06/04/2026
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If you’re interested in community energy, regenerative development, co-operative ownership, climate resilience, or the future of local economies, I’d love for you to read this.
What if the next decade is not defined by collapse — but by communities remembering how to build again?
I’ve written a future-history essay from the year 2036, looking back on the first decade of the Lighthouse Park movement:
The Decade the Lights Came On
The Rise of Lighthouse Parks and the Return of Local Power
Authored by Eden J. Yesh
It reflects on how local energy, food, childcare, trades, microgrids, co-operative finance, Indigenous partnership, repair culture, and resilient infrastructure could come together into a new kind of community-owned development model.
Not utopia.
Not theory.
A practical pattern.
A way to turn climate anxiety into construction drawings.
A way to turn values into leases.
A way to turn sunlight into local dividends.
A way to turn a business park into a commons.
The core idea is simple:
Localize what must be resilient.
Share what must be learned.
Open-source what must spread.
This piece is written as a reflection from 2036 — but really, it is a call to action for 2026.
Because the systems failing around us are not permanent laws of nature.
They are designs.
And designs can be changed.
In 2026-2036 the lights came on.
And communities remembered they could own them.
https://www.lighthouse-developments.ca/parks
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