While working on the feasibility stage of the sustainable community living project, a few problems became obvious:
The problems were caused in part by the proven need of the community - itself a requirement for any sustainable community living project hoping to form in a rural area.
Creating an income generator which would cover any income shortfall for a community, needed the invention of an alternative income generating source.
Once the proposals were drafted, the support of our local MP was gained, and the draft proposals were duly forwarded to the minister in Westminster, who then forwarded them to the MP for DEFRA - who stonewalled them.
Following all the guidelines which were set out on DEFRA and EEDA websites, and UN
Agenda 21, and a whole raft of other guidelines, it was strange to find so little support at base level.
The investigation and full report was initiated by the difficulties which I found, and I sought the answers, and other problems, facing the rest of humanity who are trying to live sustainably.
What still remains unanswered is the question of whether we can actually be prevented from living in the low-impacting, restorative and regenerating communities we are trying to form. Please see Chapter 7 for more information on how we can claim land: http://www.tlio.org.uk/chapter7
Once the 'green light' has finally been switched on, it must surely be against all humanity to rigidly lock our brakes if we are not in a large commercial vehicle ourselves.
- There was no grant or funding for a designer forming a sustainable community living project
- The advisory bodies for social enterprises were highly competent, but knew of no funding
- Although all the guidelines stipulate the need for sustainable living projects, forming one was like banging your head on an impermeable & impenetrable wall
The problems were caused in part by the proven need of the community - itself a requirement for any sustainable community living project hoping to form in a rural area.
Creating an income generator which would cover any income shortfall for a community, needed the invention of an alternative income generating source.
Once the proposals were drafted, the support of our local MP was gained, and the draft proposals were duly forwarded to the minister in Westminster, who then forwarded them to the MP for DEFRA - who stonewalled them.
Following all the guidelines which were set out on DEFRA and EEDA websites, and UN
Agenda 21, and a whole raft of other guidelines, it was strange to find so little support at base level.
The investigation and full report was initiated by the difficulties which I found, and I sought the answers, and other problems, facing the rest of humanity who are trying to live sustainably.
What still remains unanswered is the question of whether we can actually be prevented from living in the low-impacting, restorative and regenerating communities we are trying to form. Please see Chapter 7 for more information on how we can claim land: http://www.tlio.org.uk/chapter7
Once the 'green light' has finally been switched on, it must surely be against all humanity to rigidly lock our brakes if we are not in a large commercial vehicle ourselves.
