The SSC E&W Team encourages our community to recognize the alienating influence of convenience-addiction and over-consumption. We challenge the conventionality that causes us to make unconscious choices in our daily lives - like accepting privatized bottled water, plastic bags, disposable coffee cups and Styrofoam containers, throwing out leftover edible foods, using disposable dishware, and keeping our electronics plugged in after use - actions that disregard the health of ourselves, our neighbors and our environment by polluting the Earth, air and waterways. When we demand waste elimination and energy off the grid, we get ourselves off the grid to become visionary about the world we desire.