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Impact Assessment
for Sunseed Desert Technology

Welcome to the Impact Assessment of Sunseed Desert Technology! If there are no results below, it’s because nobody has done in the assessment yet.

The results are live and you can see more detail by clicking on the visuals below. The score is composed of responses to two types of surveys:

Level 1 – the Personal Assessment measures how individual community members perceive their own shared lives and practices. This can by filled in by all community members, and count more towards the total results the more people have done so.

Level 2 – the Collective Assessment gathers information on the presence, scale or frequency of specific practices in the community. This is filled in only once per ecovillage.

SDG Results

This is Sunseed Desert Technology’s contributions to fulfilling the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. To explore results, just hover over or click on an SDG. This will open a menu below, where you can see which questions, indicators and answers make up the score. The SDGs are often measured on a national level. This is GEN’s take on the SDGs – reformulated into a full set of Regenerative Development Aims linked with key ecovillage practices backed by research.

No PovertyhideAvg
Zero HungerhideAvg
Good Health & Well-beinghideAvg
Quality EductionhideAvg
Gender EqualityhideAvg
Clean Water & SanitationhideAvg
Affordable & Clean EnergyhideAvg
Decent Work & Economic GrowthhideAvg
Industry, Innovation & InfrastructurehideAvg
Reduced InequalitieshideAvg
Sustainable Cities & CommunitieshideAvg
Responsible Consumption & ProductionhideAvg
Climate ActionhideAvg
Life Below WaterhideAvg
Life On LandhideAvg
Peace, Justice & Strong InstitutionshideAvg
Partnerships for the GoalshideAvg
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Culture (Level 2) Score
Clarify vision and higher purpose
Which of these is true for your community’s vision or higher purpose?
  • It is written down
 1 / 3
Do you have practices or activities directly linked to your community’s vision or purpose?
  • Yes, on an individual level
  • Yes, on a community level
 2 / 2
Nurture mindfulness and self-reflection
Do you have practices that support personal and/or collective self-awareness and reflection
  • Yes, individual contemplation, self-reflection or meditation
  • Yes - collective contemplation, self-reflection or meditation
  • Yes, group sharing and listening practices, such as sharing, council, circle work
  • Yes - systems for giving and receiving feedback to each other
  • Yes - practices for collective inquiry and understanding, such as group conversations, constellation work, process work, circle practice etc.
 3 / 3
How many community members tend to engage with these practices?
  • (almost) everyone
 4 / 4
Enrich life with art and celebration
Is there time and opportunity for community members to express themselves through art, music, dance, or other forms of creativity?
  • Yes, in their private, individual lives
  • Yes, in our shared, communal life
 3 / 3
How often do community members have opportunities to participate in artistic or creative events and activities?
  • every month
 3 / 4
How often do community members come together to celebrate and appreciate each other, achievements, events, natural cycles, anniversaries etc?
  • every month
 3 / 4
Do you have shared ways (traditional, reclaimed or newly created) to mark important events and cycles?
  • Yes
 4 / 4
Honour indigenous wisdom and welcome positive innovation
Which of the following does your community engage with to nurture local, indigenous and traditional wisdom, skills and practices?
  • learn, speak and preseve the local language
  • take part in cultural celebrations with neighbouring communities/villages
  • use local traditional ways of sustainably farming or cooking and preparing food
  • celebrate and engage with traditional music, art and dance
  • Restoring or safeguarding local cultural sites
  • Documenting local practices and knowledge to make them available for future generations
 4 / 4
Do you have processes or spaces where community members can bring up new ideas, practices and technologies relevant to your shared lives, vision and aims?
  • Yes
 2 / 2
Do groups and circles in your community have processes for reviewing how you do things in order to learn, adjust and integrate new ideas and solutions?
  • Yes
 2 / 2
Engage actively to protect communities and nature
The Rights of Nature is a way to recognise Earth as a living being with its own right to life, health and wellbeing. Do you do anything to promote such a perspective (by that or any other name)?
  • Recognise the planet, ecosystems, rivers, mountains or other entities as living beings with rights in our community charters
  • Consider “Nature’s perspective” in community decision-making
  • Appoint community guardians responsible to watch out and speak up for the rights of nature
  • Encourage other people, communities and organisation to recognise and respect the Rights of Nature
 3 / 3
How many community members tend to partipate in actions and events to protect the rights and wellbeing of nature, communities and people locally and/or globally?
  • (almost) everyone
 4 / 4
Does the community or its members lead or organise actions or events to protect the rights and wellbeing of nature, communities and people?
  • Yes - locally/bioregionally
 2 / 4
Reconnect to nature and embrace low-impact lifestyles
Do you actively nurture a sense of interdependence and interbeing - knowing or experiencing youselves as parts of nature?
  • Yes, as individual/private practice
  • Yes, as community/shared practice
 2 / 2
What are you doing to make your impact on local or global ecoystems visible, so that you can learn and adjust what you do?
  • create systems with short and visible feedback loops
  • observe and measure the health and availability of local ecosystem resources
  • adjust our consumption and behaviour to the carrying capacity of our local ecosystems
 3 / 3
We have shared values and practices that make it easier to...
