The optimal model for developing communities on public land within cities is the tiny home ecovillage. Tiny homes are the lowest cost dwellings available. When they are integrated into an ecovillage plan, they are also the type of development most conducive to cooperative community. The tiny home ecovillage is the go-to development model for the commons, and for solving homelessness.
Proposal for the Game Changer land in West Oakland.
Specifications for the tiny home ecovillage:
The goal of the commons-based tiny home eco-village is to reproduce the success of the Ohlone Indian tribes of the East Bay at maintaining multi-generational continuity of their culture and their people over thousands of years.
We can do this by looking to the tradition of our ancestors in England and Europe, who lived together as stewards of the land, on the basis of a social agreement, within the commons.
A true tiny home ecovillage is not just made up of physical specifications, but also cultural specifications. When all of the necessary physical and cultural specifications are in place, a true human ecosystem is possible.
Every tiny home eco village should include certain physical features, such as a central common area, which includes the audience Pavilion, the music stage, and the outdoor kitchen/cafe. This central common area enables the arts and culture of a community to thrive, and provides the necessary space for public gatherings and assembly, which makes self-governance of the community possible.
On the physical level, the eco village is for the most part comprised of tiny homes that are 400 square feet or less, and light electric vehicles which are 400 lbs or less. There are certainly exceptions to this rule, especially when it comes to the heavier vehicles used for the hauling of large amounts of material, or other specialized activities.
The tiny home Eco village anticipates the imminent transformation of our cities from car centric and internal combustion driven urban design, to a human-centered and living systems centric urban design. This is reflected in the A-B-C layout, of the tiny home Eco village, where the sea area where the “C” area is in the southern section of the village, and includes the legacy elements of the old system, including shipping containers, internal combustion vehicles and rules of the road that allow internal combustion vehicles to roll directly up to the domicile. Also in the C area is the dump, where people can bring most household or construction items that they wish to dispose of, for free, or for a sliding scale. Our communities' unique capabilities to hand sort trash are rewarded with both financial compensation, and the chance to retrieve many consumer treasures that are retrieved, and can be restored, repurposed, rehabilitated, recycled, and restored through hand-work.
The”B” area includes the arts and cultural elements of the village, such as the Pavilion / music stage / outdoor kitchen, as well as residential areas where artists and musicians and crafts persons live. in this area are also the recording studio, radio station and TV station.
The “A” area is where most of the gardening and agriculture take place, as well as soil regeneration and soil bioremediation. This is also where most of the residential soft dome architecture is, as well as the sacred shrine, the meditation Hall, and the sweat lodge.
The tiny homie eco village has a layout in which all the roads and pathways are curved, and are never perpendicular or laid out in a grid.
On the biological level, the tiny home eco village carries the responsibility to regenerate and remediate the soil, and purify the water. There are no sewer lines or water lines buried in the ground, running to each individual tiny home. There is however electricity running to each home. There is also redundancy in the generation of electricity through the use of power banks and solar panels on each individual dwelling, as well as a large solar generator for the entire village, plus a tie into the grid.
Instead of sewer lines and water lines and having flushing toilets in each individual dwelling, people must leave their dwellings to use the biobank fermenting toilet system, which is a proprietary human waste, garden waste and kitchen waste fermentation unit, which transforms these materials into liquid compost, solid compost and methane for heating.
The tiny home eco village includes a wide variety of eclectic tiny home designs, including earth bag, hay bale, cob, equipmentalistic dome, soft dome etc. Many of these homes have wheels and are self-propelled, or towable to other areas of the village or to other villages. This affords the ability for residents to generate mutually self-selected neighborhoods and communities.. Which is to say people are able to move away from people they don't like, and towards people that they do like, so that optimized social configurations are achieved.
This way of life also enables two important balances to be achieved. People can achieve the balance between urban life and a natural garden-like environment, on the one hand, while also achieving rootedness and stability on the one hand, and free mobility on the other. People can easily go on migrations where from one commons based eco village to another, in cities throughout the United States, or the world, and yet they always have a welcome at every other commons, because they have already been vetted in the commons.
