Future of Hope Page #6

of the Icelandic Nation

randomly chosen more or less

and it's a huge social experiment

so I imagine that the world can

take away from here an enormous

wealth of information

about how such things develop

Well, something that I've discovered on

this trip is that I really don't need much

I mean half the stuff I brought

here I don't even need.

When I get back to the States

I don't think I will be able to live as simply

just because of the profession

that I'm going into I'm going to have

to use a computer and

things like that

I haven't turned on my phone

since I've been here

I've listened to my iPod

maybe twice

I don't know, everything

technological is so artificial

It's just nice to have

real things all of the time

that's definitely something

I'm going to try and put

back into my life when I get home

Well, yes of course

I've got used to it

but it's always hard because they

become close friends many of them

and it's hard to see them leave

of course and many of them

really want to stay longer but they

have to go because of school

or something else and I have to accept that.

We need to develop sustainable

communities across the World

Iceland could be a model for

that and then in larger cities

you would form many centres of

sustainability which would be referred to

as a polycentric city and

each part of the city would

then produce their own energy

produce their own food

take care of the education

and produce employment

for the people who live there

all of this travel and commuting

would not be necessary any more

I think this is a reality that has to happen

we are running out of resources

with now 7 billion people on the planet

and predicted to go up to 9 by 2050

we can't go on the way we are going,

we have to find a new way of living

we can do it

I'm certain

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