Things To Do

[Tsawla Eltu Tsamsiyu]

This is not a list of things to do for the Tribe and Ecovillage, although it could be. I do not feel as though I am contributing enough to either of these ideas. I cannot think of anything I can do to help. I do not know about the rest of you, but I feel a little useless patrolling the posts and seeing what everyone else is doing when all I have done is reply to them. If someone would be kind enough to give me a task (I know that it seems a little co-dependent), I would do my very best to complete it. It could be finding energy sources, building materials, funding, etc. I know that finding a location is the top priority right now, but if everyone worked on everything, then it would not take so long. The locations are coming along very well. It is just that if we had some people work on other things as well, we could start sooner and finish faster. Not everyone knows how to do certain things that we will need to know to  survive. We may find a location, but we do not want to go there and not know how to weave, farm, or hunt. Some people will, but others will not. This will create classes and divide us. Someone could volunteer to post videos teaching certain things or teach classes over Skype or some other social networking site. It has taken me a while to even come up with the ideas for this post. I believe it would benefit us all if someone had ideas that they do not have the time to research or perform and they let someone who had nothing to do do it for them. I have nothing to do and I would like something (ANYTHING!!!) to work on. If other people feel the same way, they could "apply" for a "job" in this thread, too.

[Tonbogiri]

One thing I believe will be important primarily for the tribe members would be to have had professional training in wilderness life.
A solid grounding would be best before we specialise.

Some bushcraft organisations are listed below:

For UK:
www.woodsmoke.uk.com
www.survivalschool.co.uk
www.bushcraftcourses.co.uk

Any word on courses for other nationalities?

[Zalorticus]

http://www.natureskills.com/ has some good information, but for training, I will have to do some extra research. I will post some results later.

[Predict]

Seriously good initiative Tsawla, we really need people to ask when they don't know what to do. Hopefully they will now.

If you want to help with the location as well (depends how much time you have I guess) it's looking pretty set on the tropics so anything there is good at this point. There are numerous tribes (hunter-gatherer or almost) in this region and personally I'm quite keen to collect more information about them, locations, diet, life expectancy, anything. They're a fantastic resource in helping to find the most suitable environments, where we can really thrive. Any help there would be great.

Aside from bushcraft you can always work on general fitness  . You can read about ex-military types having a hard time living with hunter-gatherer tribes so it can't hurt.

[Tsteu'itan]

The thing with some people not knowing things is that once you get there, you can always have people teach those who don't know.  Of course, the most important things like survival and medicine and how to construct a habitable dwelling will need to have multiple people who are able to do it for safety reasons, but things like weaving can always be taught.  That's how the elders do it in tribal communities anyway.