allow for all generations to live together in the community, including senior citizens living in full or semi-retirement. And finally,
57. are constructed at their ideological core around a shared, wise, and just philosophy and science-grounded worldview, which would learn from the mistakes of the current worldview, which is the cause for many of the global crises pushing humanity towards collapse. The new worldview within ClimateSafe Villages will have a much higher potential to survive the tremendous hardships humanity will face over the rest of this century and not repeat the mistakes that caused society to collapse. (Some villages may also incorporate a healthy, balanced, and inclusive spiritual practice.)
58. locate, promote, and support the most wise, skilled, and ethical members in critical community administrative positions. (No CSV will survive long term if it does not quickly identify its wisest, most capable, and ethical members and facilitate their becoming the community's key administrators. These kinds of individuals will create a community's best opportunity to be successfully established and securely maintained.)

Imagine a new kind of climate-resilient community where an essential goal is helping each individual achieve well-being and develop their full potential while simultaneously preserving the community that is supporting the lives of its members. If you can imagine that, you would have a good idea of the social/cultural/community balance we are attempting to achieve. This balance is critical because any community that focuses exclusively on its members' well-being but neglects or disregards the collective well-being of itself will not last long.

The new ClimateSafe Villages will generally work toward preserving the best and most workable elements of our global culture and society and abandon the worst. They will strive to save the best and most workable elements of our global culture and society because they will not want to waste limited and valuable time, energy, and resources "reinventing the wheel. 

Determining what is best from the past and needs to be preserved will be decided by each community in an open and transparent process. The many above community social and cultural values will help create and foster the psycho-social-cultural shifts needed to accept and survive the coming collapse process trauma with the needed composure, stability, and skill sets.

How do you see the many internal changes that you will need to make for what a climate collapse and post-collapse future will need?

A vital additional aspect to our cultural and social qualities is "how we must see the future in new ways to survive psychologically, emotionally and if you are spiritual, spiritually. This area of our cultural qualities has many currents of thought, and it's too much to put into this general overview.

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4. The Educational Qualities of the ClimateSave Villages

Ongoing lifelong education is one of our highest priorities. We will have an online and offline school. Here are some of the things these educational facilities will do:

1. teach children and new members our values and the many new skills that will be needed within the community

2. help children and new members reach their full potential and help them discover their unique form of genius

3. teach attentiveness to the present, wise experimentation, rapid learning from feedback, and rapid adaptation from feedback to enhance evolvability

4. teach children and members optimal health and wellness principles 

5. offer online education on critical issues to individuals outside our eco-community.

6. teach and support critical thinking skills.

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5. Religion and Personal Spirituality within the ClimateSafe Villages

Religion or personal spirituality is a part of many individuals' lives. Each ClimateSafe Villages will set its policies for how it will deal with its members' different religious and spiritual practices. We do, although, have some suggestions and recommendations.

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 religious members within the four eco-community models should continually explore how to include the safe and healthy values and ideas of existing religions for their personal or eco-community use while also transcending the no longer applicable, unjust, or unworkable religious practices, values, and beliefs from humanity's vast spiritual heritage.

2. Allow any individual of any religious denomination to join any model of our eco-communities. 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 your eco-community model, it will not work out well. For example, if a potential member's 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 an eco-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 eco-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. If an individual's spiritual practice is found on the third or fourth level defined by Fowler's Four Levels of Faith, they 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.)

5. 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.

6. 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. 

7. 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.

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6. The Potential Income and Ongoing Funding Sources for the ClimateSafe Villages and Their Members

Failed intentional communities and eco-villages did so most often because those communities did not have reliable and steady income sources for themselves or their members. Therefore, all CSVs must generate sustainable, fair exchange-based income for themselves and their members.

Most income sources within CSVs should be co-ops or community-owned, with everyone sharing equally in any profit according to their work contribution and responsibilities, except for those individually owned businesses brought to or created within the community that are sustainable, eco-friendly and meet that community member's approval and community standards. All co-ops or community-owned businesses within the community should also experiment with the new economic models of fair exchange and merit and responsibility-based incomes.

Here are just a few of the ways ClimateSafe Villages can fund or support themselves either before or once established and operational, but always in fair exchange, community-value, and community well-being congruent ways.

Income for CSVs:

1. Selling online educational courses on many community-related subjects and skills.

2. Selling online climate adaptation and resilience courses.

3. Selling at the eco-community on-site courses and day-long, weekend, or longer sustainability and organic gardening retreats.

4. Selling surplus organic food to the surrounding community.

5. Selling community and sustainably made crafts, art, and other products to the surrounding community.

6. Individual members running their on-site businesses, which are value-compatible with eco-community values.

7. Allowing retirees who want to live in net-zero homes within the community to contribute more significant amounts to help build or maintain the community because they may be unable to provide as much labor to help run the community.

8. Rural CSVs allow visitors to stay in their RVs for several weeks to experience CSV living. (They would have to build approved RV spaces, which could be a substantial income source. These rural CSVs could also offer organic meals to short- and longer-term community kitchen visitors.)

9. Housing leasing payments for homes, apartments, and dorm rooms constructed in rural CSVs on community-owned land.

10. Rural CSVs can lease agreed-upon secure storage space or even vacant living spaces to urban or virtual CSV members for storage of emergency backup supplies and temporary or permanent occupancy during an emergency.

11. Community members might also develop climate change resilience-building consulting services or resilience remodeling services for the communities surrounding that CSV model.

12. Some CSV members might create small businesses to help other CSVs with their initial construction, remodeling, specialty survival equipment (solar, water capture, etc.), or food-growing operations. They would temporarily move to a new CSV location and live there while helping that CSV get started.

13. Some CSVs might create a community-owned business that could provide other products like specialty survival equipment (like EMP shielding kits,) unique greenhouses, prefab homes, vertical hydroponics kits, dried food products capable of surviving years on a shelf, etc. These businesses could be driven by the advanced and always evolving CSV climate change, climate change resilience building, and food growing knowledge base, and could employ numerous community members.

14. Create a service that reviews and rates only the products that will be used in worldwide CSVs. This service could become highly trusted because it would be executed with the integrity and thoroughness of a Consumer Reports-type company.

15. Receiving donations from individuals who want to see our eco-community goals succeed. We are still working out our policies and possible exchanges to wisely accommodate the contributions of individuals who make considerably larger donations to get our eco-communities going, being maintained, or expanding. 

We understand and value that some wealthy individuals are ethical and honorable and see their wealth as a generational responsibility to use wisely to improve and protect humanity's well-being and future.

Things currently being considered for the larger donor start-up eco-community funding and contributions are as follows:

a. If the individual eco-community is a registered non-profit educational organization, large donors can be offered the standard donation tax deduction for that country. (We anticipate these eco-communities will be registered non-profit educational organizations. Each eco-community will determine its best legal structures as appropriate. 

b. Awarding large donors a week or longer for several years to live at the eco-community as a guest.

c. Allowing large donors to put their name on an eco-community structure or piece of equipment they fund.

d. Allowing large donors to join the eco-community and build a net-zero home for them and their children, but on the same terms applied to every new member.

e. We are also currently working on ways to be in fair exchange with any individuals or members who connect us to large donors and funding sources that help provide the seed finances to expedite the creation of any of the four models of eco-communities.

We can offer wealthy, ethical individuals the safest place to have a home or apartment for themselves and their families as the anticipated large-scale extinction and collapse occurs. This is because they would be a part of a well-prepared eco-community with deep shared values, a commitment to mutual support and quality of life, and protection that could be relied upon, which is something that money alone can never buy. These rural and hybrid eco-communities would also be located in the areas with the best survival probabilities for our current worsening global crises.

Helping to create these new eco-communities and having a home there is the ultimate insurance policy. So please click here to read about why many emergency survival plans used by the ultra-wealthy are not realistic and will likely fail.

When taking any large donations from the ultra-rich, we will carefully review their business history and past charity actions to see if they were, in general, ethical and reasonably compatible with our eco-community values and worldview. If you are fundraising for your eco-community, the wives, x-wives, children, and other relatives of an ultra-rich individual, who are also ultra-rich through divorce or inheritance, are usually better aligned with our values and worldview and can more easily pass our ethical donation review.

Finally, individuals who make large donations will be treated as any other eco-community member and be expected to participate in everyday shared community actions when they are residents in the eco-community. Great wealth or celebrity earns you no special treatment. We are evolving new social and economic systems that value merit but do not continue the economic distortions or imbalances of the past that have also contributed to our current 12 crises. 

"Only the wisest, most cooperative, and best-prepared individuals, families, and businesses living and working in highly value-aligned eco-communities with a deep and common worldview, which will give them the additional needed emotional and psychological resilience (in addition to the eco-community's physical resilience) will have the best possibility of surviving the worsening 12 global crises we all now face." Lawrence Wollersheim

Here is one more thing to consider about income sources and CSV economics. We are a survival-essential new community movement, not an investment scheme for the profit of one or more individuals!

16. We are also exploring and open to other eco-community value-compatible income sources for members and the eco-community. One such way is for younger adults to have their parents sponsor them and their initial expenses for building their net-zero homes in these new eco-communities. This is a common practice because parents often help their children enter their first homes. It is even more critical in this case as parents typically want to see their children survive and live longer lives. Another area we are exploring is crowdfunding apps like Kick Starter.

