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Community:
Palleee: A Functional Community,
A Sustainable Community

and

Government


The best world and the best nations are full of thriving, sustainable, functional communities, which sustain and enrich people, and keep people healthy and above poverty. May all the nations of earth be full of thriving, sustainable, functional communities. In every nation, may the federal and state levels of government support its communities to be thriving, sustainable, functional communities.

"Palleee" is a sustainable, functional community.

If people build and "run" a local community,  
"running" a community is basically an act of government, although it's an interdisciplinary government that runs the local community's education, ecology, economy, and more.

Because we want ourselves and people to be sustained, survive, and thrive, we all want our local community to be run in sustainable and functional ways. Therefore, we must discuss what a sustainable / functional community is and who runs it.

There is the community government, and then there are larger governments, such as a city government, a county government, a state government, and a national government. A functional community has an EEE System (explained below). Local community residents run the community government and its EEE System, and at large and most of the time, local residents run them themselves self-reliantly. Yet larger governments have the important work of supporting and fostering a local community to establish and uphold the local community's own EEE system. Governments big and small should follow the 10 Joint Goals of GREEEPCH to help every community to establish an EEE System to become sustainable and functional.

Definition of
Community

People use the word “community” in many ways and for many scales.  Sometimes people use the word "community” to mean a club or a school or a group of people in one professional field.  Sometimes people use the word "community” as a whole world community.  
In this website, the word “community” means a “local community,” a small geographic community (roughly 1-mile in diameter).  A city may have many communities.  A community can be isolated, or it can be part of a city, kingdom, nation, etc.  A community includes people, buildings and roads, utilities, local nature, a local economy, and a community’s cooperation system.

 

A Sustainable
"Functional Community:"
Palleee


In this website, a “community” and “local community” means a “functional community” or "palleee" with a cooperation system, an EEE system (see below), in which local people of many professions cooperate to run the education, ecology, and local economy within the roughly 1-square-mile or 1-mile-diameter of the community. 

ABC Garden. A functional community includes an ABC Garden, which helps the community, agencies, adults, and schoolkids to be sustainable, to establish and uphold a palleee (a functional community), an EEE System, and the 16 Priceless Things, to follow the 10 Joint Goals of GREEEPCH, and to take actions within the 40 Sustainability Categories.

 

EEE System
EEE = education-ecology-economy


In EEE System includes local schools of community education.  In an EEE System, the community teaches students to do science and art and to cooperate as a community to take care of local nature (the ecology, etc.) and to run the community and its sustainable, eco-friendly, local economy, including to offer a "good local job" to every high school graduate and to eliminate "poverty" for everyone in the community.
An entry level "good local job" includes typical benefits (healthcare, paid holidays, vacation days, etc.) and at least a living-wage to support a family of 3 people.  
No poverty! With an EEE system, a functional community keeps everyone out of poverty.
There is no poverty. Poverty = absolute poverty = lack of enough vital basic stuff: housing, water, fuel, food, soap, clothes, etc.). An EEE system helps the community to distribute enough vital basic stuff (housing, water, food, jobs, etc.) to everyone to keep everyone out of poverty in the local community. An EEE system greatly helps to end local poverty, but if every community in the world had a vigorous EEE system, there could be no poverty in the world.  The community’s EEE System acts as a labor union to make sure that everyone in any job is earning enough money.
School to Jobs. In a palleee and its the EEE System, there is a School to Jobs continuum in which the community smoothly transitions students from childhood education into adulthood jobs in the local community. High school graduates are free to go to college and they are free to avoid college.  High school graduates are economically viable either way: with or without college, they can get a good local job.

Democracy, Freedoms, etc.
A functional community includes democracy,
gender equality
, and freedoms of speech and religion.  Plus, it is peaceful, fair (democracy and no poverty), and sustainable (sustaining people, nature,
the local economy, and the EEE System),
such as that it  pursues actions within the
40 Sustainability Categories

A functional community should not be overbearing on individual people and families.  There should be a clear list of required community commitments, which should not take up anyone’s total time.  In a functional community, people have plenty of free time for themselves and their families.   Community residents must do what is on the required list but are not pressured to do more.  People are free to join optional community activities and events as much or as little as they want.      