  • share resources with each other
  • consume less
  • use less fossil fuels
  • reuse, mend and upcycle
  • share facilities and spaces
  • use local and organic food, products and materials
  • eat a vegan or vegetarian diet
  • use renewable energy
  • use & treat water sustainably
  • invest in the local economy
 4 / 4
Ecology (Level 2) Score
Grow seeds, food and soil through regenerative agriculture
Do you grow or produce food within the community?
  • Yes
 2 / 2
What percentage of the food you consume is grown or produced within the community?
10%
 1 / 3
What percentage of the food you consume is grown or produced outside the community but within your bioregion?
50%
 1 / 3
Do you do any of the following to protect seed diversity and grow seeds and plants adapted to local conditions?
  • Use open-pollinated varieties
  • Grow and propagate our own seed
  • Take part in seed exchanges
  • Have a local seed bank
  • Grow local varieties of plants
 3 / 3
Do you do any of the following to improve or regenerate soil conditions?
  • Increasing soil fertility through using for example crop rotation, cover crops, and compost or manure
  • Preserving the soil through mimimum/low/no-dig tillage
  • Enhancing soil health through the use of perennials or agroforestry
 3 / 3
What percentage of the food grown in the community is organic (certified or non-certified)?
100%
 3 / 3
What percentage of the food you consume in the community is organic (certified or non-certified)?
90%
 3 / 3
Clean and replenish sources and cycles of water
What percentage of water used is naturally treated and/or used as greywater before being returned to natural systems?
100%
 3 / 3
What do community members do to use water wisely?
  • Collect and store rainwater
  • Mindfully and efficiently use water for washing, showering etc.
  • Recycle greywater
  • Use composting/dry toilets
  • Use efficient irrigation and mulching
 3 / 3
Do you take action in any of these areas to manage erosion and restore or replenish sources of water?
  • Earthworks, such as creating lakes, swales, keylines or wetlands;
  • Built environment, such as have green roofs, permeable surfaces and effective management of runoff
  • Re-vegetation, such as strategically restoring woodlands, riverbanks and ground-cover vegetation
 3 / 3
Move towards 100% renewable energy and transport
What percentage of the energy used by the community comes from clean and renewable sources?
50%
 1 / 3
What percentage of the energy used by the community is sourced or generated within the community?
50%
 1 / 3
What is the total amount of renewable energy produced within your community per year, in kWh?
6,200kWh
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To minimise the use of fossil fuels in transport, we actively...
  • encourage and facilitate public transport and/or ridesharing.
  • encourage and facilitate people, wind or animal powered mobility.
  • encourage members and guests to minimise flying
 3 / 3
Innovate and spread green building technologies
We design, build and/or retrofit our built environment in ways that showcase and teach...
  • traditional/local building methods
  • locally appropriate design
  • how the built environment can encourage daily social interaction
  • how having a diversity of spaces in close proximity allow people to live, work and meet their basic needs without exessive commuting.
 3 / 3
What percentage of buildings have been built or retrofitted using natural, renewable or recycled materials?
90%
 3 / 3
What percentage of buildings have been built or retrofitted using locally sourced materials?
80%
 3 / 3
What percentage of buildings are energy efficient?
10%
 0 / 3
Work with waste as a valuable resource
What percentage of organic leftovers from community kitchens or activites do you compost or recycle?
100%
 4 / 4
Do you have agreements, rules or policies for minimising waste and encouraging recycling and composting
  • Yes for individual households/community members
  • Yes for community activities and spaces
 2 / 2
What percentage of non-compostable resources used in the community are reused or recycled?
70%
 2 / 3
Does your community or its members provide shared facilities for any of the following actions to minimise or eliminate waste?
  • Recycling
  • Exchanging/reusing/redistributing
  • Mending/repairing
  • Refurbishing/repurposing/upcycling
 3 / 3
Increase biodiversity and restore ecosystems
Do you do any of the following to protect seed diversity and grow seeds and plants adapted to local conditions?
  • Use open-pollinated varieties
  • Grow and propagate our own seed
  • Take part in seed exchanges
  • Have a local seed bank
  • Grow local varieties of plants
 3 / 3
Do you take action to increase or safeguard wild habitats and species?
  • Yes – on private land
  • Yes – on community land
  • Yes – in our bioregion
 3 / 3
How much of your community land is conserved, restored, or sustainably managed, as a proporition of total area?
90%
 3 / 3
Have you measured the ecological footprint of your community?
(no response)
 -
Have you measured the carbon footprint of your community?
(no response)
 -
Do you do any of the following things to restore ecosystems and sequester carbon?
  • Planting trees to restore or create forests
  • Protecting or restoring non-forest vegetation, such as peatbogs, marshland, mangroves, grassland, or seaweed beds
  • Increasing soil fertility through using for example crop rotation, cover crops, and compost or manure
  • Preserving the soil through mimimum/low/no-dig tillage
  • Enhancing soil health through the use of perennials or agroforestry
  • Earthworks, such as creating lakes, swales, keylines or wetlands;
  • Built environment, such as have green roofs, permeable surfaces and effective management of runoff
  • Re-vegetation, such as strategically restoring woodlands, riverbanks and ground-cover vegetation
 5 / 5
If you plant trees, how many have you planted?