17. If we raise enough funding, as a community, we may pre-build all net-zero homes or apartments and long-term lease them to members or exchange their leasing fees for ongoing services rendered to the eco-community. Our ideal funding situation is to buy the land, build all of the necessary eco-community infrastructure, and simultaneously build all of the net-zero homes from the initial funding.

18. All members will be obligated to regularly contribute (most likely monthly) to fair, adequate, or, where appropriate, means-based financial support for the community. These membership payments will have clear guidelines for covering the costs of community administrators and for all reasonable administrative and related community costs required to maintain their CSV community model so that it can securely and continually forward and sustain the community's well-being.

Please also note that retired individuals or other individuals who cannot continue to work productively within these eco-communities will be allowed membership on a case-by-case basis. However, their initial and monthly financial contributions to the eco-community will be substantially larger than individuals who can provide the ongoing needed services to the eco-community.

Because this section is about income sources, there is one more area to review.

Why is everything free and open on our website except the member's section?

Even though our organization is all volunteer with no paid staff and has been that way for years, we still have to pay rent for our offices, Internet charges, phone, and everyday business expenses that any business would incur. Sometimes we have to hire specialty consultants with the knowledge that no volunteer in our team has. For example, when we have to fend off hacking attempts for certain upgrades on our website, we have to hire a server security specialist.

Additionally, the information in the members-only section is information we had to spend a lot of money to obtain. It is extremely valuable migration and financial information that a standard risk assessment firm would charge businesses thousands of dollars a year to access.

We do not do that. We have a reasonable tax-deductible donation level to become a member. We even have a scholarship program for those individuals worldwide who live at the poverty level and cannot donate.

And finally, we want to serve and collaborate with reciprocal and mature individuals who know they need to support the community helping them and others. When you donate to our nonprofit organization, you tell us that you appreciate and value what we're doing and want to help us get our uncensored, valuable climate change-related information to as many people as possible.

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7. The Internal Safety and Security Processes of the ClimateSafe Villages

Healthy boundaries support healthy relationships. Currently, there are about 1200 intentional communities in the world. Not all of them are good or healthy, and most will eventually fail as they have repeatedly done for decades. 

There are many different types of healthy and unhealthy communities. This healthy and unhealthy list includes everything from co-housing communities, sustainability communities, UFO communities, resilience communities, neo-nazi communities, prepper communities, far-right militia communities, degrowth communities, ecovillages, financial investment scam communities, conservation communities, dangerous religious or spiritual cult communities, fronting political communities, simplicity communities, science-denying communities which make false and distorted claims about some threat that will end the world, deep adaptation communities, evolutionary or eco-communities, agrihoods, eco-prepper communities, farmers cooperatives, eco-spiritual communities, even traditional doomer end of the world type survivalist communities.

Because there are also so many unhealthy and even dangerous communities out there and new ones forming all of the time, it is critical to understand our community's processes to help safeguard the community and keep it secure from internal dangers.

Here is how we keep our new ClimateSafe Villages safe from internal dangers:

• All potential new members are carefully screened for alignment with our values. All members sign a comprehensive social contract that embraces our values in these general areas: quality of life, all community organizations exist to benefit the balanced well-being of individuals and the community; respect individual thinking, not conclusions; rewards in proportion to social contribution, a sustainable world, and a sustainable society, efficiency to support sustainability, Beauty throughout human environments, personal, family, and social development, respect for logic and science-grounded material reality. Eventually, this social contract will evolve into a community constitution that might differ slightly in each community.
• All potential new members are encouraged to carefully examine the resumes and histories of eco-community co-founders and key community coordinators and spend some time with them and other eco-community members before joining. This two-way potential member and eco-community transparency also helps to promote balanced and informed consent for joining.
• All new members are carefully screened for serious personal problems and problems from their past that could harm the eco-community. (See our application page processes here.)
• The eco-community provides full administrative transparency for all legal and other administrative records (except for personnel file sections, which we have agreed to keep confidential.)
• Because finances are an area where many communities run into trouble, we provide administrative transparency for all community financial records and maintain a three-person signoff and approval system for disbursements or purchases over an amount agreed to by the community. This three-person signoff finance integrity system will go a long way to help prevent incorrect, incomplete, or inaccurate community financial records and other types of mistakes, fraud, or embezzlement. 
• We educate every community member about actions of members or community managers that could harm individuals or the community by having all members understand the fundamental tactics of destructive cultic behavior.
• We educate every community member about actions of members or community managers that could harm individuals or the community by introducing or using manipulative and harmful spiritual or religious practices within the community.
• Every new member must sign off on our eco-community's serious transgressions list. If you violate our serious community transgressions, like child physical or sexual abuse, domestic violence, illegal drug use or sale, violence against other community members, theft, dishonesty relating to serious eco-community operational issues and damage, embezzlement, or anything that would be considered a criminal felony in the macro-culture, you will be quickly asked to leave the eco-community and/or turned over to outside civil authorities if your actions are also serious civil or criminal felonies.)
• We maintain a unique "forking off" principle and practice initially used in the open-source software design community. This forking principle promotes that any eco-community can and should always fork off and away from any other existing eco-community and form a new eco-community whenever the eco-community's coordinating senior administrators repeatedly fail to follow important and serious eco-community values, principles, and practices or violate community agreed-upon serious transactions. (These would be repeated actions or severe failures that fail to protect individual and community well-being and could not be resolved by repeated attempts to do so.)/li>

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8. The External Safety and Security Processes of Our ClimateSafe Villages

Our initial methods to minimize climate consequence threats and risks external to the eco-communities are described in Parts 1, 2, and 3 of the Job One for Humanity Survive and Thrive plan described here. As threats and risks worsen, new safety and security procedures will evolve within each model of eco-community.

In addition to implementing Parts 1, 2, and 3 of the Job One for Humanity Survive and Thrive plan described here, we also have a long-term backup sanctuary strategy for ClimateSafe Villages.

The Long-term Backup Sanctuary Strategy for ClimateSafe Villages (CSV)

Somewhere between 15 to 30 years from now, CSVs in locations close to major migration routes or major urban areas will be at significantly higher risk because of the breakdowns in food supplies and in governmental protection and social services.

This means that there will be far more desperate and hungry people scavenging, which may present too much risk for some ClimateSafe Villages. For these at-risk villages and individuals to survive, they will also need to have a backup sanctuary village in a highly isolated area.

They must stock this backup isolated village with all the food, equipment, hand tools, and shelter needed to survive. A large rural backup sanctuary in a very isolated and defendable location should also function as the emergency bug-out backup for many different CSVs if this location had enough land and was in a highly isolated, easy-to-defend area. Sharing the costs among numerous CSVs for this additional backup would make it more manageable.

This CSV long-term survival location strategy does not have to be created immediately. Still, it should be planned for and started once numerous villages close to urban areas and major migration routes have been created. 

The Bellingham CSV headquarters intends to take the lead in coordinating with other CSVs to establish this very isolated and defensible emergency backup bug-out sanctuary at the appropriate time.

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9. The Individual Member Qualities That Will Make ClimateSafe Villages Successful

The temperaments and qualities of the members you select for your ClimateSafe Village or any community you may join are of the utmost importance. Ultimately your survival and the survival of that community depend entirely upon its coordinator/leader and member's skills, preparations, emotional and psychological stability, and cooperation abilities.

As you read the individual member qualities list, remember that the primary goal of community members is for you, your loved ones, and future generations to be better positioned to survive and thrive in the most meaningful and vital ways through what looks like the most difficult challenge humanity has ever faced, as humanity tries to survive and ride out the climate change emergency and the worsening of the 11 other major global crises.

Undoubtedly, it will take exceptional, rational, and well-organized communities of highly cooperative, problem-solving individuals to survive and thrive on the difficult road ahead. In selecting members, always look for people bringing the community solutions rather than more problems. The world and the climate change emergency will bring every CSV model all the problems we individually and collectively can ever deal with.

We need to have CSV team members who will almost always bring us potential solutions along with any problems they may have discovered. This point is so important that, right from the beginning, we must build this into our CSV culture; "If you bring a problem, you also bring us a solution." If you want your CSV community to survive and thrive for as long as possible, recruit and load it with problem solvers.

You probably will not have all the individual qualities or beliefs listed below, but if you at least have the most important ones and strongly aspire to develop the rest within yourself and our community and have other knowledge and skills to contribute, consider joining us. (Please note: Not all variations of our four different eco-community models will require all of the individual member qualities or characteristics listed below on this page. For example, membership in the virtual CSV community will, in general, have many fewer requirements.) 

The following list is also our current best attempt to combine practicality for the brutal climate reality we are all facing with building an evolved community and culture that will survive the climate and other hardships and then also provide proven systemic solutions and new models for those that survive.

