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The Sky Village: A Sustainable Community in China

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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). In this paper, I will use my hometown as background to crate a sustainable community. I will separate my whole village recycling system into 4 parts, these are the food, the energy, the tree and the water. This is a small village in GuangDong province, China. This village has small population which has 278 people live in 56 houses, and the houses distribute with a half moon pattern. The village is surrounded by mountains on three side, a medium size lake in front of the village, and a small road is the only way for the village to connect with the outside world. We have plenty, continuous of solar resources and wind resources because of the mountains . I will make best use of these resources and develop my village according to the main concept which is “let the environment to decide the human’s activity instead of the human’s activity to decide the environment”(Badiru, 1). I will focus on the environment section to discuss how the sustainable community can keep going for the future. First, let me introduces the food recycling system in my village. In my hometown, we have a perfect concept to develop our food system which is we should to make living with the local advantages.

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