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 Here is a link for a pattern for  a sustainable pair of sandals that you can customize to your own style and fit  DIY sustainable footwear   these were worn by Viet Cong guerrillas.  Recycle old tyres into footwear and be comfortable at the same time. 
     
We have just come back from a visit to the local Eco -village - thought we had a good garden til we saw theirs !  Jack and the Beanstalk has nothing on theirs and we spotted Soya Beans growing there as well as Winter Melons and Bitter Melons.  Sustainable living plus right down to the compostable toilets in some of the homes.  Definitely a different experience.  I could have done with my gumboots though - locked in the car at the top of the hill so skated around on jandals.  Even the Tyre sandals would have stayed on better.   Pizza ovens seem to be the fashion too and you'd be out of it without the obligatory solar panels and wind generators.   Permaculture rules and composts are the order of the day everywhere you look and by the look of the veggies they are working well.  Grow your own veggies  is the norm and buyers markets must be flooded with produce in summer - wonder what they do with the surplus ? 

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