Journal created:
on 26 November 2004 (#5277753)
Updated:
on 7 October 2008
Name:
Techno Hippie Community
Location:
United Kingdom
Membership:
Moderated
Posting Access:
All Members
This is meant to be a community for some of us who are starting a techno hippie community, hopefully sometime within the next five to ten years. Membership is open to people who will not ultimately have direct involvement in this project, but is moderated to avoid uncontrollable flakiness. That means if you try to join, you'll have to wait for one of the moderators to approve you before you can see friends-only posts in this community or post to it yourself. Much of the decision-making process for this is arbitrary and based on gut instinct that can be difficult to explain. If I'm not sure about someone I usually wait a while and then make a decision... so be patient. If you want to introduce yourself in a comment to one of the public entries it may help.
More later. Moderators are
ewtikins and pfy. We don't usually bite.
Someday, there will be a (more private) wiki. I haven't yet decided whether wiki access will be open to all community members, or just people genuinely interested in joining the real-life community.
Note that there is a difference between watching a community and joining it. Note also that joining a community does not automatically mean you will be watching it on your "friends" list.
Probably a good idea to put a list of useful links here. I'm in a dodgy netcaf at the moment, but off teh top of my head:
http://www.selfsufficiency.net - huge list of links here.
Better Times Almanac - An Occasional Almanac of Useful Information about Simple, Sustainable, and Frugal Living
More later. Moderators are
ewtikins and pfy. We don't usually bite.Someday, there will be a (more private) wiki. I haven't yet decided whether wiki access will be open to all community members, or just people genuinely interested in joining the real-life community.
Note that there is a difference between watching a community and joining it. Note also that joining a community does not automatically mean you will be watching it on your "friends" list.
Probably a good idea to put a list of useful links here. I'm in a dodgy netcaf at the moment, but off teh top of my head:
http://www.selfsufficiency.net - huge list of links here.
Better Times Almanac - An Occasional Almanac of Useful Information about Simple, Sustainable, and Frugal Living
alternative building techniques, alternative energy, alternative energy sources, alternative medicine, alternative menstrual products, alternative shelter, animal husbandry, back to basics, back to the land, batteries, bees, beeswax, biofuels, building with hay, building with salvaged materials, candlemaking, canning food, cheap living, chickens, chosen family, co-operative living, co-ops, cob housing, coding, cohousing, common ownership, communal living, community, commuting, composting, composting toilets, computers, consensus, conservation, cooperative living, cottage industries, cottage industry, critical thinking, crochet, derelict land, disaster avoidance, diy, doing without, drying food, dumpster diving, dyeing, energy independence, farmers' markets, farming, fiber arts, financial independence, fixing things, food miles, food preservation, food storage, foraging, freedom, gardening, geodesic domes, green transport, group work, growing my own food, hacking, hemp, herb gardens, hippies, home schooling, homesteading, hybrid cars, insulation, intarweb, internet in the sky, knitting, land use, library, linux, living below your means, living on less, longterm partnerships, low-energy computing, mending, mental health, modular housing, mushrooms, music room, mutual aid, networking, organic gardening, passive solar heating, pfaf, php, planning permission, plants for a future, preventive medicine, programming, python, raising chickens, really big ups, rebuilding, rechargeable batteries, recycling, renewable resources, salvage, satellite broadband, scavenging, seed saving, self-sufficiency, sewing, simplicity, soapmaking, soil conservation, solar cooking, solar power, spinning, sprouting seeds, squatting, starting a co-op, storytelling, straw bale, straw bale housing, students, suburban homesteading, survival, survival skills, sustainability, sustainable entertainment, tcp/ip, teams, teamwork, telecommuting, the internet, thermodynamics, thrift stores, tools, trees, unix, urban farming, urban sprawl, useful plants, utopia, walking, waste management, water rights, water storage, water wheels, weaving, wild foods, wind power, working together
