Sustainability Starts at Home.

[hearthstone]

Sustainability Starts at Home.

The focal point of individual family lives is the place where people go to replenish their strength, where people go to heal; it is a place where people can grow their own sustenance--not having to rely on the many middlemen, be those bureaucratic, or any other kind of middlemen, to do something that they themselves can do themselves; it is a place from where people can reign over their entire earthly domain--it is called HOME!

The foregoing is a fiction for most people, but unless it becomes a reality for all humanity, humanity has not arrived yet. When all humans have a home that would be a font of wholesomeness instead of being a source of anxieties , only then humans will have the right to call themselves "sapient", only then we can start calling themselves intelligent.

There is no doubt in my mind that such a home will be transparently sustainable in every aspect and it will be a matter of indisputable right, of societal necessity for everyone to have such a home, unlike today when humanity in its madness considers a home that is less accessible (in price) a good thing to exist.

Indeed, the quest for sustainability should start with everyone having the possibility to start a sustainable home, no matter how humble, right now, before the excesses of our mismanagement result in situations in which we might have a lot of money, but nothing to buy with it--nothing to eat and no things to get from anywhere.

A real home will be a good thing to have in times when laboring for money will not result in obtaining even the basic necessities for life. Having a sustainable home will be more reliable than any kind of welfare. If having a good sustainable home would be the norm, rather than something only the well-to-do have access to, many social ills that are directly, or indirectly connected to most people lacking a really good home will have ceased to exist; to wit: homelessness, poverty (no one would have to hungry, homeless, etc.), and also a lot of criminal behavior--surely assuring that social misfits have the opportunity to take their own "healing" into their own hands would be the first in healing of the society?.

By forever trying to become sustainable with all the little fixes, by introducing more and more laws and rules, we might never become sustainable.

We might have a chance if we start with the basics; the basics start at home.

Thank you, Hearthstone - ModelEarth.Org .

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Designing Sustainable Sebastopol:
https://groups.yahoo.com/group/SustainableSebastopol/

[Deborah]

That is a beautiful concept, hoping we can figure out how to achieve it. Well done, I agree completely...
Deborah

[nicofrog]

Ah
Good old Sustainability!!!
As my dear departed friend Mark Lappe' (union of concerned scientists,worlds top toxicologist ,informant behind"diet for a small planet"etc) used to say"when thinking about sustainability, you have to
decide what you want to sustain."
L.A. for instance, is probably environmentally un-sustainable, as is ,3/4 of the people would have to disperse to other locations, then a huge toxics super-fund cleanup be done, then millions of tons of bio-remediation ..
I'm guessing at all this,no desire to begin a debate... the "Bay Area" could easily be as far from hope for a balance with nature.
So yes I agree that Zone one(Home) would be a nice place to start, but we are inexorably connected to the greater society of Malls, and freeways.
Let's say there is hope for true Sustainability , whatever that is...We run in to a political situation called land owners "rights" evidently, there are people who believe they "Own" the area called United States of America,and they can charge TAX on that, and people can buy it on tyme with things called MORTGAGES (death-bonds) This is all brought to you by a culture that used to burn people of the wrong religion on street corners to keep warm in winter time.
I write about this in an authoritative Manner, because I am "homeless"
as I choose to be, and untaxed, as I choose to be. And live in a vehicle I theoretically "own" although driving is a privilege ,not a right in this country.one could say they OWN the spot of land under their car! but naturally, cars have wheels and can be towed away!
I have a lot to offer this culture, and enjoy the work I do with children, and Art. There is no rational, or sustainability in my financial situation, nor will there ever be,and how could there be in a country that creates money out of thin air, then gives it all to rich c.e.o.'s Then tries to tell folks they have a bad rating of some sort...and should fill out this form or the other
blah blah blah... Sorry but it never made sense to me as a kid, and I'm still running on that logic...somebody fill me in, and I'll get an I.R.A.(no no not the Army, the bank account, Meanwhile I'm happy enough NOT to fit in.
Nico





Sustainability Starts at Home.

The focal point of individual family lives is the place where people go to replenish their strength, where people go to heal; it is a place where people can grow their own sustenance--not having to rely on the many middlemen, be those bureaucratic, or any other kind of middlemen, to do something that they themselves can do themselves; it is a place from where people can reign over their entire earthly domain--it is called HOME!

The foregoing is a fiction for most people, but unless it becomes a reality for all humanity, humanity has not arrived yet. When all humans have a home that would be a font of wholesomeness instead of being a source of anxieties , only then humans will have the right to call themselves "sapient", only then we can start calling themselves intelligent.

There is no doubt in my mind that such a home will be transparently sustainable in every aspect and it will be a matter of indisputable right, of societal necessity for everyone to have such a home, unlike today when humanity in its madness considers a home that is less accessible (in price) a good thing to exist.

Indeed, the quest for sustainability should start with everyone having the possibility to start a sustainable home, no matter how humble, right now, before the excesses of our mismanagement result in situations in which we might have a lot of money, but nothing to buy with it--nothing to eat and no things to get from anywhere.

A real home will be a good thing to have in times when laboring for money will not result in obtaining even the basic necessities for life. Having a sustainable home will be more reliable than any kind of welfare. If having a good sustainable home would be the norm, rather than something only the well-to-do have access to, many social ills that are directly, or indirectly connected to most people lacking a really good home will have ceased to exist; to wit: homelessness, poverty (no one would have to hungry, homeless, etc.), and also a lot of criminal behavior--surely assuring that social misfits have the opportunity to take their own "healing" into their own hands would be the first in healing of the society?.

By forever trying to become sustainable with all the little fixes, by introducing more and more laws and rules, we might never become sustainable.

We might have a chance if we start with the basics; the basics start at home.

Thank you, Hearthstone - ModelEarth.Org .

--
Designing Sustainable Sebastopol:
https://groups.yahoo.com/group/SustainableSebastopol/