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| Fancy a gorgeous (maybe self-built) home made from local, natural materials, instead of a bricks & mortar box? Low-impact living isn’t about making sacrifices - it's about improving the quality of your life. | _Fancy a gorgeous (maybe self-built) home made from local, natural materials, instead of a bricks & mortar box? Low-impact living isn’t about making sacrifices - it's about improving the quality of your life._ |
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| High-impact living: earn more, spend more, earn more, spend more… | _High-impact living: earn more, spend more, earn more, spend more…_ |
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| Fresh, organic food straight from your garden or allotment? Not really 'hairshirt living'. | _Fresh, organic food straight from your garden or allotment? Not really 'hairshirt living'._ |
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| We can have the best of all ages - you can't beat a wood stove for cosiness, but you can read this on your laptop, powered by pv panels. | _We can have the best of all ages - you can't beat a wood stove for cosiness, but you can read this on your laptop, powered by pv panels._ |
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| Shopping at local shops and markets helps protect the green belt, spreads the money around instead of concentrating it in supermarkets and big chains, helps your local economy and local producers - and maybe allows you to walk to them instead of driving. | _Shopping at local shops and markets helps protect the green belt, spreads the money around instead of concentrating it in supermarkets and big chains, helps your local economy and local producers - and maybe allows you to walk to them instead of driving._ |
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| [Cohousing](/coho/cohousing) projects of various kinds are becoming more popular. They make low-impact living easier, as they can allow sharing of facilities and equipment, give access to land for members to grow food, and reduce travel requirements. | _[Cohousing](/coho/cohousing) projects of various kinds are becoming more popular. They make low-impact living easier, as they can allow sharing of facilities and equipment, give access to land for members to grow food, and reduce travel requirements._ |
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| Getting a smallholding, providing resources for yourself and your community, harvesting your own energy and building your own home is the ultimate dream for many. It's not easy, but we'd like to help [make it more achievable](http://lowimpactorg.onyx-sites.io/how-to-get-planning-permission-for-a-rural-off-grid-self-build-home/). | _Getting a smallholding, providing resources for yourself and your community, harvesting your own energy and building your own home is the ultimate dream for many. It's not easy, but we'd like to help [make it more achievable](http://lowimpactorg.onyx-sites.io/how-to-get-planning-permission-for-a-rural-off-grid-self-build-home/)._ |
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| ## Further resources | ## Further resources |
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| | - [EcoDIY](https://www.ecodiy.info/) - the story of one family's attempts to green up their house & garden, Essex |
| | - [Downsizer.net](https://forum.downsizer.net/) - forum |
| | - [Schumacher Center for a New Economics](https://centerforneweconomics.org/) - US-based society promoting the ideas outlined in 'Small is Beautiful' |
| | - [Gaia Foundation](https://gaiafoundation.org/) |
| | - [Global Stewards](https://www.globalstewards.org/index.htm) - green living hub |
| | - [GoSelfSufficient](https://goselfsufficient.co.uk/) - help in being more self-sufficient |
| | - [Local Futures](https://www.localfutures.org/) - promoting localisation globally |
| | - [Low-tech Magazine](https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/) - free online magazine: 'we refuse to assume that every problem has a high-tech solution' |
| | - [Practical Action](https://practicalaction.org/) - providing low-tech solutions to world poverty |
| | - [Off-grid](https://off-grid.net/) - all you need to go off-grid |
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| | ## Specialist curators of this topic |
| ## Specialist(s) | |
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| * [[p:Dave Darby]] | * [[p:Dave Darby]] |
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