Free to Leave or to Stay. In a palleee, high school graduates and adults are not only free to leave the community to live, learn, and work elsewhere, but also, community residents (high school graduates and adults) are free to stay in the community to live, learn, and work. No one is forced to leave the community to look for jobs elsewhere.
While communities have jobs to offer, people are free to choose to stay in the community to work at a good local job, and no one is forced to leave the community to look for jobs elsewhere. (If a community doesn't have a local job, the mere "lack of jobs" forces people to look elsewhere for jobs.)

Education! In a functional community, in an EEE system, at school, kids learn academics and much more. Schoolkids get a "community education" in which they learn self-sufficiency, community cooperation, how to run a community tiny to big, how to steward nature and farmland, how to grow and distribute local food, how to do science, art, and academics, how to end poverty for everyone in the community, how to do a variety of basic job skills, and how to create businesses and jobs.  Also, students learn Big History, including not only the history of big civilizations and their wars, but also the history of small communities that were peaceful, fair, sustainable, and generally with no poverty.   

In a pallee with an EEE System, school provides a "community education" of science, art, ecology, and economy, and is slightly vocational, because we don’t want any starving academics.  Students develop their heads, hearts, and hands.   When students graduate, they should be economically viable – able to earn a living to keep above poverty. 

Walkability. A functional community has great walkability in which people walk or bicycle between their housing and places of work, school, parks, and basic shopping within the local community.  Teachers teach at schools within their own local community.      

ABC Garden. A functional community includes an ABC Garden, which helps the community, agencies, adults, and schoolkids to be sustainable, to establish and uphold a palleee (a functional community), an EEE System, and the 16 Priceless Things, to follow the 10 Joint Goals of GREEEPCH, and to take actions within the 40 Sustainability Categories.

In community education, students learn
1. peace and morals
2. personal economic self-sufficiency
3. community cooperation
4. how to build and run a community
5. stories and histories of peaceful, fair, sustainable, functional communities
6. academics (writing, reading, math), as well as the fine arts, music, biology, chemistry, etc.
7. education-ecology-economy (EEE) system
8. science-art-ecology-economy in the community
9. 40 Sustainability Categories
10. how to help nature, near and far
11. how to end poverty for everyone in the local community
12. how to create businesses and jobs

When students graduate, they are economically viable – able to earn a living to keep above poverty.   Meanwhile, some jobs require more than only a high school education; hence, there can be learn-on-the-job job positions and apprenticeships. 

Plus, there could be work-study in non-college programs and in college programs. In college, the work-study programs fully pay for college, semester by semester.   Every semester, every weekday, students could work 4-hours-in-a-row (like 8 AM to Noon), and take college classes for 4-hours-in-a-row (like 1 PM to 5 PM).  The part-time work each semester could fully cover full-time college tuition, room, and board for each semester, so there are no student loans and no student debts. 

Top 10 Goals.
A functional community has 10 Top Goals,
the same 10 Joint Goals of GREEEPCH:
1. Peace: Morals, Ethics, Neighborly Love
2. Protection: Sustainability.
3. Plaza: Education Space: ABC Garden.
4. Play and Fun: Outdoor Time.
5. No-Poverty: Plush Local Economies.
6. Palleee: Functional Community with EEE System.
7. Probing: Community Education.
8. Parks and Pastures: Local Ecology.
9. Plait: Holistic: Sci-Art-Eco-Eco.
10. Energy.

16 Priceless Things.
A functional community has 16 Priceless Things,
which are the first 16 categories in the
40 Sustainability Categories:
1. Peace: Morals-Love-Awareness-Health-Safety
2. Pursuits: You, Your Unselfish Self
3. Planet: Nature, Near and Far
4. People: Family, Friends, etc.
5. Palleee: Functional Community
6. Probing: Community Education
7. Parks and Pastures: Local Ecology
8. No-Poverty: Plush Local Economies
9. Plait: Holistic: Sci-Art-Eco-Eco
10. Protection: Sustainability
11. Plaza: Education Space: ABC Garden
12. Play and Fun: Outdoor Time
13. Perspective: Stories of Peace
14. Partners: Cooperation, Democracy
15. Pep: Eight Health Categories: moral, mental, physical, economic (having enough stuff), environmental (clean air, clean water, etc.), social (community), fun, and disease treatment and healing.
16. Profits-Local: Small Businesses


