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| Perhaps we need a sustainability version !! |
If we had to define what would constitute the basic principles when it comes to reducing your ecological footprint what would they be?. Here is one version:
- Consume less
- Power
- Water
- Building/construction materials- go simple tech as against high-tech
- Consumer goods
- Consume local
- Eat local produce
- Build using local materials and skills
- Generate less waste.... Re-use and recycle
- Build using old or discarded materials... apply clean tech
- Compost and share with neighbours
- Choose what you buy.... things that wont contribute to the waste you produce
- Throw away less
- Occupy less space
- Do you really need all that extra built area?
- Do you really need that big a car?
- Go independent... as far as possible
- Build as much with what you have
- Be self sufficient in your harvesting water and generation of energy (as long as it makes sense in terms of the Life-cycle)
- Manage what little waste that you generate
- Travel less and travel green
- Use your car/two-wheeler less frequently
- Use a bus instead of your car/bike.
- Use a cycle for the short distances
- And if you can walk... go for it.
- Work as a community
- Share resources
- Share travel resources
- Assist in solving each other's problems
- Get others to live sustainability, it is your responsibility too
- Give back
- Recharge the ground water
- Share power that you generate
- Plant as many trees as you possibly can
- Take only what you need... probably the most important since it is this very appetite that has gotten us into this environmental glut
