Sustainable Living

by Blas Jacob Cabrera

Table of Contents

Section I Content Overview

* Executive Summary
*Logistical Organization and Structure of Paper
*Introduction

Section II Case Studies in the Progression of Sustainable Living

*Organizations part of a Collective Movement
*Sustainaing Personal Invovlvement in the Movment and Individual Applications of Sustainable Living
*Sustainable Living in the Education System

Section III Details of Sustainable Living

*Introduction to Conscious Shifting
*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
*Outline Descriptions
* Index to Appendices

Section I
Content Overview

Executive Summary I'm skipping this section for now.

Presentation Sum-up
Sustainability and Sustainable living are different. Sustainability can be associated with sustaining something that may not be sustainable which creates an oxy moron. Sustainable living is the union of sustainability and life, where the focus shifts to a more action orientated aproach where...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...

Logistical Organization and Structure of Paper

General Overview
This paper should be organized and approachable to access any perspective or particular topic of the entire thesis. Each paragraph has a title to allow simple reference to the content. To allow for even more detailed reference into the content of the thesis, a set of outlines and detailed outlines are avilable to peruse, one of which will outline the key words or ideas brought up in every sentence. These outlines will make it accessible to any detail of the information in the thesis for people who aren't into reading the entire thing. There is also a glossary with all the key concepts and ideas where a little more information could be available as a quick reference while you are reading. The primary version of this thesis is a web site, therefore it is possible that some aspects may be formated strangly.

Interactive Sustainable Paper
Is it possible to bring sustainable Living to the core of even writing a paper? Your experience in reading this paper should include writing it as well. You are encouraged toto interact with the thesis and give comments on any segment or issue as it is always in draft and will be evolving. Input and collective agreement on the information presented is crucial to making this paper successful. 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. Not only does the writer of the paper need to take individual ownership to enable the freedom to explore, so should the reader take individual ownership of what they read and bring into their consiousness with the freedom of understanding and expression. It is not good enough just to read for your own benifit, but to enhance the experience for future readers.

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?)

Understanding Individual vs. Collective as the 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.

Section II
Case Studies in the Progression of Sustainable Living

Organizations part of a Collective Movement

Sustainaing Personal Invovlvement in the Movment and Individual Applications of Sustainable Living

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

Sustainable Living in the Education System

Section III
The Development of Concious Systemic Change with
Principles and Concepts

Introduction to Conscious Shifting ( humans as part of nature, Deep Ecology) (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.

Introduction to 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

-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

-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 Living

Beyond sustainable to thriving life

* Why sustainable Living isn't enough
It is obvious that a common reocurance in creating a sustainable life style especially for a collective society, there is a deep need for evolved community. Yet building community isn't one hundred percent the same as sustainability.

Beyond sustainable to thriving life
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

Balance of everything, beyond life itself? Connection back to sustainable living
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.

Section V
Supplemental Information

Glossary

SEC

CSSC

UCSCSECCSSC

ESLP

Outline Descriptions

Index to Appendices

Outlines

Journal

First paper on "new" living and Sustainable Development

Paper on SEC

Other referenced work from organizations with index