simple sustainable living- summary

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Simple Sustainable Living


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Why live simply or sustainably?

More time and energy for friends and family.

Fewer items and bills to keep track of.

Pay fewer taxes and fees.

More manna/ good karma/ virtue

Good for neighbours, locality and planet


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1 Simple Sustainable Body

To live sustainably it is important to maintainyour health

Sleep at least 6-8 hours a day, potentially also

nap. For heart and lungs, do aerobic exercizes, like

walking, running, and biking.

For muscles and bones, do resistanceexercizes, like weight lifting, and yoga


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2 Simple Sustainable Fuel

Organic agro-ecological ethical vegetables,fruits, seeds, and animalia.

Avoid processed foods, killer -cides, cruelly

treated animals or byproducts. Use sustainably harvested renewable energy,

such as solar, wind, water, and plant energy


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3 Freedom

Live free, escape or move if necessary

Avoid hoarding (proprietary), slavery, theft(for-profit).

Use open source software, copyleft, fair-trade,non-profit, co-operative,

Avoid prison slave products in developed

countries, poverty slave products in developingcountries.


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4 Heart Goals

Set your heart on simple sustainable goals

Avoid materialist consumerist goals, that harmthe environment, such as big houses, cars, toys

and outings to restaurants and entertainment. Aim to meet the hierarchy of needs for you,

your family and friends, simply and sustainably.

Forest garden, homestead, tools, ecovillage.


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5 Expression Recording

Avoid deforestation, clear-cutting, rare-earth andenergy intensive mediums.

Use sustainable media, like recycled or

sustainably harvested paper, canvas and fabric. For things you'd like to keep a long time, put them

on a long-lived medium instead of copyingbetween short-lived ones.

Clay-tablets, cave-paintings, etched stone andmetal.


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6 sensations

We have at least 5 senses, and it is best tocherish each and everyone.

Avoid the need for sensory aids by keeping

your eyes, ears, and other senses in workingorder, through good habits and nutrition.

Use tunable sensory aids to allow larger variety

Allow others to sense what they experience


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7 transportation

Use sustainable means of transportation

Walking, running, swimming with the body

Human powered vehicles, bicycles, boats, andeven air-planes are available.

Animal power is slower and more polluting

Electric, hybrid and biodiesel vehicles are high

maintenance and polluting but better thanpetro-chemical. CNG fracking destroys land.


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8 domiciles and buildings

Small and tiny homes and buildings are easier tobuild, maintain and are sufficient for theirpurposes, like traditional huts.

A human only needs 10m^3 free space to live 6months+ in a place comfortably, anymore issuperfluous.

Traditional, trailer and boat homes are easier to

move, in case the geo-political situationchanges, or becomes hostile to the residents.


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9 gardening environment

The planet doesn't just need the biggestoffenders to stop polluting, it needs you to livesimply and sustainably.

Start and maintain permaculture, organic,polycultural forest-garden habitat, for you andcreation.

Reduce reliance on eating big things like

animals, and focus on the small like plants,fungi, insects, bacteria.


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10 technology

Use simple manual tools where possible, theyare more reliable, safer and cheaper.

Only relying on complex high-tech tools when

unavoidable. Do It Yourself, when you can, or can learn to do

so safely, it will benefit your soul, as yourknowledge you can take with you to becomethe talents of your next lives.


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11 communication

Face to face communication allows highestdefinition.

Instant online and radio communication

requires more infrastructure, but once in placecan have lower burden than postal.

Books, articles, letters, are good forcommunicating things that are for multiplepeople, or for reading over long periods of time.


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12 meetings

Online interaction is only for negotiation

To do things together in the physical world, co-location is required, where the meat-bodies

intersect in an area. It is the highest expression of love, to join in

location, with proximity denoting level of love.

If some people really love each other, it isimportant they colocate to fulfil that love.


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13 respect laws

When there are many powerful beings thatshare a space.

It is important to have rules and laws to protect

the place and beings while allowing all toexperience fulfilment.

We can make and follow our own rules

Those we observe in nature are natural laws


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14 business trade

To live with other communities, we must eitherwork for money or barter our produce.

Find employment or start businesses that are

sustainable and encourage longevity, whileproviding you with personal fulfilment.

Mix together all you know and learn to join orform an ecovillage, allowing you to livewholistically with all aspects included.


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15 Reproduce or Educate

If you have a very good life experience withyour body, and you think others would enjoy lifein a similar body, it is good to find a compatiblepartner and reproduce to better the world.

If what you have learned is what makes life sogreat, then perhaps simply sharing thisknowledge through teaching is what is enough.

Homeschool your children if you have both.

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