Being Local.
Live Local, Learn Local,
Work Local, Shop Local,
Local-Self-Sufficiency! A palleee has significant local-self-sufficiency.  Daily, many people are personally-self-sufficient, but also, each week, they spend some time engaging in community cooperation to help to run the community. It's social and fun and sustainable. Many local people are the community’s local helping hands that help to locally take care of many community aspects.  Many local people take care of much of the community’s own local waste, recycling, and composting.  The community likely has its own composting and recycling facility.  Many local people help to locally-grow and locally-distribute the local-food to local residents.  Many local people help to build and repair housing.  Local people drink the local water and sustainably manage the local water.  Many local people own, run, and work at local small businesses.  The community runs its own local community credit union.  Many local people run the local schools and EEE system.  Many local people help to run a vigorous local economy.  Larger economies may exist, and the community may interact with larger economies, but the local economy stays vigorous.

Just like it’s important for an adult to be able to mostly take care of one’s own self, it’s important for each community to mostly take care of its own self.  We want capable people and capable communities.  We do not want people to be helpless burdens to society.  Likewise, we do not want communities to be helpless burdens to society either.  

A community should set up each high school graduate with a local job (with at least a living-wage and full benefits), but then it’s up to each graduate to do the work to support oneself and family with the job.  The community can help a person to change jobs on occasion, but at each job, the person must do most of the work to support oneself.   Likewise, states, nations, and cities should help to foster each community to start its own EEE system, and then it’s up to each community to work the EEE system to help the community to significantly be locally-self-sufficient.  People and communities should be independent and capable entities.  At large, neither people nor communities want to be chronically and helplessly dependent on charities, a domineering big government, or domineering big businesses. 

As mentioned above, a community should have its own recycling facility, its own credit union, its own employment agency to connect local people to local jobs, its own community gardens or farms to grow and distribute local food to local people, and so on.   

Community Center, Nature Center! Furthermore, a functional community has its own combo community center / nature center / education center with an ABC Garden, which helps the community to establish and uphold community functionality, an EEE System, and take actions in the 40 Sustainability Categories. The combo community-nature-education center could also be called a science-art-ecology-economy community center.   

Ideally, the nature and community center should overlap with or be adjacent to the hub of education, a public library and the local school.  Ideally, there should be a park and or schoolyard at the community center.  The park / schoolyard is the grounds of the nature center with a botanical garden of native plants.  Also, at the park / schoolyard with the native plants there should be an ABC Garden of outdoor classrooms.  An ABC Garden includes native plants, veggie gardens, and outdoor classrooms that are specifically designed for outdoor education for learning about science, art, ecology, economy, and the EEE system in one’s community. 

ABC!
ABC” means elementary, but more advanced skills are learned at an ABC Garden too.   “ABC” means learn about one’s community step by step: start with simple, small lessons and gradually learn more complex and bigger lessons about one’s community and beyond.  The ABC Garden is the center of the local community where students, during school and / or after school, connect with science, art, ecology, economy, and community solidarity, outdoors in the community.   A functional community has an EEE System with an ABC Garden that get kids outdoors, learning about the community, having fun, socializing in community synergy, learning about local nature, playing nature games and community cooperation games, learning about the local economy and how to end poverty, doing science, making art, and more.
In a functional community, people take care of people, nature, and the community as a way of life, a holistic culture of what people do while they live, learn, work, and play.  They take care of people, nature, and the community during everything they do, in school and work and at home: farming, cleaning, building, making arts and crafts, reading, writing, running an economy, socializing, playing games, singing, dancing, storytelling, and more. 

