Created: Jan 06, 2007
Updated: May 31, 2007
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Sustainable Living

Sustainable living focuses on individual and community responsibilities for sustainability and focuses on choices, values, ethics and the way in which human beings interact with the natural world. Sustainable living is a lifestyle choice that considers a person's relationship within the community and the natural environment and seeks harmony with both.

Keywords
voluntary simplicity, conservation, self-sufficiency, quality of life, simple living, lifestyle, choices, community responsibility, individual responsibility, natural resource use, footprint, values, consumption changes, social and ecological harmony, earth stewardship, nature's limits, duty of care, conservation-based development, nature's carrying capacity, environmental sustainability, earth values, ecoliteracy, conservation economy, local economy, local self-reliance, economic relocalization, environmental literacy
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Confronting consumption, seeking to influence consumer behaviour, and understanding the process of lifestyle change are increasingly important topics for sustainable development.

-UK Sustainable Development Commission

Related WiserEarth Portals
Environmental Ethics
Ecopsychology
Religion and Ecology
Sustainability, Religious and Spiritual Issues
Sustainability Education

Change In Action


Sustainable Living Network is a volunteer-run, not-for-profit organization, dedicated to supporting people, groups, and communities to move towards healthier, more sustainable ways of living through education.
Karamea Sustainable Living
assists societies in their efforts to relocalize communities and adapt to an energy constrained world. KSL promotes drastically lower consumption, greater local self-reliance, and more cooperative and inclusive communities.
New Road Map Foundation is a think tank, an educational institute, project incubator and a networking hub. NRM creates and disseminates practical tools and innovative approaches to voluntary simplicity, sustainable consumption, and other aspects of personal and cultural change.

Tools for Change


Radical Simplicity: Small Footprints on a Finite Earth

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Creating Community Anywhere

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Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook

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Governments cannot solve all problems. Neither can individuals or families. Humans have evolved from small (tribal) groups. The CitiVillage concept is based on the idea of local groups of like-minded people (perhaps within a large population) cooperating in promoting more convivial ways of living.
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The population explosion is the biggest problem; what we save, the 2or 3 peolple that come after us, will be used up and more.
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