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Transportation

Transportation and options within the community and to other areas

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Energy Systems

Energy Generation:

• Biogas

• Solar

• Wind turbines or shakers

• Biofuel

• Water turbines

Energy Storage Systems:

• Gravity storage

• Pumped hydro

• Electrical batteries

Energy Storage Systems: Gravity storage Pumped hydro Electrical batteries

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Waste Management

• Solids

• Organic

• Compost

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Climate Change Resilience

Retrieve

• Rajn water collection

• Ground water collection

• Air to water distillers

Retain

• Buffer vats

• Retentions ponds

• Swales

Reduce

• Water saving shower heads

• Run off reduction

• Recycle

• Greywater recycling

• Black water recycling

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Ecological Practices

Identify fundamental practices your community will apply in order to uphold their ecological philosophy:

• Example – Passive Thermal Design (using or excluding Solar Energy on a seasonal basis, and using passive or low-energy ventilation systems)

• Example – Community energy generation and storage (e.g. solar power and batteries, mini-hydro and pumped storage, wind turbine and gravity storage, etc.

• Example – Composting Systems

• Example – Ecologically Sound Building Methods considering whole of life energy footprint (e.g. modern insulation including double-glazing to mitigate requirements for heating/cooling)

• Example – Low or Zero Waste Practices

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Food Systems

Soil & Food

Self-sufficiency, food planning, permaculture

How much of the community’s food will be grown on-site? What will be grown?

Sustaining vs. supplementing

How much will be sourced locally? What goods? Who are the local producers?

How much will be Imported? What foods need to be imported?

How much water is needed? Where will the water come from for irrigation?

How many people will you be feeding?

Labor?

Techniques:

• Permaculture

• Vertical farming

• Agroforestry

resources:

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Water Management

Water supplies:

• Rainwater

• Rivers or wells

• Reuse and recycling systems

Black and Grey Water Management:

• Opportunities for reclamation of resources (e.g. compost and gray water from a biodigester)

• Reuse and recycling systems

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Getting the lay of the land

A topographic map with contour lines is important for determining optimal positioning of drainage and sewage infrastructure, and seeing how surface run-off will flow.

It also enables planning for enhancing the natural shape of the land for collecting or absorbing water.

Mapping out significant ecosystem elements (e.g. significant flora, habitats, etc) is also important for mitigating impacts and to enable ecosystem restoration efforts.

These will be key tools for site planning.

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DESIGN LENS

Engineering

Whole Systems

Identify your bioregion

Assess your climate, climate analysis (visit weatherspark.com to assess your climate)

Resources:

• Climate Consultant

• ASHRAE

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4. Have systems in place to track and award ROI

Exit Strategy:

For investors

Put your project in a land trust

Resources:

• “Slicing Pie” Mike Moyer

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3. Storytell the value of your project well

Treat your community as a brand!

The Community as a Transformational Guide

(The Hero Circle from Seeds of Tao’s Regenerative Entrepreneurship Models)

Who: Who are our target audience/ideal community members? Who are our target investors? Build archetypes of our heroes.

Why: Why are we building this community?

How: How are we building this community in a unique way? How have we succeeded/failed and how can we share our authentically?

What: What are we actually doing? What is our process for achieving results? What do we offer for people to get involved?

The Community Member/Investor as a Hero

*tailor your messaging to your different community members/investors

Who:

Philosophical:

Internal:

External:

Build your funnels

Awareness

Interest

Consideration

Decision

Referrals

Storytelling:

Marketing Materials

Marketing Techniques

**examples of successful storytelling (livetheoffgriddream.com)

Resources:

• Seeds of Tao StorySeed Course

• Example slide decks

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2. Select preferred strategies to raise capital

Initial Funding/Startup Capital

For individual/community businesses

Community expenses (building and maintenance)

FUNding:

Community-based Grants

Investors

What’s required

Sweat Equity

Tokens

NFTs – inspired from TDF guide about using NFTs to represent a plot of land, or TDF’s way of using traditional fungible tokens

How existing communities funded their acquisition of land/infrastructure* Inspired by the TDF guide

Resources:

• “How we’re using NFTs to plant trees at the Smart Village” Future Thinkers podcast episode

• Future Thinkers slide deck

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Resources:

• New Earth Development’s P&L template

• Business model template

• Lean model business canvas

• One-pager examples

Income model ideas

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List out each structure/expense & price quote what it would cost to build them

Materials

Labor

Maintenance

Service providers (consultants, surveyors, installations)

Legal / Permits

One-pager

Identify roles and paid labor positions (planned salaries)

• I.e. Essential positions like cooking/cleaning/maintenance

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1. Find out how much it will cost to build the community

The first step in planning your marketing and funding strategy is to assess the expected cost of building and maintaining your project. This will be broken down into the following frameworks:

Collective Investment Capital – Expected Building Costs = Personal Costs

(total investment) (physical infrastructure) (time, labor, funds)

Expected Income – Personal Costs = Return of Investment (ROI)

(community revenue) (optional) (to community or investor)