The Communergy System
(1973)
The Communergy System is a model for providing communitarian information and solutions to the problems of society."Communergy" means "Community Synergy" or the coordination of cooperative community building information needed by people in all different types of communities.
The Communergy System is divided into five types of Communergy centers:
| The Rural (Communitarian Village based) Communergy Center is the complete communergy center which functions as the organizing nucleus of the village cooperative educational- management system. These centers would include: information libraries, media access equipment, computer tie-in equipment, political, economic, social, technological, environmental and personal change programs and displays, world-game-type planning rooms for holistic social change coordination between the village and other centers and events in the area, region and the world at large; in short, problem-solving facilities for all areas and levels of community and intercommunity interaction. |
| The Urban and Suburban Communergy Centers: These are the intermediate Communergy Centers in cities which have the following functions- A demonstration area for new ecological lifestyle living arrangements (cooperative families), new organic gardening methods for small space food self-sufficiency, holistic social change projects information and coordination facilities, personal change information, affinity group and project group matching facilities, complete information on rural access for decentralizing city populations, new rural village planning facilities, new earth compatible technology R & D facilities, urban refoliation and reforestation projects, coordination facilities for changing city environments to conform to the ecological and human needs of society, and outlet facilities for new rural community products. |
| Communergy Vans: Traveling "mini" Communergy Centers which open up new areas, towns, and cities to cooperative community planning and programs. |
| Communergy Rooms: "Mini" Communergy Centers with scaled-down holistic information displays and meeting room. A Communergy Room can be any room wherever there is a need for new community, holistic social and personal change information and coordination. At colleges, high schools, homes, on the job, anywhere. |
| Micro Communergy Center: Individual person with the Communergy briefcase who takes the portable communergy system approach wherever there's a need. |