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    • What is well-being?
      • Physical well-being
        • Sustainable diet
      • Emotional well-being
        • Depression
      • Inner well-being
      • Social well-being
        • Status anxiety
      • Vocational well-being
        • Work-life balance
      • Intellectual well-being
    • Ways to well-being
      • Be engaged
      • Be generous
      • Be creative
      • Be balanced
      • Be active
      • Be aware
      • Be learning
      • Be connected
    • Well-being + Sustainability
      • Sustainability supports well-being
      • Sufficiency
      • Self-sufficiency
        • The benefits of self-sufficiency
        • Mutual self-sufficiency
    • Simple living
      • Simplicity or sacrifice
      • Voluntary simplicity
        • Do more with less
          • Leverage
          • Proactivity
          • Caring
          • Planning
          • Simplicity
          • Savouring
          • Sharing
          • Quality
  • SUSTAINABILITY
    • What is sustainability
      • Sustainable limits
      • Why have sustainability
        • Environmental well-being
          • Climate change
          • Resource depletion
            • Peak oil
          • Waste and pollution
          • Biodiversity loss
        • Population and Consumption
    • The way to sustainability
      • Sustainabilism
      • How to be sustainable
        • Essential Sustainability Tips
        • Reduce Reinvent Renew
          • Reduce
          • Reinvent
          • Renew
    • Frameworks and tools
      • Ecological footprint
        • Ecological footprint defined
        • Reducing ecological footprint
        • Household ecological footprint
        • Carbon offsetting
      • Sustainable Development Goals
      • Kaitiakitanga
      • The Earth Charter
      • Nature Conservation
    • Heroes of Sustainability
      • Dave Canterbury
      • Hugh Fernley-Whittingstall
      • Henry David Thoreau
      • Ray Anderson
      • Donella Meadows
      • George Monbiot
      • E.F. Schumacher
      • Mahatma Gandhi
      • Dick Proenneke
      • Rachel Carson
      • Buckminster Fuller
      • Greta Thunberg
  • AT HOME
    • Sustainable Housing
      • Sustainable Housing
      • Household ecological footprint
    • Food
      • Food basics
      • Fresh, local food
        • Grow your own
          • Organic gardening
          • Raised Bed Gardens
          • Composting
          • Worm Farms
        • Farmers Markets
        • Food miles
      • Organic Food
      • Avoiding food waste
      • Slow food
      • Sustainable Food Pyramid
      • Food production
        • Best Fish Guide
    • Goods
      • Goods basics
      • Eco-friendly goods
        • Eco-labelling
      • Goods at home
        • Clothes and shoes
        • Cleaning and laundry
          • Alternative cleaners
        • Gardening
        • Cosmetics and toiletries
        • DIY products
        • Furniture and furnishings
    • Transport
      • Transport basics
      • Cycling
      • Public transport
      • Fly less
      • Fuel efficient driving
      • Fuel efficient cars
      • Carpooling
      • Biofuels
    • Energy
      • Energy basics
      • Water heating
        • Water heaters
        • Saving hot water
        • Hot water temperature
        • Heat recovery systems
        • Wet backs
        • Low flow shower heads
      • Space heating
        • Passive solar design
        • Insulation
          • Double glazing
        • Home heating tips
        • Heaters
        • Heaters compared
        • Passivhaus
      • Appliances
        • Tips for appliance use
        • Energy rating
      • Lighting
      • Make your own energy
    • Services
    • Water
      • Water basics
      • Virtual water
      • Home water use
        • Water conservation
        • Waterless toilets
        • Grey water recycling
        • Rainwater harvesting
        • Waste water treatment
      • Bottled water
    • Waste
      • Waste basics
      • Reduce waste
      • Reuse waste
      • Recycle waste
        • Plastic recycling
  • ECONOMY
    • Old Economics
      • Economic growth
      • Capital and profit
      • Supply and demand
      • External costs
      • The truth about GDP
      • Decoupling the economy
    • New Economics
      • Steady-state economy
      • Solar economy
      • Circular economy
      • Localised economy
    • Sustainable development
    • Business sustainability
      • Triple bottom line
        • Environmental bottom line
        • Social bottom line
        • Financial bottom line
      • Circular business model
      • The Natural Step
      • The Ideal Business
  • DESIGN
    • Design for Sustainability
      • The Hannover Principles
      • 1000 Words: A Manifesto for Sustainability in Design
    • Design Basics
      • Systems approach
      • Dematerialisation
      • Sustainable materials
      • Cradle to cradle
      • Biomimicry
    • Sustainable materials
      • Bamboo
      • Wood
      • Hemp
      • Wool
      • Linen
      • Straw
      • Clay, stone, sand
      • Beeswax
      • Coconut
    • Sustainable Designs
      • Passivhaus
      • The Duralex tumbler
      • The Bicycle
      • The Hypercar
      • The Guitar
      • Cast Iron Cookware
      • Thonet chair
      • Chinese Chef’s knife
      • Tweed jacket
      • Picnic Table
      • The wok
  • RESOURCES
    • School resources
    • Footprint calculators
    • Gapminder World
    • Sustainability quotes
    • Links
    • Econation articles
      • The bankruptcy of growth
      • Green fatigue or a case of the blues?
      • Emission Control
      • What’s The Guts?
      • Dropped Like A Hot Light Bulb
      • The Biggest Bust
      • Government Gets Zero For Sustainability
      • Setting off to sustainability
      • Cleaning up on renewables
      • Watt efficiency?
      • Is sustainability sustainable?
      • Who halts Climate Change?
      • Are you a Solution Seeker?
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Earth Overshoot Day

