Self Sufficiency an Expensive Luxury
I’ve had my work cut out for me lately, we’ve moved and I’ve been flat-out trying to set up our new 40 acre block as a self-sufficient farm. It’s a whole “family community” enterprise and while we’re all excited about the longer term potential, the workload and expense has been astronomical! We’re twelve months into [...]
Un-Sustainable Rise Of Complexity and Bureaucracy
“Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.” – Albert Einstein Bureaucracy irritates me, I mean REALLY <blanky> irritates me. All my friends hate bureaucracy. All my family hates bureaucracy. In fact, everyone I’ve ever mentioned the word bureaucracy to hates bureaucracy! If so many of us (seemingly all of us) hate bureaucracy, then why [...]
Consumerism and Sustainable Job Creation
There are very few humans currently living on planet earth that would dare claim that everything is rosy with our system. Yet we’ve had a hundred years – a whole century of rapid developments in mechanization, technological advance and social tinkering which promised to deliver a better world. One of the main promises of mechanization [...]
Affordable, Sustainable Housing Made Illegal!
I came by a recent copy of the Warwick local newspaper and was appalled to see the headline story was an unveiled threat by local council to vigorously pursue shire residents who were “living illegally” in sheds and other unapproved dwellings. Local council crackdowns on non-approved dwellings are nothing new. Councils, of course, have the [...]
Low Risk Renewable Energy Investment
These days interest in renewable energy is high and naturally interest in renewable energy investment has risen dramatically. Typical of societies driven by rampant consumerism all manner of con-men are stepping up to the plate to fleece well meaning investors with what amounts to little more than gambling in a highly speculative area. It’s very [...]
Self-Sufficiency The Key To Sustainable Living
Is “self sufficiency” just some outmoded ideal of the nineteen-sixties flower power days? Or does self-sufficiency offer the hope of a more sustainable world? When we think of self-sufficiency it generally conjures up images of peasants toiling away in the garden to produce enough – just enough – to survive. We rarely associate self-sufficient living [...]