The goal of Self-Reliance and a Sustainable Future is to share information from experienced, knowledgeable folks to those who wish to use those tools in their daily lives. Interested in permaculture, organic gardening or homesteading? Want to know how to heat water with solar energy? Start composting human waste? Build a strawbale house? Convert your vehicle to use bio-diesel? Develop consensus based decision making processes? This is the place to ask and get answers to questions like these. Sending diagrams and drawings via email between members of the group is strongly encouraged. Building a network of individuals and communities co-operating together makes our common goals easier to achieve. Information sharing groups like this is one of many ways of making that happen. Your humble host has chosen the nickname solrey, it means sun-king in spanish, the sun being our best source of inexhaustable energy, I believe it should be utilized in every way possible.