THE PHOENIX PROJECT

The Phoenix Project is 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 are keeping the project running under the name Phoenix for an indefinate period. It is situated in the village of Culbokie near Dingwall north of Inverness in Scotland.

This is not a load of Tree Hugging Hippy Stuff. Anybody can take this challenge regardless of whether they are Socialist, Conservative, Muslim, Christian, Jew, Black, Asian, White, Gay or Straight. There is a whole world out there, beyond the factory floor or the office desk. Check out the Yahoo Forum at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuephoenix/ to find out about the project. You can also try and spend time in a community with a view to setting up a community of your own.