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The term Self Sustainable Living seems to be spreading and gaining momentum yet it seems that a lot of people are unsure of what Self Sustainable Living is. Self Sustainable Living is all about perspective. Some may picture Self Sustainable Living as living in the middle of nowhere while producing your own food, water and energy in a cottage or trailer or something. Others may view Self Sustainable Living as making their homes energy efficient with solar panels, wind turbines or maybe a geo thermal unit while growing some food.

To me Self Sustainable Living is a way of life. My business for example is Self Sustainable Living. I help people produce their own food, water and energy as well as create prosperity and make their own money from their home. If you are creating your own food, water and energy as well as making money and creating prosperity for yourself you are completely self sustained. Even if you are making money and creating prosperity for yourself you are self sustaining.

I feel that in the future our entire economy and the world as a whole will be based on Self Sustainable Living. Currently we live in a world where we go to work and make other people money for an hourly wage. Most people who do this can't afford to pay all the bills at the end of the month and therefor are not sustaining themselves. However if their pay were based on performance where the more money they made for the company the more they got paid most people would create more profit for their company in order to make more money for themselves. This would allow them to be able to pay the bill at the end of the month thus sustaining themselves. Making your own money based on your own efforts would be considered a form of Self Sustainable Living.

Unfortunately the system is not set up like this and most people are not sustaining themselves. Another way would be to start your own business and sustain yourself. Another example of a non sustainable way of living is how our current farming system and our cooperate business do not function in a way that sustains our ecosystem. Currently we are doing seasonal horizontal farming. We are adding chemicals such as hormones and pesticides to our food witch is degenerating our soil and harming our bodies thus not sustaining our environment or our bodies. As far as corporate business and industry are concerned we are consuming more resources then we can reproduce such as trees, rainforests, minerals and precious metals and polluting our environment thus destroying our environment. However if we were to utilize vertical farms (year round hydroponic farming systems built layer by layer in to the sky) we could regenerate our soil, produce more food and other resources then we need thus Self Sustaining our environment and ecosystem.

Currently there is a small group of a few elite wealthy few that control our resources, our jobs and economy in for their own personal gain and profit. Although this small group of people are causing a great deal of damage if individuals started becoming Self Sustainable then started grouping together we could sustainable living see a completely Self Sustainable future and a world full of prosperity and abundance.