THE UTOPIA
AND
PHOENIX PROJECTS
Originally set up as the Utopia Experiment, the Phoenix Project was about how we are going to cope with the changes that are coming due to the depletion of the world's energy reserves and climate change. Unfortunately these changes will not be gradual enough to allow easy transition so some of us are going to have to make the changes ourselves without waiting for the government to do it for us.
The Utopia Experiment was established by Dr. Dylan Evans, a well-known psychologist and lecturer at the West Of England University to see how people could organise themselves into communal groups to cope with life in the future. Set up in March, 2007 and originally due to run for eighteen months, Dr. Evans discontinued his involvement with the project in November, 2007 but several enthusiastic volunteers kept the project running under the name Phoenix until October, 2008 when the original project was due to finish. It was situated in the village of Culbokie near Dingwall north of Inverness in Scotland.
After Phoenix some of us are now getting involved in new projects with the hope that we can deal with the challenges of the future. We continue to keep in touch using the Yahoo Forum at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuephoenix/.