Students for Development

Future of Sustainable Development

Payatas Dump - Recycler, originally uploaded by suvajack.

Many poverty issues are based around a poor livelihood living model in the countryside. Poverty is an issue equally as paramount as the degradation of our environment. By addressing poverty we can create educated societies that are built on the new advancements and principals of sustainable living - be it pragmatic ones. Elevating the knowledge and living conditions of people below the poverty line is a way of controlling population influx and environment degradation issues. I just think about all those people in developing countries who work toxic jobs for pennies. Industries targeting these regions are to me, some of the main global environmental problems. How can we move these people from these jobs to community based local economy systems?

The focus should be on how we can get more people living in an environmentally friendly living manor. All to often I see this push for people to flock to the mega cities where living conditions and job opportunities our toxic in many ways. This direction of progress is leading to an increase in population disease and illness.

I know we can create simple sustainable societies in developing nations by using some of the pragmatic eco-solutions utilized in living systems like Findhorn and even Arcosanti

Our continued work in this area of interest is leading us to develop a new basic housing system incorporating locally cultivated sustainable materials, and prefabrication philosophies with how Filipino’s design and build their own homes. This viable alternative to the hollow block and galvanized iron sheet building techniques is meant to be available to the masses and will provide new locally circulated economies based on renewable resources.

We see the developing world is an area of endless potential to create new models for efficient global living.

Please feel free to contact us for ways you or your company can contribute to this ongoing effort.

Relevant Worldchanging.com article on Sustainable Development