Green Communities Part: 1

I've been living out of my tent for a while now and while it isn't the best situation living in a tent does have it's advantages.

1. Live in a tent Pay No Rent: Depending on your situation you can pay anywhere from $80 a month (living with your parents) to $2000 a month (paying off a house.) Most people my age pay between $300 for a small apartment going three ways with room-mates or $900 for a fancy apartment all to themselves. When I had my place I was paying $550 about the average of those last two numbers.


2. Freedom: I do have to give up a few modern conveniences but I'm resourceful and quite frankly I love roughing it. I can go wherever I want whenever I want because I don't have to worry about bills.


3. Conservation: I use no electricity, no heating and my "house" is of simple construction all costing little to no resources. I hear so many people talking about buying carbon offsets but I offset just by turning in the recycling I collect for money.

Although these things are nice for most these benefits don't out way the disadvantages of a conventional home, honestly I agree. Not because living in a tent is so bad but because all the benefits above can be had while at the same time living in a comfy cozy house.

Before I get into the details, I'm going to rant a little bit about the way that we the people are getting ripped off. Many people I know live from pay check to pay check, not because they spend carelessly but because they have to pay so many bills. For the most part the story goes like this: I had a good job and I was living a good life all within my means, then the economy went sower. On the other hand my younger friends are forced to live with there parents again because they don't have enough money to support themselves. For the most part these are the lucky people because they still have homes and jobs, many others lost that.

Why is it that if you want to live a comfortable normal life you have to pay 90% of your pay check towards bills? If I wanted right now I could walk into the deep woods and set up a comfortable life with all of modern liefs conveniences with little to no cost. Honestly I would need a good amount of time and some resources I could only get from a city but none the less I'm certain 5 years after the fact I would not pay a dime to live. The only reason I don't do this is because I want to explore the world and make the world a better place and I can't do this if I hold myself up in the woods.

I empathize with the people who are caught up in to many obligations or to negative to change their lifestyle for the better. I've met so many people just like this, willing to change, wanting to change but unable to because of circumstances and attitude. If just 1/10th of the population were to change their lifestyle for the better by investing in green technologies everyone would be better off. So I guess this is my goal and I hope that whoever reads this decides to make this their gaol to.

I've ranted enough for now, I hope I've enlightened some people, I'll reveille the secrets of living cheaply and comfortably in my next blog post.