Living in the future 23- Steward Wood low impact community

Steward Wood is a low impact community living in Dartmoor National Park. They have just received 5 year temporary planning permission to continue their experimental project.
http://www.livinginthefuture.org/

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• undercurrents
• low
• impact
• community
• Dartmoor
• National
• Park
• environment
• bender

[johnnygiv]

I love this song.. Do you know the name, and artist?

[undercurrentspaulo]

The band is Headmix collective

[Restie76]

(continued..) Other children who are of school age are actively home educated in the woods and access a wealth of educational resources nearby including other Home Ed groups. Many of the kids are involved in external activities eg Beavers, Judo, Swimming etc The group isn't cut off from society at all, rather they welcome visitors, have open days and hold courses to inform people who are interested of why they live as they do.

[Restie76]

I have visited this community countless times over the years and so have found some of the latest comments laughable. Please bear in mind that the video is a snap shot only...if it was 2 hrs long or even 30mins, many of the negative comments would be found to be unfounded.

The group are well connected with the local community, working along side locals in paid and voluntary jobs. Some of the kids attend the local schools and have fitted in well.

[ducksbumhole]

Well done this is brilliant! I wouldn't worry about your carbon footprint though, that's a commercial sales technique to charge people more money... I love the video and the lifestyle. peace

[stiglaa]

Fantastic. Its great to be able to connect with other like minded people on here!.

Love and peace to you all.

Stiglaa x

[528hertz]

Given Carbon is the primary food for biomass, you're 2 thirds less helpful to the environment than the rest of us by cutting your carbon "footprint" (btw, the people that brought you that term, are the billionaire financiers who are creating Carbon exchange markets to save their bankrupt stock market).

[quoidanslemondequoi]

"A woman's touch"? Sustainable but still sexist. Too bad.

[smokarette]

@froglobster

What is so great about living in a house built by contractors, who've just built your house to make themselves a profit, which you spend the rest of your life paying off.. What is the attraction to have all the mod cons? don't you realise that the shit you buy is just made to make profits by greedy businessmen who have no interest in you or the product.. you're known as a consumer my friend, not something i'd like to be, in my opinion anyway..

[nd017]

@nd017 oops - not Johnnygiv - Restie76 - sorry - was at the bottom of my screen

[nd017]

Can support what Johnnygiv says - live down the road - most of the local community love them, those of them I know personally work locally, and are fully integrated (!?) - more so than many of the people who own their second homes and come for two weeks at Easter. Could do with more communities like this and less exclusive gated and/or empty homes.

[atpuck]

awsome, great way to live