(no response)
 -
Economy (Level 2) Score
Reconstruct the concepts of wealth, work and progress
Which of these statements is true about your local or community economy?
  • It embodies and exemplifies our shared values
  • It helps create strong local relationships
 2 / 4
Considering the businesses and organisations based in your community, how many have clear targets, guidelines and/or policies for prioritising fair trade goods and services?
80%
 0.75 / 1
Considering the businesses and organisations based in your community, how many have clear targets, guidelines and/or policies for social justice and community benefit?
50%
 0.5 / 1
Considering the businesses and organisations based in your community, how many have clear targets, guidelines and/or policies for ecological sourcing, production and consumption?
100%
 1 / 1
Does the community count, value, remunerate or compensate for any of the following forms of work in the same way it treats more traditional ‘productive labour’?
  • Housework - like everyday cooking and cleaning, gathering firewood, getting water
  • Governance work - like taking part in or organising meetings, committees, etc
  • Relational work - such as conflict resolution and providing emotional support
  • Community work - organising community events and celebrations
  • Artistic work - providing music, arts, and entertainment for the community
 4 / 4
Commit to responsible production, consumption and trade
Do you have a community code of ethics or shared agreements to guarantee that your own business practices as well as those of the people with which you work and trade contribute positively to social justice and welfare both locally and globally?
  • Yes for prioritising businesses owned by socially or economically marginalised groups
  • Yes for sourcing goods and services from people and businesses who also have high and explicit standards for social responsibility and social justice
 2 / 4
Does your community have shared rules, agreements or practices to ensure you source, produce and consume in an ecologically responsible way?
  • yes to prioritise non-toxic products
  • yes to prioritise biodegradable products
  • yes to prioritise low carbon emission goods and services
  • yes to limit the purchasing of new items / encourage re-use
  • yes to prioritise a vegetarian or vegan diet or products
  • yes to prioritise organic produce and products (certified or not)
 4 / 4
What percentage of the businesses and organisations based in your community report transparently on their social impact
0%
 0 / 2
What percentage of the businesses and organisations based in your community report transparently on their ecological impact
0%
 0 / 2
Cultivate social entrepreneurship for local regeneration
Do you have shared agreements for individuals and organisations in your community to actively support local economic regeneration?
  • Yes for prioritising local and independently owned businesses
  • Yes for prioritising locally produced goods
  • Yes for reinvesting a share of profits in the community
  • Yes for community ownership, where assets belong to the community and cannot be sold off for private financial gain
 4 / 4
Which of the following ways to encourage and promote local enterprise exist in your community?
  • Yes for prioritising local and independently owned businesses
  • Yes for prioritising locally produced goods
  • Yes for reinvesting a share of profits in the community
  • Yes for community ownership, where assets belong to the community and cannot be sold off for private financial gain
 4 / 4
Increase economic justice through sharing and collaboration
What kinds of resources and assets do you have systems for sharing, owning together, or otherwise collectively providing?
  • Housing
  • Community spaces for meetings, gatherings, cultural events
  • Facilities such as kitchen, laundry, workshops
  • Tools and equipment
  • Agricultural land, orchards or gardening spaces
  • Vehicles - cars, bikes, etc.
  • Clothing & other goods
  • Money or income
 4 / 4
Do you have any form of solidarity systems that support community members in times of financial need or hardship?
  • No
 0 / 2
What methods do you have in place to lower the financial barriers of being part of your community and it’s activities?
  • Bursaries or other low-income options for joining activities
  • Sweat Equity - where community members can contribute labour instead of money to cover for example community fees
  • Low-cost community housing - such as free housing for members, low-cost rentals, mix of housing options for different income levels
  • Support in creating local livelihoods
 4 / 4
Ensure equitable access to land and resources
Do you have ways of owning or sharing land and other natural resources that guarantees equitable access, ensures participatory control and safeguards it for future generations?
  • We hold community land in common, for example through ownership through trusts, cooperatives or associations
  • We use and govern community land together even if ownership is private
  • We actively remove agricultural land, wild spaces, water, and/or public spaces from private enclosure and market speculation
  • We work within the community to democratise access to land, for example by offering land for members to grow food or opening our wild spaces to visitors
 3 / 3
Do you do any of the following to strengthen the commons - knowledge and resources we collectively depend on, manage and govern together?
  • We chose platforms and technologies that are open source and managed for collective benefit, where blueprints, code, and knowledge are open and available to use, modify and redistribute.
  • We share the plans and/or knowledge behind our own innovations, technologies and practices for regenerative living with others, for them to adapt and use
  • We take an active role in governing our local physical commons - areas and resources that are managed collaboratively for both individual and collective benefit
  • We take action to prevent or reverse private enclosure of land, resources and knowledge
 3 / 3
Use banks and currencies that strengthen communities
Do you provide or use any complementary or alternative exchange systems and currencies?
  • Alternative trading systems, such as LETS or timebanking
  • Non-currency exchange systems, such as gift economy or barter
 4 / 4
Do you provide or use any financial services that are ethical and generate community benefits?
