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Eco-village culture
& industrial economy city culture
… a comparison
In the industrial economy city people live in buildings built from materials
from afar by faceless workers
In the eco village, people live in buildings built
from local material by themselves
together with local experts
Industrial economy city food
is pre-prepared and packaged with a wide
amount of choice year round.
In the eco-village, much
food in produced locally, used fresh and is
seasonal
In the industrial economy things come from afar along lengthy supply chains,
fossil and mineral fueled
In the eco-village, local
people provide goods and services by
refining local materials
In the industrial economy city you interact seldom with people who live near you
In the eco-village everyone talks to everyone
In the industrial economy city
people buy what they need from people they do
not know in shops owned by people
far away
In the eco-village people buy what they
need from locals they
know in shops locally owned
In the industrial economy city high activity levels go
on day and night
In the eco-village, life follows the rhythms of nature
In the industrial economy city families gather to be entertained and informed by the mass media
In the eco-village people make their
own entertainment
In the industrial economy city you get a pleasure kick from surrounding yourself
with luxury goods
In the eco-village you get life’s simple pleasures
In the industrial economy city you have
a detached relationship to your
urine and faeces
In the eco-village you know your urine and faeces are used as
fertilser and that they are part of a natural
cycle
The industrial economy city gathers a minority elite to make decisions about your life
In the eco-village, major decisions are made together, sitting in a circle, with everybody’s opinion heard.
Work in the industrial economy city requires you use your free time to keep fit
In the eco-village, there is a lot of low-impact physical work that people do together, keeping them in trim.
People in the industrial economy city measure their wealth by how much money their assets are worth
In the eco-village, wealth is measured as the capability of the village’s assets to provide life’s neccesities, including social
cohesion
This is work in the industrial economy city
In the eco-village, people work to live, not
live to work
In the industrial economy city, being environmental means being ”less bad”
In the eco-village you focus on having nature
do as much work as possible
In the industrial economy city, gathering and recycling materials takes a lot of energy and work
In the eco-village, materials are used and recycled constantly as
waste from one process is direct input to another
You leave the industrial economy city to get away for a vacation, often from an airport.
In the eco-village can can have a great
hoiday without going anywhere
The industrial economy city surrounds you with advertising messages
The eco-village surrounds you in natural beauty
The industrial economy city has food grown on large, fossil-fueled farms, often using poorly-paid labour
The eco-village pays farmers a good wage and everyone is involved in chemical-free food production
Whichever you choose,Get involved to make it work foryou and coming generations
http://openworldvillages.com