| Welcome to our dream!
Jindibah is home to a small group of people who have turned a former dairy farm in northern NSW, Australia, into a cooperative community of 12 households.
Most of us came from cities around the world. Now, re-invented as country people, we are utilising our city skills and permaculture ideas to find ways to grow, maintain, share, and regenerate a lovely 46-hectare (113-acre) coastal property, located just outside Byron Bay, Australia's most easterly point.
Here, we live a simple, more creative and productive life, without the stresses of city living. It's natural and real, yet we use the latest technology (like our community wireless broadband co-operative) to connect us with the outside world.
The property is quiet and rural, yet only minutes from the Pacific Highway that runs along the entire east coast of Australia.
We're within easy reach of three airports, five shopping towns, private and public schools, a university, and all kinds of transport--not to mention many excellent beaches where surfers share the waves with dolphins.
As Byron Bay is a tourist town, we're well supplied with holiday-type ways to relax, if the pressure of growing the veggies gets too much.
Along the way, we are aiming to find an achievable balance between social, environmental, and economic life--remembering that if it’s not fun, it’s probably not sustainable.
The world is entering an era when the consequences of Climate Change are converging with those of Peak Oil. The science suggests that this is likely to progressively alter the basis of industrial society.
Thus it is becoming increasingly important for communities to be able to become self-sufficient in food, water and energy, should changing circumstances make that necessary.
Jindibah is well endowed with higher than average rainfall and good growing soil.
Energy independence is high on our wish list, waiting only for proven technology to become financially viable.
To reduce per capita CO2 emissions to below the global target of 2 tonnes per person, we aim to stop using electricity generated by burning coal and migrate our transport away from burning oil.
A solar energy farm is planned to generate 100% clean electricity to meet our needs during the day. Excess electricity will be returned to the grid. When available, EV’s and PHEV’s will be recharged at off-peak rates at night. Ultimately this system may be enhanced with wind and energy storage. | 
