Sustainable living

Sustainable living describes a lifestyle that attempts to reduce the use of Earth's natural resources by an individual or society. Its practitioners often attempt to reduce their ecological footprint (including their carbon footprint) by altering their home designs and methods of transportation, energy consumption and diet.^[1]^[2] Its proponents aim to conduct their lives in ways that are consistent with sustainability, naturally balanced, and respectful of humanity's symbiotic relationship with the Earth's natural ecology. The practice and general philosophy of ecological living closely follows the overall principles of sustainable development.^[3]

One approach to sustainable living, exemplified by small-scale urban transition towns and rural ecovillages, seeks to create self-reliant communities based on principles of simple living, which maximize self-sufficiency, particularly in food production. These principles, on a broader scale, underpin the concept of a bioregional economy.^[4]

^ Winter, Mick (2007). Sustainable Living: For Home, Neighborhood and Community. Westsong Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9659000-5-8.
^ Hickel, Jason (2019). "Is it possible to achieve a good life for all within planetary boundaries?". Third World Quarterly. 40 (1): 18–35. doi:10.1080/01436597.2018.1535895. S2CID 158894436.
^ Communicating sustainability for the green economy. Lynn R. Kahle, Eda Gurel-Atay. Armonk, New York. 2014. ISBN 978-0-7656-3680-5. OCLC 841199162.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
^ Sale, Kirkpatrick (24 February 2006). "Economics of Scale vs. the Scale of Economics — Towards Basic Principles of a Bioregional Economy". Vermont Commons. Archived from the original on 28 October 2008. Retrieved 13 October 2009.

[Winter-1] Winter, Mick (2007). Sustainable Living: For Home, Neighborhood and Community. Westsong Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9659000-5-8.

[2] Hickel, Jason (2019). "Is it possible to achieve a good life for all within planetary boundaries?". Third World Quarterly. 40 (1): 18–35. doi:10.1080/01436597.2018.1535895. S2CID 158894436.

[3] Communicating sustainability for the green economy. Lynn R. Kahle, Eda Gurel-Atay. Armonk, New York. 2014. ISBN 978-0-7656-3680-5. OCLC 841199162.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)

[4] Sale, Kirkpatrick (24 February 2006). "Economics of Scale vs. the Scale of Economics — Towards Basic Principles of a Bioregional Economy". Vermont Commons. Archived from the original on 28 October 2008. Retrieved 13 October 2009.

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