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What is sustainability? The definition is “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to their needs”, and “the “needs” referred to are broad, and are addressed by the three “E’s” of sustainability --environment, economy, and equity.” (Lallier 11). For this paper, I will use my hometown as the background to create a sustainable community. I will separate my whole village recycling system into 4 parts, these are: food, energy, tree and water system.
This is a small village in GuangDong province, China. This village has a small population which has two hundred seventy eight people live in fifty six houses, and the houses distribute with a half moon pattern. The village is surrounded by mountains on three sides, a medium size lake in front of the village, and a small road is the only way for the village to connect to the outside world. We have plenty of continuous solar resources and wind resources in here. I will make best use of these resources and develop my village with the main concept which is “let the environment to decide the human activity instead of the human activity to decide the environment”(Badiru, 1). I will focus on the environment section to discuss how the sustainable community can keep going in the future.

What is the most important for the people to live? It is the food. In my village, we have a perfect concept to develop our food system which is we should to make living with the local advantages. There are several farmlands located around the area of my village. Some of the farmlands located in the plain and the others are terraces. My villagers are using the plain farmlands to grow rice in the spring and the fall. We will crop the rice in the summer...

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...this point, we need to use the water purifier system to filtrate the original water. Even though we have tried our best to insure the drinking water supply system, but most of the time it still depends on the sky. If the rainy period is too short, we will need the artificial rainfall to get more water. I do not have too much idea how to overcome this challenge, all we can do is to insure we make the best use of the water.
Above are the general measures for the environment protection. I can not guarantee all of that can work in the present world, but I hope all of that can give some ideas for the people to develop a feasible method to build up a sustainable community. Even though a person’s power is small, if we do it and suggest our family and friend to follow us, it can become to a huge group. Protecting the environment is protecting ourselves and our offspring.

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