  • No
 0 / 4
Do you have an explicit community policy regarding ethical banking and investment?
(no response)
 0 / 2
Social (Level 2) Score
Nurture diversity and cohesion for thriving communities
What methods do you have in place to welcome and work for diversity in terms of gender, ethnicity, sexuality and socio-economic, cultural and religious background in your community?
  • Policies, agreements or practices that help you notice and safeguard against discrimination of minorities
  • Policies and practises to ensure equal participation and non-discrimination of women
  • Education for community members about bias and discrimination
  • Regularly take time as a collective to reflect , feedback and discuss inclusion, diversity, equity and discrimination within our community
  • Membership recruitment and policies that actively and explicitly aim for diversity
 4 / 4
What methods do you have in place to welcome people with special needs in your community?
  • None of these
 0 / 2
What do you do to build and strengthen community glue - the connections, friendships and sense of togetherness of community members?
  • Talking, sharing, seeing each others perspectives, such as in sharing groups, circle practice, forum, council and informal meetings
  • Doing things together, like eating, playing sports, singing, celebrations
  • Accomplish things together outside of usual tasks and roles, for example in shared projects, work parties, community service
  • Working together in for example community farms, businesses, organisations and departments
  • Gather regularly for whole community events
  • We vision and set goals together
 5 / 5
How many community members tend to engage with these practices?
100%
 3 / 3
Develop fair, effective and accountable institutions
Which of these things do you have in place to hold each other accountable? Please check all that apply
  • Clear community agreements
  • Agreed ways to address a community member breaking community agreements
  • Shared practies for community members to give and receive feedback on their actions and behaviours
  • Processes for engaging community members in regularly reviewing community decisions
 3 / 3
Which of these things do you have in place to ensure that the organisations or groups that make decisions about your shared community life and services are trustworthy, fair and effective in serving the community?
  • Clear processes to hold those involved in governance accountable by all affected
  • Organisational/group aims, responsibilities, budgets and results that are clear and available to community members
  • Multiple mechanisms to keep members informed about decisions, plans and activities
  • Ways for community members to take part in evaluating how well an organisation or group fulfills its aims
  • Mechanisms through which community members can shape aims and activities
  • Clear ways of coordinating work and activities
 4 / 4
Empower collaborative leadership and participatory decision-making
Do you have a clear, agreed upon and shared process for addressing conflicts within the community?
  • Somewhat - we have some conflict resolution, but it could be clearer, held more in common, or used by more people
 1 / 3
Is the way the community manages conflict designed to support community members...
  • address conflicts and disagreements directly with the people involved
  • acknowledge and address the needs and experience of everyone involved
 2 / 3
Does the community offer new and existing members training in your shared conflict resolution method and/or how to resolve conflicts in a reconciliatory way?
  • No
 0 / 3
Do community members have opportunities to be trained in compassionate, respectful and collaborative communication practices
  • No
 0 / 3
Practice conflict facilitation, communication and peacebuilding skills
Which one of these is true regarding how you approach leadership in your community?
  • We actively recruit and encourage people from under-represented groups to step into leadership
  • We actively encourage young people in the community to engage with our decision-making and governance
  • People and teams have clear areas of responsibility where they are empowered to lead, act and organise their own work
  • We generally encourage each other to take the lead in creating or implementing ideas and projects, as long as they are in line with our community vision and agreements
  • We reflect about leadership together, working to develop models of sharing power and responsibility that are collaboative and participatory
  • All community members are trained in collaborative governance and leadership
 5 / 5
What is the percentage of women in decision-making bodies in your community?
75%
 1 / 3
What percentage of leadership roles are filled by women?
80%
 1 / 3
What percentage of community members are actively involved in community decision-making processes?
65%
 2 / 3
Are there systems in place through which community members give their input in decisions that affect them and your shared community life?
  • yes for all
 3 / 3
Ensure equal and lifelong access to education for sustainability
Does your community and/or its members provide learning opportunities, such as trainings, workshops, experiential learning, schooling, internships, etc?
  • Yes - for young people
  • Yes - for adults and elders
 2 / 2
Does the community or its members provide training or learning opportunities in fields related to regenerative living and/or sustainability?
  • yes for community members
  • yes for people from outside the community
 2 / 2
Does the community or it’s members provide training or learning opportunities related to climate change mitigation and adaptation?
  • yes for community members
  • yes for people from outside the community
 2 / 2
In which fields does the community or its members provide opportunities for learning?
Drylands restoration, Composting, Gardening, Eco-Maintenance, natural cosmetic making, preserves, bread making, Appropriate technology, Communication, Administration
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Promote health, healing and wellbeing for all
What you have in place to help you create a shared daily life that supports health and wellbeing in a holistic way?
  • Social systems for mutual care, such as support for parents, care for the elderly, or buddy systems for vulnerable community members
  • In our community kitchens or shared meals, we eat a balanced and nutritious diet
  • Safe and supportive spaces and time in our shared daily lives to openly address our mental and emotional states
  • We take ecosystem health into consideration in our ways of life, decisions and activities, since it is the fundament of all health on our planet
  • We strive to eliminate toxic materials and substances from all our spaces and activities
  • We do our best to make sure our drinking water is clean and safe
 6 / 6
Does your community organise or provide access to basic healthcare and health education, with an emphasis on prevention?
