self-sufficient
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The plastic home didn’t remake housing; the automated kitchen didn’t free women from domestic work; the self-sufficient home gave way to new forms of reliance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Entirely self-sufficient, the National Trust-owned island relies on a combination of rainwater and boreholes drilled into the granite for supplies.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Making each region more self-sufficient would also cut tariff costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
"In general, the United States of America has nothing that it can do that had not done before," Laylaz said, noting years of isolation had made Iran's economy largely self-sufficient.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
Unlike Easter Island and other remote Polynesian islands, Greenland could not support a self-sufficient food-producing society, though it did support self-sufficient Inuit hunter-gatherer populations before, during, and after the Norse occupation period.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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