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Contents - Future  Sustainable Neighborhood - A Primer
 PROLOGUE: Visit to a Future Sustainable Neighborhood                        
INTRODUCTION: Future Sustainable Neighborhood – A Primer             
PART 1: THE WHATS?
HOUSEHOLD ENERGY: OVERVIEW OF SYSTEMS
Centralized Energy Sources
Renewable Energy is the People’s Power
Solar Energy
First, Solar Photovoltaic Panels
Solar Hydronic Panels
Home-sized Wind Turbine
Community Energy Solutions
Personal Woodstove Energy                                                      
BELOW FROSTLINE PHENOMENON                                       
Passive Space Cooling, Heating and Food Storage            
NEGA-WATTS                                                                                 
NO NUCLEAR                                                                                 
EXTERIOR COOL/HEAT STRATEGY                                         
SUMMER/WINTER SUN ANGLE PHENOMENON                   
Sun-penetrable Structures                                                          
Solar Gain                                                                                        
RESILIENT LIFESTYLE
Reduce Expenses across the board
Transport
Join Community
Work
Home
Health
Time Bank
Visioning
Know Energy
More Actions
When Replacing Appliances
Energy Resilience Assessments
Renovating or Re-modeling 
12inch (30cm) walls
Insulated Panel
Take Control
 
ORGANIC EDIBLE GARDENING LIFESTYLE             
Herbs
Some Gardening Styles                                                                                       
Grow Food on Roofs                                                                    
Wicking Planters                                                                
Closing The ‘Anything Organic’ Loop                         
Nature in the Garden                                                                    
Trees in the FSN                                                                             
Succession                                                                                      
SEEING NOT LOOKING – Soilnoia                                           
RAINWATER HARVESTING
Rainwater Specs    
GO DEEP FOR SUSTAINABLE ANSWERS                                                                  
COMMUNITY                                                                                   
PLACE-BASED AWARENESS
HEALTH
HUMAN WASTE                                                                                                                                          
SEEING NOT LOOKING – Emergy                                            
NEIGHBORHOOD BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES                   
The Household Economy                                                
Ideas
Food System
Crafts/Products
Home-based Education
Services
Conclusion
ABOUT TIME AND LABOR                                                          
SEEING NOT LOOKING – Systems Thinking                                     
PERMACULTURE                                                                           
SEEING NOT LOOKING – MY 1500 CE., U.S. landscape muse 
SEEING NOT LOOKING – It’s Enough                                     
 
PART 2: THE WHYS?
The Great Dilemma – A message from Nature

1. Two worlds: Mine and yours
2. Universal Basic Income
3. Reduce consumerism
4. Make planned obsolescence illegal
5. Make right-to-repair mandatory
6. Re-use, Reduce, Recycle, Upcycle, Clean-up
7. Discourage Fashion in all Products
8. Curtail Advertising
9. Revamp Financial System
10. Subsidize Income for: Farm Workers (farmers), School Teachers, Police, Healthcare Workers, Social Workers
11. De-commodify Food, Education, Healthcare
12. Re-localize the Food System Worldwide (Encourage locally sourced lifestyles)
13. Reduce Agricide, Increase Regenerative Agriculture Worldwide
14. Reduce Animal Food Consumption World-wide
15. Encourage Plant-based Eating
16. Re-skill for Home Cooking, Reduce Processed Food Intake
17. Revamp Public Education
18. 5 – 12 years old, Self-reliant, Systems Thinking Education
19. Champion All Renewable Energy, NOT Nuclear
20. Continue to Reduce Fossil Fuel Use
21. Conserve Energy, Insulation, smart design, etc.
22. Empower Women World-wide
23. Innovate Less Harmful Air Conditioning Systems
24. Encourage Faith Communities to Get Involved
25. No expectations
26. Wrap Up

 
Further reading/resource
 
Index
                                                                                    

(1) Sun-penetrable structures of glass and polycarbonate connected to the southern exposure of houses, great for extended growing of edible plants, even thru’ winter. 
(2) Flat roofs with light colored reflective coating, to keep upper floors cooler.  
(3) Flat roofs with edible plants growing, pending an expert’s assessment of a flat roof’s surface and structure to withstand the activity of gardening. (Some cities have tens of thousands of acres of roof space adaptable for growing!)
(4) Gutters, downspouts and PVC pipes leading to large decorated, various shaped water tanks for irrigation and more, cleverly integrated into landscaping.
(5) Metal roof harvesting rainwater for personal consumption, after first running it through carbon filtration. (For 10 years I’ve done this.)
(6) Chickens in cage. 
(7) These ‘chicken’ cages are adaptable for plants like blueberries, raspberries and raised beds, to protect their harvest from being ravaged by birds and other animals. They can also be quickly converted to hoop houses for growing through winter, by throwing some plastic sheet over them. One of the best uses for plastic, I think! Also, as the weather gets more extreme, growing under plastic, I’m afraid, may be essential.
(8) Most roofs have combination of solar and hydronic panels, and miniature wind turbines for renewable energy.
(9) Rectangular storage batteries on street corners, to store intermittent renewable-energy. 
(10) Polytunnels – hoop houses; I have grown at least 7 vegetable varieties on the east coast mid-Atlantic area of the US (40th parallel), through winter, in a small plastic-sheet covered hoop-house, without extra heat or light, for the last 3 years, with continuous harvest, using a cut and come again approach.
(11) Compost piles for kitchen and garden plant waste. 
Ponds in gardens. Children’s infrastructure, swings, climbing structures, etc.
Houses with basements will be at a premium. Amazingly, below the frost line, thirty-six inches (about 1 meter) where I live, the temperature of the ground is about 47 degrees Fahrenheit (about 8 Celsius). Using this to our advantage, will be a wonderful asset in summer and winter if the electric grid goes down; while all the time, it will be getting hotter!