A Modern Look at Sustainable Living

In this article, I want to explore the concept of sustainable living and how you can change your way of thinking about sustainability.

What does sustainable living mean?

Sustainable living is a lifestyle design in which you manage the consumption and use of resources. Where the management of resources directly impacts one's way of life. A lifestyle based on processes that work to continuously support, maintain and regenerate resources in harmony with nature.

What are resources?

When you begin to think about living a sustainable life, you need to start thinking differently. Today, we take much for granted. We live in a disposable world, and you don't think twice about using products and throwing them away. Anything from plastic shopping bags to a cup from that fast food restaurant. We simply use it once and never think about it again.

So when you think about changing your life to become more sustainable, you have to turn the usual way of thinking around. You need to think of everything as a resource. That plastic bag and cup are resources. Those items can be reused or repurposed to continue their usefulness.

When you change your thinking, things that you never thought twice about suddenly become important. You begin to look at the world through a new lens. Things like electricity, water, money are a resource. Resources are the items that you need to survive and thrive in life.

What is resource management?

When you change the way you think about resources, a funny thing happened. You need a way to start maximizing the use of resources.

Resource management is the processes that you build into your life to manage the consumption of resources. You build methods that utilize resources to the fullest potential. Procedures are put in place to support and maintain resources to ensure the resources durability. You make changes in your life that allow you to consume fewer resources when possible. You also build processes to regenerate resources if possible.

9 Guiding Principles for Sustainable Living.

While sustainable living is the management of resources, here are nine principles that can assist you in designing your sustainable life.

1. Simplify your life, minimize resource consumption.
2. Design a lifestyle that works in harmony with nature.
3. Manage resources wisely, use each resource to its fullest potential.
4. Use natural solutions whenever possible.
5. Build processes and habits that support, maintain and enhance the use of resources.
6. Build a strong foundation to support your sustainable lifestyle.
7. Build systems that renew and regenerate resources whenever possible.
8. Repurpose, reuse and recycle resources.
9. Always use resources in a way that is healthy for you and the environment

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