Sustainable Living Guide
The Sustainable Living Guide includes over fifty sustainable and practical actions that guide and support your efforts towards building a more sustainable lifestyle. Action achieves an end, builds momentum and restores our confidence in our ability to change. The catalogue of actions are simply ideas for you to ponder and pick as you craft your own sustainable life.
Food & Drink
Our sustainable food and drink choices directly determine the methods used to produce food within our environment, and the quality of the food and drink we ingest to maintain our wellbeing.
House
Our home can be a bottomless pit of resource consuming ecological inefficiency - or a healthy Eden of self sufficiency and sustainability.
Garden
Our sustainable gardens can bring us closer to understanding and working in sympathy (or not) with the ecosystems that underpin life on this planet.
Community
In order to genuinely believe and act in a way that shows that people and living species are more important than exotic holidays and new toys we need to nurture and deepen our relationships with others and to fire up our compassion toward those in need, the young and future generations of living creatures on this planet.
Transport
Transport for most involves moving several tons of metal around in order to move a couple of hundred kilos of us. One-quarter of all car journeys are less than 3km.
Work
Our workplaces make many of the resource consuming decisions in our society. While most of us have less control over our workplaces than we do over our homes, our commitment to reducing the damage to the environment cannot stop when we get to work.
Recreation
Recreation is how we relax, reward and inspire ourselves. Travel, luxury holidays and recreational toys are the new status symbols for many. Yet many of these activities are devastating to the environment.
Goods
The things we buy can move us toward, or away from, being sustainable. Do I need this? Does it require ongoing resources? Is it the most efficient available? Can it be recycled at the end of its life? Do I really need this?
Services
The majority of the services we receive from our governments, health care providers, banks, etc… are configured for financial efficiency (saving money or making it). As such, the inclusion of sustainability obligations or awareness of the ecological footprint of the services they provide is a rare feature for Australia's service providers.
Waste
The existence of waste is an indicator of inefficiency in the human economy. We extract from nature to create billions of tons of things which we use once then bury or pump out to sea.