“Foodscaping” in Switzerland
1. Capture rain water – water butts are cheap and some councils give them away. Connect them to our home’s guttering to help stop flooding and hold winter rains back for the summer growing season.
2. Make soil – find some outdoor space not far from the kitchen and build a wormery or make a compost heap. If we send our organic kitchen “waste” to landfill it drives climate change. If we transform it ourselves to make compost it enables us to grow things.
3. Grow food – home produce reduces our need to buy from fossil fuel intensive supply chains coming through normal shops. All the plants we soak up rain water and carbon dioxide and create a mini ecosystem reminding us humans are not separate from nature.
4. Invest in efficiency and renewables – homes that leak heat or need cooling use more fuel and cost more money. Spending now to make them work better makes good sense since fuel bills keep going up. If you can get solar panels on your roof you are lucky. If you can’t, maybe you have some extra cash you can invest with Abundance?
5. Divest from fossil fuels – large institutions stash money with mega fossil fuel corporations in a toxic relationship that has distorted democracy. The solution is to move our money to banks with ethical policies. We can also demand our public-owned organisations put their money where it will not harm human survival prospects. Most importantly – governments must stop subsidising fossil fuel corporations. 
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