Southern Life Community

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About the Communities

  • Established
  • Chinese (Simplified)
  • Ecological
  • Rural

Founding year

  • 2015

What we do

2009年,唐冠华开始构想自给自足的可持续生活方式,怀着对这种生活的憧憬,他撰写了一篇题为《家园》的文章,设想如何建立一个拥有教育、医疗、养老福利等诸多保障的自给自足的生活社区。
2011年,唐冠华离开青岛,关闭了设计公司。在青岛崂山的一栋花岗岩建筑里,以及森林里一位朋友的住处,他和妻子以自身为实验材料,建造了中国自己的“充足实验室”,逐步发现并解决建筑、能源、食品和生活必需品等问题,并记录下来与大家分享。
在此期间,他的工作和生活方式引起了众多媒体的关注,包括中央电视台、英国广播公司、《纽约时报》、《明镜周刊》、《城市杂志》、新华社、湖南卫视、日本NHK电视台、香港电视台等等。
自2009年起,该机构运营着中国生态村(共识社区)信息中心。http://center.anotherland.org
2015年,他发起了“南方生活”共识社区实验。作为一项共识社区实验,“南方生活”汇聚了来自世界各地的社会可能性探索者,旨在探索中国大陆一种基于共同社会使命或生活方式的社区模式,打破地域、特权、政策、景观、经济、教育背景等界限。该实验计划至少用20年时间来凝聚共识,打造可持续发展的社区。我们欢迎拥有不同生活理念的人士前来开展生活实验。所有集体关系和公共事务均由常住居民共同参与。我们也希望居民能够独立生活,拥有一定的社会责任感,并规划长期的邻里伙伴。

  • Purpose
  • Ecological
  • Languages
  • Chinese (Simplified)
  • English
  • Community type
  • Ecovillage
  • Intentional Neighborhoods
  • Activities
  • Permaculture

Commemorative dates

  • January 1, 2015
  • Started living together

Video

  • Open to new members
  • Open to visitors
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How to join

When a person has lived in the community for more than one year, he can vote as a full resident of the community, and then he can join the community as a full resident. A community resident can lease land, apply for public funds, and have voting rights.
8. Regarding each space use rule
8.1 Public space: The community rents No. 84 Wangkeng and uses the first half as an exhibition hall. The backyard serves as a public space for the transition of visitors and volunteers. It is forbidden to move items and place other sundries in the exhibition hall without the permission of the residents of the community. The backyard is a dining, cooking, and bathing place established and maintained by everyone. It is hoped that users will assume responsibility for sanitation and equipment maintenance, repair, and new equipment purchase.
8.2 Farmland and mountain forest
The community has rented 500 acres of mountain forests, anyone can enter and leave, but can not take away the animals and plants. After living in the community for a year, the residents of the community (Tang Guanhua, Xing Zhen, Dawang, Yu Bogong) can vote as residents and have the right to vote, use public funds and lease land. Before that, you need to use the land for a short period of time, you can submit an application in the group, non-commercial use, you need to pay a deposit, agree on the period and use, avoid garbage and pollution during use, and set off fire.
8.3 Private Space
All venues except the public space are private spaces. Use of any items must be communicated to the owner and borrowed, returned after use, borrowed again, or the corresponding use fee paid.

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Location

  • China

Southern Life Community

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Social Media Intern

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Social Media Intern for GEN International Hours: Up to 20/month, flexible around your schedule and availability Location: Remote, work with Eva Goldfarb Focus: Instagram + LinkedIn (TikTok if you’re into it!) Hi! I’m Eva, and I run social media for GEN International — the global network connecting ecovillages, intentional communities, and regenerative culture-builders across every continent. I’m looking for a co-conspirator to help me tell the stories of the people quietly building the future: off-grid villages in the Philippines, permaculture farms in Senegal, urban cohousing projects in Berlin, elders passing down land wisdom in the Andes. It’s a wildly rich, wildly underrepresented world, and I want more people to fall in love with it the way I have. What you’ll actually do: Dream up and create content for Instagram and LinkedIn (reels, carousels, stories, captions that don’t sound like a corporate newsletter) Dig into our global network and turn your findings into stories people want to share Pitch your own ideas. If there’s a series, a theme, a format, or a corner of the network that lights you up, that’s what I want you to focus on. What we’re looking for: A natural storyteller, someone who can spot the human thread in a project update or a photo from a faraway village Genuinely curious about ecovillages, sustainability, intentional community, regenerative living Self-motivated and communicative; this is a flexible, trust-based role Why this role: This isn’t a “post 3x a week and don’t ask questions” internship. You’ll have real creative freedom to work on what excites you, learn how a global grassroots network tells its story, and build a portfolio full of meaningful, purpose-driven content. Plus you’ll be talking to people living some of the most interesting, intentional lives on the planet. If storytelling for a better world sounds like your kind of fun, let’s talk.
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