Hi Kevin, Hi Marcin ( cc: p2pfoundation , Michel, Sam, ... bcc: Ze) I found the following initiative of great interest. http://www.couchsurfing.org/people<http://www.couchsurfing.org/people/sailing-the-farm/> /sailing- <http://www.couchsurfing.org/people/sailing-the-farm/>the-farm/<http://www.couchsurfing.org/people/sailing-the-farm/> ; post: http://www.couchsurfing.org/group_read.html?gid=1173&post=8266944#gpid826694... *They are building a boat, on a farm in Norway.* *There is interest in sailing between ecovillages and transition town movements.* It seems to be a culturally diverse (self organized ?) group of people living together and building together. The contact for the project seems to be "Ze". I have been exchanging a few emails with her, and wish to share some excerpts below. It resonates with some of my own childhood dreams. I personally project parallels with the Hansa ( but with a convivial<http://www.delicious.com/deliciousdante/conviviality>resilient communities (1 <http://bit.ly/gU50GS> ; 2 ) <http://bit.ly/eBWFjy> non/post capitalist framework ? ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanseatic_League or a league of neo-nomadic neo-venetian phyles<http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/phyles-the-new-neonomadic-p2p-business-structure-for-the-network-age/2010/09/21>? * * --------------------- Dante : Thanks for your reply Ze. you say : *"we are more in search of ecovillages/transition tows,* *to be the glue and means of contact and transport between them in future"* Are your boats also going upstream or on canals ? *Ze :* hi dante. yes, boat can go upstream and into canal. (maste height is around 14meter). what i am in search of is contact info for such stransition towns and ecovillages. wwoof could also be of interest but i think most of wwoof places is family run farm which is something very different. we are building up a transport network between communities not between family run places. (we want to help communities survive in the long run) thanks for tips. already know about findhorn (which is a little questionable since its a bit more or less a business place these days) and also know about gendatabase and ic.org *Dante :* it somehow reminds me of the historic hanseatic league ... except for the capitalist component :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanseatic_League https://jspivey.wikispaces.com/file/view/hanseatic_league.jpg/71484255/hanse... note : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanseatic_League#Expansion *the League never became a closely-managed formal organisation. Assemblies of the Hanseatic towns met irregularly in Lübeck for a Hansetag (‘Hanseatic Diet’), from 1356 onwards, but many towns chose not to send representatives and decisions were not binding on individual cities. Over time, the network of alliances grew to include a flexible roster of 70 to 170 cities.*