More on EEE System:
The EEE System makes a community functional.   An EEE System is primarily the School to Jobs Continuum, links education, nature, and the economy to each other, and is an anti-poverty system.  In an EEE System, the community teaches students to do science and art and to cooperate as a community to take care of local nature (ecology) and to run the community and its sustainable, eco-friendly, local economy.  The EEE System runs the schools, stewards local nature, and offers a decent local job to every high school graduate and job-seeking adult in the community as well as eliminates poverty for everyone in the community.

Plus, the EEE System provides everyone with a Maternity and Birth to Preschool (including daycare) to School to Jobs to Retirement to Burial Continuum to keep everyone out of poverty throughout a lifetime.  Common life events should not put any family into debt and poverty, including taking time for maternity and the costs of birth, education, and basic burials (biodegradable fungi burial bags, etc.). People can opt in and opt out of various parts of the continuum.     
Synonyms for a “functional community” are “apka” and “palleee.”   Also, “apka fun” is the cooperative, creative, educational, healthy fun within a functional community.  A synonym for EEE System is “eeeloo.” 

Primitive societies didn’t have high school or jobs in which people earned money.  But primitive communities educated their children to do science and art, to take care of nature, and to be economically able to support themselves, their family, and community.  By the time every primitive child became an adult (at age 20), the person knew how to be economically viable / make-a-living / keep-above-poverty* in the hunter-gatherer economy, including how to make and maintain their own shelters, to get and cook their own food, and to make their own baskets and blankets. *Poverty = absolute poverty.  Primitive people were poor in that they didn’t have the modern conveniences and luxuries that many modern people have.  Yet in general, primitive people ate enough food, drank enough water, had enough clothes and shelter, etc. to be healthy and live above poverty (absolute poverty). Primitive societies had functional communities and EEE Systems.   

The same EEE System can be adapted to modern times.  Modern EEE community systems can teach students how to take care of nature, how to work at jobs and create jobs, and communities can offer decent local jobs to high school graduates, so that graduates and all adults can live well, or at least above poverty.  In past primitive times, children never learned to read and write, but in a modern EEE System, at school, students can learn to read and write, in addition to learning how to take care of nature and to work in a local economy.   

   
Education
EEE System
relates education and ecology and economy to each other. 
“Community education” is part of an EEE System.    
In an EEE System, at school, kids get a  
community education in which kids learn  
self-sufficiency, community cooperation,  
how to run a community tiny to big,  
how to steward nature and farmland,  
how to grow and distribute local food,  
how to do science, art, and academics,  
how to end poverty for everyone in the community, how to do a variety of basic job skills,  
and how to create businesses and jobs.  
Also, students learn Big History, including not only the history of big civilizations and their wars, but also the history of small communities that were peaceful, fair, sustainable, and generally with no poverty.   
In an EEE System, the community, school, and local businesses jointly offer a good local job to every high school graduate, upon graduation, through a School to Jobs Continuum. 

After High School
Not only are graduates free to leave the community to pursue jobs or college elsewhere, but also graduates are free to stay in the community if they so wish to work at a “good local job” which provides at least a living-wage and full benefits.  Graduates are free to go to college and they are free to skip college.  Graduates are economically viable either way, with or without college.

Meanwhile, some jobs require more than only a high school education; hence, there can be learn-on-the-job job positions and apprenticeships.  Plus, there could be work-study college programs, which fully pay for college.   For the work-study college program, every semester, every weekday, full-time students could work 4-hours-in-a-row and take college classes for 4-hours-in-a-row.  The part-time work each semester could fully cover full-time college tuition, room, and board for each semester, so there are no student loans and no student debts.    
An EEE System greatly helps to end local poverty, but if every community in the world had a vigorous EEE System, there could be no poverty in the world. 

Capable Community
Just like it’s important for an adult to be able to mostly take care of one’s own self, it’s important for each community to mostly take care of its own self.  We want capable people and capable communities.  We do not want people to be helpless burdens to society.  Likewise, we do not want communities to be helpless burdens to society either.   A community should set up each high school graduate with a local job (with at least a living-wage and full benefits), but then it’s up to each graduate to do the work to support oneself and family with the job.  The community can help a person to change jobs on occasion, but at each job, the person must do the work to support oneself.   Likewise, states, nations, and cities should help to foster each community to start its own EEE System, and then it’s up to each community to work the EEE System to help the community to significantly be locally-self-sufficient.  People and communities should be mostly-independent and capable entities. 
At large, neither people nor communities want to be chronically and helplessly dependent on charities, a domineering big government, or domineering big businesses.  It’s fine if a community occasionally gets outside help, but otherwise, for the sake of subsidiarity, it’s best for each community to take care of itself as much as possible.  International efforts and national, state, and city governments are each helpful for some things, but not for everything. 