Our ClimateSafe Villages community members:

• Place an exceptionally high value on preserving and protecting the community's well-being, peace, and stability as an essential supporter, protector, and co-creator of the community's well-being (and the well-being of other community members.) Individuals within CSV communities see having a healthy, stable, and peaceful community as the required minimal foundation upon which their well-being will flourish, particularly in the face of climate change's unfolding primary and secondary consequences.) For example, suppose an individual does not understand the foundational value and essential role that the community performs for its members and does not seek to balance their individual needs and goals within the community rationally. In that case, they will not make good community members or be happy in community life.
• Are rational and kind, These villages will not survive without highly rational, science-grounded, and kind coordinators/leaders and members. These villages will be confronted with continuous new survival challenges as conditions outside the villages worsen. Without highly rational, science-grounded coordinators/leaders and members, these villages will not be able to adapt wisely enough or fast enough to meet the ever-changing conditions. Kindness will always be essential because of the intense suffering the community and its members will experience. This practiced kindness will not add to the ongoing suffering but, in many cases, will help significantly lower it.
• Are self-organizing, There is so much to do with little time left to do it. Founding members of any of the four variations of our eco-communities will need to be highly self-organizing and, in most cases, self-funding. Without self-organizing, self-funding individuals showing up in the startup communities, it will take much longer to establish new communities in diverse locations worldwide (all of which will be needed to ensure humanity's long-term survival.) 
• Respect themselves and respect others,
• Are creative and innovative,
• Are problem solvers, not problem creators, (In the CSV culture, we have the value that if you discover a problem, if at all possible, you also should become involved in its solution.)
• Are persistent in the face of setbacks and challenges. Building new eco-communities by itself and the worsening of outside systems is going to take great personal persistence,
• Have the ability to delay gratification and understand the value of sacrifice and self-discipline, especially as it will apply to surviving what is coming, 
• Are reciprocating in nature and willing to equitably contribute physically and financially to the community's well-being or the required labor and administrative maintenance of the community in return for the community contributing to their care and wellbeing (Reciprocality is imperative because these new communities will not survive the energy-draining outside ecological, economic, and political turbulence if inside the eco-community; they have too many non-productive, non-reciprocating eco-community energy-draining free-riders. (individuals seeking to take more than they give are unsustainable in these new eco-communities where reciprocality, mutual care and contribution, and individual productivity are critical for survival.) 
• Are reasonably intelligent and literate. There is a lot of continuous learning needed to build these new eco-communities, and as things worsen, new members will need to learn fast. Additionally, until these eco-communities establish their online and offline classes, having literate and intelligent individuals on their co-ordinating start-up teams will make things much easier.
• Have resources or skills needed by the community, 
• Recognize that every personal freedom has equal and counter-balancing responsibilities and boundaries.
• Are polite and value civility in public interactions,
• Understand that members will be obligated to regularly contribute (most likely monthly) to fair, adequate, or, where appropriate, means-based financial support for the community. These membership payments will have clear guidelines for covering the costs of community administrators and for all reasonable administrative and related community costs required to maintain their CSV community model so that it can securely and continually forward and sustain the community's well-being.
• Have a mature intellectual, cultural, and social humility. (This humility seeks to first understand because initially giving the benefit of the doubt is prudent, and knowing that the learning process is never complete.)
• Are wisely trusting (This means that everyone starts initially at a neutral, neither trusting nor not trusting level. From there, each person, as demonstrated by their actions, gets to earn the level of eventual trust they will have within the community.)
• Understand and accept that the future will require less consumption and more conservation,
• Believe that a compassionate, empathetic, and efficient meritocracy can produce enough surplus to support the needs of any members who, for legitimate reasons, are temporarily or otherwise unable to work because of illness, injury, or age, 
• Have progressive values (To avoid today's intensifying conflicts of political or spiritual polarization, it is critical to select members for your community that have similar values structures. There will be many severe outside climate change-related and generated conflicts and problems. The last thing your new community will need is easily avoidable but serious internal community conflicts, problems, and polarization. Even though we at ClimateSafe Villages are primarily progressives, this does not mean that conservatives are not also welcome to use our materials to create their community variations. Everyone has an equal right to climate change survival.)
• Have balanced personalities,
• Are get-it-done people vs. talkers and braggers,
• Honor reproductive freedom for all,
• Are and have been productive individuals with a relatively stable work history,
• Are or could be considered visionaries in one or more areas of expertise,
• Value working with others to create these new experimental communities that can become "beacons of light" for a more sustainable and equitable world,
• Realize that the world's societies are on an accelerating path of escalating ecological, climate, economic, and social catastrophes, disasters, and collapses,
• Accept that these coming catastrophes are primarily due to humanity's changeable previous actions and choices,
• Appreciate the urgency for consequential and substantial evolutionary changes in our economic, social, and governmental systems,
• Accept the new worldview of sustainably, equity, and respectfully sharing the Earth with ALL others.

Additional Nice-to-Have But Not Crucial Village Member Qualities

1. Have been involved in effective previous social advocacy actions.

2. See themselves not only as national citizens but also as Planetary Citizens or global citizens, and possibly even Universe Citizens.

Creating and maintaining the first eco-communities will take highly creative, rational, and balanced individuals who are skilled in their areas of expertise. Initially, we are looking for wise individuals who already realize that individual and community freedoms and responsibilities must always be closely balanced but that there must also always be a slight favoring of what is best for the community. This is simply because the community must survive and thrive for its individuals to have and maintain the opportunity to survive and thrive. 

In general, ClimateSafe Villages is about cooperative people who can create solutions and adapt to difficult situations. They are also reciprocators. They do not come only or primarily to take, receive, or be helped. They come to give and share knowledge, experience, and skills. They come to assist others while simultaneously assisting themselves and being assisted.

Being a successful member of ClimateSafe Villages requires a good alignment with the organization's values and philosophy and a sincere personal commitment. It also requires the willingness to continue learning, evolve and change, and be a productive community member willing to make the necessary sacrifices for the future. 

Without finding and focusing on reasonably intelligent, skilled individuals with balanced and reciprocating natures, building ClimateSafe Villages worldwide would be impossible to achieve before climate change consequences make things too unstable. If you are a natural reciprocator with a collaborative and cooperative nature, you will love ClimateSafe Villages and feel at home with others of a similar nature.

And finally, ClimateSafe Villages is also not the project of any single individual or group. A single individual or group could never achieve it. It is an open-access vision and project that is the goal and the creation of every prudent individual who protects themselves, their families, their communities, our unique and critical biological systems, our world, and the best of our diverse cultures and civilization. Everyone who does show up is helping to protect themselves and our future from the climate change emergency and the worsening of most of the world's other 11 serious global crises. 

ClimateSafe Villarges is not "our" project. It is your project if you see its merits and choose to join with others of similar minds and spirits to prepare for what we can no longer avoid. 

One critical quality that is essential to all areas of ClimateSafe Villages' success.

High-level adaptability will be critical to our success in continually changing conditions. If our communities survive, they must become super-evolutionary and super-adaptable by doing what the most successful system that has ever existed does.

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10. How to Join Any One of Our Four ClimateSave village Models

If you have read enough and see the value and need for our various ClimateSafe Villages models, please join and help with this worthy and meaningful work. We invite everyone interested to help us grow and enhance our eco-community models with your ideas, wisdom, and efforts.

If we cooperate and get started now, we can still be prepared for the critical 2025-2031 threshold. From 2025-2031, climate change consequences will go from their current linear progression into an exponential progression because many climate change tipping points will be crossed, and climate feedback loops will be triggered.

Here are the most critical initial areas where new members, volunteers, and especially project managers are needed. These areas are law, fund-raising, finance, eco-friendly architectural community design, online and offline education, sustainable general contracting, construction, plumbing, electrical, administrative management, recruiting and human resources, medical services, wellness services, therapeutic psychological services, internet security, software design, permaculture, organic gardening, animal husbandry, and public relations. 

ClimateSafe Villages is now very active with hundreds of people from all of the world now involved. Here are the four simple steps for your to learn more and get started:

Step 1. Sign up for the Job One for Humanity climate change alerts mailing list by clicking here.

Step 2. Please email ClimateSafe Villages at ([email protected]). Tell us which model of the four eco-community models you want to join.

Step 3. In that email, be sure to let us know which location you are in now or which location you plan to move to so we can connect you with others working in or near that location.

Step 4. In that email, let us know any skill or experience you have that could be helpful to any needed skill or knowledge area mentioned on our six ClimateSafe Villages pages. 

Once the team at ClimateSafe Villages receives your email, they will get back to you, let you know your next membership application steps, and, as applicable, connect you with the CSV community location project leader in the area closest to you or the area you may want to move to.  

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11. 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.

Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to the nonprofit ClimateSafe Villages organization by clicking here. Every donation helps us expand and assist everyone coming to us for climate change resilience-building information and support.

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.

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.

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 in the benefits and possibilities of:

a. the ClimateSafe Villages movement,

b. joining a ClimateSafe Village (CSV),

c. or creating an independent local version of your own.

We have four ClimateSafe Village models; urban, rural, hybrid and virtual. With local modifications, our four ClimateSafe Village models can be adapted to almost every worldwide urban or rural location and situation.

If you are just browsing or want to get a quick beginning-level sense of who we are and what we are doing, we strongly recommend you first start explore the new ClimateSafe Villages website to more easily introduce you to the many benefits of these unique and necessary new communities. Please click here to go to our new, far less detail filled ClimateSafe Village website to start exploring the many positive possibilities.

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 our information." 

Here is our new CSV introductory video on CSV done as an interview by the Climate Emergency Forum.

Welcome to Page 1, An Overview of ClimateSafe Villages (CSV)

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. 

