{"id":299,"date":"2017-11-29T17:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T17:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/woods.coplacdigital.org\/umw\/?page_id=299"},"modified":"2017-12-06T03:55:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T03:55:13","slug":"environment-and-collectivism","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/woods.coplacdigital.org\/umw\/environment-and-collectivism\/","title":{"rendered":"ENVIRONMENT AND COLLECTIVISM"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThere [are] two ways here, one is environmental, one is communal.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/woods.coplacdigital.org\/umw\/site-index\/interviews\/\">&#8211; Misha Nikitin<\/a>, LEF resident<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_243\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-243\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-243\" src=\"http:\/\/woods.coplacdigital.org\/umw\/files\/2017\/11\/lefentrance-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/woods.coplacdigital.org\/umw\/files\/2017\/11\/lefentrance-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/woods.coplacdigital.org\/umw\/files\/2017\/11\/lefentrance-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/woods.coplacdigital.org\/umw\/files\/2017\/11\/lefentrance.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-243\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sign before the half-mile walking path to LEF.\u00a0Photo: Maureen Sullivan<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"http:\/\/woods.coplacdigital.org\/umw\/site-index\/interviews\/\">According to cofounder Alexis Zeigler<\/a>, the central purpose of LEF is to create \u201ca package of [sustainable] integrated village technologies accessible to, if possible, everyone in the world.\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Other \u201csustainability\u201d projects often focus on self-sufficiency, or minimizing dependence on industrialist commodities. This leads people to build independent homesteads, install expensive solar energy systems, and drive electric cars. This individualistic approach to environmentally friendly living still requires a large amount of resources that come from extracted fuel, materials, and labor. LEF views <a href=\"http:\/\/woods.coplacdigital.org\/umw\/environment-and-collectivism\/collective-living\/\">collective living<\/a> as one of various necessary choices required for a lifestyle that is environmentally sustainable on a grand scale.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to collective living, LEF employs a number of <a href=\"http:\/\/woods.coplacdigital.org\/umw\/site-index\/sustainable-technology\/\">sustainable technologies<\/a> in order to operate with minimal environmental impact. <a href=\"http:\/\/woods.coplacdigital.org\/umw\/site-index\/interviews\/\">Zeigler notes<\/a> that though the group had originally planned to purchase all of their technology from existing manufacturers, much of the technology needed for the project had to be made from scratch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere [are] two ways here, one is environmental, one is communal.\u201d &#8211; Misha Nikitin, LEF resident &nbsp; According to cofounder Alexis Zeigler, the central purpose of LEF is to create \u201ca package of [sustainable] integrated village technologies accessible to, if possible, everyone in the world.\u201d Other \u201csustainability\u201d projects often focus on self-sufficiency, or minimizing dependence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-299","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woods.coplacdigital.org\/umw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woods.coplacdigital.org\/umw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woods.coplacdigital.org\/umw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woods.coplacdigital.org\/umw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woods.coplacdigital.org\/umw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/woods.coplacdigital.org\/umw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385,"href":"https:\/\/woods.coplacdigital.org\/umw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/299\/revisions\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woods.coplacdigital.org\/umw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}