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Land Scouting for Eco Village Building: Starting Out Right

Since we have written our business plan for a Guatemalan Eco Village we have had the great honor to create several other business plans for conscious communities, regenerative organizers and green action initiators around the world. Since our ground operation in Guatemala alsohas picked up speed and we have acquired more land ourselves at the Atitlan lake, a lot of learnings have come through which we as BrainHive Green Business Planning want to share with the impact community here on the Atitlan Alliance blog.

The list of potential errors when buying land is long and intrinsic, even more so when trying to build a “closed circuit” impact community hub. There is nothing worse than noticing a year or two in that you have put your money into the wrong corner of the world or the wrong patch in the right corner. New challenges such as climate change dynamics and travel/tourism industry shakeups alongside a growing number of general social and political problems in the world have rudely awakened one or the other land and business owner that they have planned for the wrong type of future to manifest. Since we here at BrainHive are for the last 13 years all about business planning, it is only a logical step that BrainHive will grow to be one of the best go-to consultancies for all types of planning work, including real estate development planning for impact and regenerative purposes.

Because we have built our virtual reality studio / laboratory in Panajachel it’s been our pleasure to sell the odd visualization of a cafe interior or the mapping of some farmland for organic cacao cultivation in the north of Guatemala. There is a lot more intelligence though that wants to be shared in these regards than the regular means and mediums will allow and so it is with great joy and curiosity for reception that I present to you our most important learnings drawn together from hundreds of conversations had in the sphere and a lot of personal insight added in for value and entertainment.

K.O. Criteria #1 for Eco Village Land: Naturally Disaster Proof

Us here at the Atitlan lake have a long list of different topographical benefits (cloud forest volcanic lake at ~1.800m above sea) but also hazards specifically in the landslides, earthquakes and tropical storm department and there is a very specific set of criteria that we apply to a potential piece of land becoming available for purchase. That is because of our location in the world and the study of the history and future in the context of looking out for potentially devastating external impact events. Just like a company’s stock value can fall to zero when the company defaults and goes bankrupt, wiping out investment portfolios as the worst case, there is something similar in the case of real estate investment. Unfortunately though such a type of default (apart from land fraud, deportation or squat/annex) this can destroy not only your construction investments but it could potentially cost the lives of you or your family / residents. So the first thing when looking at a piece of land you want to ask yourself: is it safe?

What used to be safe for example in the northern hemisphere could potentially not turn out safe at all when certain freak effects start kicking in such as the gulf stream dropping off, large, repeated fires creating desertification due to climate change, invasive species or new types of floodings because of rising sea levels, torrential seasonal rains and hurricanes. The socioeconomic dynamics, spiritual polarization and restrictions from political and justice malpractice, crippling taxation or narco/extremist activity; all of these factors have shown in the last couple of years to become more dire and add in volatility in most parts of the world. This gives us even more aspects to consider when we choose our highest ground to settle down our most laborious creations.

There is so much more to talk about in this category of assessment alone that we must leave it at that and specifically remind ourselves that we should also look at which civilizations have enjoyed climatic and geostable environments for long enough to create uninterrupted human legacies running for six to eight thousand years straight. We will find that these high cultures have followed a certain pattern of settlement to create their artifact cities with sometimes seven digit numbers of inhabitants. If we just map out how our ancestors have dealt with the smaller and greater bucking and jumping of cycles and greater cosmic events we may yet be able to identify the most resilient and highest grounds where we can rest assured that mother nature will allow us to continue on for millennia.

Finding Eco Village Land: Size, Price & Quality

Another thing that is sad to witness is when the boundaries of the land do not permit to really fulfill the original purpose and you notice that you have to plan for a much smaller and contained operation, possibly having to rub shoulders with neighbors that do not share your value systems and can create restrictive conditions that can hurt the recreational qualities of a potential impact business that is being run out of the Eco Village  (sound, smoke, chemicals use, radiation, contamination etc.). It is so very important to do a lot of scouting and to find the best land for your budget which is why a local price scout is often vital because what we notice is that the most resilient land from the sheer natural resilience perspective can often be found in emerging countries or developing countries where the legal frameworks and the measures of creating information symmetry in the real estate market are not at their most functional. We are struggling to really make sure that all papers are in order and there are no hidden risks or zoning problems, water title difficulties or macro infrastructure developments that could hurt the value of our investment or even knock us out in terms of our original development planning. Land quality has many different levels, and we need to get all of them right, even the hidden ones.