Here are the sections you will find on this page:

1. What are ClimateSafe Villages

2. Key reasons to Join and Support Our Urban, Rural, Hybrid, or Virtual ClimateSafe Villages Models or Build Your Own 

3. A Quick Overview of the CSV Design Goals and Qualities

4. The Short and Long-term Purposes Behind the creation of CSV and its four model

5. Features of the Rural Model

6. Additional Goals of Our Four Models

7. Principles for How We Will Achieve Our ClimateSafe Village Goals

8. What New Members Will Start Doing When They Join

9. The Motivations Behind the Creation of Our Four Models

10. What Organization is Behind the Four ClimateSafe Village Models

11. How to Get Started and Join Any One of Our Four Models

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1. What are ClimateSafe Villages (CSVs)

Welcome to our "survive and thrive" ClimateSafe Village online guide for the not-for-profit, educational ClimateSafe Villages social benefit organization and the Climatesafe Villages Movement.

ClimateSafe Villages and the Climate Safe Villages Movement are far more than just places better equipped and ready to survive the increasing climate change and other consequences many intelligent individuals see or sense are coming. ClimateSafe Villages are, first and foremost, places of peace where you can live lives of sustainability, equality, justice, and safety away from the increasing levels of ecological, societal, economic, and political pre-system failed dysfunctionality.

As we prepare for the climate change emergency and humanity's many other challenges, it is easy to lose focus on the primary meaning of the ClimateSafe Village movement. Our focus is not on mere survival like thousands of survivalist communities worldwide. 

Yes, we must deal with the climate emergency and the many other problems/crises arising in our globalized society. But, while we honestly acknowledge and prepare for the apparent climate and other survival problems, in the CSV movement, we focus most of our attention, energy, and resources on creating the physical, environmental, social, cultural, and psychological quality of life that will model the critical new solutions for eventually resolving our currently worsening problems, injustices, and inequities within humanity and the greater society which will cause widespread eventual multiple human systems collapse described in great detail here.

Among many benefits you will find within this 6-page CSV guide, in a ClimateSafe Village, you will be able to live in balance with nature and live healthy values in a kind and rational community that does not support the endless "extract, consume, and waste" cycle of modern consumerism as the cultural measure of success, personal worth, or character. You can live a sustainable and peaceful way of life, described in great detail further down this page and in the other five pages of the CSV guide. 

If you are looking for an "us vs. them" survivalist community, we are not that or even close to that. You will be far happier and better suited to join one of the thousands of existing survivalist communities worldwide. 

Our four village models

Our four new ClimateSafe Village models, Urban, Rural, Hybrid, and Virtual, also have similarities and significant differences from what most people consider a traditional ecovillage. Ecovillages in Wikipedia are defined as small, self-sufficient communities living from and around their natural surroundings.

They are found mainly in rural areas where their inhabitants build small societies and mini-cultures based on cooperation, self-sufficiency, renewable energies, and ecological materials. There are already about 10,000 ecovillages worldwide.

Our four unique urban, rural, hybrid, and virtual CSV models contain and forward the following qualities/goals which are both similar and yet significantly different from eco-villages.

They are:

a.) designed to be safer, more secure, and highly climate change and disaster-resilient to be better positioned to ride out the transitional worsening of our coming climate change consequences and the worsening of most of the world's other 11 serious global crises. 

b.) designed to grow substantial food organically in urban homes, gardens and greenhouses or on small rural farms.

c.) built around living in a sustainable and thriving balance with the surrounding environment and its ecosystems in both urban and rural areas. (In ways that also take into account healthier living design initiatives and help address climate change risks such as drought, flooding, heatwaves, long-term blackouts, air pollution, etc.)

d.) places where you can live progressive (non-climate change-denying) values like respect, fair exchange, and economic, social, and racial justice, etc. 

e.) interactive with other communities. They will trade, interact, and share our information and our evolving optimal community models with individuals worldwide and with communities surrounding our rural and urban communities. In classes, classrooms, and online, CSV will educate individuals, businesses, and surrounding communities about accelerating climate change consequences, necessary climate emergency preparations and adaptations, and other critical climate resilience-building and resilience actions needed in homes, businesses, and large and small urban or rural communities worldwide. And,

f. a necessary sanctuary and refuge from the world's escalating dangers and currently intractable problems during the world's rapid transition toward widespread ecological (climate change-drive), economic, political, and social disruption, disasters and multiple systems collapse. CSVs will also act as an essential sanctuary and refuge to help preserve the necessary peace and stability for a healthy body, mind, and spirit to help its members survive the coming disruption, disasters and eventual transition to a more just equitable and sustainable world and society.

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 humanity's viability and evolve a safer, more equitable, and just 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.

The ClimateSafe Villages project's long-term goal for humanity's future is...

ClimateSafe Villages' long-term goal is for their communities to help save as much of humanity as possible and to serve as "beacons of light," modeling time-proven new ideas, values, and behaviors needed for future generations. ClimateSafe Villages are designed to make it through the climate change emergency and widespread global collapse, which, when finally resolved, will also eventually facilitate a Great Global Rebirth.

(To see in detail what these new ideas, values, and behaviors might look like for a better future for future generations, click here and look at Benefit 2.)

Using systems thinking and dialectical meta-systemic thinking principles, modeling, and analysis, ClimateSafe Villages looks out 50 years into the future. We even plan and prepare for what our communities must do to survive and thrive if all goes wrong and if we enter a post-collapse New Dark Age.

The above brief CSV description will give you an excellent introductory overview of what ClimateSave Villages are. Still, many other essential and exciting longer-term CSV goals are described further down this page and on other pages of this online guide. Even if you 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.

A powerful video worth watching as well

You might want to watch this Earth 2100 video sometime while you're exploring CSV. Just click on the image below.

Why individuals and families join the ClimateSafe Villages Movement

We have observed that most people join or start building a change-resilient community because they understand and finally realize one or more of the following:

a. they want to live in a vibrant community that matches their core values and not the many dysfunctional, inequitable, and unjust values of today's society and macro culture. 

b. there is so little time left to prepare, adapt, and build resilience and

c. by themselves, these individuals realize that they will be unable to manage or survive the accelerating climate change emergency, no matter how wealthy they are or supported by a private security team.

Beyond living the value-driven life they desire, they know if they do not prepare, adapt, and build resilience now, they, their loved ones, and their businesses will needlessly suffer near-unrecoverable climate change and other related consequences.

They also realize and understand the following:

1. no government can protect or help them recover from the skyrocketing financial losses from escalating climate change consequences sometime after 2025. This 2025-2031 period is when climate change consequences go from the dramatic increase in the severity, frequency, and scale of climate consequences we see today to a near-exponential rise in the severity, frequency, and scale of climate consequences. This dramatic increase in climate consequences will occur because we will cross key climate change tipping points beginning around 2025. 

2. the value of having access to the CSV emergency preparation, adaptation, and climate change resilience-building knowledge base, tools, forms, contracts, affordable architectural designs, equipment designs, and other critical specification lists for soil quality, best locations, etc., already existing or soon being completed. Wise individuals do not want to waste money or valuable time "reinventing the wheel" in an emergency when that wheel has already been invented. 

3. the value of a worldwide CSV support team: They know that even though it will be them making all of the critical preparation, adaptation, and climate change resilience-building changes DIY style (do it yourself), they know that having a similarly dedicated support team will be a significant reason they will be successful in achieving their climate change preparation goals.)

4. by bringing and contributing their knowledge, skills, experience, or resource piece of the solution, "their brick," they know they will walk away with a "house" because of the open access sharing principle of ClimateSafe Villages. CSV shares everything in their master models: knowledge, tools, forms, contracts, affordable climate change-resilient home, building, and community architectural designs, etc. (This "bring a brick, get a house" principle comes from the open source software industry; where programmers contribute their software piece to the master program and "walk away" the ability to use the whole software program freely [the house]). 

5. being a CSV member is a wise "insurance policy" type hedge against a future predicted to exponentially worsen before it gets better. They see the ClimateSafe Villages project as a critical element necessary to "insure" their overall future well-being and survival. In a way, for those who value the role of insurance in managing risks, ClimateSafe Villages offers an ultimate form of a climate change life protection and extension policy.

6. some retired grandparents seek a climate-safer place for their later years where they can also leave this home to their children and grandchildren for their future climate safety. Many young children's parents also think similarly; although not near retirement age, they too want their children to have a place for long-term safety.

7. things are going to get a whole lot worse before getting better. Many individuals have also watched the riveting Earth 2100 video by ABC TV, linked and described in this article. That video and review in this blog article not only make climate change facts simple but also put our painful climate change future in a perspective that is hard to deny. Many have also watched the Extrapolations show on Apple Plus.

8. there are many additional reasons and benefits for people joining the ClimateSafe Villages movement. They are the many benefits you and your family will receive as you, and we work on fixing and managing the climate change emergency and its accelerating consequences. You also will get to participate in the possibilities of a Great Rebirth after we make it through the coming trials and hardships.

Click here to review those dozens of other climate change-related benefits on the Job One website, including the post climate crisis's Great Rebirth's possibilities. 

