How do we achieve a sustainable lifestyle?
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By Rupert Blackstone, with contributions from Roger Middleton, Brian Robinson and Ian Arbon
Introduction
Although many of us, if not most of us, have some idea of what sustainability means conceptually, how many of us have an idea of what this means in terms of our lifestyle and personal responsibilities? Where the progress of society towards a sustainable future may be viewed as inadequate, it may be easy for us to blame governments and corporations, but given that the activities of governments and organisations serve individuals, what can we as individuals do and influence? How can engineers empower and equip us to live sustainably from day to day and what might a sustainable lifestyle look like? This is the first in a series of Energy, Environment and Sustainability Group (EESG) articles on what a sustainable lifestyle might mean in practice and what engineers can do to influence this. This is an extensive and complex subject that cannot be done justice in one article, but hop...
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