Comments on: Meet The Lammas, The UK’s First Eco Community To Obtain Permission To Construct A Mini Eco Village http://www.bloggernews.net/114788 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Sat, 17 May 2008 06:06:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Nancy Reyes http://www.bloggernews.net/114788#comment-271259 Nancy Reyes Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:51:45 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/114788#comment-271259 I'm not saying that living off the grid can't be done, but those who do so usually don't shout to the world how wonderful they are. They just buy a mobile home, buy a couple acres of land, and settle in. They then set up their gardens and gradually build their house as time and income allow, often bartering with neighbors to get supplies. This sounds like they are collecting money for a utopia. They are starting big and overblown...and it will undoubtably collapse when someone runs off with the money, or families get tired of the hard backbreaking work that goes along with rural living. Do any of them actually have practical experience? There are lots of folks who are old enough to remember how to live a "sustainable" life...for real. and lots who still live that way. I’m not saying that living off the grid can’t be done, but those who do so usually don’t shout to the world how wonderful they are. They just buy a mobile home, buy a couple acres of land, and settle in. They then set up their gardens and gradually build their house as time and income allow, often bartering with neighbors to get supplies.

This sounds like they are collecting money for a utopia. They are starting big and overblown…and it will undoubtably collapse when someone runs off with the money, or families get tired of the hard backbreaking work that goes along with rural living.

Do any of them actually have practical experience? There are lots of folks who are old enough to remember how to live a “sustainable” life…for real. and lots who still live that way.

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