Resilience
Resilience is a decentralized, cooperative, steady-state that breaks away from the paradigm of limitless economic growth. It requires that we adopt a lifestyle that is more respectful of all life around us.
The ways of a Resilient Community
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Self-Reliance – The community builds and nurtures the capability to fulfil the 9 basic needs without having to depend on anyone external to the community.
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The community commits to respecting, preserving and nurturing the soil, water and the air in the process of building this self-reliance.
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Interdependence – There’s a commitment to learn and practice the ways of mutuality and coexistence, synergistically leveraging each other’s strengths, experience and wisdom. It is only when the individual members establish and respect the traditions of interdependence, that the community as a whole can enjoy independence.
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Interdependence leads to a resource-efficient system, that gifts each member an abundance of time.
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The community provides an environment that inspires all members to invest the abundant time in whatever expresses them best!
Principles
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Give highest respect Earth’s ecological systems and processes that sustain life.
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Adopt patterns of production and consumption that safeguard the Earth’s regenerative capacities.
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Design interventions that incentivise the nurturing of the natural ecosystems.
Objectives
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To be a fully functional prototype village demonstrating a Resilient community life
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To design and implement a replicable entrepreneurial model for the villagers to organise their respective villages for Resilience
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To co-create a rural education system that empowers rural learners with the knowledge that makes them locally relevant and globally responsible citizens
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To design and initiate a fellowship programme through which teams of fellows from various parts of the country collaboratively replicate Protovillage in their respective districts
A Search for Resilience
Kalyan Akkipeddi | TEDxGurugram
