1. resources

    While WWOOFing, I have become increasingly aware of my use of resources.

    How much water am I using? How about electricity? Where is my food coming from? Am I using too much internet? These are questions that I find myself constantly pondering.

    (Yes, in New Zealand you can use too much internet we quickly learned. Unlike what we were used to, you don’t pay for a speed, you pay for an amount of data, which means you have a monthly limit to how much information you can transfer.)

    We’ve stayed with a lot of people that are working toward self sustainability, where it really matters how much it has rained in the past week, or whether the solar panels have collected enough sunshine. Food may be plentiful and fresh during the summer and autumn, while in the winter, all the work of canning and preserving really pays off.

    It was never my intention to be ignorant of these things before WWOOFing, but staying with people and both using some of and adding to their resources has really brought awareness of this to my everyday thought. And it is certainly something I will take with me when I move back to city life where the connections between the resources I use and their sources are not so clear and obvious.

Notes

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