The good news is that scientists don’t think it’s too late, but the average person is not listening or linking up some of the glaring evidence that this planet is in trouble.  Sustainable living is a concept that most people understand from a definition stand point, but few people understand how urgent the change is.

It seems strange that we as humans are perfectly fine with fertilizing crops with manure from chickens, cows, pigs, practically anything. We are fine with anything but our own manure. We have to take our manure, flush it into a sewer with water that has been cleaned and filtered so that we could’ve used it for drinking, then it is treated with chemicals, and eventually sludge remains that has to be scraped out. Wouldn’t it make a lot more sense to do with our own feces what we do with other animals? Some people are doing this already and it’s called humanure.

Localvore is a new “buzz word” if you will, that was coined as a term for people who try to eat food that grown or raised close by to where they live. They see it as being good for the environment because there is no longer a truck driving possibly thousands of miles to bring apples to your grocery store from Washington or Oregon. The other side of this is that buying into your local economy helps raise up the community as your dollars spent in the community are going into a community member’s wallet. Unlike shopping at a Wal-Mart where the cash you spend goes to a multi-national corporation that most likely won’t reinvest it back into your community. So let’s take a look at the facts behind these two ideas.