If you think widespread collapse could not occur in multiple human systems because of the worsening of the many crises that humanity now faces, please click here and read about the normal collapse processes of evolution and the evolutionary history of life. This page is a real mind-opener! It will provide a healthy, big-picture perspective on humanity's current crises and help balance the anxiety and other negative emotions surrounding the challenges in front of us.

ClimateSafe Villages promote members living peaceful, progressive, value-aligned lives away from the many economic, political, and social dysfunctions causing the climate change emergency and our other 11 largest crises facing humanity. New ways of living more equitable,just and sustainable lives are being researched, tested, and enacted. Hence, CSVs can create better lives for members that also be shared with other communities. 

ClimateSafe Villages are also working to realize the 17 sustainable goals of the UN are guiding models of sustainable living and social-ecological transformation of the society!

Our members 

ClimateSafe Villages are filled with cooperative and reciprocating individuals who create solutions in difficult situations. They do not come only or primarily to take, receive, or be helped. They come to give and share knowledge, experience, and skills. They come to assist others while assisting themselves and being assisted.

Without finding and focusing on individuals with reciprocating cooperative natures, building the worldwide ClimateSafe Villages network would be impossible to create before accelerating climate change consequences make things too unstable. If you are a natural reciprocator with a collaborative and cooperative nature, you will love Climatesafe villages and feel at home with others of a similar nature.

Our organization

ClimateSafe Villages, as a non-profit organization, is also not the project of "or owned by" any single individual or group. A single individual or group could never achieve it. 

It is an open-access vision and not-for-profit project that is the goal and the creation of every prudent individual who protects themselves, their families, their communities, our unique and critical biological systems, our world, and the best of our diverse cultures and civilization. Everyone who shows up At CSV is helping to protect themselves and our future from the climate change emergency and the worsening of most of the world's other 11 serious global crises. 

ClimateSafe Villages is not "our" project. It is your and everyone's project if you see its merits and choose to join with others of similar mind and spirit. 

"ClimateSafe Villages is far more than just prepping for climate change or becoming a climate change prepper. Among its 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

ClimateSafe Villages is unique in other ways.

When we say we are creating survive and thrive ClimateSafe Villages worldwide, people have many different ideas of what that means. They often think of similar things 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, eco-prepper communities, farmers cooperatives, eco-spiritual communities, even survivalist communities. 

While our four new ClimateSafe Village models may include and combine the best elements from many of these kinds of other communities, they are something new and quite unique. Please continue reading to explore more about who we are, what we do, and what is different about our new ClimateSafe models.

Who is the driving force behind the ClimateSafe Villages movement 

It is you. It is not the CSV directors, staff, team members, or volunteers! And, it will always be you. 

Please do not wait for anyone else to lead you in getting what you need to be done to protect yourself, your family, and your business, as we are a leaderless movement. All we have is willing and wise collaborators and cooperators sharing knowledge and efforts.

If you want to get something done on creating a ClimateSafe Village or preparing for what is coming, do it! You never need anyone's permission to do good in the world.

Be the lead coordinator and let other cooperators gather around you with similar circumstances and interests.

While there is no need to panic, we are running out of time before we cross critical climate change tipping points (from 2025-2031.) Things will get much worse during that 2025-2031 period, far faster than they can be prepared for or adapted to.

Additionally, once things get far worse and many more people finally recognize we are in an accelerating climate change emergency, many of the critical supplies you will desperately need will be unavailable or unaffordable. Also, please keep in mind that it takes about 3 years for most people to build and buy everything you will need to protect yourself and your loved ones from what is coming with the climate's destabilization and other global crises.

All this only means what it has always meant in every area of your life. 

You are the driving force behind the ClimateSafe Villages movement and the growth of new ClimateSafe Villages.

Please select and start your first CSV-related project. Other wise collaborators with similar circumstances and interests are already looking for you.

Our current focus

Currently, our primary focus is building the Bellingham ClimateSafe Village while we also help support others in creating ClimateSafe Villages in other locations. The Bellingham, Washington, USA location will be our new headquarters and is designed to be a high-level master model for sharing with other ClimatesSafe Villages locations like ClimatesSafe Villages Inverness Scotland, ClimatesSafe Villages Berlin, etc.

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

Accordingly, ClimateSafe Villages Bellingham continuously gathers additional information to create and demonstrate the best master model that can be 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 unnecessary delays or mistakes.

(Please note you will never be required to join the ClimateSafe Villages project or team to access our information. You can create an your own independent community version and use our information or use our data to enhance your existing community. All we ask is that if you do it by yourself, please share any information you discover that also would be helpful to our worldwide CSV growth efforts.)

How long does becoming climate change resilient in an urban or rural CSV community take?

In general, if you are working part-time on the necessary emergency preparations and adaptations (described on this preparation page and this adaptation page), it will take 2 to 3 years to make your home or business in an urban CSV climate change-resilient. If you are building a rural CSV, you could easily be looking at 3 to 5 years. 

If you do it full-time, it will be quicker. Many things, like using permaculture to build high-quality food-growing soil, will still take several years to complete.

Construction companies are extremely busy dealing with the housing shortage and repairing climate change damage. Many of them will put you on a waiting list for up to six months or even a year or longer before they even start your remodeling, upgrading, or construction project.

These additional long build-out times mean that there is a real urgency to get started on your emergency preparations and adaptations today because after we cross critical climate change tipping points from 2025-2031, things will get much worse very fast. They also will continue to worsen from 203o to about 2050, which also means emergency and adaptation supplies will steadily be harder to get. And their costs will continually rise far faster than other commodities. 

This time-sensitive issue does not mean you should ever panic. You have adequate preparation and adaptation time before the worst consequences occur. This time-sensitive issue only means getting busy today while you also "Keep calm and carry on."

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2. More Great Reasons to Join and Support Our Urban, Rural, Hybrid, or Virtual ClimateSafe Villages Models or Build Your Own 

Please read the rest of this section 2; only if You are NOT yet convinced to join a ClimateSafe Village (or creating your own).

(Warning the rest of this section two contains an uncensored, comprehensive and unsettling analysis of the climate change emergency and how this worsening emergency with interact with our 11 other global crises.) 

If you are convinced you want to explore more about joining an ClimateSafe Village,

skip the rest of section 2 and go directly to section 3 below. It is called A Quick Overview of Our New ClimateSafe Village Model and its Basic Design Goals and Qualities. 

The getting-up-to-speed links below for first-time visitors are an uncensored analysis of humanity's 12 worsening crises. After carefully reviewing and considering these worsening 12 global crises causing our escalating current extinction and collapse risks, you should consider joining our four models. The links below are humanity's uncensored extinction and collapse risks, including their reasonable probabilities and their best current projected timetables:

1. Click here to read a summary of the current climate condition. (This is a quick and uncensored summary overview of the climate emergency and its soon-arriving catastrophic consequences. 

2. Click here for a summary of the future-critical four climate change extinction-accelerating tipping points. (This article is crucial for understanding the time frames of the four climate change-related, extinction-accelerating tipping points and the time left for establishing these new eco-communities before what is needed is either too expensive or no longer available. Soaring prices and critical product unavailability will happen as others finally realize things will get a lot worse before they get better, and they need to prepare before it is too late.)

3. Click here to read the step-by-step processes and consequences for extinction and global collapse caused by accelerating climate change, amplifying and multiplying the consequences of humanity's 11 other global crises worsening.

4. Click here for why we have only until about 2025-2031 (if we are lucky) to get prepared for an exponential increase in climate change consequences. 

You now have a good basic overview of humanity's current risk and threat condition. If you are a science person and want to learn more about the science and analysis concerning the many serious risks humanity faces, we also recommend spending additional time reviewing the additional links below.

1. Click here to read about why humanity will not likely go totally extinct, but we could get very close to it. (This link is critical to maintaining the proper perspective about what we can still control for our future and why we must push forward and create these new eco-community models worldwide.)

2. Click here to learn who we are as an independent climate change think tank. Learn about our research materials and analysis processes. What you have read in the links above is not the highly censored and underestimated climate change information you hear in the fossil fuel-influenced media or from our governments. Knowing our research and analysis processes will help you judge their accuracy and usefulness. 

3. Click here to understand why because of 60+ years of ineffective action by our governments, humanity can no longer avoid a climate change-driven extinction process for about half of humanity by mid-century. 

4. Click here to see a summary of the 30 painful predictive reasons why our governments will most likely not fix the climate change emergency before humanity suffers mass to near-total extinction.

We know the above is upsetting and shocking if this is your first exposure to uncensored climate change information, but we have a well-designed and balanced plan to deal with it, as you will soon discover. 

And do not forget, where you live today will be a significant factor in how often and how bad the climate change consequences you will experience will become. The areas between the 35th parallel North and the 35th parallel South will generally suffer more severe climate change-related consequences sooner than many other parts of the world.

Although there are many reasons to want to be in a ClimateSafe Village, at this particular time, because it is a major life change, one should only consider joining or creating one of the four new models described in this guide if they also strongly feel and believe that we are:

a. facing a severe climate change emergency (described briefly here.) or 

b. we are facing other major world crises that are worsening to dangerous, unstable levels. (Described in detail here.)

If you are not seriously concerned about either a or b above, there is no reason to keep reading about the four survive and thrive "stay where you are or move" models described in this guide. 

