For a long time I have been trying to answer one of the most important questions of our time: Where and how do we live? 

After spending most of my adult life traveling to communities around the world, I have landed in the belief that there are few models as effective as the village. Especially if that village is both rural and futuristic, self-sustaining and community-oriented and embodies a uniting clear mission.

As the world becomes more fragmented, I believe that pockets of coherence become more important to the collective.

Over …