  • No
 0 / 2
Does your community organise or provide access to complementary or traditional medicine, wellbeing or healing practices?
  • yes for community members
  • yes for people from outside
 2 / 2
Does your community organise or provide access to mental health care?
  • No
 0 / 2

GEN Map of Regeneration Results

How far has Sunseed Desert Technology come to social, ecological, economic and cultural sustainability? These are results filtered through the Ecovillage Principles – key practices and leverage points used, demonstrated and experimented with throughout the sustainable communities movement. To explore, just hover or click on an area. This will open a menu below where you can see which questions, indicators and answers make up the score.

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Culture – Level 2 Score
Clarify vision and higher purpose
Which of these is true for your community’s vision or higher purpose?
  • It is written down
 1 / 3
Do you have practices or activities directly linked to your community’s vision or purpose?
  • Yes, on an individual level
  • Yes, on a community level
 2 / 2
Nurture mindfulness and self-reflection
Do you have practices that support personal and/or collective self-awareness and reflection
  • Yes, individual contemplation, self-reflection or meditation
  • Yes - collective contemplation, self-reflection or meditation
  • Yes, group sharing and listening practices, such as sharing, council, circle work
  • Yes - systems for giving and receiving feedback to each other
  • Yes - practices for collective inquiry and understanding, such as group conversations, constellation work, process work, circle practice etc.
 3 / 3
How many community members tend to engage with these practices?
  • (almost) everyone
 4 / 4
Enrich life with art and celebration
Is there time and opportunity for community members to express themselves through art, music, dance, or other forms of creativity?
  • Yes, in their private, individual lives
  • Yes, in our shared, communal life
 3 / 3
How often do community members have opportunities to participate in artistic or creative events and activities?
  • every month
 3 / 4
How often do community members come together to celebrate and appreciate each other, achievements, events, natural cycles, anniversaries etc?
  • every month
 3 / 4
Do you have shared ways (traditional, reclaimed or newly created) to mark important events and cycles?
  • Yes
 4 / 4
Honour indigenous wisdom and welcome positive innovation
Which of the following does your community engage with to nurture local, indigenous and traditional wisdom, skills and practices?
  • learn, speak and preseve the local language
  • take part in cultural celebrations with neighbouring communities/villages
  • use local traditional ways of sustainably farming or cooking and preparing food
  • celebrate and engage with traditional music, art and dance
  • Restoring or safeguarding local cultural sites
  • Documenting local practices and knowledge to make them available for future generations
 4 / 4
Do you have processes or spaces where community members can bring up new ideas, practices and technologies relevant to your shared lives, vision and aims?
  • Yes
 2 / 2
Do groups and circles in your community have processes for reviewing how you do things in order to learn, adjust and integrate new ideas and solutions?
  • Yes
 2 / 2
Engage actively to protect communities and nature
The Rights of Nature is a way to recognise Earth as a living being with its own right to life, health and wellbeing. Do you do anything to promote such a perspective (by that or any other name)?
  • Recognise the planet, ecosystems, rivers, mountains or other entities as living beings with rights in our community charters
  • Consider “Nature’s perspective” in community decision-making
  • Appoint community guardians responsible to watch out and speak up for the rights of nature
  • Encourage other people, communities and organisation to recognise and respect the Rights of Nature
 3 / 3
How many community members tend to partipate in actions and events to protect the rights and wellbeing of nature, communities and people locally and/or globally?
  • (almost) everyone
 4 / 4
Does the community or its members lead or organise actions or events to protect the rights and wellbeing of nature, communities and people?
  • Yes - locally/bioregionally
 2 / 4
Reconnect to nature and embrace low-impact lifestyles
Do you actively nurture a sense of interdependence and interbeing - knowing or experiencing youselves as parts of nature?
  • Yes, as individual/private practice
  • Yes, as community/shared practice
 2 / 2
What are you doing to make your impact on local or global ecoystems visible, so that you can learn and adjust what you do?
  • create systems with short and visible feedback loops
  • observe and measure the health and availability of local ecosystem resources
  • adjust our consumption and behaviour to the carrying capacity of our local ecosystems
 3 / 3
We have shared values and practices that make it easier to...
  • share resources with each other
  • consume less
  • use less fossil fuels
  • reuse, mend and upcycle
  • share facilities and spaces
  • use local and organic food, products and materials
  • eat a vegan or vegetarian diet
  • use renewable energy
  • use & treat water sustainably
  • invest in the local economy
 4 / 4
Total level 2 score for Culture 8.81
Ecology – Level 2 Score
Grow seeds, food and soil through regenerative agriculture
Do you grow or produce food within the community?
  • Yes
 2 / 2
What percentage of the food you consume is grown or produced within the community?
10%
 1 / 3
What percentage of the food you consume is grown or produced outside the community but within your bioregion?
