From RBOSE

Sustainable Life style Development

• Sustainable: Sustainability, in a broad sense, is the capacity to endure.
• Life style: a manner of living that reflects the person's values and attitude
• Development: act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining;

What we aim to reach with SLD is to lower the dependency for money in every day life, to value personal growth instead of economic growth. We want to become self sufficient in as many fields possible and lower the consumption dependency that we all are a part of today.

Within the RBOSE.org network we have a lot of different projects that in practice would free you from a full time job which would in turn grant you time to evolve as a person and strengthen your quality of life. SLD is the project that implements all these projects to reach that goal.

Questions that need answers

In order to start we first need to answer some questions.

• What would it mean to you to become more self sufficient?
• What would you want to do with your spare time?
• How will this effect my way of living, my health and my view on rest of society?

Philosophy

Grow your own food

To be able to become self sufficient the first step is to lower your expenses by starting to grow your own food. Today a lot of people live in tiny cramped apartments with not a lot of space to grow their own food. Luckily there are several groups working with solutions to this problem.

• Open Source Farming
• Window Farming

Detailed instructions on different ways to grow your own food, this will free you from the need to earn money to fill your tummy

Build it yourself

Detailed instructions on how to build various equipment used in everyday life, lists of projects that help you do this and where you find learning material.

• RepRap http://reprap.org/
• Open Source Machine - The Multimachine http://opensourcemachine.org/