"A goal is the result or achievement toward which effort is directed; an aim, an end."
"A goal is the terminal point in a race."  
"Webster's Dictionaries Goals Guiding the Policies and Operation of an Ecologically
 Sustainable Community (As derived from the community's Core Values)
   A. Ecological Sustainability and Resource Consciousness:
      a) Contribute to altering the existing world-paradigm to one of sustainability and living off of direct, self-renewing solar increase rather than fossilized solar increase. This is called living on the Natural Capital Income.
      b) Foster education from early childhood onward that is based in the understanding of ecological principles and processes and how to live sustainably within them.
      c) Achieve sustainability with respect to the resources available to the community. These include food, water, solid waste, sewage and the nutrient cycle, renewable energy, materials and methods of construction, and transportation. Maintain a community population level that is sustainable by the community.

  B. Community:
      a) Develop a strong town esprit de corps, based on shared ecological values, ethics of sustainability and joy in solving problems and working cooperatively.
      b) Be pro-active in promoting those values beyond the EcoVillage.
      c) Create a community with a committed ecological stance and ethic.
      d) Build a community politically and physically easy of access to its citizens.
      e) Develop sustainable design experience for the community leaders and citizens.

  C. Self-Determination:
      a) If feasible incorporate the EcoVillage legally. If that is not feasible, strive to be an active positive influence on building and infrastructure codes in the surrounding environs.
      b) Place limits-to-growth restrictions on village population and area, to create a compact EcoVillage. "Clone" similar, allied villages rather than growing beyond the sustainable carrying capacity of any one site.

  D. Social Conscience and Socio-Economic Equity:
Create town-administered sustainability programs for socio-economic equity, based on ecological principles such as: credit unions or banks, seed-capital loans for creating local enterprise, community-currency, health & education insurance, etc.

  E. Synergies are Promoted at All Levels:
A positive creative synergy of the differing: village environments, age groups, income & educational levels, religions, internal-external village issues, etc.

  F. Citizen Access, with Participation Encouraged at All Levels:
      a) A goal for the community is to provide leadership for its wider environment, and make a positive difference to the larger region of the Texas panhandle.
      b) Participate in any greater-community's efforts at bioregional watershed planning, and support their plans for regional administration.

  G. Beauty:
To create a community which is known world-wide for its unique beauty

  H. Strong Local Economic Stability:
      a) Each village owns its own utilities; "profits" above replacement and maintenance costs, going to the community.
      b) Business is not subsidized, and pays its fair share to the community.