Title: Toward Self-Sufficiency: A Community for a Transition Period
Author: George Hunt
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 978-1532059803
Pages: 266
Genre: Political Science and Community Design
Synopsis
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.
About the Author
George Hunt graduated from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, after serving in the U.S. Navy. His practice included projects within the United States and internationally. This book was written as a guide for self-sufficiency to help people understand the earth’s natural systems of balances and why this approach should be utilized to protect future generations.
