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Unified Field Corporation (UFC) ... Nine Areas of Sustainability

Burgess COMMENTARY

Peter Burgess

Nine Areas of Sustainability

Banks are ideally suited to move both capital and education toward work that needs to be done urgently. The process of starting or acquiring a community bank is strictly regulated and carefully monitored. Once approved by state and federal regulators - communities working with the Unified Field Corporation’s Sustainable Community Partnership Banking Model and System – will concentrate lending and investments on projects that build sustainable local infrastructure in the 9 areas below.

Current sustainability thinking is moving toward a realization that much of what we thought were our “needs” must be revised. Through the industrial, technological and advertising ages, we have become a voracious consumer society. Simplifying and clarifying our true needs, combined with the balanced and intelligent application of proven technologies can result in a sustainable world.

1. Organic Local Food Systems

In a food sustainable community people know where their food is grown and who grows it. They have confidence that their ability to access delicious, high quality, reasonably priced, organically grown food is consistent and secure. Organic food production creates healthy soil that becomes more productive over time. Agricultural projects in communities working with UFC will create a vital and prosperous agricultural economy in rural and urban settings.

2. Renewable Energy

Why burn fuel to create energy when there is an overabundance of sources that do not require clearing, mining, drilling, pumping, cultivation and processing into substances which are then burnt to produce mostly wasted heat? UFC communities will focus on both centralized renewable energy development projects and incentive partnerships with property and business owners for home and office systems that will pay for themselves.

3. Affordable, Green Built Housing

Sources for safe, affordable, sustainably produced materials and methods for home construction and renovations are available. Locally produced, non-toxic materials combined with energy saving designs - save money and add beauty and well being to our lives. Property values will become stable when local economies become sustainable – another crucial area where a Sustainable Community Partnership Bank supported by UFC’s System can help.

4. Water Quality and Availability

Smart, non-polluting water collection and preservation systems designed into our public infrastructure, transportation and building design can save enormous amounts of water being wasted, especially in our cities. Rooftop and community gardens preserve rain and runoff water. Permeable roadways return needed water to be stored underground in our local aquifers. The application of proven beneficial microbes and magnetic technologies purify wastewater more efficiently. Local banks can help with funding for water conservation projects that earn a return plus support of education and enforcement of industrial clean water standards.

5. Zero Waste (Resource Recovery)

Waste is a measure of a community’s inefficiency. Why would we want to “waste” anything? Green waste comprises half the solid waste stream, and can be made into compost to help grow more local food and can be sold to farmers and gardeners at a considerable cost savings to them over commercial fertilizers. Recycling is potential feedstock for a host of new local industries. Deconstruction and repurposing of demolition waste is giving birth to a new industry providing jobs for at risk youth and the underemployed. Resource recovery parks to house the recycling, composting, construction materials reprocessing and other reuse businesses are a cost effective way to recover valuable resources formerly known as trash.

6. Transportation and Mobility

A sustainable community examines the way it moves people and goods around. Locating production closer to the point of use (eat and buy local), sharing rides, living closer to where we work, car-free zones, greenways and boardwalks are all part of solutions that reduce traffic, clean the air and help people stay healthier and more vital in the process.

7. Communication

Design of living, working and mobility environments can strengthen communication by enhancing people’s interactions. Unlike typical suburban design where people live, work, come and go and almost never see their neighbors – sustainable communities make it easier for all of us to positively interact at farmers markets, in car-free zones, parks, walking and bike trails. Members of sustainable communities talk with each other more; and in doing so - create new and appropriate networks and systems to support our desire to communicate more fully and positively with each other.

8. Education and the Arts

Our educational systems must fully empower young people to create the better world they envision; and the arts are an essential part of education and inspiration for all people. Innovative funding programs, delivery technologies such as inspired, interactive learning environments (games), and elder mentorship will create education worthy of our children’s appetite for learning.

9. Wellness

Many of us ask these questions: How do we turn the challenge of our time into unprecedented opportunity? And… How do we enjoy all our relationships including the one with ourselves? A sustainable community is physically, mentally and emotionally healthy, prosperous, socially just, educated, fit and artistically and culturally creative. Its people have fulfilling relationships and work. Its environment is beautiful and supportive of connectedness, vitality and peace of mind. UFC communities are committed to wellness creation and delivery systems that bring together ancient wisdom, modern science and vibrant culture in support of the highest potential in each individual and the whole.