I will discuss plans for a long term, integrated and sustainable community. This community will be (a) integrated by intentionally pulling in people from a well defined mix of trades and professions that are designed to complement each other. As well, this community will be (b) sustainable by producing all of its food, water and energy on site, with excess. This means that there will be a planned net positive output.

I believe that such a community can be built with existing technology (such as sun, river and wind power), without having to resort to next generation technologies of which there are tantalizing glimpses. Through careful planning and monitoring, such a community should be able to recover, recycle or reclaim nearly 100% of it's waste, while producing innovative products and services.

In addition, a built in marketing, accounting and legal section can help move the products and services developed on site to market, by people specializing in these tasks. Different communities of this type could have different specialties, such as innovation or the monitoring of our planet's resources.

For more information, please see: http://earth3300.ca/communities/. I have spent a lot of time putting this together. Although it may still contain some grammatical or other errors of that nature, I believe it provides a good overview of the process that can be taken to build a community from scratch, or to revamp an existing one, looking at the rebuilding exercise as a means of uncovering approaches that might otherwise have been missed. If after having a good read through this, you have some comments (of a grammatical or structural nature, or having to do with the approach taken) please let me know. That would then be a good starting point for a discussion.