• quality of the property title before the courts
• quality of the land’s soil,
• quality of the communities around you
• quality of the immediate neighbors
• quality of the data signals that you can get
• quality of the water that comes out of your tubes
• … (list continues)

I invite you to think of these dimensions of quality and really try to zero in on what the land can offer, the quality of the air, the quality of the existing trees, possibly natural water bodies. There is so much to keep in mind and we are talking of planning Horizons of 10 to 30 years or even generations. Look at the map and think of how settlements eventually grow and connect, think of where people find employment or find academic qualification, where people escape to for the weekends or how the overarching demography of the country is currently creating tidal or ebbing Dynamics in the sheer quantity of human beings distributed in a given area.

When it comes to the pricing of the land there are again a lot of factors that can lead to beneficial and disadvantageous conditions. Right now what we are observing in almost any desirable part of the world is a rise of real estate prices and especially within the estimated green belt (the most resilient land at a 100 to 150 year time horizon) we are observing price hikes of 10 to 15% p.a. and sometimes more. So it really is important to map out according to the general disaster resilience parameters the land that is still undervalued, of which we find most between Mexico and Colombia and in parts of Africa, especially Western Central Africa. In all these places it is so very important to batch together in communities and to identify places which are far enough from the cities and yet close enough to the roads to allow for the ideal investment that has no immediate correlation with the mounting systemic global and National risks. 
There are real estate agents and expat groups, there are trustworthy locals and Chambers of Commerce of developing countries and a host of other business helpers and connectors that fulfill functions in the area of scouting, negotiations, auditing papers and assuring the transfer of funds as well as auxiliary services in the area of connecting the land to public services and segwaying into planning and construction works. the existing networks are strong in most of the regions which are of heightened interest for typical ecovillage designers and so as the sphere clumps together further and further we will hopefully see the prices converge more and more to the real fundamental value of a given piece of land and it will be much easier to distribute and develop each piece in the way of the greater Eco Village campus, which is the higher vision. 
Every new investment placed around the original investments made leverages the asset value of the investment, thereby creating multiplier value that allows us to grow and consolidate at the same time. Buying together, pooling resources and deciding to develop integrated visions will always lead to real estate Investments being more worthwhile and accelerating the wealth and abundance creation between groups of intentional living enthusiasts. Therefore mostly everything should be at a really good price because the value of land really is priceless as is the feeling of freedom as you stand and create following a hivemind plan of united visions for a more beautiful coexistence.
K.O. Criteria 3: construction/planting difficulty
While the purchase price of the land is often only a tiny fraction of the development cost depending on what the land is to be used for, it is something that developers of ecovillages sometimes underestimate. I have talked to a lot of permaculture and organic construction designers and even if you build with the most lightweight and compact tools and materials, it can still add 25 to 50% to the regular efforts required to build and maintain spaces that are far-off roads and public utility grid work and it is indeed for very specific purposes that one should look at cheap land in very undeveloped places and it is so very important to budget for the additional efforts. At BrainHive we always feel that the pioneer should get special credit, well-wishing to those that venture deep into the blue ocean but to organically and intelligently create the mycelium of ecovillages spread across the most resilient regions of the world we also encourage the founders to build on top of each other, creating chains and nets and to go in as groups and teams assembled by complementary strengths. In that same regard we should always try and latch onto the existing streams of transportation and pipelines because it makes life a lot more efficient and easier.
If the land is very inclined and if it is very rocky you will find it more difficult to dig and to create plain space and you will either have to be very creative or you will have to invest into the development to make the terracing and go through possible additional labor to dig out septic tanks or secure the first material drop-offs. All of these factors which are part of what you are looking at when you first survey the land will affect the building budgets. Sometimes you can piggyback on the knowledge of how the government is planning to evolve a certain area of the country and then you can make land purchases 3 to 5 years before the anticipated connections are created. This will often slash many percent off your construction budgets because if you have grid electricity or if you can bring in big trucks and machines the building is a whole different process. 
Our land is often in areas where manual labor is not that expensive. But if you’re trying to be professional then it is very important that you have the access and it will sometimes come with needing to reach out to neighbors or even create right of way certificates (notary) to make sure that you have and keep access. And then it is of course always wise to purchase land that already contains its own building material which you can use to more efficiently produce the first structures that you need for the land to be activated.
The time until activation is crucial to know. How soon can the real estate investment start yielding fruits and create cash flow for you? As soon as the environment can validate your Eco Village and fill it with life, incubate the different impact businesses that are usually run out from these places, the sooner you can start getting more funding and telling the story. The brand will grow in value, the offerings will fill up faster and faster and eventually you can leave the space in the hands of the facilitators, volunteers and managers and go and develop your next project.  Some of the land that you will find will take longer than other pieces to develop. And it depends on your own mood and hunger if you want a piece that you can exit from sooner or if it is maybe your life’s labor that will be expressed through the choice of the land. 
In that case maybe you are not looking for a return on investment or even to create maybe that much positive external impact in the world but rather you’re looking to have a really sacred experience and you are developing a monument. In this case all the rules here given on the land development are warped and you are looking to get for example a cabin deep in the woods all by yourself or something of an ivory tower up on a hill and these constructions are for the legacy and the exemplification of the builder/designer. Part of the additional effort needed to create such artifacts are integrated into the energy as a sacrifice to honor a special spot in the world. I wanted to add this last part to not create the impression that Eco Village design always should be around efficiency, productivity and scaling effects but rather should also be a form of devotional practice and bring the human experience to sometimes far away places that simply merit the worship in the form of manifesting a temple space in that exact location.
