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<h3>Welcome to this sustainable curation post from the ecoTrain community. This week I am sharing seven posts that all fit our core topic of sustainable living and building. Thank you to everyone who has posted to the community with your thoughts, feelings and ideas! The community feed is humming, and its good to see a little more engagement developing amongst everyone. 
<br>I would like to mention that people who do comment and engage in the community are more likely to receive larger up votes. I manually curate all your posts, and look to see who is also commenting as well as posting. I can assure you that the more you comment, the more comments and up votes you will receive from other people. </h3>

@ecotrain is a global Hive community gathered around the concept of natural giving, living in harmony with nature and making our world a better place. Changing the world starts with changing ourselves and the way we live, love, work and create together as communities .

We deliberately and consciously curate those posts, blogs & vlogs which speak to the issues, challenges and needs of community living and the emerging Hive ecoVillage communities around the world.

<strong>Here are some of the topics we support and curate on:</strong>
"Sustainability, ecoVillages, Community, Self-sufficiency, Off-grid Living, Homesteading, Permaculture, Alternative Energy, Alternative Lifestyle, Natural Health, Cooking, Eco-Building, Earthships, Recycling, Esoteric, Inner Transformation, Spiritual, Nature"
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<h3>A special thanks to the following people who have been featured in this weeks curation, we love what we see, please keep sharing with us!</h3><hr>
  <h2>@steemmatt </h2>
  <h3>A Bunch Of Items I've Saved From The Curbs Over The Years BUT Kept For Myself</h3>
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  <p>I've been meaning to get to a post like this for a while. @dandesign86 recently asked me what I've kept and this was the sign. While I've saved thousands and thousands of things to sell, donate, or gift away, I do occasionally keep things for myself. To clarify, these are not all of the items I've kept. These are just some I'm thinking of or seeing as I'm looking around my apartment. In cases where pictures are available, I'll simply list some extras. Let's Begin... My mattress! It was about a year old and spotless in a bag from a move out. I'd normally never touch a mattress, but this was an exception. It was a floppy 71 pounds and impossible to get up my stairs by myself. It took me about an hour to barely get it up 6 steps around a bend before I gave up and left it on the first floor for a friend to help me with the next day. Retail value was $3,200.</p>
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<h2>@oniemaniego</h2>
<h3>Fermenting Fish Amino Acid for the Garden Crops | Loy Bukid</h3>
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<p>They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. — Andy Warhol I am terribly unsure of what lies ahead of me! I used to prudent, so meticulous of what I should be doing in life, but right now, it's just a mess, I don't know what to do, and it is frustrating me. Yes, you're reading the right post, this is just a long backstory. As the world moves forward, I just lay restless and directionless, but maybe not. Maybe, I am just overwhelmed with fear of living my dreams. Maybe I am just in disbelief of the reality that I am facing in. I wonder how many people are in the same situation as me, or even tougher, how do they resolve their perspective every morning when they wake up?</p>
<p>The pandemic left me without a job, again. Having no salary, no income, basically, I am an unregistered farmer. Yes, farmers are expected to register for certain reasons that I still unaware of. I get up in the morning, eat breakfast, take a bath, prepare, and spend the day at the orchard doing my gardening chores. I have left the farm since I landed a job in the academe and while I was studying for my masteral degree—it was too far from our house to juggle farm chores and other responsibilities. In order to satiate my thirst for gardening, I built a new garden at the orchard, every weekend or during the holidays, I spent my time making the raised-beds, trellises, and planting herbs and other crops.</p>
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<h2>@ultravioletmag</h2>
<h3>Building new habits</h3>
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<p>So my goal for 2022 has been structure. I am totally unstructured I tend to live my life in complete flow state. Since lockdown, that has become a bit too flow lol I&rsquo;ve found myself getting up later, I&rsquo;ve not been going to yoga or meditation classes and been finding it hard to get into practising mindfulness at home, been falling asleep later and just generally have less structure than I want lol. I also lost all my work over covid, which pushed my hand to change course but art proves to be even harder to find structure in. To actually treat it like a job that you apply yourself to improving and growing in every day. It&rsquo;s much easier to be structured when you can tell people &lsquo; no I&rsquo;m at work&rsquo;.</p>
