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Definition
A sustainable livelihood is one that encompasses meaningful work that fulfils the social, economic, cultural and spiritual needs of a person, and safeguards cultural, and biological diversity. Livelihoods are environmentally sustainable when they maintain or enhance the local and global natural resources on which livelihoods depend. Livelihoods are socially sustainable when they can cope with and recover from stress and shocks, and can provide for future generations. Creating sustainable livelihoods is a development strategy for poverty eradication that focuses on more than income generation alone.
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Sustainable living, meaningful living, development strategy, poverty eradication focus, quality of life, human capital, natural capital, financial capital, social capital, livelihood building blocks, protection from shocks, sustaining rural livelihoods, access to credit, choice in education, health, access to assets, basic living requirements, local community living systems, food, water, clothing, self-reliance
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FEATURED ORGANIZATIONS
Rwenzori Development Foundation . The Rwenzori Development Foundation works to help improve the lives of people living in Uganda.
Swayam Krishi Sangam`s SKS Education . Swayam Krishi Sangam's mission is to empower the poor to become self-reliant.
FEATURED RESOURCES
Right Livelihood Awards . In every generation, there are groups of people and individuals around the globe who valiantly uphold these principles of right livelihood. This Award exists to strengthen the positive social forces that its recipients represent and to provide the support and inspiration needed to make them a model for the future.
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Did You Know...
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...that you can join the community and help build the Sustainable Livelihood portal
...It is free, editable and belongs to you.
...this is a great opportunity to share your resources, ideas and projects to like minded people
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The Venus Project Org.
Imagine a world without war, poverty, misery, or injustice. Imagine a world of Love, Peace, Abundance, Tolerance, Freedom where all people could work together in a spirit of cooperation and not competition. Imagine a world where we could all develop the best of our potential as individuals and as a global family… A young and spirited 93 years old man Jacques Fresco, the creator of the Venus Project, has been working all his life to achieve these aims, dreaming a better world and working passionately to make it come true. Would you imagine if we all shared the same dream and we could all dedicate part of our lives to make it happen? Would you imagine if all the people and institutions within the Wiser Earth network worked together and spent part of our time designing our common future? This is what the Zeitgeist Movement and the Venus Project are trying to accomplish. More than 350.000 people have already joined the Project. You are welcome to networking with us. Your ideas and suggestions will help us to realise our common dream.
Kind regards, David Wilson
www.thevenusproject.com