In terms of culture, the tiny home eco village is based on both a commons based social contract, as well as an open source social credit system. To live ones whole life in a commons-based eco village, one must be in good standing with one’s social contract. The social contract simply stated is, do you know harm, loved ones neighbor, take care of each other, take care of the land.
This social contract includes a way to fairly represent the contributions of each individual, and takes the form of an open source commons database, which tracks the metrics of participation, including how many nights the individual has spent living in a common-based eco village, how much money they've contributed, how much labor they've contributed, how much materials they've contributed, and how much intellectual property and innovation they've contributed.
The commons-based-tiny home eco village also establishes a women's culture, and weekly women's meetings. As in traditional societies, the women have the veto power over matters of land, children and money.
In terms of money, there is continuous fundraising for specific projects and outcomes, and each of these projects has an oversight board which allows expenditures to be made only when at least three signatures of the oversight board has been given.
The commons based tiny home eco village is a showcase for the best, most cost-effective and fire resilient tiny homes available, including cob construction, super adobe, Swedish sod hut, stretch fabric structures, aircrete monolithic domes, and earthships, plus designs with wheels, including commercially manufactured tiny homes on wheels.
The commons-based tiny home eco village will include the core of community infrastructure, the central common area, comprised of a stretch fabric pavilion that can be winterized, a music stage with stretch fabric canopy, and an outdoor kitchen/cafe/meeting space, also covered with stretch fabric shade structures.
The commons based tiny home eco village will show the way forward for the transition from internal combustion vehicles to light electric vehicles. There will be three main areas to the village, based on 3 different models of transportation planning. The "C" area will be where cars can roll up to the doorstep of domiciles and also where the car processing and repair business is, and the waste handling business.
The "B" area will be where bikes and light electric vehicles, but not cars, are permitted to roll up to domiciles, and any cars that are permitted must park in "bulbs" that separate the parked cars from domiciles. The "B" area will also be where the bicycle and light electric vehicle business is, and where our trademark electric cargo trike is manufactured. It is also the location of the pavilion, music stage and outdoor kitchen.
The "A" area will be where no cars are permitted, and the ecobusinesses are, such as soil remediation/regeneration, liquid and solid compost, hemp, bamboo and the food/garden/human waste fermentation, and the stretch fabric residential structures and light footprint architecture are featured.
Food growing will happen in every area, and all landscaping will include a garden environment, and some areas with constructed mounds, especially area "A".
The commons based tiny home eco village will also be designed around fire abatement. A system of sprinklers, elevated water tanks, hoses, pressure washers, a fire truck, 5 gallon buckets with wet towels in them, and fire extinguishers, will enable our entire community to self-manage fire control and rapid response.
There will aslo be outdoor firepits, a cob oven, a clinic, music 24/7 (with louder and quieter areas), a bathhouse, a maker shop, a solar power business, a recording studio/radio station, as well as thesacred shrine, meditation hall and sweat lodge.
The community will be self-governed via consensus and voting, and is based on the land sovereignty of the residents, who have primary stewardship for the land, in agreement with the other stakeholders, within a commons land trust (The Oakland Humane Commons).
Paying it forward – The profit centers, and the products and services of the commons based tiny home ecovillage includes:
1. Car repair, dismantling and recycling.
2. Electric cargo trike and light electric 4-wheel vehicle manufracturing.
3. Construction grade bamboo.
4. Fresh organic produce.
5. Medical and recreational cannabis, tinctures, extracts, CBD oil, and Rick Simpson oil.
6. Re-used, refurbished and original clothing.
7, Electronics repair.
8. Fine art, paintings, and crafts.
9. Music performances, music recordings, rehearsals, and music teaching.
10. Social services.
11. Solar and wind generator installation.
12. Security systems installations.
13. Food carts and pop up restaurants.
14. Liquid compost.
15. Filtered water, free of chlorine, fluoride, etc.
16. Soft dome shelters and stretch fabric pavilions and shade structures.
17. Cob construction, and aircrete monolithic dome construction.
18. Residential fentanyl rehab.
19. Herbhal medicines, supplements, and other healing services.
20. Legal sex work.
21. Air B'n'B's.
We will have a developers cooperative called stewards of the land, which will collaborate with public and private landowners, and other stakeholders, to implement and build a commons-based tiny home eco village model in every city.