50%
 1 / 3
Do you do any of the following to protect seed diversity and grow seeds and plants adapted to local conditions?
  • Use open-pollinated varieties
  • Grow and propagate our own seed
  • Take part in seed exchanges
  • Have a local seed bank
  • Grow local varieties of plants
 3 / 3
Do you do any of the following to improve or regenerate soil conditions?
  • Increasing soil fertility through using for example crop rotation, cover crops, and compost or manure
  • Preserving the soil through mimimum/low/no-dig tillage
  • Enhancing soil health through the use of perennials or agroforestry
 3 / 3
What percentage of the food grown in the community is organic (certified or non-certified)?
100%
 3 / 3
What percentage of the food you consume in the community is organic (certified or non-certified)?
90%
 3 / 3
Clean and replenish sources and cycles of water
What percentage of water used is naturally treated and/or used as greywater before being returned to natural systems?
100%
 3 / 3
What do community members do to use water wisely?
  • Collect and store rainwater
  • Mindfully and efficiently use water for washing, showering etc.
  • Recycle greywater
  • Use composting/dry toilets
  • Use efficient irrigation and mulching
 3 / 3
Do you take action in any of these areas to manage erosion and restore or replenish sources of water?
  • Earthworks, such as creating lakes, swales, keylines or wetlands;
  • Built environment, such as have green roofs, permeable surfaces and effective management of runoff
  • Re-vegetation, such as strategically restoring woodlands, riverbanks and ground-cover vegetation
 3 / 3
Move towards 100% renewable energy and transport
What percentage of the energy used by the community comes from clean and renewable sources?
50%
 1 / 3
What percentage of the energy used by the community is sourced or generated within the community?
50%
 1 / 3
What is the total amount of renewable energy produced within your community per year, in kWh?
6,200kWh
 -
To minimise the use of fossil fuels in transport, we actively...
  • encourage and facilitate public transport and/or ridesharing.
  • encourage and facilitate people, wind or animal powered mobility.
  • encourage members and guests to minimise flying
 3 / 3
Innovate and spread green building technologies
We design, build and/or retrofit our built environment in ways that showcase and teach...
  • traditional/local building methods
  • locally appropriate design
  • how the built environment can encourage daily social interaction
  • how having a diversity of spaces in close proximity allow people to live, work and meet their basic needs without exessive commuting.
 3 / 3
What percentage of buildings have been built or retrofitted using natural, renewable or recycled materials?
90%
 3 / 3
What percentage of buildings have been built or retrofitted using locally sourced materials?
80%
 3 / 3
What percentage of buildings are energy efficient?
10%
 0 / 3
Work with waste as a valuable resource
What percentage of organic leftovers from community kitchens or activites do you compost or recycle?
100%
 4 / 4
Do you have agreements, rules or policies for minimising waste and encouraging recycling and composting
  • Yes for individual households/community members
  • Yes for community activities and spaces
 2 / 2
What percentage of non-compostable resources used in the community are reused or recycled?
70%
 2 / 3
Does your community or its members provide shared facilities for any of the following actions to minimise or eliminate waste?
  • Recycling
  • Exchanging/reusing/redistributing
  • Mending/repairing
  • Refurbishing/repurposing/upcycling
 3 / 3
Increase biodiversity and restore ecosystems
Do you do any of the following to protect seed diversity and grow seeds and plants adapted to local conditions?
  • Use open-pollinated varieties
  • Grow and propagate our own seed
  • Take part in seed exchanges
  • Have a local seed bank
  • Grow local varieties of plants
 3 / 3
Do you take action to increase or safeguard wild habitats and species?
  • Yes – on private land
  • Yes – on community land
  • Yes – in our bioregion
 3 / 3
How much of your community land is conserved, restored, or sustainably managed, as a proporition of total area?
90%
 3 / 3
Have you measured the ecological footprint of your community?
(no response)
 -
Have you measured the carbon footprint of your community?
(no response)
 -
Do you do any of the following things to restore ecosystems and sequester carbon?
  • Planting trees to restore or create forests
  • Protecting or restoring non-forest vegetation, such as peatbogs, marshland, mangroves, grassland, or seaweed beds
  • Increasing soil fertility through using for example crop rotation, cover crops, and compost or manure
  • Preserving the soil through mimimum/low/no-dig tillage
  • Enhancing soil health through the use of perennials or agroforestry
  • Earthworks, such as creating lakes, swales, keylines or wetlands;
  • Built environment, such as have green roofs, permeable surfaces and effective management of runoff
  • Re-vegetation, such as strategically restoring woodlands, riverbanks and ground-cover vegetation
 5 / 5
If you plant trees, how many have you planted?
(no response)
 -
Total level 2 score for Ecology 8.37
Economy – Level 2 Score
Reconstruct the concepts of wealth, work and progress
Which of these statements is true about your local or community economy?
  • It embodies and exemplifies our shared values
  • It helps create strong local relationships
 2 / 4
Considering the businesses and organisations based in your community, how many have clear targets, guidelines and/or policies for prioritising fair trade goods and services?
80%
 0.75 / 1
Considering the businesses and organisations based in your community, how many have clear targets, guidelines and/or policies for social justice and community benefit?
