Mini project: Sustainable lifestyles

January - February we're looking at sustainable lifestyles - with a special focus on how to look after ourselves and live in a healthy, well-balanced and ultimately sustainable way.

Once again we're asking ourselves: What does "sustainable" really mean?

We began exploring this by comparing two radically different lifestyles:

Huge Spring Primark Haul | Zoella and Hymn to The Great Song w/ Br. David Steindl-Rast

We found we could identify sustainable and unsustainable aspects of both lifestyles!

Now to the mini-project:

What other lifestyles are out there?
In what ways are they sustainable and unsustainable?

Choose a lifestyle and post your choice in our Global profil forum in FirstClass.

When we meet again:

Describe your lifestyle using words, pictures and even short video(s)

Critically evaluate their sustainability according to the following criteria (plus any more you think of):

• Financial - can you afford this lifestyle?
• Physical - how does this affect your body in the short and long term?
• Relationships & family life - does this lifestyle help or hinder relationships?
• Physical environment - does this lifestyle improve or damage the physical environment?
• Mental and social environment - how does this lifestyle affect other people?
• Resilience - can this lifestyle survive even if things change?
• Carrying capacity - can EVERYONE have this lifestyle?

Best of luck!

Our stories of stuff

Here is some of the output from our reflections on stuff we throw away or stop using:

Ekonomisk hållbarhet - introduktion

Now we're moving on from sustainability in nature to examine how we can create and maintain a sustainable society.

Here's a short film to start us thinking:


 Background information: http://storyofstuff.org/movies/story-of-electronics/

A) Make a table with the following columns:

1) Electronic item I no longer use
2) Where is it now?
3) Why do I no longer use it?

B) What patterns (if any) can you identify in your consumption of electronics?

C) What techniques do companies use to get us to consume more electronic goods?

D) What ways can you think of to take control of your own consumption?