What are Syntropic Villages? (cont.)

Like a traditional village, Syntropic Villages consist of several levels of organization:

1. Individuals, families, and groups
2. Basic social interactions
3. Material or economic exchanges
4. Cultural interactions, including a minimal, shared-value set
5. A shared village history, belief, and identity system that functions to preserve itself

What Differentiates Us?

Several facts distinguish us from the traditional village. A Syntropic Village is:

1. intentional or planned, i.e., not based primarily on chance and/or geographical location.
2. based on a minimal set of consciously chosen and mutually shared values.
3. a community that does not exist solely for the mutual benefit and protection of it's own members but for the larger society as well.
4. dependent on, and was made possible by, the appearance and growth of the Internet.
5. based on a written contract, or constitution, that seeks to create new levels of purpose or meaning in life as well as to continuously experiment, improve, transform, and even to replace itself in order to remain authentically democratic and adaptively intelligent in a constantly changing world.

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