Low-impact development (LID) has been defined as "development which through its low negative environmental impact either enhances or does not…
Sustainable living describes a lifestyle that attempts to reduce an individual's or society's use of the Earth's natural resources, and…
An ecovillage is a traditional or intentional community with the goal of becoming more socially, culturally, economically, and ecologically sustainable.…
Permaculture is a system of agricultural and social design principles centered around simulating or directly utilizing the patterns and features…
Forest gardening is a low-maintenance sustainable plant-based food production and agroforestry system based on woodland ecosystems, incorporating fruit and nut…
Peak oil is the temporal maximum of the world crude oil production rate . The concept of a maximum oil…
Deep ecology is an ecological and environmental philosophy promoting the inherent worth of living beings regardless of their instrumental utility…
Simple living encompasses a number of different voluntary practices to simplify one's lifestyle. These may include, for example, reducing one's…
The ecological footprint measures human demand on nature, i.e., the quantity of nature it takes to support people or an…
Anti-consumerism is a sociopolitical ideology that is opposed to consumerism, the continual buying and consuming of material possessions. Anti-consumerism is…
Appropriate technology is a movement (and its manifestations) encompassing technological choice and application that is small-scale, decentralized, labor-intensive, energy-efficient, environmentally…
Appropriate technology is a movement (and its manifestations) encompassing technological choice and application that is small-scale, decentralized, labor-intensive, energy-efficient, environmentally…
Social life is the least defined and least understood of the different ways of approaching sustainability and sustainable development. Social…
Sustainability is a socio-ecological process characterized by a behavior in search of a common ideal. An ideal is an unattainable…