The future lies in creating a society that promotes the things thatimprove our well-being. Not money, consumerism or fame - all symptoms of affluenza. But a society based on community, kinship & sustainability.
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Words
If it had been the purpose of human activity to bring the planet to the edge of ruin, no more efficient mechanism could have been invented than the market economy.
Jeremy Seabrook
It wasn't the Exxon Valdez captain's driving that caused the Alaskan oil spill. It was yours. Greenpeace
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Henrik Tikkanen
There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.
Marshall McLuhan
Actions
- FEASTA - The Foundation for Economics of Sustainability - aims to identify the characteristics (economic, cultural and environmental) of a truly sustainable society, articulate how the necessary transition can be effected and promote the implementation of the measures required for this purpose.
- Global Ecovillage Network - The Global Ecovillage Network is a global confederation of people and communities that meet and share their ideas, exchange technologies, develop cultural and educational exchanges, directories and newsletters, and are dedicated to restoring the land and living "sustainable plus" lives by putting more back into the environment than we take out.
- The Ecologist Online - The Ecologist is the world’s most respected environmental affairs magazine. Each month we examine the connection between a wide range of subjects. Whether it’s food, war, politics, pharmaceuticals, farming, toxic chemicals, corporate fraud, mass media or supermarkets, the ecologist challenges conventional thinking and empowers readers to tackle global issues on a local scale.
- Rising Tide Magazine - Rising Tide UK is a network of groups and individuals dedicated to taking local action and building a movement against climate change. Want to get involved? For more of the latest Climate Change News, Info, and what you can do, check out the Rising Tide News Sheet
- Findhorn Foundation - is the educational and organisational cornerstone of the Findhorn Community, and its work is based on the values of planetary service, co-creation with nature and attunement to the divinity within all beings. We believe that humanity is engaged in an evolutionary expansion of consciousness, and seek to develop new ways of living infused with spiritual values. We have no formal creed or doctrine. We recognise and honour all the world's major religions as the many paths to knowing our own inner divinity.
- Living Soil - pioneering sustainable communities. provides all natural, probiotic-based products for home and garden, human health, agriculture, waste and septic treatment, and environmental sustainability.
- Green Books - We are an independent UK publishing company, producing books on a wide range of environmental and cultural issues.
- Eco-Logic Books - We are a small, ethically run company that specialises in books that provide practical solutions to environmental problems.
- Ecohub - eco information site with links for eco based subjects and self build resources. Ecohub is not for profit and run by volunteers.
- Climate Care - how green are you? Reduce your footprint & offset the rest.
- The Environment Site - to help you protect the environment at no cost to yourself.
- GrownUp Green - to advance public education in the protection and improvement of the natural environment and to raise awareness of activities which enable society to develop in a sustainable way.
Sustainability
We live in a society that is stupidly wasting our natural resources through the senseless destruction of the environment. For future generations it is necessary to change the direction of our growth and progress to something that is ecologically sound. Our settlement is based on family owned land where each family owns one hectare of land to be kept in the family for generations.
One hectare with woods, fruit trees, garden and a small pond can provide the family with all of life’s necessities. By using long ignored methods of cultivating the earth and harvesting in the context of preserving the earth for future generations, this hectare of land will produce enough for the family’s use with surplus. Besides agriculture, every community can develop crafts that can provide for the people’s needs for manufactured goods.
The majority of people spend about 10 hours daily earning the money to buy two kilograms of food and for housing. This accounts for practically all of their useful time for life. With the use of “adobe” methods and/or timber, a person can build for himself inexpensive and practical housing of much better quality than that built by modern methods. Food grown in the garden is healthier and tastier than that purchased at the store. A person can much more efficiently satisfy his needs and spend the tremendous resource of extra time exploring the arts, pursuing invention and on self improvement.
The general implementation of these ideas can lead to significant improvements in health, reduction in crime, strengthening of family relations and harmonious self development. This would decrease technology related catastrophes and create a drastic reduction in the exhaustion of natural resources for industrial production, and even the reduction of travel expenses and refocus the expenditure of energy from manufacturing, to rebuilding the environment.
