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Just_An_Author wrote

My biggest thing is living in a city where most of the places I want to go are in walking distance. Aside from that, I've begun making a point of getting things that are built tough enough to last a good long while. This (theoretically) helps since it slightly reduces the industrial requirement of replacing it, and it also avoids inconvenience associated with things breaking and needing to be fixed or replaced.

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ziq wrote

But by living in a city, everything you consume has been shipped in from afar, and the concrete island effect requires huge energy use for cooling.

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Just_An_Author wrote

Not everything; Lowell's pretty low-density as far as cities go, and the end result of that is enough homegrown tomatoes to give them out to the entire neighborhood in vast quantities.

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