The Next 7 Generations
Our actions today will impact the next 7 generations. We must choose wisely.
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Did you know?
- Americans make up 5% of the world’s population. They use more than 30% of the world’s natural resources.*
- Over $3 billion worth of good, useable food is discarded as waste every year in the U.S. food industry. In 1995, we threw away 48 million tons of food waste.*
- 1.2 billion people on earth currently lack access to clean drinking water. 67% of the world’s population must fetch water outside their homes.**
- Americans use 409 billion gallons per day of fresh water. This is 10 times as much as we used in 1990.**
- The use of groundwater exceeds replacement rates in the U.S. by 21 billion gallons every day.**
- An American family of four will flush 126 gallons of clean drinking water down the toilet every week.***
- Each American family of 4 sends roughly 990 gallons of graywater that could be used for irrigation into the sewers every day.***
- The natural rate of extinction is estimated to be between 1 and 10 species per year. At this time, we are loosing 1,000 species per year. More than 10% of all bird species, 25% of all mammals, and 50% of all primate species on Earth at this moment are threatened with extinction.**
- Every pipeline has an outlet somewhere. Everything we flush, throw away or discard actually just moves to another place on the Earth.**
Did you also know?
- Everything we need to solve all of these issues, including advanced technologies and ancient indigenous wisdom, is available to us now.
- We are living with the consequences of the choices made by the last 7 generations.
- Our choices today will impact the next 7 generations. What we do today will have a profound impact on the future of humanity and all life on Earth.
- Becoming more conscious means waking up to how we are living in this moment.
We (Michael and Kathryn Sharp) moved to White Sage Landing in 2008 with the intention of living with a light footprint, and in conscious relationship with the Earth.
Through living day by day at White Sage Landing, we are learning about life in a high desert climate, relying on rainwater for our home and garden. We are learning how to thrive on two 5 gallon showers a week and how to manage small amounts of water to grow a garden.
We are learning how to use electrical power consciously with a small solar electric system, and about the changes one goes through as we choose our power expenditure priorities every day and night.
We are learning about composting toilets, and how to enrich our soil with compost instead of discarding these vital nutrients. We are becoming proficient in the skills required to recycle, reduce, reuse, and rethink.
We are learning to live at a new level of accountability, through a combination of advanced Earth-friendly technologies, and the ancient wisdom of the indigenous peoples who had no concept of waste.
It is our true hearts’ desire to share our way of life, in the hope that it will inspire others to make their own changes, and stimulate new ideas and possibilities for living in harmony with the Earth.
