Positive Ecology
The transformation to sustainability and/as ways to happiness
What seems to be heard most often are the environmentalists predicting doom, and the deniers and delayers arguing that change would hurt us, personally and economically.Recently, we see an emergent understanding that a transformation to sustainability is actually not just about hard choices for "saving the planet," but about ways in which human happiness can ...learn more
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Created: Nov 23, 2007
Updated: Oct 25, 2009
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When I created this group, I was looking for a chance to network and discuss the issues that interest me most: how sustainability and happiness are as interrelated as ecosystems and human lives. The basic idea was that there would be research (and other) articles to find, point to, and discuss.
Still, things continue(d) the way they have done:
If you look for the latest report saying that we are all... doomed, that's easy to find. That climate change may ruin agriculture and cause massive hunger is one such article that stuck in my mind.
Finding articles which point to the pleasure in living more aware, more self-determined, less consumption-driven lives is much harder.
The best that has come about recently seems to be that the economic crisis shows that what came before was not as "natural" (matter-of-course) as it seemed, and that thrift may be a valuable behavior after all... but at the same time, it seems to be making alternative energies and green products (at least of the "green is the new black"-variety) a much harder sell.
I wonder. Does that mean that it takes tough times to be "environmentally aware," in the sense of consuming less? Or do ideas like "green-collar jobs" capture people's imagination and raise awareness that sustainability may be a good guiding principle for the economy?