Sustainable Living

by Blas Jacob Cabrera

Table of Contents:

Section I Overview of contents
* Executive Summary
*Introduction
*Organization and structure of paper
Section II Introduction to Local Sustainable Living progress
*Sustainable Living movement (case studies, personal)
*Individual vs. collective sustainable living (Education, ESLP)
*Introduction to Conscious shifting (spectrums, humans as part of nature.) (staish)
Section III Details of Sustainable Living
*Principles of Sustainable Living
*Concepts of Sustainable Living
Section IV Beyond Sustainable Living
* Why sustainable Living isn't enough
*Beyond sustainable to thriving life
*Balance of everything, beyond life itself? Connection back to sustainable living
Section V Supplemental Information
*Glossary (organizational references and concepts at a quick glance)
* Index to Appendices

Executive Summary

- Everything Summed up
Sustainability and Sustainable living are different define. Core of community. Explanation of importance of principles and concepts/ core foundation and practice. Experience of organizing...Sustainable Living and the concept of sustainability allows us to explore beyond the confines of our educational experience. Therefore we can use the foundation of sustainability and sustainable living to look past sustainability itself. Exploration of beyond.

-Basic Conclusions
Basic understanding of union between sustainability and life. Principles: trust, balance... Concepts... gardening, walking...

-Introduction

Many people who have been studding sustainability eventually reach an understanding that it is essentially flawed because the question that can be asked is: sustain what? What are we here to sustain? Yet by understanding sustainability as a separate concept than sustainable living gives a new version of context that focuses us on a much smaller aspect of whole of sustainability. Sustainability living is...

(Relationship between sustainability and Living, and the difference between them showcasing the similarities {this is not a paper on sustainability and what it is, no definition of cause or crisis, there is no need to explain the situation in which we are faced with in this world.})- (The conscious paradigm shift is the essence of sustainability to change the way in which we look at the world and the way we make goals and achieve them.? And those application to building our individual and collective understanding. Building community?) (1 pages)

Individual vs. Collective Sustainable Living

- Organization and structure of paper, how to use

Interactive paper, the sustainable Paper
Is it possible to bring sustainable Living to the core of even writing a paper? This paper is always in draft and will be evolving. Your experience in reading this paper should include writing it as well. Eventually there is the hope of having an interactive ability on the web to actually edit the paper and submit it while you read. Sustainable Living will always be changing. (Individual ownership of paper) freedom

I could go on forever on my current situation, but that is what applied to the thesis as of now. For a quick conclusion, my feeling is that this senior thesis that I am going to write, must be, in and of itself, sustainable, and exist in the realm of sustainable living itself. There must be complete personal and individual ownership. This bring freedom of expression and a much desired ability to completely scrap, and re-scrap everything, and possibly change around the entire concept whenever it is needed. There is so much that entails sustainable living, there is no telling what the end product might be, but I do know that what ever ends up on the final cutting board, will change right after, and the final executive summary, will have to be the last thing rewritten, after the rest of the paper has changed. Each reader should also take total ownership and evol...

General Overview
This paper should be organized and be approachable from many different perspectives and accessible to any particular topic of the entire thesis. For example each paragraph should have a title just as each section and part as seen in the SEC paper. Each sentence will also have a written description of the key words or concepts brought up in it. This will be described/ be available in the detailed outline. There will also be an Overall Outline, a General Outline, a Main outline etc. I don't know exactly what they will be called, but it will make sense on some level. There will be at least three outlines, probably four. That is why it is so important to make sure the paper isn't too long, because it isn't easy to make all the outlines and descriptions of the paper, but this will make it accessible to any detail of the information in the thesis for people who aren't into reading the entire thing. There also needs to be a glossary with all the key concepts and ideas where a little more information could be available. Also the entire thesis should be organized and written to be available, accessible, and navigatable on the web as the primary version. There should be a downloadable version in word and PDF based on the web version. There should also be the ability to interact with the thesis and give real time comments on any segment or issue brought up in the thesis, or be able to fix minor errors (or at least propose them).

- Case studies and personal activity in sustainable movement

Individual: How I started my involvement, application to others

(Possibly a swip swap)

Collective: Organization collective movement (SEC...)

(What went into working on that level or sustaining myself in those organizations.) (3pages)

- Individual vs. collective sustainable living) (2 pages) (possibly come before case studies.

