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The following is a list of biographies of individuals who will be participating in a series of interviews as part of a community development podcast.
CJ Trowbridge
I’m a recent graduate of SFSU in Urban Studies with a minor in Queer Ethnic Studies. I’m focusing on sustainable infrastructure for small-group communities. I have spent a great deal of time traveling all over the country to sustainable, experimental, and improvised communities to document and discuss the ways they address their infrastructure challenges. My main long-term goal is to continue learning and teaching about sustainable infrastructure in order to improve the resiliency of our communities.
Interview Subject
I am a long-standing member of a permaculture community in rural Tennessee which offers a free place for people to visit and learn about permaculture. The mission of the community is to help as many people as possible live without money as quickly as possible. Together with the community, I also co-founded the Permaculture Mutual Aid Network which does crowdfunding to buy lands and put them into trust all over the country so that anyone can go live there for free and participate in this new network of small-group communities focused on permaculture and mutual aid.
Let’s start by creating a list of topics that will be interesting for each of them.
-Sustainable infrastructure
-Experimental communities
-Improvisational communities
-Community resiliency
-Permaculture
-Mutual aid
-Crowdfunding
-Land trusts
-Small-group living
-Sustainability
-Community development
-Urban planning
– Rural living
– Off-grid living
Now let’s restate that list with several subpoints for each point.
-Sustainable infrastructure
–What are some examples of sustainable infrastructure?
–What are the benefits of sustainable infrastructure?
–What are some challenges of implementing sustainable infrastructure?
-Experimental communities
–What are some examples of experimental communities?
–What are the benefits of living in an experimental community?
–What are some challenges of living in an experimental community?
-Improvisational communities
–What are some examples of improvisational communities?
–What are the benefits of living in an improvisational community?
–What are some challenges of living in an improvisational community?
-Community resiliency
–What makes a community resilient?
–What are some strategies for increasing community resiliency?
–What are some challenges of increasing community resiliency?
-Permaculture
–What is permaculture?
–What are the benefits of permaculture?
–What are some challenges of implementing permaculture?
-Mutual aid
–What is mutual aid?
–What are the benefits of mutual aid?
–What are some challenges of implementing mutual aid?
-Crowdfunding
–What is crowdfunding?
–How does crowdfunding work?
–What are the benefits of crowdfunding?
–What are some challenges of crowdfunding?
-Land trusts
–What is a land trust?
–How does a land trust work?
–Why would someone want to put their land into a trust?
-Small-group living
–What are some benefits of small-group living?
–What are some challenges of small-group living?
–How can you create strong bonds within a small group?
-Sustainability
–What does it mean to live sustainably?
–What are some sustainable lifestyle choices?
–What are some challenges of living sustainably?
-Community development
–What is community development?
–Why is community development important?
–What are some challenges of community development?
-Urban planning
–What is urban planning?
–Why is urban planning important?
–What are some challenges of urban planning?
-Rural living
–What are some benefits of rural living?
–What are some challenges of rural living?
–How can you create a sense of community in a rural area?
-Off-grid living
–What is off-grid living?
–What are some benefits of off-grid living?
–What are some challenges of off-grid living?