Sustainable Garden Foundation · North Vancouver, BC · 2026
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model
that makes the existing model obsolete.”
— Buckminster Fuller
The Sustainable Garden Foundation is building a network of intentional communities across fire-affected regions of British Columbia, Oregon, and California — powered by clean energy, governed by consensus, and rooted in the Ubuntu principle: I am because we are.
Discover the VisionWho We Are
The Sustainable Garden Foundation (SGF) is a Canadian non-profit foundation in formation whose purpose is to design, seed, and support a network of intentional communities — called Oasis communities — built on Ubuntu principles, ecological restoration, and a vision of shared human flourishing.
SGF is the institutional backbone of the Blue Dot Project, a visionary quadrilogy and civic initiative that asks a single, urgent question: how do we co-create the New World — together, now?
The Pale Blue Dot — as Carl Sagan so powerfully reminded us — is our only home.
The SGF exists to help humanity act like it.
We are living through a convergence of ecological, social, and technological disruptions that demand new institutions — not incremental reform, but the deliberate co-creation of what comes next. The SGF is positioned to become a catalyst: seeding the first Oasis sites in British Columbia, developing the governance and design frameworks that allow the model to replicate, and demonstrating — through lived proof — that another way is not only possible but already underway.
The Oasis Project
The conditions for human flourishing are already known. What remains is the courage to build them. The Oasis Project pursues seven interconnected goals that together form a single, coherent vision.
Goal 01
To demonstrate, in lived daily reality, what human society becomes when the Ubuntu Principle governs all relations — economic, social, ecological, and civic.
Goal 02
To offer individuals displaced by automation or environmental disaster not merely shelter, but purpose. The Oasis does not warehouse the displaced. It invites them home.
Goal 03
To restore degraded, disaster-affected land to ecological health. The Oasis model heals the land and the people simultaneously.
Goal 04
To validate, through measurable lived experience, that Ubuntu-principled governance is not only possible but demonstrably superior to extractive and hierarchical models.
Goal 05
To design each community as a fully self-sustaining system — energetically, economically, and ecologically — ensuring it endures across generations without external subsidy.
Goal 06
When an Oasis reaches its optimal population, the natural next step is seeding a neighbouring Oasis — until a federation of communities forms what the SGF calls the New World.
Goal 07
Words of reconciliation cannot restore what was taken. The Oasis Project offers something more honest: a concrete act of return. First Nations ancestral wisdom is not a footnote to the model. It is one of its foundational pillars.
Energy & Infrastructure
Each Oasis community generates its own energy through a diversified on-site stack — no dependency on any single external provider. The grid is retained as emergency backup only.
Solar PV — ground-mounted and rooftop arrays; primary generation layer
Wind turbines — co-primary with solar; seasonal complementarity
Micro-hydro — run-of-river where terrain allows; particularly strong at BC sites
Biogas — anaerobic digestion of community organic waste; supplementary baseload
Sodium-ion storage — 50-year infrastructure compatibility; long-duration buffer
Thermal & supercapacitor — layered redundancy for grid-independent reliability
Ground-source heat pump + geothermal exchanger — fire-immune, combustion-free heating and cooling at 300–500% efficiency; powered entirely by on-site renewable generation
"Scalability is not a design feature.
It is the natural consequence of success."
Oasis communities will operate across multiple archetypes: Agrarian, Care and Learning, High-Tech Research, Water, Energy, Healing, and Arts and Culture — forming a living, breathing ecosystem of the New World in miniature. Each successful Oasis seeds the next. When communities find one another, they federate into a New World cluster: a voluntary, Ubuntu-governed network of thriving, self-sufficient communities.
An Invitation
We are seeking two qualified and committed individuals to serve as Founding Directors of the SGF alongside its founder, Guy J.L. Vallières. We are not looking for passive signatories — we are looking for people who believe that the wisest act available to us right now is to build: carefully, joyfully, and together.
This is early-stage work. It is also historic work. The first Oasis communities will be built on land scarred by wildfire — demonstrating that resilience is not a government program. It is a design principle.
Express Your InterestThe Founder
Background
Guy J.L. Vallières
Retired Engineer & Hydrologist
36 years, Environment and Climate Change Canada
Founder, Sustainable Garden Foundation
Author, Blue Dot Project Quadrilogy
North Vancouver, BC
Guy J.L. Vallières is a retired engineer and hydrologist with 36 years of service at Environment and Climate Change Canada, specialising in flood and drought analysis across British Columbia and the Yukon — establishing recurrence frequencies for extreme water events and helping communities understand what the land can and cannot sustain.
He is a French Canadian pacifist, lifelong seeker, and member of the Universal Gospel Choir of Vancouver. His intellectual and spiritual influences include Carl Sagan, Buckminster Fuller, St. Francis of Assisi, and Jean Houston. The Blue Dot Project is the culmination of a life spent at the intersection of systems thinking, ecological science, and the deepest questions of human purpose.
Guy is a stroke survivor. He presents through an AI voice because he wants his ideas to reach you as clearly as they deserve — not because he has anything to hide. He is proud of the progress he has made, and more certain than ever that the New World is not coming. It is being built.
Get Involved
Whether you are a potential Founding Director, a prospective donor, a community member, or simply someone who believes another way is possible — we would like to hear from you.
Or write directly to: info@sustainablegardenfoundation.org