Best,
Theo Cedar Jones
The goal of the commons-based tiny home eco-village is to reproduce the success of the Ohlone Indian tribes of the East Bay at maintaining multi-generational continuity of their culture and their people over thousands of years.
We can do this by looking to the tradition of our ancestors in England and Europe, who lived together as stewards of the land, on the basis of a social agreement, within the commons.
A true tiny home ecovillage is not just made up of physical specifications, but also cultural specifications. When all of the necessary physical and cultural specifications are in place, a true human ecosystem is possible.
Every tiny home eco village should include certain physical features, such as a central common area, which includes the audience Pavilion, the music stage, and the outdoor kitchen/cafe. This central common area enables the arts and culture of a community to thrive, and provides the necessary space for public gatherings and assembly, which makes self-governance of the community possible.
On the physical level, the eco village is for the most part comprised of tiny homes that are 400 square feet or less, and light electric vehicles which are 400 lbs or less. There are certainly exceptions to this rule, especially when it comes to the heavier vehicles used for the hauling of large amounts of material, or other specialized activities.
The tiny home Eco village anticipates the imminent transformation of our cities from car centric and internal combustion driven urban design, to a human-centered and living systems centric urban design. This is reflected in the A-B-C layout, of the tiny home Eco village, where the sea area where the “C” area is in the southern section of the village, and includes the legacy elements of the old system, including shipping containers, internal combustion vehicles and rules of the road that allow internal combustion vehicles to roll directly up to the domicile. Also in the C area is the dump, where people can bring most household or construction items that they wish to dispose of, for free, or for a sliding scale. Our communities' unique capabilities to hand sort trash are rewarded with both financial compensation, and the chance to retrieve many consumer treasures that are retrieved, and can be restored, repurposed, rehabilitated, recycled, and restored through hand-work.
The”B” area includes the arts and cultural elements of the village, such as the Pavilion / music stage / outdoor kitchen, as well as residential areas where artists and musicians and crafts persons live. in this area are also the recording studio, radio station and TV station.
The “A” area is where most of the gardening and agriculture take place, as well as soil regeneration and soil bioremediation. This is also where most of the residential soft dome architecture is, as well as the sacred shrine, the meditation Hall, and the sweat lodge.
The tiny homie eco village has a layout in which all the roads and pathways are curved, and are never perpendicular or laid out in a grid.
On the biological level, the tiny home eco village carries the responsibility to regenerate and remediate the soil, and purify the water. There are no sewer lines or water lines buried in the ground, running to each individual tiny home. There is however electricity running to each home. There is also redundancy in the generation of electricity through the use of power banks and solar panels on each individual dwelling, as well as a large solar generator for the entire village, plus a tie into the grid.
Instead of sewer lines and water lines and having flushing toilets in each individual dwelling, people must leave their dwellings to use the biobank fermenting toilet system, which is a proprietary human waste, garden waste and kitchen waste fermentation unit, which transforms these materials into liquid compost, solid compost and methane for heating.
The tiny home eco village includes a wide variety of eclectic tiny home designs, including earth bag, hay bale, cob, equipmentalistic dome, soft dome etc. Many of these homes have wheels and are self-propelled, or towable to other areas of the village or to other villages. This affords the ability for residents to generate mutually self-selected neighborhoods and communities.. Which is to say people are able to move away from people they don't like, and towards people that they do like, so that optimized social configurations are achieved.
This way of life also enables two important balances to be achieved. People can achieve the balance between urban life and a natural garden-like environment, on the one hand, while also achieving rootedness and stability on the one hand, and free mobility on the other. People can easily go on migrations where from one commons based eco village to another, in cities throughout the United States, or the world, and yet they always have a welcome at every other commons, because they have already been vetted in the commons.
In terms of culture, the tiny home eco village is based on both a commons based social contract, as well as an open source social credit system. To live ones whole life in a commons-based eco village, one must be in good standing with one’s social contract. The social contract simply stated is, do you know harm, loved ones neighbor, take care of each other, take care of the land.