K.O. Criteria 4: Community
If you are trying to build a monastery Eco Village there are a different set of things to keep in mind. Here in this article we are focusing also on the idea of bringing together communities and forming a compass that in and of itself creates the gravity to attract a lot more people than just one center could do by itself. There is so much that a community is of value and we can see it here at the Lake Atitlan especially in San Marcos la Laguna. Here probably around 300 impact pop up and spiritual as well as social and green entrepreneurs and a huge amount of tourists and followers have created for about 20-30 yrs. a vibrant mini Bali, the only one of its kind in all of Central America, only perhaps rivaled by hot spots in Costa Rica and at Lake Ometepe in Nicaragua. 
The sheer amount of value that the co-creation produces stands in absolutely no relationship to any other hotspot of output anywhere in Guatemala having led to visible municipal tax surplus so that San Marcos is the only town on the entire Lake and probably in all of Guatemala of its size that can boast an amphitheater, a top of the line basketball court and an entire stadium alongside two beautiful nature reserves and a plethora of NGOs and local initiatives that assure the welfare of the roughly 8,000 indigenous that share the valley with them and that are not immediately profiting in the form of top-notch employment opportunities or direct ownership of businesses serving the expat community.
Superabundance phenomena such as San Marcos prove that it makes sense to plan and walk together and to try and get efficiency out of the common interest of the collective good intentions and that is not possible when you are too far off the bat. What we want to do is to settle in one spot together and create the framework of a functioning microcosmic economy.
We are perhaps getting closer to the moment of forming exploration and development caravans where let’s say 150 to 300 people get together and they say hey let’s build a 10,000 acre community in some far-flung place and get the local administration to build the roads and power lines. One of the only groups that have ever been able to do this in modern times is around Hinduism and other cults but we should yet want to see the purest parts of the impact, permaculture and adjacent spheres to come together, really map out large chunks of available and resilient land and plan something like Auroraville. What we want to do is look at the communal assets that a given location has in store for you when choosing your land because there’s nothing as valuable – and nothing potentially as unsafe or otherwise hazardous, troublesome – as the larger community around your Eco Village or co-housing project.
K.O. Criteria 6: Views & Energies
I used to do a funny thing with my nose whenever a fellow digital nomad talked to me about some spectacular view they would have from their Airbnb or hostel and I would always try and save a buck and go to the cheapest place for my money. It is only recently that I have learned about organic building and the ayurvedic vastu architecture / feng shui of constructing spaces that have temple qualities. I have sensitized my perception of energy that is healthy and clear since I have been able to adjust these principles to my own workspaces, resting place and places of food preparation, as well as body energy practices, all different platforms as well as the building of sacred fireplaces, plunge pools and temascales. 
It is absolutely incredible what can be achieved through simply following the rules around energy. Many of the people who select the most beautiful altar land do so by going in barefoot, doing certain sets of energetic analysis work and then listening into themselves and trying to hear what the land itself wants for itself. I have seen them build communities within months afterwards and never a natural disaster strikes into their mids, they live in health and financial abundance and there is never a quarrel or conflict reported from their sides.
4 years in living in one of the most beautiful places in the world and spending a lot of time with some of the most far-traveled natural medicine alchemists and holistics experts of the world I have given up my inner resistance to talk about what actually is meant by the “energy of the land”. It spreads as far as feeling into how much light and how much grounding, how much vulnerability or jaggedness is in a piece of land, whether people have fought and died there, have gone through motions of bliss and despair, if someone’s childhood memories are connected with this land or even the tradition of an entire culture (in Guatemala it’s actually possible to have ownership or rather stewardship of actual artifact land) and sometimes land can in fact be inhabited by a special kind of spirit that for example will influence or amplify the way that potential residents will experience their emotions. All of this decides whether a space should be used for residential purposes, practice, industrious exploits, agriculture, healing, education or utilities / logistics, security or decontamination / treatment and so on. 
It is possible to mistreat the land in such a way that either the actual energies ruling the land or the people living around it will invite problems to the steward(s) in a million different ways and that can thwart the vision of an Eco Village forming there. So it is so very important that the way the land is opened, operated on and brought into a higher function is in alignment with the spoken and unspoken symbols present inside it and around its vicinity.
Creating the most spectacular visual design has become ultra important to lend superpowered radiance to the messages produced through the Eco Village movement. Today a space has to be both beautiful and inspiring and it cannot just be naked and functional anymore. Especially where residents are expected to accept a simpler style of life such as the dry composting toilets or the recycling works, painting right designs over for example simple furniture will create the ability to live a life in beauty. In many Eco villages around the world there are special corners that are available for the residents to add in layers of love over the years and to together praise the creation thus far achieved. 
Bringing in the spirit of purpose and togetherness in the intentional is a special unique selling proposition that is imbued in the different brands of co-living manifestations in the landscape. Whenever choosing a piece of land, keep in mind what will be the photographic vectors and as soon as possible heed the different nodes, veins and heart pieces of the land and make sure that all the construction is done in such a way that you do not have to deconstruct or undo any of the foundational work. Look out for the different gestures and omens that come up during the construction (listen to the right indigenous workers) because developing sacred land is a sacred work and whatever the serendipity and the coincidence that express the will of spirit. Whatever gesture given to you in that regard should be made part of the hard instructions, the manual that the land reveals to its true owner, as to how it wants to be made into an instrument or rather left alone because it is already serving a higher purpose and our coming towards it is an intrusion and will be met with resistance.

