Will You Repeat Your Programming As Temporary Caretakers on The Land, Building Your Temporary Dream Life, Or Will You Instead Create Something On Your Land For Eternity?

Begin the transition to a kin's domain lifestyle 
right where you are.

Examine your life.  What will be different for you when you move onto your kin domain? 

Think about the following areas of your current life and begin to explore how they will need to be changed in order to support you and your domain in creating your sustainable space of love as you imagine it.  (Your life style must be sustainable in order for your kin domain to be sustainable.)  

You must be clear on where you stand in regard to the following questions in order to effectively plan your personal kin domain as well as participating in planning the domain settlement.

Water  

	What degree of water piping will you tolerate?  Why?
	Water source preference?
	Holding cistern? Type and location on domain?
	Electric Pumps & pump noise?
	Running Water? How much and where?
	Hot water?  Throughout house or in specific locations?
	Water basins with pitchers?
	Showers? Bathtub?
	Traditional Toilet? (Requires sewer lines, septic tank system and chemicals.)
	Composting Toilet? (Outhouses are illegal in Colorado)
	Washing Laundry? (google sustainable living products for many links to catalogues.)
	Sewage management/treatment?
	Septic tank?
	Grey water system? (Currently illegal in Colorado except in one known specially approved engineered application)
	Private or Community sewage treatment system?

Energy - (Electrical/Gas)

	What degree of electrical wiring & gas pipes will you tolerate?  Have you researched alternatives? (google searches turn up tons of information and suppliers)
	What source of electricity?
	Propane, Methane?
	Solar? (Often requires a LOT of piping, tanks, pumps, battery arrays, etc.)
	Lighting?
	Computers?
	Heating source?
	Drying clothes?
	Cooking stove/oven?
	Fans?

Food

	How much cooking will you require?
	Vegetarian? Raw?
	Are you willing to "eat like you breathe?" Do you know how? Have you begun?
	Will you eat wild edibles or just cultivated food?
	Will you need education about wild edibles?
	For what will you need refrigeration and a freezer?
	How will you feed yourself during the winter?
	Do you know how to store or grow produce over the winter?
	Do you know what wild plants are still available and edible in winter?
	Are you prepared to allow your children to "eat as they breathe?"
	Are your children willing to get used to eating raw or wild food?
	Do you need medications?  If so how will that be integrated into your kin's domain lifestyle?

Household

	What kind of tools will you need?
	Do you know how to manage your maintenance and building needs without power tools? (for example maintaining water and gas pipes, electricity flow, etc.)
	What kitchen tools/utensils do you imagine you’ll need?
	How much space will you need?
	Furniture? What furniture provides you with true benefit in your kin's domain setting?
	Electronics
	Cell phones?
	Electricity for charging phones, cameras, etc.?
	Computers/printers?
	Musical systems?
	Television?
	Batteries?

Personal Hygiene

	Shaving (both men and women)?
	Toothpaste or alternatives? Do you know any alternatives?
	Soaps or alternatives?
	Do you know the effects of different kinds of soaps (from cleaning, body and clothing) in your planned waste water system? Your Pond?
	Shampoos? Do you know what ingredients will harm your kin's domain?
	Deodorant or alternative?
	Laundry detergent? Do you know what is harmful for your kin's domain?

House management

	Trash removal/recycling (paper, glass, plastic bags, broken & unwanted items. There will be no traditional trash company service.)
	Composting?
	Plastics?
	Cleaning supplies?
	Carpets?
	Landscaping?
	Lawn?
	What plants will be growing around your home?
	How are garden and household "pest" critters currently handled? In your Kin's Domain?

Sudden massive change can be difficult and frightening, and yet if you take your current non-sustainable life style fully into your kin domain it will also be non-sustainable. Your transition to a kin domain will be much easier if you begin now with gradual small steps.

Those early small steps will also help you make more accurate and beneficial decisions as you design your life on your kin's domain. They will give you a new base of knowledge and experience related to those decisions.

What can you do to move your life closer to your kin's domain lifestyle where you live right now?

The obvious:

	Attend classes and workshops on transitioning to kin's domain living.
	Read about sustainable systems. (Google has tons of resources.)
	Read some of the articles on www.coloradokindomains.com
	Learn what household chemicals are harmful to you and your kin domain.

Begin exploring:

    Try replacing every other morning or evening shower with washing yourself from a washbasin.

	Heat a teapot of water to warm the wash water instead of drawing it from the faucet.
	Consider keeping a wash water jug in the sun all day, then use it to wash up at night.
	Identify where you will use the wash water after you’ve finished. Don’t just dump it out the back door with no purpose.  Experiment with ways to wash that produce water that is beneficial to your plants.
	Experiment with washing with cold water instead of hot water.

Experiment with how much and what kinds of shampoo can be rinsed out of your hair easily without a lot of running water.

Begin composting if you don’t already.

Begin the practice of living without TV and familiar music systems.

	Choose TV free days/nights, and gradually expand them to more days per week, or try "cold turkey" if that interests you.
	Leave your music off when normally you would have it playing in the background. Practice being present with background silence as you work and play.

Note where you use batteries and look for alternatives or alternative ways to recharge them.

Food & drink.

	Begin eating as Anastasia suggests for city people.
	Find the wild edibles in and around your yard and begin eating them if they have been free of gardening chemicals for three months (other than fertilizers).
	Begin a daily walk through the land surrounding your home. Preferably identify areas that have not been spayed against weeds or bugs where you can eat as you walk and breathe.
	Introduce your children to more nurturing eating.
	Provide yourself and your family with living water. Set up a place and a system where you can restore your drinking water to "living." Obtain spring water and expose it uncovered to the sun for four hours. (When drinking living water your body doesn’t need as much)

Heating and cooling

	Turn your house thermostat down to 65 degrees during cold days. Dress warm and allow your body to adapt so that you can be comfortable in colder temperatures. Turn the thermostat down even lower after you’ve adapted.
	Reverse the process with air conditioning on hot days.
	Research various building structures for your kin's domain that are self heating and cooling.