Links Resources

Existing communities
In my mind there must be plenty of them... (but not everyone feels a need to advertise on the internet)

Early days but already in operation

 * Lemurian Embassy: http://www.lemurianembassy.com/


 * Cyber Hippie Totalism: https://www.facebook.com/cyberhippitotalism


 * Cambridge K1: https://www.facebook.com/CambridgeK1CoHousingProject
 * Liberland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberland

Organising phase

 * Eotopia: https://www.facebook.com/eotopia


 * No Mad Island: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1021873941179378/


 * Project Nomadland.org: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1616412278571553/ (I happen to own the domain http://nomadland.org)


 * NomadBase: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1674584162772471/


 * Ana Paula: https://www.facebook.com/anapaula.community

Highlights

 * Suderbyn: https://www.facebook.com/Suderbyn (accepting new members)


 * Tamera - http://www.tamera.org - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamera - "Its history goes back to 1978 when these three left their professions and tried to create an interdisciplinary research center to find solutions to the ecological and technological problems the world was facing at that time"


 * Auroville - http://www.auroville.org/ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auroville - "Auroville is meant to be a universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony, above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities."


 * Principality of Sealand - http://www.sealandgov.org/ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand - "Since 1967, the decommissioned HM Fort Roughs has been occupied by family and associates of Paddy Roy Bates, who claim that it is an independent sovereign state."


 * http://www.christiania.org/ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown_Christiania - "The objective of Christiania is to create a self-governing society whereby each and every individual holds themselves responsible over the wellbeing of the entire community. "

List of lists

 * http://ecovillagebook.org/ecovillages/
 * http://www.towards-sustainability.co.uk/issues/built/suscom.html
 * http://db.ecovillage.org/projects
 * http://www.ic.org/directory/ecovillages/

Notable initiatives

 * New Earth Nation: https://newearthnation.org/


 * The Venus Project: https://www.thevenusproject.com/


 * http://cohabitat.net


 * http://boomfestival.org (I would like to go there and never come back)
 * POC21
 * http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/sep/21/eco-geeks-hold-open-source-alternative-to-un-climate-talks
 * Eden Project
 * Open Source Ecology
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARS-500
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2

Floating

 * http://www.seasteading.org/floating-city-project/
 * http://www.blue21.nl/
 * https://www.google.com/#q=Freedom+Cove
 * https://www.google.com/#q=floating+island+bottles - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_Island

History

 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordl%C3%A2ndia
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_community

Potential supporters

 * http://astraldynamics.co.uk/
 * https://twitter.com/gvatnesto
 * http://www.coffeeandsnow.com/

Space companies

 * http://www.virgingalactic.com/


 * http://www.spacex.com/
 * http://www.planetaryresources.com/
 * http://spaceenergy.com/home.htm

Ideas worth exploring
Some of these links will create foundation for Gov Legal Finance
 * Loomio
 * DemocracyOS
 * Liquid Democracy
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autarky
 * Shamir's Secret Sharing (100 parts of the private key - 51 pieces required to unlock the master key and make a decision)
 * http://jenniferlynmorone.com/
 * http://bitnation.co/ (so much inspiration out there)
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holacracy
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_autonomous_organization
 * Ethereum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j23HnORQXvs (still to understand all the implications)
 * https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Consensus_Process
 * See also Technology (we employ technology so it will serve us)
 * http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/7935505/Stephen-Hawking-mankind-must-move-to-outer-space-within-a-century.html
 * The human race must look to outer space within the next century or it will become extinct, Professor Stephen Hawking has warned.
 * http://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/
 * http://www.tylerdwyer.com/
 * Operations and Service Infrastructure for Space
 * http://www.tylerdwyer.com/files/OASIS_ExecSum.pdf (I'm not an expert, just saying that many smart people are working on this problem, see