Alternative Ways of Living

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The Alternative Ways of Living & Consuming group is one of the oldest on CouchSurfing (created in August 2004), and the biggest in the Ideas category. It holds numerous sub-groups related to Alternative Lifestyles.

Contents 1 Past threads 1.1 Alternative machines 1.2 Building & Eco-Construction 1.3 Clothing & Fashion 1.4 Democracy & Politics 1.5 Controversy & Conspiration 1.6 Economy 1.7 Energies 1.8 Food & Drinks 1.9 Gardening 1.10 Global Environmental Issues 1.11 Health & Hygiene 1.12 Lifestyles 1.13 Meditation & Spirituality 1.14 Movements 1.15 Philosophy 1.16 Recent Events 1.17 Sustainable Development 1.18 Travel & Tourism 1.19 Waste 2 Links 2.1 Unformatted 2.2 Way of life 2.3 Do It Yourself 2.4 Community Supported Agriculture 2.5 Intentional Communities and Ecovillages

Past threads

We started indexing all major threads of interest in the end of 2008. Feel free to add relevant threads to this list or to quote them when answering questions in the group. If you work on the page, please tell us what time frame you covered (in the discussion page) so that we don't repeat the work! There is a wiki working group if you are looking for advice or just want to chat with the volunteers.

Alternative machines

• Pump up the water!

Building & Eco-Construction

• Foundations made of used tires
• The Vitruvian Building System - Green?
• Alternative homes: Bender tent
• Living in a bus

²Sustainable buildings and Air Quality

Clothing & Fashion

• Clothing in Voluntary simplicity
• recycled furniture

Democracy & Politics

• Not voting in the US

Controversy & Conspiration

• Free Energy
• Ranting against oil and for new energies

Economy

• Recent Economic Crisis
• Is the Crisis good or bad?

Energies

• Fighting for oil or developing alternatives?
• Alternative Heating in Winter
• Fridge Alternatives
• Algae as biofuel

²Converting diesel trucks to run on veg. oil

• Human-powered house

Food & Drinks

• Where does Milk comes from?
• Cruelty-Free Milk
• Local vs Organic
• Dumpster Diving
• Vegetarian vs. Meat-eating
• Veganism vs. the ‘150km rule’

²Skipping waste - Dumpster Diving

• Dandelion Coffee
• Cutting off the Wheat
• Alternatives to milk
• Wheat, Sugars, Proteins, Carbs

Gardening

• Using Tires to grow Vegetables
• Permaculture
• Edible Forest Gardening

Global Environmental Issues

• Global Warming or Global Cooling?

²Carbon Footprint

Health & Hygiene

• Dirty, Smelly Hippies
• Obsolete Immune Systems
• Natural Immune Boosters
• Shampoo
• Home remedies

Lifestyles

• A year with a 1€/day
• Polyamory
• Abandoning Consumerism
• Spreading "green awareness"
• Sharing facilities - communal living
• Useful skills for nomads

Meditation & Spirituality

• Binaural Beats
• Extra Sensorial Perception

Movements

• Zeitgeist Movement & Venus Project
• Project Venus

Philosophy

• radical anarchist/leftist community video project!

Recent Events

• Events in Greece
• Swine flu
• US law against organic food?

Sustainable Development

• Sustainable Development is any oxymoron

Travel & Tourism

• Alternative Travel Suggestions for Asia
• Cross an Ocean without an airplane

Waste

• Energy and Waste
• Plastic Bag

Links

(please format the list when you have some time)

Here are some of the links other members provided:

Unformatted

• http://idealist.org/
• http://charityvillage.com/
• http://www.katimavik.org/
• http://www.cwy-jcm.org/
• http://www.volunteersouthamerica.net/
• http://www.greenpeace.org/international/
• http://www.cat.org.uk/
• http://helpx.net/
• http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/
• http://www.lowimpact.org/
• http://skippingwaste.trashwiki.org/
• http://greendrinks.org/

Way of life

• http://squat.net/

Do It Yourself

• Instructables

Community Supported Agriculture

• Local Harvest
• International sites

Intentional Communities and Ecovillages

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_community
• http://www.ic.org/
• http://www.eurotopia.de/english.html
• http://www.auroville.org/
• http://www.theartfarm.info/
• http://ecogarp.com/
• http://www.eurotopia.de