A commons isn't a subdivision — it's a set of systems we run ourselves: water, power, food, waste, and the rules that hold it together. We design them in the open, now, so you can think them through and help build them before a single tree is cut. Water comes first, because water decides everything else.
How 2,560 acres becomes 500 surveyed 3-acre cells and a vast permanent commons — cut by buildable envelope, not by ruler.
⚙ runs on GeoSeal
The binding constraint — and the first thing we design. One creek decides how many of us the land can hold.
Every lot closes its own loop — proven humanure composting and greywater reuse, done to one documented standard that stands up to a regulator.
Off-grid power from the things this land already has: falling water, summer sun, and wood. Metered on the Energy engine.
⚙ runs on Energy
Run-of-creek power from the 4 km drop — potentially the steady baseload the whole commons runs on. Let's explore it properly.
⚙ runs on Energy
The summer workhorse — and an honest reckoning with mountain shading, winter sun angles, and snow.
⚙ runs on Energy
Year-round growing in a mountain climate — a walipíni, root cellars, a food forest, and the bees we already track.
⚙ runs on Forestry
A dojo and a wellbeing practice built for hard-working bodies — training, movement, recovery, and real first-aid on remote land.
A volunteer fire brigade, an emergency plan, and one internal building code — what keeps the commons safe in the woods, and keeps us insurable.
The aim: a commons where 'waste' is mostly feedstock. Compost, biochar, greywater, repair — and an honest note on what's still hard.
One small digester at the commons turning concentrated organic streams — barn manure, kitchen, greenhouse — into cooking gas and fertilizer. Not a humanure scheme.
⚙ runs on Energy
Melt the cans into ingots. A small foundry that turns the metal 'waste' stream into the commons' raw material — fired by our own wood.
A few shared internet pipes spread across the commons by a member-owned wireless mesh — cheap, no telecom landlord, and it keeps working even when the outside line drops.
The shared roofs — lodge, tavern & inn, sauna, barn, workshops — built on the already-cleared ground, much of it by our own hands.
One member, one vote — with consent-based rules for anything that touches the commons, so a bare majority can't carve up the reserve.
⚙ runs on Membership
What happens to your cell when you die or leave — designed humanely, up front, so no family is ever left in limbo.
⚙ runs on Notary
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