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Grow your own

Whatever the scale of your ambitions or plot you'll find something useful here.

Make your own

Reduce your footprint by making your own, from knitting to soap-making to adorning your home.

Livestock and pets

Find out about rearing livestock from the farm to the garden, and doing the best for your pets.

Energy efficiency and construction

Discover how to adapt, change and even build your own home to enable you to tread more lightly upon the planet.

Cooking, preserving and home brewing

From the home brewery to ambitions of chefly grandeur. Find out how to do it all here and really taste the difference.

Wild food

Subsidise the larder in a sustainable way. From fishing, to shooting, to foraging safely, find it among these articles.

Conservation and the environment

Conserve our world for future generations. See how you can help in these pages.

Marketplace

From shopping with a conscience to building your own enterprise. Find advice and encouragement among these pages.

Everything else

Sometimes the diversity of downsizing can throw up an unusual topic.

Editorial

Past editorial items from the downsizer front page.

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Downsizer.net is run as a non-profit organisation. We are an on-line community supporting each other to to live a more ethical and sustainable lifestyle.

There are many points of view as to what sustainable and ethical means and we accept all perspectives as valid and worthy. However, downsizer.net holds no responsibility for the personal opinions expressed by their members.

The site has many areas that we hope will be of interest to you and we encourage all members to contribute. We have a list of traders in the market place whose business ethics reflect those of downsizer.net and there is a forum where many discussions take place.

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Please contact our administration team to enquire about advertising upon the site as this is subject to approval.

For any queries or further information please contact us at contact@downsizer.net.