Living in a Responsible Manner.

 By doing this it makes these communities less reliant on folks and corporations. This is especially useful in difficult commercial times as it can save communities lots of money. It's also extremely useful for the resources we use from the earth. We all feel good when we receive what we'd like and we do it with spectator resources. By doing this we are saving the valuable resources from the earth so they can be employed over generations and generations to come.
 
Another benefit to doing things in an environmentally responsible way is the added health benefits. As an example, our vehicles out pollution which has caused some health-related issues during the past a few decades. It is has been getting worse, but as more and more folk become conscience of this and change what they are doing, we scale back the pollution problem and therefore cut back the effects on our health.

 Communities have learned that they can inspire folk to take more self sustaining approaches by adding benefits for those that do. This demeanour of rewarding the behaviour they desire, instead of punish those who don't, has had a larger effect and keep communities together.