Conclusion: Ideal Eco Village Land is Special and Arduous to Find
From all the different impact real estate development types, finding an ideal patch of land for an ecovillage is perhaps the one requiring the most careful considerations. Not only the typical scale in terms of size and number of structures and inhabitants, also the manifold requirements for logistics, utilities and amenities for business incubation indicate the high level of intricacy confronting the ecovillage designer. However, the desire to create conscious communities is very present in the sphere and there are many smart and hard-working people involved. Really all it takes is the organizational aspects to function well and that the ones who know how to lead and gather can meet the ones that know how to fund and legalize and then that the ones that love to live in such communities and build them to become knowledgeable around how to join the groups of stakeholders that are moving around in their respective fields of interest.
As the world changes in faster and more erratic ways Eco villages become resilience communities slowly developing off-grid capacities and self sustainability. They will become much like the Kibbutz communities, self-standing, semi-autonomous and hotspots of conscious impact business activity and they will attract the kindest and brightest in the same Spirit. This process is accelerated by the evolution of the remote work movement as much as the metamorphosis of the world in the wake of the late health crisis of 2020. It will be the case that the new migrations that we will witness will also cause new investment incentives and their united effort will make bigger and more complex projects possible.
As we here at BrainHive continue to develop business planning models that join the collective intelligence of the impact sphere and other movers and shakers in the adjacent movements, we will more and more often come across land purchase and real estate development challenges because this is the original currency, the land itself. To make sure that every piece of currency going towards the pooling of our greater resource body can give the maximum yield to founders that approach BrainHive, it will continue to remain a topic of exploration for us that contains even more excitement as the relevance of the term resilience will grow in the perception of society, and we encourage the readers to stay tuned for more beautiful publications like this one to go live on our blog.

