Sun VillagesInstitute
02 · The audiobook

Can't Buy Property?
read aloud

The whole book, as a story told to you. For the drive, the walk, the garden and the workshop.

Why an audiobook

Some ideas have to be heard as a story

The hardest parts of the Sun Villages model, the yin currency above all, do not fit in a chart. Stina wrote them the only way they can be understood: through what happened. A Friday market. A block of flats. A bank that called in its loans with three weeks' notice.

The audiobook keeps it that way, for people who think best while their hands are busy.

  • StatusIn production.
  • ReleaseExpected late 2026. The date will be announced here.
  • LengthAbout 101,000 words, roughly eleven hours at an easy reading pace. Our estimate until the edit is final.
  • ReaderTo be announced.
  • WhereFrom this page, and the usual audiobook stores where possible.
Be told the day it lands. Email support@sunvillages.com.au with the word audiobook. One email when it is out, nothing else.
What you will hear

Three books, forty three chapters

Book I · The case
  • Introduction to Book I
  • The Rising Cost of Housing
  • The Insightful Work of Bernard Lietaer
  • The Importance of Local
  • Our Disintegrating Social Fabric
  • Too Good to Be True
  • Rebuilding Our Social Fabric
  • The Ideal Representation of the Sun Villages Model
Book II · The story
  • Introduction to Book II
  • Preamble
  • Fate Steps In
  • The Great Turning Point
  • The Elderly
  • Money Can't Buy Love
  • My Parents
  • Off Filming Overseas Lifestyles for ABC Television
  • Resuming Life in Australia
  • Creating My Security
  • Becoming Aware of Social Capital
  • Building My Home and Surviving
  • Seeking My Tribe
  • Questioning Autonomy and Sustainability
  • The Finding of Suitable Urban Land for a Village
  • Designing Our Village Brief
  • The Legacy of Bill Mollison
  • LETS Trade
  • Enhance, Enjoy and Secure Your Neighbourhood
  • Developing Our Ideas
  • Integrated Ecovillages
  • Homelessness and Older Single Women
  • Continuing On with the Village Ideal
  • Onward We Go: Exploring the World of Finance and Trends
  • Down the Rabbit Hole
  • Confronted by the Financial Gate
  • Unfinished Conversations
Book III · The model
  • Introduction to Book III
  • Three Principles of Social Sustainability
  • New Form of Home Ownership
  • Comparison of Investment Benefits
  • What Are the Benefits to Owner-Residents?
  • The Best of Both Renting and Owning
  • Overview of the Financial Advantages of the Sun Villages Model
  • Appendix: The Sun Villages Model in Brief
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Until it arrives

The films carry the same ideas in a few minutes each. Start with the village ledger.

I Am a Ledger

2 min · The village exchange, in its own voice.

An Ordinary Tuesday

10 min · What a house costs when the neighbours own the building.

She's 86 and Still Needed

10 min · Where you grow old, and why it matters.

Read about the book

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