Eco-villages Prove to Be Sustainable

[jpak]

http://en.epochtimes.com/news/8-2-12/65854.html

Australians produce over 560 million tonnes of greenhouse gases annually—that is equivalent to putting 127 million cars on the road.

In an eco-village, however, life is all about ecological balance and sustainability.

"The whole community is solar powered, there's no one connected to the grid, so there's no one using fossil fuels for their energy consumption," said Chelsea McNab, a community resident from the Moora Moora Co-operative Community, located just 90 minutes from Melbourne.

Although many may not be quite ready for mud-brick houses or compost toilets, Moora Moora shows just how environmental sustainability can be done.

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[chaska]

1. Cool! You know, I've lived over a year of my life in the woods...

on various hiking trips. Everybody should go on a long distance hike, like a month or two. You learn just how unnecessary it is to live as we do in this "modern" life. We wouldn't be giving up a thing by living the way these folks do. The happiest times of my life have been while hiking on the Appalachian Trail.

Why on earth, in the face of peak oil, global warming, etc, are we working so hard to preserve the life we live now? Abandon it, I say. The future is the past, if we don't screw it all up beyond all repair.