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3. A Quick Overview of the ClimateSafe Village Model, its Basic Design Goals, and Many Qualities

For over a decade, the Job One for Humanity has worked on sustainable ClimateSafe Village models that could survive and thrive through humanity's 12 major global crises. The result is four modles designed in wise and balanced ways to help manage the unfolding real threats and future we face. 

When we say we are creating a survive and thrive new ClimateSafe Village, people have many different ideas of what that means. They often think of similar things 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, eco-prepper communities, farmers cooperatives, eco-spiritual communities, even survivalist communities. While our four new eco-community 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 above types of communities. So, if you must give us a label, please do not think of us as preppers or survivalists. We are much, much more than having a few necessary prepper elements.

Think about our type of ClimateSafe Village composed of science-grounded progressives (individuals who value nonviolence, compassion, curiosity, respect, etc.), social activists, and sustainability visionaries being wisely practical. Yes, we are preparing for what is coming (as any wise person would who saw a train in a tunnel racing toward them,) but by far, we are focusing a significant amount of our resources on creating what will be needed to create a better future for ALL. (Even though our ClimateSafe Village are primarily designed for progressives, conservatives can also set up their own independent eco-communities using parts of our models. We have even researched and designated climate-safe areas for conservatives to relocate in our Member's website area.)

Here are a few of the qualities, characteristics, or benefits that show up regularly throughout our four ClimateSafe Village models:

1. All four models were designed to be wise choices and great places to live your progressive values and to live sustainable, equitable, and meaningful lives, even if climate change and our 11 other global crises were not worsening and the damages they will cause were not nearly as severe as described on our website and in the links in section 2 above. 

2. Creating and living in these "survive and thrive" ClimateSafe Village to model new solutions to humanity's most profound challenges will also provide a meaningful and creative adventure for many community members' lives. 

3. Several model variations (rural, urban, virtual, or hybrid) are designed to be located in areas safer from climate change consequences and other anticipated future emergencies.

4. Individuals from all races, ethnicities, generations, gender orientations, and life stages are welcome (singles, couples, families, and the retired.)

5. Individuals familiar with or identifying with the following movements or philosophies will find living in our four eco-community models easier transitions. Those movements or ideologies are:

a. progressive,

b. environmental,

c. resilience and sustainability,

d. Deep Adaptation,

e. DeGrowth, 

f. Integral philosophy, 

g. the Evolutioneers, Evolutionaries, and Evolve movements,

h. Job One for Humanity and Universe Spirit members, 

i. Unitarian Universalists, and

j. the global and universe citizen movements.

Although our ClimateSafe Village models do not hold every idea or principle from each pre-mentioned category, they do utilize the best wisdom already developed within these movements or philosophies.

6. Some of these new communities will also be incubators that will create, test, and refine new economic, political, and social models for themselves and the potential post-collapse times after humanity has resolved its current 12 major global crises. This way, these communities will not repeat the most profound causes and mistakes that have helped to create our worst current global and national problems. (Those global problems, to mention a few, are climate change, overconsumption, pollution, injustice, economic, political, and social inequality, and a widespread and profound ignorance of the many reasons from humanity's evolutionary history that have caused these global and national crises to exist today still.)

7. We will freely share our four open-access ClimateSafe Village models with the rest of the world. (Open-access also means you do not need to work directly with us.) So, please feel free to use the best of our ClimateSafe Village models and create a separate new community model variation and experiment. We hope you will share what you learn in your community-building experiment with us so we and others can benefit. 

8. We attentively listen to the wise feedback of our ClimateSafe Village members and visitors and quickly adapt to that feedback to create more successful individual and community evolution. 

9. Detailed lists of the many common physical and social ClimateSafe Village characteristics are covered on the following pages. (Our ClimateSafe Village shared values and collective goals are described both on this page and the other eco-community pages.)

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4. The Short and Long-Term Core Purposes Behind The Creation of ClimateSafe Villages and its Four Models 

The four variations of our new ecovillages are about creating community and individual well-being that will survive and thrive through the tough times ahead. You can call them your and Humanity's Plan B backup because Plan A is not working so well.

ClimateSafe Villages must come into existence quickly because:

a. by 2025- 2031, climate change-related consequences will increase from their current linear progression to an exponential progression because of crossed climate change tipping points and triggered climate feedback loops described in detail here.

b. when climate change-related consequences go from their current steady escalation form 2023-2025, then through the next wave of steep consequence increases from 2025-2031, then to exponential consequence increases from 2032-2040, our governments will never be able to adequately provide climate catastrophe and disaster assistance, recovery, or other protections for their citizens. If individuals have not prepared well before the 2025-2031 timeframe, they will be on their own in increasingly turbulent seas with little to no government backup or safe harbor. 

Our new ClimateSafe Village are not designed to be individual profit-making investment opportunities or property development ventures. Community collective well-being, survival, and preserving what is best about humanity are vastly more important than any individual profit-making and real estate investment concerns, particularly at this critical evolutionary juncture where humanity and our civilization are at risk.

 The Short and Long-Term Core Purposes Behind The Creation of ClimateSafe Villages and its Four Models: 

1. to be educational non-profit organization and share our critical knowledge in open-access schools, classrooms, and an online college.

We will educate about:

a. how to adapt and prepare for the climate change emergency and these 11 other global crises. (We are also preparing to adapt to other potential new global crises besides the 11 mentioned in the link above.)

b. how to build climate change resilience and disaster resilience in your home, business, or community.

c. how to create small, sustainable, climate change-resistant, and resilient organic farming, which also incorporates homes and business spaces (also known as Agrihoods.) And,

d. how to build a better post-crises world of universal justice, sustainability, and equality for ALL of humanity by creating among other things, better economic, social, health, religious, and political models.

2. to create a safe and healthy place where: 

a. our new ClimateSafe Village are designed to be safer through the accelerating climate change-related economic, social, and political instabilities, crises, and eventual chaos. This will require extensive, detailed emergency preparations, new adaptations, and resilience building. 

Creating a safe and secure place is always one of our first priorities because it is practical and provides the continuous stability crucial for realizing all other ClimateSafe Village goals like justice, health, and finding better solutions for the present and future. It also has to be the first priority because the stability of our climate, environment, and many aspects of our national and global society is deteriorating rapidly.

Click here for our Job One Climate Change Resilience and Recovery Plan's detailed list of our general emergency preparation actions.

Click here for our Job One Plan Climate Change Resilience and Recovery Plan's detailed list of necessary adaptations and resilience-building strategies for the coming climate and other emergencies.

(Please note creating a secure ClimateSafe Village at some point may also require appropriate, balanced and ethical means and strong local relationships to help defend members and the community from the anticipated   social upheaval and chaos created by the worsening of humanity's 12 major global crises estimated to begin occurring about 2032-2040.)

b. to create a place where individuals can live sustainably with nature, live cooperatively with each other and live their progressive, evolutionary, integral, and universal values, minimizing the many negative environmental and community consequences of the current advertising-driven and highly competitive consumerism. 

This new ClimateSafe Village culture-supported values balance will allow members more time to live purposefully and pursue knowledge, relationships, health and wellness, personal growth, peace, art, and leisure. Additionally, by spending less time working and competing merely to consume and waste more things that we really do not need, we save our beautiful planet from the rapidly escalating resource overshoot.

Resource overshoot is a major cause of our accelerating climate change emergency and many of our 11 other global crises. 

c. to be a place where community, individual, and environmental freedoms and responsibilities are in appropriate balanced. Humanity, the individual, and these new ClimateSafe Villages must also return to a better balance with nature so that our natural ecosystems can survive and thrive. This re-balancing is critical because humanity's immediate and long-term future depends wholly upon the well-being of nature's natural ecosystems.

3. to create, live, and enact new solutions and compassionate responses to our current 12 global crises while reducing crisis suffering and saving more lives and the natural world.

Visionary individuals within our communities will work on how to build a better post-crises world of universal justice, sustainability, and equality for ALL of humanity by creating among other things, better economic, social, religious, and political models.

4. to create a new democratic, cooperation-driven model for just, sustainable, and equitable lifestyles and livelihoods, which will transcend our current destructive global and national crises, inequities, and injustices of today's hierarchal, patriarchal, and dominance-driven economic, political, and social systems. 

5. to collect and preserve the best aspects of humanity's knowledge, art, literature, and wisdom from humanity's evolution to ensure it will be available for future generations in a possible post collapse world. Collecting and preserving all of the truth, beauty, and goodness that our civilization has created for whoever survives what is coming is critical.

These new ClimateSafe Village will also eventually have an extensive library of the most useful and essential pre-industrial human knowledge (in case we also have to endure a long post-collapse period or even a transitional dark age and loss of most of our modern technology before life re-normalizes. These communities would even collect and hold in reserve essential hand-powered tools and preindustrial supplies and processes.) 

Measures would also be taken to help reduce the impacts of post-collapse loss of critical knowledge. These include protecting and preserving CSV's knowledge hubs. This would also include high-tech digital security knowledge to protect against preserved knowledge getting compromised, wiped out, or destroyed.

6. to create as many new independent ClimateSafe Villages as quickly as possible worldwide. Evolution's best guarantee of success and survival is having many experiments and variations going on simultaneously, which means lots of ClimateSafe Village experimenting and adapting to changing local conditions. With lots of CSV and similar communities operational, at least some of humanity should make it through what is coming.

