Toward Self-Sufficiency: Using Unique Sustainable Community Planning Concepts

In this book he outlines a sustainable community project that seeks to solve social problems that most community planners overlook. The pilot project includes numerous ways to make communities self-sufficient and while its geared for those in middle- and lower-income brackets anyone can use its concepts. He explains how multiple-purpose buildings can be used to house a diversity of people ways to launch a business within the community by collaborating and sharing with others how to obtain a vocational work/study program offered on site and more. The book is also a reference manual on transition community design creating a purpose the meaning of happiness sustainable agricultural practices how to live without stuff and how to reduce anxiety and depression.George Hunt spent more than fifty years as a community planner and landscape architect. This included hands-on work in impoverished and low-income areas which helped him understand the dynamics that hold us back from achieving self-sufficiency.