Goverments of different scales and sizes:
personal, family, community, city, county, state, nation, and international
. Each scale of goverment is useful and does certain things best. Community is the best scale for some things.

Subsidiarity
Subsidiarity: let the lowest level of government, such as a local government / community government, be empowered to do what it can do better than larger and higher-level governments can do.  Community governments are best at doing some things, like ABC Gardens, EEE Systems, a School to Jobs Continuum, stewarding local habitats, and keeping everyone in the community out of poverty.

It’s fine if schools receive regular outside funding, such as what it roughly is now for the USA: 10% federal funding, 45% state funding, and 45% local funding.  Also, rich and poor communities can establish partnerships through which poorer communities can receive some funding from richer communities, until the poorer communities can stand on their own feet.   Also, larger governments are welcome to publicize suggestions for school curricula, but then let communities choose their own curricula and create their own place-based sustainable curricula to carry out education, EEE Systems, etc., for themselves. 

  
As mentioned above, a community should have its own recycling facility, its own credit union, its own employment agency to connect local people to local jobs, its own community gardens or farms to grow and distribute local food to local people, and so on.   Also, each community should have its own community center and nature center, or maybe a combo nature and community center, even an ecology-economy community center, or a science-art-ecology-economy community center.   Ideally, the nature and community center should overlap with or be adjacent to the hub of education, a public library and the local school.  Ideally, there should be a park and / or schoolyard at the community center.  The park / schoolyard is the grounds of the nature center with a botanical garden of native plants.  Also, at the park / schoolyard with the native plants there should be an ABC Garden of outdoor classrooms.

An ABC Garden includes native plants, veggie gardens, and outdoor classrooms that are specifically designed for outdoor education for learning about science, art, ecology, economy, and the EEE System in one’s community. 

A school itself can be thought of as a community or a club, etc.  Yet a “functional community” is not a school itself in isolation from its surrounding community.   Also, a local community without a school that engages with it is not a functional community either.  A functional community is a local community that has a school that engages its students with its surrounding community of local nature, the local economy, an EEE System, and a School to Jobs Continuum, which offers decent local jobs to every local high school graduate.            

Dysfunctional
Community

A local community is merely “a local gathering of buildings and people” and is a “dysfunctional community” if it lacks an EEE System in which students learn and practice community cooperation, running a community, and taking care of local nature and local farmland and the local economy, and the system ends local poverty and offers a good local job to every high school graduate.   But any local community can choose to start up an EEE System if it lacks an EEE System.

People are social creatures.  For as long as people are humans (Homo sapiens), for the sake of people’s health, people need functional communities, as well as family and friends.   Functional communities don’t only mitigate poverty, but also, they nurture relationships between friends and between people within a family.   Functional communities nurture fun and joy, “apka fun."      

 

Local
Functions

More about Being Local.

In recent modern times, “self-sufficient homesteading,” “local food,” being “local,” and using “low-tech tools” are regaining popularity. It’s not to become stupid iron-age or stone-age people of the past (if they were ever stupid), but it’s to be wise and usefully-skilled people in general, no matter what technology we use. To lose our skills and connection to local water, food, clothes, shelter, tools, and the nature of the community landscape, makes us dumb and disconnected. Today, although the electronic “world wide web,” many modern people feel increasingly lonely, isolated, and helpless. To be connected to the world, we have to stick our hands and feet into the local mud. Henry David Thoreau lived self-reliantly at Walden Pond; yet, many people consider him to be wise. Thoreau lived at alone at Walden for only 2 years; following, he lived again in society and engaged with society, such as by writing books about nature, etc.  Being skilled to be locally-self-sufficient helps a person to be wise, caring, skillful, helpful, and connected, and not ignorant, complacent, negligent, helpless, and isolated.

