Living in the Future Episode 03

Undercurrents produced a DVD highlighting the working positive examples from the growing number of housing pioneers across the UK. We produce a monthly video about the development of an EcoVillage in West Wales which you can watch online
http://www.livinginthefuture.org
For a decade undercurrents has recorded the UK's most high profile campaigners on low impact living. We have charted how Tony Wrench and his partner challenged and radically changed a council's policy on rural housing. Their unique, inexpensive ecohome made from oak, cobwood and recycled window walls, straw-insulated turf roof, with solar power for electricity, compost toilet and reed beds for grey water is now a proven example of what the Government needs to be providing.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• undercurrents
• activism
• ecovillage
• environment
• low
• impact

[MannySteinerBIeeky]

Damn straight this is the future, it's this or it's nothing.

[jannevellamo]

@yozeroz It's not the small town mentality that's the problem. Small towns can be nice places to live, depending on who lives there. All it takes to spoil everything for everybody is ONE single Scrooge or Grinch who defines himself through such concepts as property, ownership, domination, influence, greed and the inferiority of others. People like that can turn any paradise into a Gulag simply by (ab)using the legal system. They can stall or thwart any attempt to create something better.

[yozeroz]

@jannevellamo I agree, they're unbelievable. They say they have the best interests of the future of the community at heart. What community? What future? Both are being lost, our children have our mess to sort out, and they have a big job to rebuild they own communities away from the isolation, alienation and suicide supporting society, where things seem easier just to die than to live. These people seriously need to get their priorities straight and their prejudiced small town mentality out

[yozeroz]

I can't believe the opposition some of these projects get. The question is can we compromise and live together or just work against each other and against nature, until eventually things come to an end.

[yozeroz]

@b1kes True that.

[b1kes]

Love this. If this is human potential, there's hope.

[jannevellamo]

Every time somebody tries to do something different, there's a popular "outrage" from people who claim to only have the best of the community in mind, the best being the price of realty or the "unique" landscape or the environment. Really, these are always the same people who think they own the whole neighborhood. They exert their rule over their neighbors by constantly whining about everything, starting from dogturds and ending in whether you can build on your own land. They're scum.

[britpatRIOT100]

How disguisting the peoples attitudes who are against this. Cant people see that the people used to profit off there own labour, now huge corporations and government profit off there labour. local councils will always be against these type of planning applications because the people applying for these projects will be off the grid and therefore not a slave to the system and the corporations. If only people would truely understand the meaning of the well overused word FREEDOM.

[copefarms]

looked like a bunch of old people complaining about the young people.

Sometimes you cant teach an old dog new tricks. People dont like change and the older crowd is happy with the way things are and not open to new ideas.

[bikr1975]

this is a wonderful example of the perfect community. strong social skills and the understanding that possibly the end of a life controlling technology most others THOUGHT they couldnt live without, this is the way of the future.

we have to rely on mother earth to house and feed us and to teach us to help countless others in the very near future.

im all for your work .

and want to join you.......