POSSIBILICA
- Tassilo, Joachim, Margriet, Sonia, Marion and Clinton.
The first ecovillage of Possibilica – call it Possibilica 1 – was originated on 12 June 2008 by the Just Stop Team of Pullach, Germany. (See www.just-stop.org) Other Possibilicas may emerge in other parts of the world to join the growing numbers of already existing arks. For a partial list of arks worldwide, click on the Ark Projects button at www.arkbuilder.org.
The Pullach Just Stop Team had been meeting since February 2008, and by June had evolved from a Just Stop Team into an Arkbuilder Team. The Ark is named Possibilica.
Since that first meeting an official Possibilica Journal records the development of the project, and periodic newsletters have been shared with anyone interested. You can sign up to receive Possibilica News here.
We hope you enjoy learning about Possibilica, sustainable culture, archearchy, and the Possibilica Programs. Check out the Possibilica Store for books and other offerings from Possibilicans.
- Members of the Global Ecovillage Network, Global Ecovillage Educators for a Sustainable Earth (GEESE), and Gaia Education.
ARKBUILDER CODE OF CONDUCT
To adopt the same level of standards of care, transparency and accountability that are being self-established by NGOs around the world and outlined in their NGO Code of Conduct, Possibilica abides by the Arkbuilder Code of Conduct. (For further developments see: http://www.gdrc.org/ngo/codes-conduct.html.)
The Arkbuilder Code of Conduct
(version 1.3 Revised 11 November 2008)
Arkbuilders:
- Invent hard and soft skills that empower individuals and communities to implement sustainable culture and solve their problems by themselves.
- Act in solidarity with the goals and priorities of their ark culture, and if they are neither learning nor contributing then use their two feet to go someplace productive.
- Respect indigenous knowledge, the dignity and identity of individuals and their culture and values.
- Exercise and promote fairness, impartiality and equity in all of their activities and in their dealings with interested parties, ark partners and the general public.
- Act truthfully and refrain from practices that undermine the moral and ethical integrity of their ark or arks in general, in particular distinguishing and avoiding irresponsible low drama and accentuating responsible high drama.
- Behave with transparency and accountability in their dealings with ark citizens, other arks, and interested parties.
- Conform to the constitution, bright principles, and rules and regulations of their ark and the Arkbuilder’s Code of Conduct.
- Strive towards including diversity while maintaining sustainable autonomy.
- Proactively resist and communicate about conditionalities that may compromise the ark’s culture or bright principles.
- Develop and promote clear and measurable impact indicators for their projects in order to gauge relevance and effectiveness.
- Pay attention, stay awake, take radical responsibility, and have Fun.
You see, the Arkbuilder’s Code of Conduct is actually no different from the Pirate’s Code. You must be an arkbuilder for the Arkbuilder's Code to apply. And the Code is more what you'd call guidelines than actual rules.
Guidelines are far stronger than rules. If you follow rules, the rules have the authority for your decisions and actions and you don’t. With guidelines, you are inarguably responsible for figuring out when and where and exactly how to apply them. There’s nothing to hide behind with guidelines. This be the Arkbuilder’s Code!