Economic Sustainability

How to be Economically Sustainable

Economics is what we take form the earth, how it gets around and how we use it. Everything we have was once a plant, an animal or a naturally occurring element. Big picture economic sustainability cannot happen without environmental sustainability.

- Whatever you take, make sure it can be replaced. This includes employee stress, resources, suppliers, food, everything.

- Just like money, things do work when they are used. Holding on to things is a waste of those things and the work done to get them.

- Live as local as you can. Putting resources into your community means your community, with you being part of it, has more together.

- Find joy in the world and the life around you, not the materials you can hoard. Joy is not a limited resource. Value shared is value grown.

Together we can enrich the world instead of draining it, sharing a paradise together instead of dying to own a chunk of rock.

Economic Sustainability Needs The Aquifer Project

The earth is a closed system, what we take out is gone, what we put in stays. There are ways to make sure we will always have more resources tomorrow than we do today, but we need to start putting those solutions in to practice, show people that living better is a better way to live, demonstrate to those with the loudest voices that we can live in a way that gives more than it takes.

Our economy is a war to see who can hoard the most resources and unfortunately, like every war, the people who are losing the most are those with least to lose. We need a way for communities to keep their resources local, to enrich themselves as much as they enrich the world. We need a way for people to build their own economic security. We need the Aquifer Project.