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Dinning in 2020
How much does the world actually want to change in 10 years?
It's middle of march 2020. As I walk out of my room in our sustainable community I can smell the multiple aromas of our community garden/farm. Bugs are flying around but I'm not scare of them as I know they're important to keep our local micro-ecosistem going. I get to the dinning terrace where a few of my friends are already chatting. We are all part of a vegetarian community where we work "outside in the world" part time and we volunteer part time here to keep the community going on. As a result we get to enjoy the world and yet we have enough hands to farm for ourselves and more. We live in a relaxed why promoting that children study as much as they can and learn about the world as much as they can while knowing that the relationship between human and nature is important.
The meal goes with some interesting talks and jokes. We always chat this way, but it´s always great. The food is simple, mostly fresh season vegetables. Some "agua fresca" (water flavored with fruits) and a few fruits as dessert to keep the chat going. 95% of our food would come from our farm, so we eat plants from the season. The other 5%... well everybody likes some candy or pizza every now and then. We believe caring for the environment shouldn´t exclude us from the rest of the world, actually we believe that we should be inside of the urban complex movement to try to influence in other people, to keep our feet in the ground and know that we are lucky to be able to live like this. We don´t expect to be perfect or bring our environmental footprint to zero, but we like to make it as low as we can while enjoying the benefits of urban civilization.
Actually our community is not far away. We´re in the middle of Mexico City, one of the biggest cities in the world. I remember back in 2010 around 20million people lived here... now I don´t even want to know as I'm sure population has grown a lot since then! Our community is one block. We had to protect it with walls from outsiders but we manage to live simply. Each family has a couple of rooms with bathrooms and we have common areas like kitchen, dinning place, terraces. All the space in between are gardens where we grow our food. People volunteer in different areas to keep this going on so no one uses money inside the community and most of the services (water, electricity, etc.) are self provided with solar systems, rain water storage and several more ecotechnologies. We use public services just as a back up.
In the evening we take all the extra food we have to an outside table where we share it with people around. We like to be friends with the homeless people that come. We ask them to take a bath and wear some clean clothes that we offer them in exchange for the free food. We've noticed, this really improves their health, and probably most important, their self esteem. We really feel happy when one of them comes to tell us how he got a job and he no longer needs our food. We also offer them some free cla**** on weekends to teach them how to grow their own food and the basic knowledge (read and write, math). It's slow, but we really see some improvement in them.
At the end of the day we usually hang out in the terrace. talking and having some more fresh fruits while we wait for our children to come home from the disco. We know living in a sustainable community is great, but you should know the other side of our wall before deciding that, so I hope my children don´t drink or smoke too much, but I'm sure he's having a great time with the other people and I'm glad to know that as different as we are, we all can be together.
Not everyone will change in 10 years, but we must accept some people don´t want to change. The only thing we can really ask for is for our freedom to follow our ideology and a few open ears to tell people our reasons and to hear theirs.
It's middle of march 2020. As I walk out of my room in our sustainable community I can smell the multiple aromas of our community garden/farm. Bugs are flying around but I'm not scare of them as I know they're important to keep our local micro-ecosistem going. I get to the dinning terrace where a few of my friends are already chatting. We are all part of a vegetarian community where we work "outside in the world" part time and we volunteer part time here to keep the community going on. As a result we get to enjoy the world and yet we have enough hands to farm for ourselves and more. We live in a relaxed why promoting that children study as much as they can and learn about the world as much as they can while knowing that the relationship between human and nature is important.
The meal goes with some interesting talks and jokes. We always chat this way, but it´s always great. The food is simple, mostly fresh season vegetables. Some "agua fresca" (water flavored with fruits) and a few fruits as dessert to keep the chat going. 95% of our food would come from our farm, so we eat plants from the season. The other 5%... well everybody likes some candy or pizza every now and then. We believe caring for the environment shouldn´t exclude us from the rest of the world, actually we believe that we should be inside of the urban complex movement to try to influence in other people, to keep our feet in the ground and know that we are lucky to be able to live like this. We don´t expect to be perfect or bring our environmental footprint to zero, but we like to make it as low as we can while enjoying the benefits of urban civilization.
Actually our community is not far away. We´re in the middle of Mexico City, one of the biggest cities in the world. I remember back in 2010 around 20million people lived here... now I don´t even want to know as I'm sure population has grown a lot since then! Our community is one block. We had to protect it with walls from outsiders but we manage to live simply. Each family has a couple of rooms with bathrooms and we have common areas like kitchen, dinning place, terraces. All the space in between are gardens where we grow our food. People volunteer in different areas to keep this going on so no one uses money inside the community and most of the services (water, electricity, etc.) are self provided with solar systems, rain water storage and several more ecotechnologies. We use public services just as a back up.
In the evening we take all the extra food we have to an outside table where we share it with people around. We like to be friends with the homeless people that come. We ask them to take a bath and wear some clean clothes that we offer them in exchange for the free food. We've noticed, this really improves their health, and probably most important, their self esteem. We really feel happy when one of them comes to tell us how he got a job and he no longer needs our food. We also offer them some free cla**** on weekends to teach them how to grow their own food and the basic knowledge (read and write, math). It's slow, but we really see some improvement in them.
At the end of the day we usually hang out in the terrace. talking and having some more fresh fruits while we wait for our children to come home from the disco. We know living in a sustainable community is great, but you should know the other side of our wall before deciding that, so I hope my children don´t drink or smoke too much, but I'm sure he's having a great time with the other people and I'm glad to know that as different as we are, we all can be together.
Not everyone will change in 10 years, but we must accept some people don´t want to change. The only thing we can really ask for is for our freedom to follow our ideology and a few open ears to tell people our reasons and to hear theirs.
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