Creating a
Safer space in the modern society
On this page we will look into several quick and practical things you can do to improve your current life, right now. With little effort, investment, and skills. Follow these simple steps and you will have more money and more time to relax, find yourself, connect with your natural self, and get ready to explore your Inner world to take the next step into becoming a Naturacend human being. We will explore how you can increase your income, reduce your costs, and reduce your work hours as quickly as possible.
Increase your income
Gardening
Make and run a vertical Aquaponics / Hydroponics vegetable / Spice garden, in your apartment, your balcony or your rooftop.
Make and run a Worm farm to produce Worm tea / bait / top quality soil.
Make and run a Black Soldier Fly Larva farm to produce animal food / bait.
Rental income
Get an overview of your assets that you are not using and may rent out instead.
Woodwork / Hobby
Make simple wooden wine bottle holders.
Paint wooden bottle holders.
Print out and make packaging for wine bottle holders.
Internet
Make and run a crypto currency farm
Make and run a webshop
Make and run a consulting service
Reduce your costs
You may of course save a lot of money by changing your lifestyle and sitting hungry at home in the dark all the time. But you got to live! So I do not recommend focusing on any cost reduction that may affect your lifestyle negatively. Instead, I want to focus on your common utility costs and food costs.
Depending on where and how you live, your utility costs can range between 12-24% of your monthly costs. And your food costs range between 45-55% of your monthly costs.
And with some planning and investment, you can reduce those monthly costs by 70-100%! Helping you save thousands of euros/dollars each year.
Let’s start quickly and easily by managing the energy vampires. This is something you can do right now and will help you save some money immediately.
Then we will look into how to make some amazing DIY projects to reduce your costs even more.
Next, we will look into how to quickly plan, design, and build devices that you can implement in existing buildings to reduce your costs considerably.
In the end, we will go through what you need to know to plan, design, and implement larger, extremely effective systems if you decide to build your own self-sustainable house. Making you remove common utility bills forever, and reduce your food costs considerably.
Common utilities
Common utilities are the basic services your home needs to keep it comfortable and functioning properly. Common utilities include electricity, gas, heating, cooling, water, sewer, trash, and recycling.
Electricity
Besides using electricity mostly for heating and cooling your living space and water. And for cooking and preserving your food (65%),
you are also using electricity for appliances, electronics, and lights. (35%).
Not only are you billed for the consumption of electricity, but you also have to pay for being connected to the grid. Even if you are not consuming.
Saving
Save up to 65% of your electricity costs by utilizing some of the self-sustainable alternatives:
Heating
Heating your living space is a major part of your energy consumption (80%).
You also use some energy (4-5%) for heating (cooking) your food.
Saving.
Save up to 99% of your heating costs by utilizing some of the self-sustainable alternatives:
Cooling
Cooling your living space is a major part of your energy consumption (80%). It is almost as much as the energy needed to heat your space.
You also use some energy (1-2%) for cooling your food.
Saving.
Save up to 99% of your heating costs by utilizing some of the self-sustainable alternatives:
Water
15% of your utility costs is the water bill. Cooking, cleaning, showering/bath, drinking, and watering plants.
Saving.
Save up to 100% of your water bill by utilizing some of the self-sustainable alternatives:
Sewage
If you have to be connected to the grid, then there is not much you can do to reduce your sewage bill.
Saving.
Save up 100% of your sewage bill by utilizing some of the self-sustainable alternatives:
Trash
In almost all cases you will have to pay for trash disposal. So not much to save on this utility bill.
However, you can re-utilize a lot of the trash for your use, and that will save you money as you don’t have to buy new products.
Saving.
Save money by recycling trash:
Recycling
In more and more places around the world now, you will have to pay the government an extra fee for recycling. There is not much you can do about that.
However, you can recycle for yourself instead.
Saving.
Save and even earn money on recycling your trash:
Reduce your work hours
Did you know that about 80% of your monthly salary is used to pay utilities, food, and rent or mortgage?
If you work 5 days a week. 80% of that work is on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday!
If you had removed the utilities, food, and rent, or mortgage costs from the equation, you would either:
only need to work on Friday to maintain the same living standard as before. 1 day of work, 6 days off!
or keep on working up to 5 days a week as usual, but now you would have up to 5 times more money!
How is this even possible?
If you own and live in a mortgage-free self-sustainable house that is designed to provide free electricity, water, food, heating, cooling, and gas, and that recycles sewage and trash, you got it!
I am living in such a house right now. And it allows me to live for about 50 euro/dollar a week! My type of house is called a retrofit Earthship. I have simply rebuilt an old house and implemented all of the self-sustainable systems you would find in a fully self-sustainable type of house, called an Earthship.
And just to prove the point, I have built a portable camper unit that will fit into most vans without any tools or alternation of the structure of the car, that also is fitted with all the Earthship systems. Simply, it is now a portable self-sustainable microhouse.
At last, I rebuilt my apartment to also include self-sustainable systems, to show how much you can save by surprisingly low effort and costs.