This social contract includes a way to fairly represent the contributions of each individual, and takes the form of an open source commons database, which tracks the metrics of participation, including how many nights the individual has spent living in a common-based eco village, how much money they've contributed, how much labor they've contributed, how much materials they've contributed, and how much intellectual property and innovation they've contributed.
The commons-based-tiny home eco village also establishes a women's culture, and weekly women's meetings. As in traditional societies, the women have the veto power over matters of land, children and money.
In terms of money, there is continuous fundraising for specific projects and outcomes, and each of these projects has an oversight board which allows expenditures to be made only when at least three signatures of the oversight board has been given.
The commons based tiny home eco village is a showcase for the best, most cost-effective and fire resilient tiny homes available, including cob construction, super adobe, Swedish sod hut, stretch fabric structures, aircrete monolithic domes, and earthships, plus designs with wheels, including commercially manufactured tiny homes on wheels.
The commons-based tiny home eco village will include the core of community infrastructure, the central common area, comprised of a stretch fabric pavilion that can be winterized, a music stage with stretch fabric canopy, and an outdoor kitchen/cafe/meeting space, also covered with stretch fabric shade structures.
The commons based tiny home eco village will show the way forward for the transition from internal combustion vehicles to light electric vehicles. There will be three main areas to the village, based on 3 different models of transportation planning. The "C" area will be where cars can roll up to the doorstep of domiciles and also where the car processing and repair business is, and the waste handling business.
The "B" area will be where bikes and light electric vehicles, but not cars, are permitted to roll up to domiciles, and any cars that are permitted must park in "bulbs" that separate the parked cars from domiciles. The "B" area will also be where the bicycle and light electric vehicle business is, and where our trademark electric cargo trike is manufactured. It is also the location of the pavilion, music stage and outdoor kitchen.
The "A" area will be where no cars are permitted, and the ecobusinesses are, such as soil remediation/regeneration, liquid and solid compost, hemp, bamboo and the food/garden/human waste fermentation, and the stretch fabric residential structures and light footprint architecture are featured.
Food growing will happen in every area, and all landscaping will include a garden environment, and some areas with constructed mounds, especially area "A".
The commons based tiny home eco village will also be designed around fire abatement. A system of sprinklers, elevated water tanks, hoses, pressure washers, a fire truck, 5 gallon buckets with wet towels in them, and fire extinguishers, will enable our entire community to self-manage fire control and rapid response.
There will aslo be outdoor firepits, a cob oven, a clinic, music 24/7 (with louder and quieter areas), a bathhouse, a maker shop, a solar power business, a recording studio/radio station, as well as thesacred shrine, meditation hall and sweat lodge.
The community will be self-governed via consensus and voting, and is based on the land sovereignty of the residents, who have primary stewardship for the land, in agreement with the other stakeholders, within a commons land trust (The Oakland Humane Commons).
Paying it forward – The profit centers, and the products and services of the commons based tiny home ecovillage includes:
1. Car repair, dismantling and recycling.
2. Electric cargo trike and light electric 4-wheel vehicle manufracturing.
3. Construction grade bamboo.
4. Fresh organic produce.
5. Medical and recreational cannabis, tinctures, extracts, CBD oil, and Rick Simpson oil.
6. Re-used, refurbished and original clothing.
7, Electronics repair.
8. Fine art, paintings, and crafts.
9. Music performances, music recordings, rehearsals, and music teaching.
10. Social services.
11. Solar and wind generator installation.
12. Security systems installations.
13. Food carts and pop up restaurants.
14. Liquid compost.
15. Filtered water, free of chlorine, fluoride, etc.
16. Soft dome shelters and stretch fabric pavilions and shade structures.
17. Cob construction, and aircrete monolithic dome construction.
18. Residential fentanyl rehab.
19. Herbhal medicines, supplements, and other healing services.
20. Legal sex work.
21. Air B'n'B's.
We will have a developers cooperative called stewards of the land, which will collaborate with public and private landowners, and other stakeholders, to implement and build a commons-based tiny home eco village model in every city.
Best,
Theo Cedar Jones
Proposed design for the Wood Street Commons in West Oakland.