Two aspects of Sustainability:
There are two main aspects that I see to sustainability, and therefore to Sustainable Living (and really any realm of life). One is the personal/individual understanding and organization. The other is the multiple or societal collective understanding and organization. Each is equally important, but the collective understanding is based and grounded in each person individual understanding added to that collective. Therefore it is, and will be, important to begin and create a foundation with the individual in mind.

- Introduction to Conscious shifting (spectrums, humans as part of nature.) (1 page) systems, Hope, interdependence, intention (This might be the first part of the next section

Sustainability is interconnectedness with ourselves, energy, nature and the entire universe from the beginning of time. Think local, global, and universal, act in balance. But with sustainable living, individual people become in and of themselves independent in that they are owners of themselves, and have total freedom of will. Yet at the same time they are interdependent.

Section III
Principles and Concepts

Overlap: thought, basic, These words can be ignored but it is interesting that the common vocabulary between a concept and principle is a basic thought.
Concept: An imaginative abstract perception used as a general guide, plan, or method of behavior.
Principle: The primary source or ingredient for moral and ethical laws, assumptions, [or beliefs] used for quality decision-making.
Concepts would be tangible steps that people could take to change their behavior.
I also believe it is very interesting that Concepts vs. Principles fall in line with the same understanding between, sustainability vs. sustainable living, as well as individual vs. collective. Each can be applied to a group or person, but sustainability, principles seem to relate more with the larger understanding and consciousness of the collective, and Concepts and sustainable living seem to relate more with individual evolution. The individual evolution through is the basis for the larger understanding and consciousness.

-Principles of Sustainable Living (2 pages)

-Intro- with definition and overview/ purpose
the primary source or ingredient for moral and ethical laws, assumptions, [or beliefs] used for quality decision-making. These principles can be used on a personal level or collective level.
- Balance-
everything is balanced, up to the highest levels. Give and take, good and evil, foster balance; understand that balance everything exists within, each of us has good and evil inside. Light includes everything. Death brings life. Life brings life, and sometimes death brings more death. Balance is the focal point of all life and is a core factor in sustainability like that of all realms of life.
- Spectrums- although you only need two things to create balance, good evil... to live sustainably, you must understand where you exist in relation to everything around you. Therefore nothing is black or white; there is always a spectrum of colors. There are always many options available, and each must be considered. Levels of spectrums.
- Intention- everything must be done with intention and understood. Only with intention does an action speak for itself, no, enacting a plan with a purpose, instead of just going with it because there isn't enough time to do something else. Truly believe in what you do, and allow a community too also.
- Interdependence?
-Truth

-Concepts of Sustainable Living (2 pages)

-Intro
Concept: An imaginative abstract perception used as a general guide, plan, or method of behavior. These are tangible examples of how to apply principles of sustainable living into practice. These are meant to be able bring systemic change within a system.
-Walking
-Gardening
-Waste Prevention- Cycle of production
- Teaching/Learning? Natural path of education
- Health?- Cleaning!!!
- Relaxing/releasing, Gardening/ Walking, Cleaning
- Common Sense

Section IV

-Beyond sustainable to thriving life

What next (the next steps of this work, How to go) (1 page) (? Community as a foundation)

Through reorganizing my individual understanding of my life, I have come to realize that sustainability is one of seven realms. This is only one way of organizing a life, and is specific for how I organize my own; every person could have a different way of doing so. The realms are: Dreams, Journey, Sustainability, community, Government, Business, and all of them put together create a realm of itself: LIFE. So that organizational structure, or the way that it relates to the world is not what is important to this thesis. What is important is that I took it upon myself, in a manner of sustainable living, to reorganize the way in which I looked at my life, to better understand it and be more effective in what I do. How I did this is of great importance, although it still my not be included in my thesis. Some of this work might be useful for comparative analysis. For example, Dreams are not always real, the Journey is everything in motion through a path, and Sustainability is the sustained existence of everything individually, and also collectively. Community and so forth becomes much more complex.

This would include discussing the difficulty of making distinctions between Sustainable Living and life in general. In some ways Sustainable Living is the intersection between life and sustainability. Interconnectedness

The Solution to sustainability doesn't necessarily have anything to do with sustainability, or sustainable living. The problem you see is unsustainability and the disconnect of the natural law of energy and balance in our society. Therefore the true solutions are in building community and supporting an active government that supports the earth.

-Glossary (organizational references and concepts at a quick glance) (2 pages)

-Index to Appendices (1 page)

Appendices:

-Outlines

-Journal

- First paper on "new" living and Sustainable Development

- Paper on SEC

- Other referenced work from organizations with index