And in Iceland...

Solheimar is a world renowned sustainable community known for its artistic and ecological atmosphere where about 100 people live and work together. It was founded in 1930 by Sesselja Hreindís Sigmundsdóttir (1902-1974). It is a small village set out in the countryside, characterized by vegetation, open common spaces and buildings that nicely co-exist with the landscape. Solheimar is blessed with enough space for residential and common housing and there are ideal conditions for outdoor activities in the village, which play a big part in the residents' health and well- being. The Solheimar community focuses on the growth and development of man and nature. The social emphasis is that different individuals are offered variable opportunities to work, live, and socialize

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I am fascinated as to whether this would work in a small community.

Sustainable Alternatives

There are alternatives.

Mutual Aid

Mutual aid is not a system of charity, where one group has benefits they want to shower onto another group, typically for some kind of recognition or religious purpose. Mutual aid is not a system of exploitation, where the work of one group is exploited by another group which is fully capable of providing for themselves yet choose not to. Mutual aid is a symbiosis, a web of desires. It is relational and equitable. Mutual aid is a balance, an equilibrium, like in nature. The amount of mutual aid that can happen in a common space is determined by, first of all, the relationships between dwellers in the space, and secondly, that the needs and abilities of individuals relative to each other are about the same (so that a group is well matched according to their needs and abilities)

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