The systems of an earthship encounter the forces of nature, mainly the sun, rain, and wind, and funnels them into your home to provide everything you need to live comfortably with annual utility bills of around $200 or less.

When you are truly self-sufficient and out of debt you take away some of the main sources of stress: buying food, paying the bills, covering the mortgage or rent, and needing to work full-time to allow this to continue. We can also look at environmental issues and great need to build smarter and in a more connected way, especially in the face of climate change.

Charting for personal growth

Every morning, no matter what, I do two things.

I do a series of breathing exercises, and then I chart how I feel about certain qualities and attributes.

How does charting work for me

My chart consists of a few things.

How do I feel about areas of my life such as relationships, money and work.

How confident am I feeling. How peaceful am I feeling. How much joy am I feeling?

How worthy do I feel of love, joy, happiness, and abundance.

I rank myself on a scale of 0-100. At first I did 0-10 but felt I did not have enough flexibility to get accurate measurements. I self assess ... There is no perfect way to ensure validity in this case ... I simply go with the first number that comes to mind.

After I have scored myself in all of the categories I go through my list and circle all of the items where I scored low.

Next is the important part ...

Low budget DIY sprouting trays made at home in 15mins

For just £1 I have created an alternative set of sprouting trays which will be used on my windowsill so that I can add huge amounts of nutrition to my body in just a few small bites, keeping me feeling chipper throughout the day.

This purple kale for example grew in three days made me feel great! I munched on it exactly as you can see it here. No extras needed.

3 Different Types of Food Forests for Your Homestead

eally is an amazing concept and I love that you can grow more food per acre by mimicking a forest.

But what type of forest should you mimic? In the temperate world there are many different types of forests.

This week's blog post - Types of Food Forests - Which is Right for You? - combines the natural forests into 3 general types that you can mimic when designing and planting your own food forest.

Each type has its own pros and cons which the blog post covers in full.

The Great Disruption by Paul Gilding Book Review/Discussion

Today we are reviewing the book The Great Disruption and discussing the potential economic effects of an ignored crisis.

Buy your own copy of the book here: https://amzn.to/2X3Tcqw

Let me know in the comments down below your thoughts on the book and if you will be picking it up or not.

Why Blockchain is the Only Answer for Environment, Empowerment, Climate & The Undev Nations

You have all seen the endless list of naysayers & straight out LIARS about Blockchain & Bitcoin. Rich elitist controllers, central bankers, "free range-slavery" promoting leftist politicians, to bankers & economists who hate the people getting a level playing field opportunity. But LIARS they are, as there are many problems which Blockchain can help solve which the establishment has either completely failed in, or in reality never wanted solved at all & has obviously avoided solving.

Sustainable Volunteering in the Age of Digital Currency

This topic is inspired by this post by @jennislay, and subsequent off chain discussions with my friends @burntoblog and @ogbrog.

Please know that even if you use chemicals, I do not stand in judgement of you & I pledge to stand WITH you to support you in every way possible to help you transition your property to a healthy management system...

-@jennislay, in a pledge I'm working within myself to make.

Her post, and the above paragraph in particular was inspiring to me, and almost singlehandedly spurred another paradigm shift. The people using these products are doing so from a position of love and good will. There's just more to the story than what they're told or what we've been told. My enmity for them is falling to the wayside, and it's got new wheels turning. I'm working on harboring less disdain for people embedded in that system, and turning that previous negative energy into hope and love that I aim to use to help shift other people's paradigms.

Take Back Control of Your Own Mind...

I wanted to take a moment this week to discuss something that has been on my mind lately. This will not be my typical post, but one that I think will round out my feelings on government as I view it as of writing this post today.

I was born in the United States and have resided within this land all my adult life. I was born into a democratic family and lived in a poor community most of my early life. My family was not one that was very political - only when it seemed to matter during the 4 year major presidential elections. I lived in an underprivileged manner with a "check to check" type of lifestyle. We always had food on the table, but that was mostly thanks to the welfare checks and food stamps bestowed to my divorced mother since we were deemed at the "poverty level."

Our Fragile Sea Life

I whipped up some paintings to make sure I was in a position to represent my art classes for Seniors Week and they are inspired by a tutorial which I talk about in a recent post. Our oceans represent a fragile ecosystem and one that in the 60s, seemed like it could never be compromised by human activity. People thought our planets most massive bodies of water were just too great to ever reach the critical point where they are now on our account. For me, it was of great interest to look at the pristine universe which we are loosing day by day thanks to human activity but one might look at the work and it may not cross their mind.

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We've loved reading what Steemians are doing to be conscious, alternative consumers, being aware of what they can do to make the world a better place, in all kinds of ways! From growing your own spirulina (who needs expensive supplements) to using snails as skin care, to rose face scrubs or reducing plastic waste, you guys showed you CARED about the environment and your health - AND you supported the tags #naturalmedicine and #ecotrain, who are uniting conscious communities that care about the earth AND your health.

HSCO's Last 7 Featured Vendors | A RECAP.

Hello again from @SenorCoconut,

The Homesteaders Co-op is an International Marketplace for Sustainable, Handmade Goods.

Where Mom & Pop vendors are accepting USD, STEEM & SBD for their handmade, sustainable, homegrown and ethically sourced products.

A lot has been happening internally to help everyone within the community... Vendors, Contributors and Participants alike. Things are moving pretty rapidly and we're learning how to grow and adapt to this ever changing digital market.

Today, instead of going on with our typical VENDOR FEATURE of the week, I wanted to have a recap of everyone we had featured in this series thus far.

Like I've mentioned before in these posts:

It takes a village to raise a child, because when people help eachother life is easier for everyone involved.

So have a look at everyone featured here and if anyone strikes you as the kind of person you would see yourself doing business with, please go ahead and visit their shops!



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