We are influenced throughout our life by the company we keep, the groups and issues we engage in, and the people we respect and learn from. But is there anything that compares to what we learn from our parents as…
Personal Happiness and the Environment: A Sustainability Connection
In previous posts, I discussed the “Sustainability Prism”, the link between personal happiness and the economy, and the link between personal happiness and equity. In this post, I am exploring one more connection in this prism — the connection between…
Personal Happiness and Equity: A Sustainability Link
What is the source of equity? The source of equity, I would argue, is believing that all people deserve the same. In actual fact, though, who believes that others deserve what they deserve? More often than not, people don’t believe…
Personal Happiness and the Economy: A Sustainability Link
In my previous post, I brought up the sustainability prism and the link between personal happiness or peace and the other three, traditional components of sustainability theory — economy, equity, and ecology. In this article, I explore the link between…
What is Sustainability? The Practice Makes the Ideal, the Critical 4th Component
What is sustainability? It is, in one sense, leaving the world in the same condition as it was when we arrived in it. This is a fairly common definition of the word: “the property of [being continued with minimal long-term…
Everyday Life — How to Really Change the Environment
If you don’t eat for a day, you know it. If you stay inside all day, you feel it and it makes a strong impression on the character of the day. These are two critical parts of our day —…
Goals and Rejuvenation: Realizing Our Dreams
Each of us comes to the environmental movement in different ways. We come with different causes, with different dreams and hopes, with different goals and ambitions, with different concerns. We come with different resolutions about what we are going…
First Ecovillage in the Netherlands
The ‘Ecovillage’ movement is not new, but, along with many other green ideas, it is growing steadily these days. Ecovillages come in different varieties, but they hold a few basic characteristics in common. They try to combine great ecological…
Care and the Environment: A Proposition for Further Personal Growth
We know that we are supposed to do what is good for the environment. We know that the time we live in requires a great change in what we consider to be normal lives. We have inherited living habits…
Personal Sustainability: The Path to Worldwide Environmental Sustainability
This world is founded on some basic laws, including cause and effect. Every action has a reaction. Every cause has an effect. And we may think that we’re all separate beings in this world, separate beings and entities. But…