{"id":11186,"date":"2010-01-22T15:40:05","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T20:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=11186"},"modified":"2010-01-26T09:01:06","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T14:01:06","slug":"lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2010\/01\/lifestyle\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2010\/01\/about-ness-and-communities-that-last\/\" target=\"_self\">Previous<\/a> | Green Hill Communities | <a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2010\/01\/space-how-it-looks\/\" target=\"_self\">Next<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11188\" title=\"300px-Polemonium_reptans_2009\" src=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/300px-Polemonium_reptans_2009.jpg\" alt=\"300px-Polemonium_reptans_2009\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>Yesterday, I identified the three central attributes of building a green hill as being:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Lifestyle<\/li>\n<li>Space<\/li>\n<li>Program<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Let&#8217;s look at lifestyle. Lifestyle is about the flow of daily living. It is not about the grand mission and purpose of the community (that&#8217;s the program), but rather, it is the community&#8217;s values, norms, and expectations. A good demonstration of lifestyle (as opposed to program) can be seen in the cohousing movement.<\/p>\n<p>The modern cohousing movement originated with a group of people who felt that conventional housing creates isolated and disengaged societies. They desired to enjoy close, lasting relationships with their neighbors. To that end, these people founded a community based on a few basic principles, designed to promote community interaction while maintaining individual privacy:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shared dinners<\/li>\n<li>Shared community responsibilities (grounds maintenance, administration, meal preparation, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Private homeownership<\/li>\n<li>Central common facilities (dining hall, cultural center, etc.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Since then, several other cohousing communities were built on those same four lifestyle principles.<\/p>\n<p>These principles help highlight the difference between lifestyle and program. Some cohousing communities have strong ideological programs &#8212; religious, ecological, back-to-the-land, etc. Others have no program at all. However, they all share (to varying extents) a lifestyle of community interaction combined with private residence. The lifestyle guides day-to-day interactions, while the program governs ideological thinking.<\/p>\n<p>Mormon settlements during the Utah period depict a similar separation of lifestyle and program. As I understand it, church activity rates were remarkably low (25%-ish?) in many Mormon Utah settlements during the late 1800&#8217;s (I am not a church historian &#8212; somebody please correct me if I&#8217;m wrong). Nevertheless, members of these communities likely self-identified as Mormon. In other words, these were settlements where the Mormon lifestyle was strong, but the Mormon program was weak. When I get to program in a later post, we&#8217;ll see that a sustainable community has to maintain a level of separation between the lifestyle and the program &#8212; we cannot expect 100% of any group of people to participate in a program.<\/p>\n<p>What would the lifestyle of a green hill community look like? Of course, the answer depends on the vision and desires of its residents. In my green hill, however, the lifestyle principles I hope to encourage are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spending time with friends and family<\/li>\n<li>Learning through observation and experience<\/li>\n<li>Exposure to great works of media (i.e. art, dance, literature, cinema, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Active engagement in creative projects<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These basic lifestyle principles &#8212; friendship, wonder, appreciation, and constructive works &#8212; would act as signals to potential community members, helping them determine whether it&#8217;s the sort of place they would want to live and raise their children. More dramatically, a community&#8217;s lifestyle principles guide the physical construction of the community. We&#8217;ll look at that in more detail (and lots of fun pictures) in the next post, on &#8220;space&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2010\/01\/about-ness-and-communities-that-last\/\" target=\"_self\">Previous<\/a> | Green Hill Communities | <a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2010\/01\/space-how-it-looks\/\" target=\"_self\">Next<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lifestyle is about the flow of daily living. It is not about the grand mission and purpose of the community (that&#8217;s the program), but rather, it is the community&#8217;s values, norms, and expectations. 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