Earth Overshoot Day 2022

July 27, 2022July 27, 2022

July 28, is 2022’s Earth Overshoot Day. Overshoot Day is the day of the year when humanity starts to ‘overshoot’ the earth’s renewable (i.e. sustainable) resources. … Read more

Categories Climate change, Ecological footprint, Economics, Saving money, Simplicity, Well-being
Earn more or spend less

Earn more or spend less

July 15, 2022July 13, 2022

There are fundamentally two ways for people to become more financially secure. The first is to earn more and the second is to spend less. In … Read more

Categories Economics, Saving money, Self-sufficiency, Simplicity, Well-being

Buy Nothing Day

November 28, 2021November 25, 2021

November 26 (or 27, depending on where you are) is ‘Buy Nothing Day!’ Buy Nothing Day is the day after Thanksgiving, which is now promoted as … Read more

Categories Economics, Saving money, Sustainabilism, Well-being

How to be sustainable

July 6, 2021April 25, 2021

Sustainability in 3 steps I am often told that sustainability is too hard but I truly believe that to be sustainable is much easier than not … Read more

Categories Food, General sustainability, Saving money, Simplicity, Sustainabilism

Convenience and ease are a disease

December 11, 2022May 26, 2020

The downsides of comfort and convenience Our economic system is geared to providing ever more convenience and ‘value-added’. Some convenience can certainly be good, but too … Read more

Categories General sustainability, Saving money, Self-sufficiency

Urban farming

December 18, 2020October 18, 2019

Not very long ago the majority of people grew vegetables and fruit in their home gardens. It was a valuable part of the household economy. It … Read more

Categories Ecological footprint, Saving money, Self-sufficiency, Simplicity
The benefits of simple living

The benefits of simple living

January 28, 2022August 27, 2019

There are many reasons why people chose lives of sufficiency and voluntary simplicity. People can become slaves to the belief that we need stuff that we … Read more

Categories Resources, Saving money, Simplicity

Life is easy

December 18, 2020July 29, 2017

I strongly encourage you to watch this TEDx talk. It’s a little bit cheeky to have a blog post that is a Youtube video, but I … Read more

Categories Ecological footprint, General sustainability, Saving money, Simplicity, Well-being

More good with less

December 18, 2020July 8, 2017

We say ‘Do more good with less’. ‘Do more with less’ is a catch-cry in the sustainability movement but it is also a catch-cry for businesses … Read more

Categories Ecological footprint, General sustainability, Saving money, Simplicity, Well-being

The best things in life

December 18, 2020June 5, 2017

Money, where it comes from and what it can buy, is not everything. In our society, the economy gets way too much attention – in policy-making and political rhetoric, … Read more

Categories Ecological footprint, Economics, Saving money, Simplicity, Well-being
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