7. to build a better post-crises, post-collapse world of universal justice, sustainability, and equality for ALL of humanity by creating, among other things, better economic, social, health, religious, and political models.

The first purpose of the carefully researched and chosen policies, procedures, and physical, cultural, and individual member qualities of the ClimateSafe Villages models is to create sustainable and climate change-resilient communities worldwide with the best possibilities to survive the many catastrophic climate change-related primary and secondary consequences many of which are now unavoidable, and the worsening of most of the world's other 11 serious global crises. 

Our core purposes and goals will not be accomplished simultaneously but in well-planned phases. If you would like to join our ClimateSafe Village as a co-founder, co-creator, project manager, member, or founding funding member, please continue reading more about our overall vision and then contact us. (After five years of an extensive land search for our rural land-based models, we already have several global warming-safer land areas pre-screened and selected.)

We believe that the best chance of surviving a global warming-triggered Great Global Collapse and the unavoidable extinction of much of humanity by mid-century is by being a part of a well-prepared, well-designed, value-based, climate change-resilient ecovillage. 

Because it is unlikely we will come close to the extinction-preventing 2025-2031 global fossil fuel reduction targets, in addition to creating urban resilience hubs for those who cannot or will not relocate, it is a major goal of our organization to support the creation of many ClimateSafe Villages in rural global warming safer locations. 

To build these new ClimateSafe Villages, we are looking for new leaders that understand the urgency of the climate emergency and have the skills to recruit others and help develop these new ClimateSafe Villages. Our organization will not build all these models by itself. It will be people like yourself.

As an organization, we have decided to put most of our resources into doing everything possible through education to prevent a global heating-driven near-total extinction event. We also have focused on gathering the most critical information needed to make these new ClimateSafe Villages successful in the global warming-safest possible locations. 

(Click here to discover why total human extinction is not realistic or probable, and the worst humanity will experience is near-total extinction (50 to 90+% of humanity going extinct.)

Building these new ClimateSafe Village is also critical because individuals, small family groups, or clans will not be large enough or able to provide enough resources or backup support and defense necessary to make it through the later stages of a great global collapse and if all goes really bad or into a post-collapse transitional dark age. Only those ClimateSafe Villages that are well-prepared, well-defended, and have the deepest emotional, philosophical, and shared spiritual roots and values (if you are of a spiritual nature) will have the physical, psychological, and spiritual resilience needed to survive the daily horrors and traumas and the many difficult life and death decisions they will be regularly forced to make to survive.

Job One for Humanity will provide much of this critical physical information these new ClimateSafe Villages need. This physical knowledge will give these new ecovillages a far better chance to make it through the coming Great Global Collapse to build a better world (the Great Global Rebirth) using the painful lessons learned by surviving. 

Hopefully, many individuals and businesses will use our information to:

a. help slow global warming (Part 3 of the Job One Plan.)

b. make emergency preparations for accelerating global warming consequences and the world's other 11 major global crises (Part 1 of the Job One Plan), and

c. adapt to these crises as they unfold so they can survive and learn from the coming painful lessons. (Part 2 of the Job One Plan),

If the lessons of the Great Global Collapse are learned, those lessons can become the foundation of a new and Great Global Rebirth. 

We also support creating as many new ClimateSafe Villages as possible, even if they do not use the same physical, philosophical, or spiritual models as our eco-community models. Only by having many of these new experimental ClimateSafe Villages come into being can we reasonably hope that at least some will survive. Nature always runs multiple evolutionary experiments at once, and so must we. 

And finally, creating these new ClimateSafe Village in global heating safer areas is best done by younger individuals from all genders, races, religions, ethnicities, and nations in their 20s, 30s, and early 40s whose values are compatible with the values discussed in the following pages. However, if you are older and already living in a global warming safer place, creating or being a part of a new ClimateSafe Village could work for you as well. (Please note older individuals are welcome in our community, but if you cannot share in normally shared community gardening and other community maintenance and management tasks, you will be expected to make a larger monthly membership contribution.)

"There is little margin for emergency preparation errors when there is a soon-arriving real threat like climate change mass extinction." Lawrence Wollersheim

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5. The General Features and Qualities of the Land-Based Rural ClimateSafe Village Model

The description below mostly focuses on what we call our first rural land-based community. All four variations of our new ClimateSafe Village model can use any or all of the features and qualities below except for the virtual and urban ecovillage variations because of their land space limitations. 

The ideal rural location was designed to be within 30 minutes of a progressive urban area close to all other needed or essential services such as medical, fire, repair, retail, etc. For our first rural ClimateSafe Village, we envision an initial land purchase of about 20-200 + acres in a four-season, global warming-safer location and in a progressive area.

The project's first phase would consist of 10-25 independently owned or long-term leased net-zero, fire-resistant, tiny, or small homes. (Depending on the initial land purchase size, more homes would be added in phase two.)

As currently envisioned, community members can get a 99-year lease for the land to build their homes. Members will also pay an agreed-upon monthly amount to cover common costs, not unlike a homeowners association fee. (We are still working out details on this.) When members are gone or traveling, they may rent or lease out their tiny net-zero homes to other pre-approved individuals aligned with the ClimateSafe Village's shared sustainability, conservation, and social values and worldview.

This first land-based ClimateSafe Village would have a community center with a common event area, a large community event kitchen, laundry, and a gym. The community center would also have multiple rooms that could be used for community education, socializing, meetings, specialty classes, watching or projecting big-screen TV for cultural events, etc.

There will be dormitory-style housing for singles. A section of community buildings will be set aside for value-compatible businesses and manufacturing that individuals can bring into the community. This first eco-community would also have community member meditation and reflection areas.

This first ClimateSafe Village would also have a community 4-season organic and permaculture garden assisted by LED grow lights for additional food growing and heat in the winters. Individuals could also have personal gardens in their personal home spaces. In addition, the eco-community will have common solar and wind power, independent water, sewage, and water capture systems, as well as hydroponics and aquaponics systems.

This first ecovillage will embrace the critical principle of technology balance known as appropriate technology.

It will tend toward consuming only what you truly need and being happy and satisfied with less, in alignment with many of the anti "consume and waste" principles of the Degrowth movement. This community will reflect and promote all types of conservation, sustainability, and living simply with minimum consumption lifestyles and livelihoods.

We will also have a full-cycle recycling system for all forms of recyclables and waste. Reduce, reuse, and recycle will be a strong sustainability value forwarded within the community.

Members of this community will share common community expenses and maintenance responsibility for the more expensive tools or modes of transportation purchased for the common good or use (snow plows, large farming tools, equipment, etc.) Community members would also have the option to engage collective bulk purchasing outside the community for needed products that would not get grown or produced within the community. (Please note our ecovillages are not communes.)

This first rural ClimateSafe Village will also have extra RV or tiny home spaces available so that individuals can live in the community temporarily and see if it is right for them and their families.

Initially, we will purchase or have the options on enough land so the community can build 25-50 tiny homes (about 150-500 people per community at maximum.) We may start with only 10-25 tiny/small independently owned or leased homes.

All community member-purchased homes will be net-zero, fire-resistant tiny or small homes built on or brought to the property. (All delivered homes must be approved for fire and wind survivability and other climate change safety issues before moving into the community.)

In addition to selling all kinds of community value-compatible online educational courses and services, the community would have other forms of eco-business or eco-friendly manufacturing or crafts that would help fully support the community's needs financially and provide the appropriate economic exchange within and outside communities. This way, all working community members could have a steady and dependable cash flow. 

These ecovillages could also offer all kinds of eco or other educational retreats or week-long or monthly live-on-site sustainability, permaculture, and organic gardening classes as additional ways to make these communities viable.

These first ecovillages could be the ideal places for former professionals to retire to have relative climate stability for their remaining lives and as places of safety for their children's future. Adequately funded retirees at the core of these new eco-communities could provide some initial startup funding stability and valuable multi-generational life experience and wisdom to help ensure community success.

Of course, there are no guarantees that these eco-communities will survive ALL of the coming climate destabilization consequences or a widespread collapse of critical economic, ecological, social, and political systems. That is why we did not call them climate safe ecovillages but ClimateSafe Villages. But, it is reasonable to believe that, if these ecovillages are well prepared and adapt quickly to changing conditions, these new ecovillages should survive far longer with more security, stability, and comfort and considerably less suffering than individuals or groups who have not properly planned and prepared for what is needed for the coming climate change emergency and our 11 other major global challenges.

It is even possible that these ecovillages might become essential seeds and successful examples for supporting a Great Global Rebirth. In these carefully designed communities, we can preserve a realistic measure of appropriate hope for the future, the best of our civilization, and, hopefully, our dignity.

In addition to the first ecovillage co-founders, this new community will need teachers, carpenters, plumbers, electricians, general contractors, mechanics, permaculture and gardening people, nurses, doctors, psychologists, and others like skilled administrators that can make a thriving, self-sufficient, and balanced community.

We are looking at multiple ways to fund the initial large land purchase and build the community common spaces and infrastructure. Our initial community funding ideas include everything from:

a. wealthy individuals willing to put up the initial community funding.

b. initial members buying/leasing the land for their homes plus contributing a certain amount to a common fund for the construction of common buildings and the needed infrastructure described above.

c. crowdfunding donations. 

d. other exploratory fundraising ideas.

