Toward Self-Sufficiency: A Community for a Transition Period

By George Hunt

Book Overview

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. 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 it's 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1532059809
• ISBN13: 9781532059803
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.5" x 11.0"