The modern local food movement to transition from getting food from 10,000 miles away, to 4,000 miles away, to 1,000 miles away, to within 100 miles away, to within 30 miles away, and even closer is part of that desire to have communities be more self-reliant.   The point of community self-reliance is not to live in isolation, but it is to be responsible, capable, (and to save energy!) and to NOT be helpless, greedy, destructive, and a burden to neighboring and distant communities by taking their wealth and resources.  Communities can occasionally help each other out for temporary periods of time, to overcome a brief crisis.  People can enjoy short occasional exchanges of stuff and ideas, within the region, state, nation, and globe.  It’s fun.  And it doesn’t take much info to get the gist of the condition of the world.  (Too much information is not fun and just becomes useless junk.)   Otherwise, a small group of people can be amazing and brilliant by itself, and doesn’t need billions of people helping them.   Large national governments and globalized large corporations stifle people and communities, more than help them.   Communities need to redevelop their empowerment and wealth, and national governments and globalized large corporations need to reduce their current power and influence and wealth.  A national government needs to be powerful enough to protect communities from being destroyed by globalized corporate capitalism, but a national government should not be so powerful that it destroys community self-reliance.  If national governments and corporations do anything, they should be supporting community self-reliance.   A national government may be good for some things such as postal mail, general environmental laws, court systems, helping to support foreign correspondence and peace, helping to support peace by supporting community self-reliance throughout the nation and world, etc.

A functional community is locally-self-sufficientCommunity people cooperate together to make sure that everyone in the community gets enough stuff (shelter, water, warmth, food, soap, clothes, and basic tools).  Community people cooperate together to grow and gather food and natural materials from local nature to handmake all of the needed supplies.  They do so fast enough and well enough so that everyone gets enough stuff (shelter, water, warmth, food, soap, and basic tools).  A functional community is locally-self-sufficient to be active, skillful, capable, responsible, sophisticated, loving, peaceful, moral, and ethical, as well as to not be helpless and desperately dependent on and a burden to other communities, near and far.   A functional community is locally-self-sufficient so it does not get too dependent on and too controlled by overgrown human organizations: overbearing institutions, centralized national governments, and globalized large corporations.  It is selfish, greedy, irresponsible, immoral, and unethical for any human organization to overgrow to greatly control and influence many communities.  

Think Global, Act Local: Global Love, Local Economy. Let’s globalize love, community love, brotherly love.   Loving social interaction and loving social cooperation could regularly happen between various communities, regionally to globally.  But regional, state, national, and globalized economic interaction and “cooperation” should rarely happen and only delicately happen.  No community should become economically dependent on (addicted to, under the influence of) any other community, any national government, or any globalized corporation.  No community should be taking value, natural wealth, and natural resources away from other communities.  Furthermore, no human institution, national government, or globalized corporation should be taking (including taking while “trading”) value, natural wealth, and natural resources away from any communities. Community love, family love, and brotherly love should be globalized; to the contrary, economics (especially money and market economics) should not be globalized.   On occasion and on rare emergencies, communities can help each other out with food, water, and vital supplies.  But no community, organization, national government, or globalized corporation should be regularly giving any food, water, and vital supplies to any community.  If human institutions, governments, and corporations do anything, they should help each community to culturally and economically function alone by itself. 
People should be self-sufficient, like communities should be self-sufficient.  People should learn to live self-sufficiently, not to live alone, but to be capable and skillful enough to help their families, community, and beyond.  People learn to live self-sufficiently so they are not a helpless burden to society.  Similarly, people learn to walk, talk, read, and write for themselves – again, it’s not so then they will live alone, but it is so they can be skillful to help their family, community, and beyond.  Being self-sufficient means being skillful, wise, capable, responsible, caring, aware, – and connected to the community, instead of to corporations.  Being self-sufficient does not usually mean a person will choose to live alone.

