The Aware Society Page 5

THE AWARE SOCIETY   page 5

      In everything that we get, produce, and distribute there are various levels of efficiency as to how these processes can be designed into the community from the local community right up to the global community. For the simplest processes, the simplest and most efficient place is in and around the home. Simple, frequent processes should be as close to home as possible. Many foods in the local neighbourhood. Building timber can be in a neighbourhood forest. Chopped by local people who don't have to pollute to get there, dried in the neighbourhood for the local furniture maker. Firewood timber can be near the home garden. If these activities happen over long distances then the time must be taken to dig more oil out of the ground, build trucks, build more factories to build the machines to build the trucks. It is much more efficient if we don't have to do these processes. So you put the source of the process right next to the sink, or place of use,and right next to each of the essential transformation workshops, eg from timber to furniture. If these activity areas are put as close to each other as possible, then time, materials, pollution, waste, resources, components etc are saved.

      We are laying out all the component activities and giving them a place in the system in relation to (people)(the sink) the home, in relation to each other, and in relation to initial sources of materials. What we are doing is giving structure to the system so it functions in a particular or definite way. If the market garden is a long way away from the home, then the food producing and distribution system functions over a long distance. If, however, we put the market garden in the local neghborhood, then we allow the system to function over a short distance. So by structurally putting the components in relation to each other we cause/allow the system to function in an appropriate way. We are giving definite structure and function to the system.

      And we can go to source of materials and look towards these being as local as possible as well.

      And then we can travel to work. And we can say at the moment in society people go to work too often 30 kilometres away from where they live. And we too often need to buy a car. More pollution and fossil fuel use but also time wastage. An hour to get to work and an hour to get home again. Thats 10 hours per week. A fifth of the working week is wasted just getting to work. It also takes a days work to maintain a car just mainly to get us to work. 1/3 of the working week is wasted just getting ourselves to work.

      However, if most of our work happens in the local area, then this doesn't have to happen. Work should be as local as possible. Those activities that are carried out at the level of the individual are as much as possible done by that family. Work should be as close to home as possible then we can save a quarter/third of the working week.


THE AWARE SOCIETY page 5
In everything that we get, produce, and distribute there are various levels of efficiency as to how these processes can be designed into the community from the local community right up to the global community. For the simplest processes, the simplest and most efficient place is in and around the home. Simple, frequent processes should be as close to home as possible. Many foods in the local neighbourhood. Building timber can be in a neighbourhood forest. Chopped by local people who don't have to pollute to get there, dried in the neighbourhood for the local furniture maker. Firewood timber can be near the home garden. If these activities happen over long distances then the time must be taken to dig more oil out of the ground, build trucks, build more factories to build the machines to build the trucks. It is much more efficient if we don't have to do these processes. So you put the source of the process right next to the sink, or place of use,and right next to each of the essential transformation workshops, eg from timber to furniture. *If these activity areas are put as close to each other as possible, then time, materials, pollution, waste, resources, components etc are saved.* We are laying out all the component activities and giving them a place in the system in relation to (people)(the sink) the home, in relation to each other, and in relation to initial sources of materials. What we are doing is giving structure to the system so it functions in a particular or definite way. If the market garden is a long way away from the home, then the food producing and distribution system functions over a long distance. If, however, we put the market garden in the local neghborhood, then we allow the system to function over a short distance. So by structurally putting the components in relation to each other we cause/allow the system to function in an appropriate way. We are giving *definite structure and function* to the system. And we can go to *source of materials* and look towards these being as local as possible as well. And then we can *travel to work.* And we can say at the moment in society people go to work too often 30 kilometres away from where they live. And we too often need to buy a car. More pollution and fossil fuel use but also time wastage. An hour to get to work and an hour to get home again. Thats 10 hours per week. A fifth of the working week is wasted just getting to work. It also takes a days work to maintain a car just mainly to get us to work. 1/3 of the working week is wasted just getting ourselves to work. However, if most of our work happens in the local area, then this doesn't have to happen. *Work should be as local as possible.* Those activities that are carried out at the level of the individual are as much as possible done by that family. Work should be as close to home as possible then we can save a quarter/third of the working week.