英国第一个真正自给自足的生态定居点将在今年建成。这个定居点包括几座能提供能源和水并且对垃圾进行回收处理的房子。5个家庭将搬进位于诺丁汉郡霍克顿的房子里。他们将进行小规模的食品生产和养鱼。 他们的目的是减少开支,抽出更多的时间过家庭生活,并且“摆脱高收入生活、大量的抵押贷款和过多的工作造成的紧张状态”。这项工程还旨在表明,可以设计出对环境影响最小的新房子,例如人们可以不使用产生二氧化碳的矿物燃料。 The first truly self-sufficient ecological settlement in Britain will be completed this year. The settlement includes several houses that provide energy and water and recycle waste. Five families will move into the house in Hockton, Nottinghamshire. They will carry out small-scale food production and fish farming. Their purpose is to reduce spending, to spend more time in family life, and to “get out of high-income life, large mortgages, and excessive work-related tensions”. The project also aims to show that new houses with minimal impact on the environment can be designed, for example, people can not use fossil fuels that produce carbon dioxide.