Hello and welcome - especially to Packer fans! No, this isn't about football, but I do love the Packers. The other thing that this site is not about is how to become a homesteader. Sustainability is often associated by a return to the land, but that is only one way of being sustainable. Most of us have to find ways of becoming more sustainable where we find ourselves.
This website explores resources and success stories in sustainability. My purpose is to help you find solutions to questions about how to live a more sustainable life.
On this website and in its blog you will find posts showing you how to become more sustainable, as well as success stories on the web that also highlight resources for sustainable living. I'm interested in raising awareness and perhaps some creativity. If you walk away from a story ready to do something I'm happy.
Click on the Blog link: there are new entries at least twice a week.
Click on the Resources heading: there are all kinds of helpful stuff there.
If you'd like to know where to start in personally becoming more sustainable, read this post first: 5 Ways To Start Living Sustainably.
I expanded this to 10 Steps To Sustainability, which you will find under Resources.
There's also 5 Ways to Move Beyond Consumerism.
Or 15 Ways to Lower Food Costs and 3 Factors of Resiliency.
Consider 6 Steps to Financial Sustainability.
Part of the problem is that we are often caught in cultural programming by our consumer culture so that we can't think of other ways to live. Read 5 Ways to Learn How to Think.
If you would like to become more familiar with the economic philosophy behind sustainable living, have a look at my book review of E.F. Schumacher's Small Is Beautiful.
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This website focuses on individual sustainability, but is equally concerned about building sustainable communities. What do I mean by community sustainability? Here is the big picture: a diagram of the three areas of sustainability. It's a way to visualize the interdependent web of realms within which we try to live sustainable lives.
As you see, sustainable living takes place where the realms of the environment, the economy, and society intersect. The more balanced these interactions are, the more sustainable is the process. Everything you or I do to become more sustainable takes place within this context.
On this website and in the blog you will also find stories about how we can help make our society, environment and economy more sustainable.
For an example of community projects, see 5 Projects for Community Sustainability.
See also Wendell Berry: 17 Rules for a Sustainable Local Community.
I think that cooperatives should become the basic form of economic organization. See Cooperatives 101 - A Basis for Economic Sustainability.
For an example of what is possible in a sustainable community, please note Wildpoldsried - Example of a Sustainable Village.
For an overview of how to invest more of your money in your local economy, please see my book review of Amy Cortese's Locavesting.
Sustainability is often a process of becoming independent from entanglements and becoming part of enabling communities. The stories you will find here often have that theme in common. I hope that some of the news and ideas here will stimulate reflection on how to achieve success in sustainability in your context.
All I ask in return is for you to help spread the word by tweets, emails, or likes.
gerrit