Cynthia Tina || Intentional Communities: Designing & Building True Resiliency
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ABOUT THE GUEST
Cynthia Tina is co-director of the Foundation for Intentional Community, has a B.A. in Sustainability, and has certifications in both ecovillage design and permaculture design.
SECOND-HOUR TOPICS
- Cynthia’s experience building her own home
- Greenhouse design & building science
- Shape & space (circular vs rectangular; sacred vs living)
- Bringing hard & soft skills to intentional communities (storytelling!)
- Root storage & how to grow soil sprouts
- Growing citrus in a greenhouse
- Some notable approaches to intentional communities around the world
- Using hydro dams, tree coppicing & masonry stoves as alternative energy sources
- Gift economies, time banks & other alternative economic approaches
- Barriers to entry when forming your own intentional community
- Legal ownership models
- Conflict resolution
- Community matchmaking & relationship advice
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EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
Jean Paul, Scotty R., Deathcrush