Encore: In recent modern times, “self-sufficient homesteading,” “local food,” being “local,” and using “low-tech tools” are regaining popularity. It’s not to become stupid iron-age or stone-age people of the past (if they were ever stupid), but it’s to be wise and usefully-skilled people in general, no matter what technology we use. To lose our skills and connection to local water, food, clothes, shelter, tools, and the nature of the community landscape, makes us dumb and disconnected. Today, although the electronic “world wide web,” many modern people feel increasingly lonely, isolated, and helpless. To be connected to the world, we have to stick our hands and feet into the local mud. Henry David Thoreau lived self-reliantly at Walden Pond; yet, many people consider him to be wise. Thoreau lived at alone at Walden for only 2 years; following, he lived again in society and engaged with society, such as by writing books about nature, etc.  Being skilled to be locally-self-sufficient helps a person to be wise, caring, skillful, helpful, and connected, and NOT ignorant, complacent, negligent, helpless, and isolated. A locally-self-sufficient functional community of community cooperation helps people to be wise, caring, skillful, helpful, and connected.

A palleee is very locally-oriented.
It does indeed spend a little time to correspond with other communities and places, near and far.
But a functional community is very
locally-oriented.

To be local and
to take community action ....
is to be healthy and sustainable,
and to be wise, caring, skillful,
moral, loving, peaceful, joyful,
helpful, and connected.

 


ABC Garden

Palleee, a functional community has a public outdoor space (an ABC Garden) that helps communities, agencies, schoolkids, and people of all ages to learn about, establish, and uphold the EEE System,
and to take actions to achieve the
10 Joint Goals of GREEEPCH,
the 16 Priceless Things,
and the 40 Sustainability Categories.
See ABC Garden
at www.z-hub.org/ABCgarden.html

 


10 Joint Goals

Palleee, a functional community follows the 10 Joint Goals. The 10 Joint Goals help communities, agencies, and people to establish functional communities with EEE Systems and to take actions in the
40 Sustainability Categories.
See 10 Joint Goals of GREEEPCH
at www.z-hub.org/10-JointGoals.html

 


16 Priceless Things

Palleee, a functional community has 16 Priceless Things, which are the first 16 categories of the 40 Sustainability Categories. The 16 Priceless Things help to make communities functional and help to establish and uphold EEE Systems.
See 16 Priceless Things
at www.z-hub.org/PricelessThings.html

 


40 Sustainability Categories

Palleee, a functional community takes actions in the
40 Sustainability Categories.
See 40 Sustainability Categories
at www.z-hub.org/sustain.html

 

Galien Valley Nature and Culture Program, ABC Garden, Community Education, Three Oaks, Michigan, nature blog
Galien Valley Nature and Culture Program (GV-NCP)
.
Classes about functional communities.
The program teaches ABC Garden classes: interdisciplinary classes about nature and culture, science, art, ecology, economy, and sustainability that are taught at an ABC Garden.
Classes are informative and fun. They are about functiona communities, the EEE System,
ABC Garden, 10 Joint Goals, 16 Priceless Things,
and the 40 Sustainability Categories.
See Galien Valley Nature and Culture Program website at www.z-hub.org/galienvalleyncp.html

 

Blog of Zoe at Galien Valley, ABC Garden, Michigan, nature blog
Blog of Zoe at Galien Valley
, about community functionality
and about Zoe teaching nature, science, art, ecology, and economy lessons about the EEE System,
ABC Garden, 10 Joint Goals, 16 Priceless Things,
and the 40 Sustainability Categories, as well as stewardship and landcare of local habitats. The blog includes many outdoor photos of local nature.
See Zoe's Daily Blog at
www.z-hub.org/zle-blog.html
See Zoe's Monthly Blog at
zoemonthlyblog.blogspot.com

 

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z-hub homepage
. See more information about every basic thing that is important to the well-being of people - and how everything links to everything else. See www.z-hub.org

 


ABC Garden

Palleee, a functional community has a public outdoor space (an ABC Garden) that helps communities, agencies, schoolkids, and people of all ages to learn about, establish, and uphold the EEE System,
and to take actions to achieve the
10 Joint Goals of GREEEPCH,
the 16 Priceless Things,
and the 40 Sustainability Categories.
See ABC Garden
at www.z-hub.org/ABCgarden.html

 

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