What we explore
Community living
Shared resources, learning, cooperation, low-consumption living and collective experiments.
Community living is the least photogenic part of this work, and one of the most useful. Shared kitchens. Shared tools. Shared decisions. Low-consumption days that are ordinary, not performed.
A commune, in the way Common Ground uses the word, is not a retreat from other people. It is a way of asking whether some problems get smaller when they are not carried alone. Waste. Childcare. A roof. A meal. A skill that one person has and ten people need.
The Instagram note puts it without decoration: climate solutions, not as individuals, but as a commune. That is a direction, not a census. We do not publish a headcount of members as if belonging were a metric.
Collective experiments fail in specific ways. Someone does more than their share. A rule that sounded fair in a meeting does not survive a wet week. Those failures belong in the record. An L-board that only shows the harmonious afternoon is not a learning board.
In practice
- Shared resources before new purchases
- Cooperation as a daily practice, not a value statement
- Low-consumption living described in tasks, not aesthetics
- Conflict and repair treated as part of the experiment
Related experiment and experiences sit one step away. If you want to try something, write. If you want to understand it first, keep reading.