Also focus on your local community. Your town.
Preferably move out of a city. If possible.
Local is good.
How to build a better society:
1. Don't be a wage slave
2. Localize production
3. Scale down consumption
4. Take care of your neighbors
5. Work efficiently, and focus on things that actually matter
Remember, we have more in common than what separates us. We can focus on the differences and ignore what people say based on labels and stereotypes, or we can focus on what we have in common and try to make progress on the things we agree on.
Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20240107150021/https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/how-to-quit-capitalism
Discussion
Yeah, I'm not convinced of everything on that page, but there's a lot we pretty much all agree on and I choose to focus on those things.
Learning how to grow and store some of your own food is not hard, it's just a matter of practice and some trial and error. Building a community is the hard part, at least as far as I'm concerned.
Yeah homesteading is great. I have a friend who's parents have a chicken coop at the back of their house (they live in a city) and they're great. They also collect rain water and pump it through the house.
Really inventive bunch.
Wow, using rainwater inside the house is impressive! That's some serious dedication.
We collect it and use it for the garden so we don't need to use city water. It's fairly common in farm country.
Yes, I think they do have municipal water but I think it draws from the rainwater tank first. I believe.