Charter

What is a Kunstler Club?

A Kunstler Club is a small group of neighbors who are taking concrete steps to increase the resilience of their neighborhood in the event of economic collapse, energy or resource shortages, and/or natural or manmade disasters.

What a Kunstler Club is not:

• An educational, informational, or study group
• A political pressure group or action committee
• An investment club or other financial organization
• An organization whose continued operation depends on the formal economy

Some of these sorts of activities might still be worthwhile, but they do not fulfill the intention of the Kunstler Club concept, which is to get people to actually do something on a very local level about our challenges, rather than just talk about them.

Operation of a Kunstler Club

• A Kunstler Club shall have one or more defined, concrete projects which all members are working on cooperatively to accomplish. Each project shall be something that increases the resilience of the neighborhood to dislocations resulting from climate change, resource depletion, and/or economic or political disorder. If a Kunstler Club does not have one or more such projects in progress, it has no purpose for existence.
• A Kunstler Club can be started with as few as 2 or 3 people, and may have up to 13 people. If the membership exceeds 13, the Club should split into two clubs, with the split preferably organized by geographic proximity. If more than 13 members are required to make a project happen, that project, while possibly still worthwhile, may be outside of the scope of the Kunstler Club concept.
• Every member should participate in each project the Club undertakes. If a new project is contemplated that only a portion of the membership is interested in, it may make sense to start a new Club to support that project.
• A Kunstler Club may be permanent or temporary. Temporary Kunstler Clubs could be organized around completion of a specific project that does not require continued involvement to be useful after it is completed.

Some Ideas for good Kunstler Club projects

• Building and operating a community garden
• Small renewable energy projects
• A barter network
• Seed-saving cooperative
• Improving energy efficiency of residences
• Labor pool for members’ gardening activities
• Neighborhood block watch or citizens’ patrol
• Food storage and preservation projects

PDF Version of the Kunstler Clubs charter document

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