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"In Wales, the average citizen uses almost three times their share of the
world’s resources. But Cassandra and her family are part of a groundbreaking
scheme launched by the Welsh government in 2011 that aims to address that
imbalance. The One Planet Development Policy (OPD) and its predecessor,
Pembrokeshire’s Policy 52, allow people to bypass tight planning laws and move
to protected areas to live ecologically sustainable lifestyles.
So far, 46 individual smallholdings have signed on to the programs, which
require residents to sustain themselves using the resources available on land
they inhabit. The policy aims to combat an array of problems: rising
temperatures, soil degradation, rural depopulation, a rampant housing crisis
and wasteful global supply chains. But at its most basic level, the OPD is an
experiment to prove that, by limiting consumption and allocating resources
wisely, ecologically responsible development is possible, even in pristine
environments."
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