50%
 0.5 / 1
Considering the businesses and organisations based in your community, how many have clear targets, guidelines and/or policies for ecological sourcing, production and consumption?
100%
 1 / 1
Does the community count, value, remunerate or compensate for any of the following forms of work in the same way it treats more traditional ‘productive labour’?
  • Housework - like everyday cooking and cleaning, gathering firewood, getting water
  • Governance work - like taking part in or organising meetings, committees, etc
  • Relational work - such as conflict resolution and providing emotional support
  • Community work - organising community events and celebrations
  • Artistic work - providing music, arts, and entertainment for the community
 4 / 4
Commit to responsible production, consumption and trade
Do you have a community code of ethics or shared agreements to guarantee that your own business practices as well as those of the people with which you work and trade contribute positively to social justice and welfare both locally and globally?
  • Yes for prioritising businesses owned by socially or economically marginalised groups
  • Yes for sourcing goods and services from people and businesses who also have high and explicit standards for social responsibility and social justice
 2 / 4
Does your community have shared rules, agreements or practices to ensure you source, produce and consume in an ecologically responsible way?
  • yes to prioritise non-toxic products
  • yes to prioritise biodegradable products
  • yes to prioritise low carbon emission goods and services
  • yes to limit the purchasing of new items / encourage re-use
  • yes to prioritise a vegetarian or vegan diet or products
  • yes to prioritise organic produce and products (certified or not)
 4 / 4
What percentage of the businesses and organisations based in your community report transparently on their social impact
0%
 0 / 2
What percentage of the businesses and organisations based in your community report transparently on their ecological impact
0%
 0 / 2
Cultivate social entrepreneurship for local regeneration
Do you have shared agreements for individuals and organisations in your community to actively support local economic regeneration?
  • Yes for prioritising local and independently owned businesses
  • Yes for prioritising locally produced goods
  • Yes for reinvesting a share of profits in the community
  • Yes for community ownership, where assets belong to the community and cannot be sold off for private financial gain
 4 / 4
Which of the following ways to encourage and promote local enterprise exist in your community?
  • Yes for prioritising local and independently owned businesses
  • Yes for prioritising locally produced goods
  • Yes for reinvesting a share of profits in the community
  • Yes for community ownership, where assets belong to the community and cannot be sold off for private financial gain
 4 / 4
Increase economic justice through sharing and collaboration
What kinds of resources and assets do you have systems for sharing, owning together, or otherwise collectively providing?
  • Housing
  • Community spaces for meetings, gatherings, cultural events
  • Facilities such as kitchen, laundry, workshops
  • Tools and equipment
  • Agricultural land, orchards or gardening spaces
  • Vehicles - cars, bikes, etc.
  • Clothing & other goods
  • Money or income
 4 / 4
Do you have any form of solidarity systems that support community members in times of financial need or hardship?
  • No
 0 / 2
What methods do you have in place to lower the financial barriers of being part of your community and it’s activities?
  • Bursaries or other low-income options for joining activities
  • Sweat Equity - where community members can contribute labour instead of money to cover for example community fees
  • Low-cost community housing - such as free housing for members, low-cost rentals, mix of housing options for different income levels
  • Support in creating local livelihoods
 4 / 4
Ensure equitable access to land and resources
Do you have ways of owning or sharing land and other natural resources that guarantees equitable access, ensures participatory control and safeguards it for future generations?
  • We hold community land in common, for example through ownership through trusts, cooperatives or associations
  • We use and govern community land together even if ownership is private
  • We actively remove agricultural land, wild spaces, water, and/or public spaces from private enclosure and market speculation
  • We work within the community to democratise access to land, for example by offering land for members to grow food or opening our wild spaces to visitors
 3 / 3
Do you do any of the following to strengthen the commons - knowledge and resources we collectively depend on, manage and govern together?
  • We chose platforms and technologies that are open source and managed for collective benefit, where blueprints, code, and knowledge are open and available to use, modify and redistribute.
  • We share the plans and/or knowledge behind our own innovations, technologies and practices for regenerative living with others, for them to adapt and use
  • We take an active role in governing our local physical commons - areas and resources that are managed collaboratively for both individual and collective benefit
  • We take action to prevent or reverse private enclosure of land, resources and knowledge
 3 / 3
Use banks and currencies that strengthen communities
Do you provide or use any complementary or alternative exchange systems and currencies?
  • Alternative trading systems, such as LETS or timebanking
  • Non-currency exchange systems, such as gift economy or barter
 4 / 4
Do you provide or use any financial services that are ethical and generate community benefits?
  • No
 0 / 4
Do you have an explicit community policy regarding ethical banking and investment?
(no response)
 0 / 2
Total level 2 score for Economy 7.42
Social – Level 2 Score
Nurture diversity and cohesion for thriving communities
What methods do you have in place to welcome and work for diversity in terms of gender, ethnicity, sexuality and socio-economic, cultural and religious background in your community?