Planning for the Design of the Ideal Eco-Village

This is the build order for a medium-sized Eco-Village as part of the ongoing Atitlan Alliance Eco Village design education articles in collaboration with BrainHive Green Business Planning. In this article we will explore how we can quickly activate any piece of land and find a secure and cost-efficient path that will lead to maximum productivity fast, safely and elegantly. 

We are assuming that the land is not too far off the grid and we are assuming that we are in a temperate zone where we do not have to plan for snowloads, crass seasonal temperature differences or security issues. The way a piece of land is developed is very important because sometimes you can block your own path of development or you can erect structures that you will regret later. You have to fill up the land piece by piece, creating the access, creating the perimeter, designating the material drop-offs and storages, placing pilot structures (like parking, storage or tool shed) and then creating the sanitary and eventually residential structures that will support the first exploration and pioneer construction team. 

The locations, dimensions and interconnectedness of the first pieces of infrastructure on your land really show how much rational thought the designer brought towards the creation right from the very beginning. It will dictate much of the latter creation if the initial spaces are too cramped or give no ability to evolve capacities as the more sophisticated structures are added. That is why we took the time to collect here at BrainHive in this article our best ideas for the Atitlan Alliance from the last half decade of living nearby some of the true pearl projects of the permaculture and organic construction sphere here at the Atitlan Lake in Guatemala.

