Our solution lies in strengthening community.
Simply put, the solution to global warming is to redesign community around people instead of the car.
By living closer to the earth in human scale communities, that is where everyone knows everyone else, we will reduce our energy requirements by living where we work. Increasingly people are beginning to form communities based upon the concept of sustainability, growing their own food as much as possible, providing the local community with a product they make using sustainable practices, living without fossil fuels as much as possible.
Sustainable Community Resources
Organic farming and gardening links
Join an organic food coop (contact info to follow soon)
Find a CSA (contract service arrangement) with a local organic farmer
Buy from local producers. Buy Bulk.
Support mass transit. And carpool.
Recycle, compost your kitchen waste in the back yard.
Use half the laundry detergent they suggest, or buy from area health food stores where environmentally safe laundry detergent can be purchased.
Buy Organic and help save the family farm. Eat less meat. A pound of beef requires about 280 gallons of water to bring to market. A pound of soybeans requires 7 gallons. Besides, it's not really good for our hearts for our diets to be so "meatcentric" anyway. Beans and rice are cheap even organically. If the true costs of say for instance: hog "farming"... A factory hog farm with 800,000 hogs produces the same amount of waste as New York City. New York City has 14 waste treatment facilities. An 800,000 head hog farm has ponds which during the rainy season spill into the water table polluting wells. If the true costs of having 800,000 hogs on a very small area with virtually no waste treatment were factored into the market price, the family farm would be the most cost effective to grow our food.)
