How Self-Sufficient Are You?

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Energy: Are you "off the grid"? Use biodesiel, or "pedal power" to get around? What do you do to conserve?

Healthcare: Do you practice preventative health care? Use natural remedies? Eat right & exercise?

Food: Do you grow/raise your own food, or buy from local growers?

Construction: Are you a green builder? Are you handy? Do you fix things most people would just throw away?

Consumption: Do you buy things you don't need? Do you recycle? Buy used? Shop at Wal-Mart?

I'm asking because I'm thinking of all the things people can do to relese themselves of corporate and government dependency. I feel like we're all just spinning our wheels looking for political solutions, and the best thing to do is just say "screw it" I'm going to "be the change I want to see in the world."

Soon I'm moving to a house with a yard. This Summer I hope to have fresh tomatoes & peppers for the neighborhood. It's not much, but I'm beginning to think that it may be little things like that which will bring change quicker than this grand hero or revolution everybody's waiting for.