Sustainable Giving and Living Circles

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This WiserEarth group exists to help Individuals start or join a "Giving and Living Circle". 

Giving and Living Circle participants are committed to restoring community and regenerating the local economy. Circles include activities and events that give healthy expression to each of our inherent gifts for collaboration and creativity.Sustainable living and sustainable giving are interconnected.  We invite you to engage with all of us. 

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Guide to Areas of Focus
The areas of focus below are for circle members to explore and discover the work of the beneficiaries taking place within our community. Each community card holder can designate up to four beneficiaries. Beneficiaries can include any public or private school in the state of Washington as well as 21 nonprofits in 12 different areas of focus.

1. Agriculture and Farming
Agriculture and Farming is the science, art, or practice of cultivating the soil, producing crops, and raising livestock, and in varying degrees the preparation and marketing of the resulting products.

2. Arts
Arts refers to human creative activities and techniques for communication encompassing art, painting, sculpture, literature, criticism, theater, performing arts and music.

3. Children and Youth
Children and Youth refers to those rights and issues that concern children and young adults, such as children's rights, children's health, juvenile justice, and the empowerment of youth.

4. Climate Change
Climate Change encompasses the long-term fluctuations in temperature, precipitation, wind, and all other aspects of the earth's climate.

5. Coastal and Marine Ecosystems
Coastal and Marine Ecosystems refers to the interdependent and dynamic relationships of all living organisms in ocean environments, from tidal pools to salt marshes to continental shelves and marine current systems.

6. Conservation and the Commons
Conservation and the Commons is a shared resource (common pool resource) and a conscious collective choice to conserve and maintain the resource (common property management). There are global commons (e.g. air, oceans) and place-based commons (e.g. smoke in an office, watersheds).

7. Human Health
Human Health refers to the total state of physical, mental and social well being of a person, including the absence of disease.

8. Human Rights and Social Justice
Human Rights and Social Justice are those basic rights that belong to people because they are human beings, regardless of their nationality, race, ethnicity, gender, or religion, and without which people cannot live in dignity.

9. Religion, Ecology, and Spirituality
Religion, Ecology, and Spirituality refer to the spiritual and metaphysical aspects of valuing the earth and working towards sustainability.

10. Sustainability Education
Sustainability Education is the activity of educating, teaching, training, and imparting knowledge, ideas, and skills about concepts of sustainability to enable the management of global natural, physical, and social resources to meet the needs of present generations without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

11. Sustainable Business
Sustainable Business A business firm has many components: shareholders, employees, trading partners, suppliers, insurers, regulators, customers, investors, and philanthropic activities. Any or all of these players can work toward sustainability and push the other players to act toward sustainability.

12. Sustainable Cities
Sustainable Cities are those cities, towns and urban areas that use their resources to meet current needs while ensuring that adequate resources are available for future generations. Sustainable cities seek community development that enhances the local environment and quality of life as well as developing a local economy that supports both thriving human and ecological systems.