Eco-Village Development Phase #1: Bare Necessities

As already outlined above the initial build order will depend on the size of the land, of the point of access and whether or not we are building in a secure location or whether we have to be careful and we cannot deploy certain tools and machineries before the land was elevated to a higher degree of security. 
However the most elemental items on our list are relatively intuitive to grasp and they are as follows without further elaboration so that we can move on to the more delicate and less elemental topics of this article because we are also wanting to talk to the veterans out there. 
You will have on your land different accesses for motor vehicles, but also water and power, sometimes internet or satellite vectors that can be connected and that depending on all the traffic, the pipe pressure and the availabilities of signal you can arrange the first structures in such a way that you are almost automatically shown where to put your paths, gates and maneuvering spaces and which surface areas of the land need to be fortified for heavy duty use. 
You often have to dig out the tubes, the septics and other drainage and connection lines as the most prior consideration. Very similarly you will also have to plan for the invisible utility grid inside your land before you set many foundations, place many columns, create concrete stairs or set down in fact any heavier construction that requires pouring concrete. You can also have a good look at your land and see where you need to combat erosion, where there are old or sick trees as well as in the case of natural water bodies where we can expect changes happening in the land over time and passing the seasons. 
All of these things should be aspects to consider when you are creating your impact real estate development plan build order. The least distance that the work teams, the maintenance staff and the residents have to walk everyday over underdeveloped trails to follow their tasks can over the transcourse of the years create either flow structure or energetic resistance (stagnant) structure that can sometimes even create surprising consequences like insect problems.
A badly executed build order or a wrongly conceptualized one can lead to negative emotions to come through in workers and users and if not tackled infuse into all the other type of productive work that has to happen before an Eco Village can manifest in any given place of the world. And so the pioneer buildings that have to do with utilities, security, human hygienic needs and first workers camps cannot be taken as just a transient phase of the construction but rather they are expression of how the land is opened. 
They should be reflecting the natural build orders that nature shows us when it unrolls, unfurls, spreading in fanning fashion its veins and feelers into the most appropriate crevasses of possible growth, building up the nutrient paths and the metabolism, the processing plants and the circulatory systems into the world and letting them hold on to the matter and the space around it. 
There is a lot of beauty and a lot of ruggedness that we can express through the way we touch the land when we walk into it the first time, when we cut down the plants that we know must go and when we plug in the posts of our fences. These are special moments and every big root, every giant bolder and every moist patch that we encounter along the way offers a puzzle piece revealing the story that the land tells us of how it wants to be developed: where it will be yielding and friendly to our purpose and intent, and where it will resist us, cost us or possibly hurt us if we drill into the wrong spot, overextend, gamble or lean against the wind. 
From pioneering to purposing: what dictates the 2nd phase build order “activation”?
Once the pioneer structures are set down you are well advised to already have a business plan ready for the Eco Village to know the expected number of constant inhabitants, to know what kind of impact businesses are to be incubated and what is the budget that has to be at the minimum for this activation phase of the construction.
This is the middle phase between the pioneer phase and the coronation phase. In this phase what matters most is that you can roll out the further build plans with a permanent team that is inhabiting the pioneer structures. They will typically have at their fingertips more complex and heavier machinery, there will be some sort of grid services available or off-grid capacities either ready or in course of being ready. We are slowly being able to scale the work output of every member of the development team. In this phase we are all about creating the communal structures and adding on residency. 
There is a certain proportionate acceleration at which we are also expanding the utilities and sanitary spaces to make sure that the structures that we add on have enough room and we are creating a more and more comfortable and spacious property. If the land is very big we might at first only have fenced in part of it and now we are segmenting and preparing more of the land. We are doing certain access work setting paths, stairs and possibly bridges or plank an incline so that also we are able to pull in all the available building material which is on the land. First terracing might be happening at this point with hillside land.
We are starting to designate plantation space as we are whacking down the vegetation that we do not need so that we do not dry out the mycelium in the soil or commit other types of errors against the spirit of the land which may come back to haunt us or slow our stride as we are activating the entire piece to create resources according to our plan. Agroforestry permaculture principles are heeded, living fences and trailsides may be planted.
In the activation phase we are making sure that we are documenting everything that we are doing to attract people to come and help to fill up the early offerings. Sometimes before a piece of land that is turned into an Eco Village becomes fully developed it will carry a certain spirit in parts of it and so it is for the early residents to enjoy and make record of the entirety of the story that the land is telling. It will create digital assets that will be used for marketing and to tell instructions to the first facilitators that will start living in the different energetic spots where the development team decides to set down the appropriate structures. 
It is very assuring when in the activation phase all the different principles of energetic architecture are followed so that no views are barred or nodes are occupied that will congest, distress or weaken fabric of nature and create microclimates that are not fully feasible for the impact purpose and regenerative pursuit of an real estate development plan build order that is in alignment with greater design higher. Insects, erosion, troubled sleep, intruders and government inspector or neighbor resistance among a host of other specters come to bug and pester builders and interest holders of badly designed villages.
Typical structures that are typically added on in the activation phase beyond simply food preparation, materials processing and communal assembly halls can be offices/receptions/co-working/learning space, waiting areas, initial multipurpose spaces for storing, heating, drying, safekeeping or baking and additional levels on the pioneer buildings that are to accommodate either training, gathering or first aid and special materials storages. Sometimes pump houses, generator houses, strong box arrays or distributor/switch boxes have to be added on as miscellaneous constructions. 
Green houses, animal coops, vigilante animal huts and composts/recycling processing are starting to be seen in this phase, also more terracing, ordering of the land in terms of rocks, tree stumps / old and sick trees, sunfall path and the greater other vector lines that determine the openings and reinforcing of different structures are happening. Because build order can also mean how buildings are placed facing each other and facing the energetic vectors we make sure that the entire Eco Village we end up with is a true sculpture and hub for healthy and productive living. This is probably the most important and tricky face because we are also have a chance to undo errors made in the pioneer phase but we are definitely spending the most money that we need until the Eco Village can carry itself and so it is in this phase that often the developers encounter problems and the designers blow up their budgets and the whole project comes to a grinding halt before it ever had a chance to shine.

Phase 3: The Coronation

We have created the belly and engine of the Eco Village in the pioneer phase and made muscle and metabolism as well as the heart and passion of the village in the activation phase. 

Now it is time for the voice and face, the more filigraneous and glamorous, sparkling and outstanding structures to emerge as part of the sort of Eco Village that is meant to impact the world. In this phase we will be talking about adding structures that make the intentional community village unique and that compliment the body and the heart with a sense of higher perception, reflection and radiance and to give the face of the village eyes and brains to help it empower its residents and create ever more safety and abundance for the greater sphere as a whole. 

