Aaahhh, the big question, in what kind of community do I want to raise my children? What type of community do I want to live in for the rest of my life? The answer, in a nutshell, is one that is baised on a list of ideals that I want to make sure are implimented.
  1. This community will have legal standing to be able to remain the way it is, but also have the flexibility to change, to keep up with the times in the future, as determined by the inhabitants NOT the surrounding citys, NOT big corporations, NOT factories, NOT ANY larger enterprise that preys on small communitys, or individuals.
  2. This community will not be a drain on the ecology. In an ideal setting, it will contribute to the ecology.
  3. The inhabitants will work toward solutions for more ecological and practical solutions to current problems.
  4. The buisnesses within the community work together to provide services for eachother, ie. the horse stables donate the manure to a compost owned by a farmer. The farmer in turn donates the left over food to the horse stables and the cattle farm down the road.
  5. The community will work towards educating the children as well as adults through a series of programs.
  6. The community works on the basic principle of the golden rule. Both towards its members and the surrounding communitys.
  7. The community will help other similar communitys start up, but will not include them into their rule structure.  This type of community would crumble under a large government type structure. This does not exclude the community however from including other members of different communitys in their programs or participating in other community activities. It also does not exclude them either from informing the other community of what their rules are so that the other community can modify or adapt the rules for their community.
  8. The community and its inhabitants will offer information on any and all services they provide under a general open source type environment.
I haven't been able to work out what type of government this community would work under, but I would like to fashion the first stipulation after the ranchers in Colorado. As far as I have heard, they have turned their land over to a trust so that developers (both buisness and real estate) wouldn't be able to force them out of their occupation. If you have any more information on this so I can be more specific here, please tell me.

Also, if you have any other ideas for this community or ways to impliment them, please don't hesitate to write. All of your comments will be posted here, names witheld unless you specify otherwise. In any event, your name will be added to the list of contributors to this community. I will add my own ideas and comments to yours in the same place.