  • Policies, agreements or practices that help you notice and safeguard against discrimination of minorities
  • Policies and practises to ensure equal participation and non-discrimination of women
  • Education for community members about bias and discrimination
  • Regularly take time as a collective to reflect , feedback and discuss inclusion, diversity, equity and discrimination within our community
  • Membership recruitment and policies that actively and explicitly aim for diversity
 4 / 4
What methods do you have in place to welcome people with special needs in your community?
  • None of these
 0 / 2
What do you do to build and strengthen community glue - the connections, friendships and sense of togetherness of community members?
  • Talking, sharing, seeing each others perspectives, such as in sharing groups, circle practice, forum, council and informal meetings
  • Doing things together, like eating, playing sports, singing, celebrations
  • Accomplish things together outside of usual tasks and roles, for example in shared projects, work parties, community service
  • Working together in for example community farms, businesses, organisations and departments
  • Gather regularly for whole community events
  • We vision and set goals together
 5 / 5
How many community members tend to engage with these practices?
100%
 3 / 3
Develop fair, effective and accountable institutions
Which of these things do you have in place to hold each other accountable? Please check all that apply
  • Clear community agreements
  • Agreed ways to address a community member breaking community agreements
  • Shared practies for community members to give and receive feedback on their actions and behaviours
  • Processes for engaging community members in regularly reviewing community decisions
 3 / 3
Which of these things do you have in place to ensure that the organisations or groups that make decisions about your shared community life and services are trustworthy, fair and effective in serving the community?
  • Clear processes to hold those involved in governance accountable by all affected
  • Organisational/group aims, responsibilities, budgets and results that are clear and available to community members
  • Multiple mechanisms to keep members informed about decisions, plans and activities
  • Ways for community members to take part in evaluating how well an organisation or group fulfills its aims
  • Mechanisms through which community members can shape aims and activities
  • Clear ways of coordinating work and activities
 4 / 4
Empower collaborative leadership and participatory decision-making
Do you have a clear, agreed upon and shared process for addressing conflicts within the community?
  • Somewhat - we have some conflict resolution, but it could be clearer, held more in common, or used by more people
 1 / 3
Is the way the community manages conflict designed to support community members...
  • address conflicts and disagreements directly with the people involved
  • acknowledge and address the needs and experience of everyone involved
 2 / 3
Does the community offer new and existing members training in your shared conflict resolution method and/or how to resolve conflicts in a reconciliatory way?
  • No
 0 / 3
Do community members have opportunities to be trained in compassionate, respectful and collaborative communication practices
  • No
 0 / 3
Practice conflict facilitation, communication and peacebuilding skills
Which one of these is true regarding how you approach leadership in your community?
  • We actively recruit and encourage people from under-represented groups to step into leadership
  • We actively encourage young people in the community to engage with our decision-making and governance
  • People and teams have clear areas of responsibility where they are empowered to lead, act and organise their own work
  • We generally encourage each other to take the lead in creating or implementing ideas and projects, as long as they are in line with our community vision and agreements
  • We reflect about leadership together, working to develop models of sharing power and responsibility that are collaboative and participatory
  • All community members are trained in collaborative governance and leadership
 5 / 5
What is the percentage of women in decision-making bodies in your community?
75%
 1 / 3
What percentage of leadership roles are filled by women?
80%
 1 / 3
What percentage of community members are actively involved in community decision-making processes?
65%
 2 / 3
Are there systems in place through which community members give their input in decisions that affect them and your shared community life?
  • yes for all
 3 / 3
Ensure equal and lifelong access to education for sustainability
Does your community and/or its members provide learning opportunities, such as trainings, workshops, experiential learning, schooling, internships, etc?
  • Yes - for young people
  • Yes - for adults and elders
 2 / 2
Does the community or its members provide training or learning opportunities in fields related to regenerative living and/or sustainability?
  • yes for community members
  • yes for people from outside the community
 2 / 2
Does the community or it’s members provide training or learning opportunities related to climate change mitigation and adaptation?
  • yes for community members
  • yes for people from outside the community
 2 / 2
In which fields does the community or its members provide opportunities for learning?
Drylands restoration, Composting, Gardening, Eco-Maintenance, natural cosmetic making, preserves, bread making, Appropriate technology, Communication, Administration
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Promote health, healing and wellbeing for all
What you have in place to help you create a shared daily life that supports health and wellbeing in a holistic way?
  • Social systems for mutual care, such as support for parents, care for the elderly, or buddy systems for vulnerable community members
  • In our community kitchens or shared meals, we eat a balanced and nutritious diet
  • Safe and supportive spaces and time in our shared daily lives to openly address our mental and emotional states
  • We take ecosystem health into consideration in our ways of life, decisions and activities, since it is the fundament of all health on our planet
  • We strive to eliminate toxic materials and substances from all our spaces and activities
  • We do our best to make sure our drinking water is clean and safe
 6 / 6
Does your community organise or provide access to basic healthcare and health education, with an emphasis on prevention?
  • No
 0 / 2
Does your community organise or provide access to complementary or traditional medicine, wellbeing or healing practices?
  • yes for community members
  • yes for people from outside
 2 / 2
Does your community organise or provide access to mental health care?
  • No
 0 / 2
Total level 2 score for Social 7.47
No Level 1 results.
Level 2 results last updated May 2023.

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