Althome Wiki

## **alt-Home**

Alternative housing standards and implementations for off-grid and permaculture living.

## **Objectives**

This wiki will contain all relevant plans, designs and information that one might need to start up a new self-sustaining community or home, subdivided into several categories. Initially this will be a rough-in framework, and as things are designed and built, new information will be accumulated and blanks will be filled. The goal is to have detailed, step-by-step instructions on how to source and build your structure and all the components it needs to be a comfortable living space and fully functioning vessel/ship to carry you through time. As initial objects are achieved, this will serve as a platform to move toward holistic social project seeding, to enable communities to be formed and larger-scale transformation to begin.

## **Reasoning**

Centralized production and accumulation of expertise has lead to a scenario in which most tools and resources used by humans in day to day life are beyond the crafting ability of their users, making nearly all people largely reliant on a distant complex of industry, which necessitates the use of extensive logistical networks to transport goods. Monetary systems make little consideration of environmental consequences of commerce, and thus great inefficiency in transport is rewarded by financial gain at the expense of the biosphere. Stratification of finance paired with egoism, paranoia and shortsightedness has carried on the old dichotomy of rich and poor to untold levels of inequity, yielding considerable public outcry, social unrest, and most importantly, wasted human potential. A fundamental understanding of this writer is that wealth beyond a certain level brings no benefit; once a person has "enough," a point of diminishing returns is reached in which little practical change can be yielded in the life of that person through the use of money. Moreover, beyond a certain level, an overabundance of money yields the ire of those with less, and invariably comes at someone's expense. Traditional charity attempts to balance this inequity by redistributing small amounts of wealth from the more enabled back into communities with limited success; this is due to the predatory nature of "late stage capitalism" in which the populace is so dependent on the facets of commerce, and the influence of business on government so thorough, that there is little chance of rising out of poverty, no long-term solution. By creating a platform in which monetary resources can be invested to create fully functional communities capable of producing a huge variety of crops, machinery, art, and in possession of a uniquely diverse and skilled work force able to work as a team to accomplish widely varied projects and goals, with a special culture particular to their region and group, people can find a place to live and work towards something of their own creation while still moving an organized system toward larger goals, without relying on massive logistical inefficiencies or being preyed upon by corporate autocracies, or requiring extensive educations, or being expected to work hard for a rigged system that will often take health or sanity in exchange for monetary success or even survival.

## Power

Renewable, fuelled, storage, transmission, conversion and distribution.

## Water

Possible sources and methods of treatment.

## Air

Heating, cooling, ventilation and filtration.

## Food

Food production, storage, preparation and preservation.

## Construction

Site selection, planning, designs, modular home system

## Security

Cameras, lights, connections, alarms and defenses.

## Connectivity

Radio, internet, satellite and point to point.

## Seeding

Coordinating individuals, raising funds, vetting members and breaking ground.

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