<p>Everything is about balance so 22 is about me trying to find that balance in everything. Between flow and structure, between socialising and working, between using the internet to promote my work and to learn and make connections whilst not letting it use me and being limited to an hour or so a day.</p>
<p>My friend was staying with me for the last few days and we did a kundalini class together and we made a pact to do the same Kriya for 40 days. Here is a post on why it&rsquo;s important to do the class for 40 days to help build new healthier habits and why it is often suggested we practise that way.</p>
<h3><a href="https://peakd.com/hive-123046/@ultravioletmag/building-new-habits">VIEW POST</a></h3>
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<h2>@queenmountain </h2>
<p><strong>4 Critical Tools You Need When Living Off The Grid</strong></p>
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<p>I am the proud parent of power tools! As I am working thru this break up with my partner, I am left with NO TOOLS, and that doesn't work very well with homesteading.</p>
<p>Tools are extremely valuable when you have structures and trees to maintain, and also for pesky repairs. Unless you are living ultra-primitive, you will want these 4 tools in your toolbox.</p>
<p id="h1drilldriver">1. Drill/Driver</p>
<p>I absolutely had to pick up an impact driver today. I am adding an interior lock to my tiny house and I am also installing a window. There are so many times that I need to drill a hole into something or install screws. I consider a drill or driver a necessity!</p>
<p id="whyichosetheimpactoverthedrill"><strong>Why I chose the impact over the drill</strong></p>
<p>The main reason I chose the impact is it is more lightweight and compact, which works well with my small frame. It also has more torque, and I think that could come in handy. There were also no Craftsman drills left.</p>
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<h2>@anyelina</h2>
<h3>The paradox of climate change in the Arctic.</h3>
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<p>Hello ecotrain friends, I hope you are very well and having a wonderful start of the year, today I want to talk to you about a situation that although it is still in full development, promises to have great consequences on the world economy, geopolitics, and the lifestyle of millions of people.</p>
<p>I am referring to the melting of the polar ice caps at the North Pole as a result of global warming, and the consequences of such events, which include the opening of new routes for maritime trade, new deposits of oil, natural gas and minerals for exploitation, and the race of several nations to control territory, by force if necessary.</p>
<p>To understand why all this is so important you first have to understand what is happening in the far north, and how the changes brought to the map by global warming will change for better or worse the way the world views the Arctic.</p>
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<p>@rem-steem</p>
<h3>The success story of producing Spring Onion at my Balcony Garden.</h3>
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<p>Producing spring onion is not a tough job. But the story changes a little bit when I talk about growing it on a balcony, on a small pot. I never tried producing this before but as they are one of my favorite vegetables so this time I decided to grow some on my own.</p>
<p>No need to say, winter is the time to have the best taste of spring onion. We usually buy this from the market. But this year when I saw one of my neighbors is producing onion on their balcony, it also inspired me to have some.</p>
<p>Let me share the process so if you are interested you can easily follow.</p>
<p><a href="https://peakd.com/hive-123046/@rem-steem/the-success-story-of-producing-spring-onion-at-my-balcony-garden">VIEW POST</a></p>
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<h2>@rawadventuress</h2>
<h3>Honestly, is healthy eating even worth it?!</h3>
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<p> have to admit, when I started to change my lifestyle towards more healthy foods and conscious practices there were a few moments in the beginning when I asked myself - is it even worth it?</p>
<p><em>Why bother taking so much care of my body when at some point it will be gone anyway? And then I might have spend all my life focused on doing the healthy thing while missing out on all the fun and excitement.</em><br>
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  <strong>Fortunately, I decided pretty quickly that it is worth it, since I realized that...</strong></p>
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    <p>...any fun or excitement is worth nothing if I feel tired all the time, can't think straight, feel uncomfortable carrying around my skin issues and don't have the energy to actually enjoy life.</p>
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    <p>...a healthy lifestyle can actually be so much more joyful and effortless than my previous rather destructive habits - not to start with all the amazing new flavors you get to explore.</p>
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