Eco Living

SUSTAINABLE ABODES

Living in the 21st Century is going to see a lot more focus on sustainable living. Environmental changes will encourage us to search for cleaner, renewable energy resources and the quest for finding better, more ecological ways for living will transform all of our lives.

There's been so much media attention on what the necessary changes are over the last 30 years - and yet, there appears to be little advancement on how we're going to achieve any of this. It feels like the same mindset that potentially destroyed civilisation on Easter Island is here in the 21st century - namely, civilisation out of control, contributing even more greenhouse gasses, toxic waste and magnifying the problems to a point of no return.

Looking at some of the proposed alternative houses available out there - there seems to be a complete failure to understand what we are going to need for the common good, as is evident from this article on The Telegraph's website. What we need, are affordable houses - that are ecologically efficient - and we need to start creating them to live in very soon.

So what's stopping us from making more affordable energy-efficient homes? The idea that we have to compromise on our contemporary modes of living are what's holding us back - as people are generally mis-informed about what an eco-home can be. The other issue facing us, is the cost of the land and the focus on making money pushing up prices far beyond what is affordable by the masses.

The UK government owns a massive £330 billion of land and property which has land suitable for housing development. If an initiative could be introduced that segments off parts of the country for community-style permaculture living, we could see a change in how people live - as they adopt a lower-cost lifestyle and over time, eventually adapt to a truly sustainable style of living.