The success of our new CSV community models is based primarily on our ability to educate members (and others) about the climate and other cries that are coming and about our ecovillage values and how to live them successfully. Consequently, skilled educators will always hold among the highest value, priority, and honored of positions within our eco-communities.

For more information on how these eco-communities will be organized, please see the rest of this page and the other pages in this ecovillage guide listed at the bottom of this page.       Return to Overview

6. Additional Equity and Justice Goals of Our Four ClimateSafe Village Models

A fundamental goal in creating these new communities is to bring together caring, intelligent, progressive individuals with similar science-grounded worldviews into a mutually supportive relationship. This new union will give us a far better collective chance to survive and thrive through the pending and future crises.

Our goals also align well with the UN's current global sustainable development goals. The illustration below will give you a quick snapshot of much of what we value in the form of sustainable human development.

Another useful way to continually think about these new ClimateSafe Villages is that they will be doing what any wise and informed individual would do in creating a healthy, just, sustainable, and equitable lifestyle and livelihood --- even if global warming was not accelerating and most of these 11 other crises were not worsening. 

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7. The Principles for How We Will Achieve Our ClimateSafe Village Goals

1. We use the principles of science, rationality, and the principles of successful universe evolution to build our new ClimateSafe Villages (our small-scale micro-cultures). Using these tools, we are more likely to survive what is coming and preserve what is best about our civilization.

2. We use a science-grounded understanding of the deep causes of today's problems as corrective information to adapt, create and evolve the new behaviors, values, policies, and models needed within our small-scale ClimateSafe Villages. We strive to make the best choices even when left with bad or painful options. We always focus on working toward the best possible option while still preparing for the worst.

Our deepest hope is that our new ClimateSafe Village micro-culture models and example will eventually inspire a more equitable and sustainable macro-culture (world) for ourselves and future generations.

We will do 1 and 2 above in such a way that we:

a. help reduce the coming harm and suffering,

b. create new possibilities for a more evolved and healthy future while still 

c. experiencing as much meaning and joy as possible each day throughout the painful process that is to come while

d. helping to save and salvage whatever we can.

4, We do not seek perfection or ideological purity, only evolutionary progress. 

5. We do not fight with the far larger macro-culture. We do not have the time or additional resources to do so. The macro-culture is collapsing because of bad decisions, lack of genuine international cooperation, structural inequalities and injustices, and environmental destruction. Instead, we focus on the limited good we can do within our micro-cultures before anticipated catastrophes intensify, i.e., we prepare for them and slow them down where possible.

6. We will spend the educational time and resources necessary to ensure all members understand their freedoms and responsibilities within the community, the freedoms, and responsibilities of the community toward the individual (and toward itself). Establishing a healthy and proper balance between individual and community freedoms and responsibilities is crucial. (This information will be a part of our social contract each new member signs in some of the four eco-community models.)

7. We will build our ClimateSafe Villages in well-planned phases, starting with the easiest, fastest, and most crucial eco-community survive and thrive actions.

The above also means that if you join us, you too will get to help co-create the urgently needed solutions that will help protect and preserve the future, and you and your family will also get to enjoy the many rewards of doing so.

We are now facing an unparalleled moment of peak collective challenge far beyond the recent hardships of the Covid pandemic and the recent economic disruptions. This unprecedented collective moment will require wisdom, tremendous sacrifice, massive changes, and enduring new hardships that humanity has never faced before to survive and thrive through what is coming.

If you are looking for intelligent and balanced actions to make it through the unfolding 12 major global crises for as long as possible, our four ClimateSafe Village models, the Job One website, and the Job One for Humanity Plan was developed for this unique moment in time. 

"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, an economist.

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8. What New Members Will Start Doing When They Join One of Our ClimateSafe Villages Models

After some initial member introductions, connections, and ClimateSafe Village education, in most cases, new members in all four models of our eco-communities will start on needed emergency preparations and needed adaptations for themselves or their chosen village model or both simultaneously (depending upon which model they have chosen.)

Click here to review a list of all currently needed emergency preparations found in the Job One for Humanity Climate Change Resilience and Recovery Plan.

Click here to review a list of all currently needed emergency adaptations found in the Job One for Humanity Climate Change Resilience and Recovery Plan.

There are three good reasons we generally start everyone off working on their needed emergency preparations and adaptations of the Job One for Humanity Plan:

1. There is a real urgency to get these needed emergency preparations and adaptations done because of the worsening of our twelve major global crises, particularly the climate change emergency, which is predicted to get exponentially worse from 2025-2031 because of climate change tipping points and feedback loops being crossed and triggered.

2. It can take as long as several years to get all of the needed emergency preparations, gardens, and adaptations done before everyone sees the unfolding emergency and prices soar, and supplies disappear.

3. Completing emergency preparations and adaptations can sometimes be challenging. Having the ready support of your chosen ClimateSafe Village helping you is powerful when you are working through completing the many needed emergency preparations and adaptations we all will need to get done as things continue getting worse before they get better.

There is also a lot more normal daily life that goes on in these villages, besides the emergency preparations and adaptation actions and education.  

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9. The Motivation Behind the Creation of the Four CSV Models

As a non-profit organization, we are supporting the urgency for the creation of new and diverse sustainable CSV eco-communities worldwide for several reasons:

1. See this article.

2. Most of these 12 escalating global crises are rapidly worsening! 

2. People will need good information and a supportive ClimateSafe Village to endure the many things necessary to survive and thrive on the difficult road ahead.

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10. The Organization is Behind the Four CSV Models

Job One for Humanity is a 100% publicly funded, independent climate change think tank. It is a DBA of a 30-year-old US, IRS-recognized, tax-exempt, nonprofit organization called Factnet. Factnet has received the highest possible nonprofit trust rating of Platinum Transparency from Guidestar/Candid. Guidestar is an independent organization that examines other nonprofit organizations' financial and administrative effectiveness and ethics in executing its mission. 

Click here for more information about Job One for Humanity. Also, see the links on the About top navigation menu on this website for information on its executives, advisory board, etc.        Return to Overview

11. How to Get Started and Join Any One of Our Four ClimateSafe Village Models

If you have read enough and see the value and need for our various ClimateSafe Village models, please join and help with this worthy and meaningful work. We invite everyone interested to help us grow and enhance our models with your ideas, wisdom, and efforts.

If we cooperate and get started now, we can still be prepared for the critical 2025-2031 threshold. From 2025-2031, climate change consequences will go from their current linear progression into an exponential progression because of many climate change tipping points crossed and climate feedback loops triggered.

Here are the most critical initial areas where new members, volunteers, and especially project managers are needed. These areas are law, fund-raising, finance, eco-friendly architectural community design, online and offline education, sustainable general contracting, construction, plumbing, electrical, administrative management, recruiting and human resources, medical services, wellness services, therapeutic psychological services, internet security, software design, permaculture, organic gardening, animal husbandry, and public relations. 

Here are the getting started steps:

1. If you have not done so already, join this "survive and thrive" ClimateSafe Village by clicking the Join link on this page. This will also start the process for you to gain access to our private CSV discussion forum, help you locate a CSV location and model option right for you, and allow you to join one of our CSV advisory committees to add your knowledge, experience, and perspective.

2. Please fill in the following survey by clicking here.

3. Learn more about us by reviewing our CSV online guide table of contents here. Be sure to read at least our CSV quick overview page here.

4. If you have questions not covered in our CSV online guide, please also check our CSV frequently asked questions FAQ here.

5. And finally, if you did not fill out the above survey, please email [email protected] to let us know:

a. which model of CSV do you want to join: the rural, urban, only virtual community or the Bellingham headquarters CSV,

b. that you want access to the private CSV group discussion forums,

c. let us know about your skills and experience, which would most apply to the CSV model you selected.

d. if you have remaining questions.

6. In your email to us, tell us that you agree to our online communication rules found here, and you agree to the principles found in our social contract found here. After we receive your email, our ClimateSafe Villages support team will get back to you within three business days or less with your next steps and possible other connections. In addition, they may ask for additional information before accepting you as a member, depending on the information you provide in your email. 

7. Become a subscriber on the Job One for Humanity website by going to the Sign-in link at the top left of every page and creating a new subscriber account. Then, go to your personal profile area as a new user and fill in as much information as possible. This unique profile information will be kept confidential and will help us connect you with the right support team. The Job One website will provide the latest climate change news and alerts.

Please note: We also have set up a special online team project collaboration tool called BaseCamp for all members and CSVs. It is open to individuals actively helping to create any CSV community model. 

Once we receive your email, we will get back to you, let you know your next membership application steps, and if applicable, connect you with the ClimateSafe Village project leader or lead member in the area closest to you.

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11. 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

Page 6: Our ClimateSafe Village 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 for our ClimateSafe Village information and alert mailing list by clicking here or by clicking on the image or link below.

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Other Helpful Evaluation Information:

1. Please click here for a critical new 2.3.23 article for more about what will need to happen within these new communities to be successful and what people will need to be and do within these communities. You will be surprised, and your spirit will be lifted by its vital contents.

2. 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.

3. If you want to understand the science and analysis procedures we used to present the above climate change-related information, click here for details about our climate change research and analysis processes.

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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.

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