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We are talking about adding on more complex laboratory space, high-tech printing and incubation stations, virtual reality and computing power, shroom labs and complex medicine production and processing capacities. In this phase we are adding on luxurious replenishing spa areas, cosmetics, ceremonial and wellness application interior design equipped hyper-decorated temple spaces and Kirtan/dances room, we are adding yoga platforms, shrines, fountains, foto points and monuments. 
We are painting and we are creating mosaics of our kitchens, our libraries and workshop space look full of splendor as every piece of furniture and every curtain, every cover and every finishing touch adds to the perfection of the village and it will become a true work of art with not a speck of unloved area within. But that is not all what the coronation phase is all about. 
While we are building outward creating the face of the Eco Village, from the inside we are also crowning the other values and characteristics of the entire person that is reflected through the collective will of the inhabitants of the Eco Village. Among the tribe that stands by the totem the designer erected, now we should find many a brilliant facilitator, multiplier / influencer or nomad entrepreneur or other more permanent forms or impact entrepreneurships. 
Together they create an energy cosmos that is either programmed for abundance, harmony and the opening of the individual to invite their highest purpose into their lives – or it is a place of gossip, filthy, druggy and disrespecting, where quarrel, contamination and paralysis in lethargy and discord rule supreme and we are stuck with the wrong things built and immense investment necessary to create a new plan because either there was no plan or it was a bad plan. 
I’m saying this and I’m going so far into the warning about what a bad build order can mean for a project because we have seen it before and land cannot be wasted. Letting land or material go to waste is the immediate consequence of bad build orders and it is that the wrong types of energy can settle in a place that has not been developed with love and clarity as guiding principles of all more tangible manifestation happening there in. 
That construction affects us all and the sealing of land, the removal of wrong types of vegetation (just think of the bees disaster) and the sprawling of construction is costing fertility, diversity and human life by the influx of greater and lesser impacts. Walking assured in the blessings bestowed upon designers that use the most appropriately resilient design will shape our decision making as ecovillage planners for years and possibly decades to come. As we are toiling to reverse the effects of the great shift teams and networks of regenerative impactpreneurs want to come together to cooperate out of sheer self interest, to assure their survival, financially and literally. 
The coronation therefore is also to make the creation safe and to add armor and spikes as the evolution and developments of our environment teach us what nooks and crannies of the land are inviting our special attention. Because when we are hosting the finest of our sphere we want to make sure that their laptops don’t disappear that potentially carry the blueprints for products and hyper important intelligence. Adding tens of thousands of dollars worth of tech merits they use of a certain amount of dollars to make sure we always know where it is and it never goes towards feeding those who like to attack the shiniest crowns of creation because of their inability to understand what worth and value is brought to the greater hole by the substation and substantiation of communally used assets to leverage and maintain, scale and foster the impact of those who understand the order of how the New Earth will want to be built.
Conclusion: a handy dandy, bendy candy build plan for Eco villages 
Those who decide to step into the ultimate responsibility to be the architects of the resilience hubs of the New Earth will from the earliest moment onward be invited to know where every pebble wants and has to to go as land is acquired, opened and put to use in harmony with higher objectives of the greater movement. 
Only watching each other go in select their pieces and bring an organism into alignment we can truly achieve our highest potential and therefore it should become the most basic knowledge in the world of how to find, assess and execute the most appropriate build order for every piece of land that we can lay our shovels on. 
It will be so very important to not lose tools because of early tool sheds getting robbed, having to tear down structures made with natural materials that were not secured or treated in time against insects or the teeth of seasons or have to go through the ordeal of ripping up cemented paths, block walls and stairs because otherwise utility lines would be ugly visible or unrunnable and the lack of finishing makes visitors not return. 
The bleeding out of resin from the wood, the growing of mold, moss and algae or the washing of rain that comes down hard in places we misplanned drainage come back around to bite us if we neglect the work of producing most ideal build orders. Of course build orders can be very flexible and the land sometimes gives you cues how a build order has to be malleable as you dig and explore, listen to the wind every night and count the different forms of intrusion or calls from the outside that teach you in what way the land and the structures need to be fortified or stretched. 
To make sure that the entire village can ascend and stand as citadel to be a place of sanctum and shelter for the best of our sphere. To come through and create amazing products and services and the reputation to blossom throughout our greater awareness alongside the different movements that I’ve learned to love life lived enhanced by the instrument of an ideal Eco Village set into the right corner of the Earth.