Outline: How to lead a sustainable life

In this section of the study guide, we will outline three texts that cover the topic of leading a sustainable life. We will present the texts one at a time, highlighting important points for you to consider when dealing with this topic.…

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Steps Towards a More Sustainable Life or Less

This article was written by Leo Babauta and published in 2009.

Leo Babauta begins the article by explaining how technology did not monopolize people’s lives in the times of his grandparents:

They had cars, but they walked far more often than we do today. They had telephones, but not cell phones or Blackberries or iPhones, and they weren’t using phones all the time. They had stores, but they didn’t order things online and they didn’t buy all t…

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Sustainable living at home in Australia

This article was written by Rich Bowden and published in 2007.

The text presents Lisa Cockburn’s experiment and her decision to live a sustainable life for six months.

Lisa and her family decided to give up the bad habit of over consuming and concentrate on living a life based on nature’s…

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Practically Impossible: The Challenge of Sustainable Living

This article was written by Tamara Baysinger and published in 2008.

Tamara Baysinger believes that living a sustainable life is not as easy as it seems, even though our ancestors did it for thousands of years.

She gives the example of natural chicken feeds and explains how it would be almost impossible to feed chickens and adapt to their needs: “Let’s see. One acre per chicken… fifteen chickens… Call the real estate agent, Honey. Looks like we need to buy the property next door!” (ll. 11-…