{"id":751,"date":"2017-11-22T02:07:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T02:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/?p=751"},"modified":"2017-11-22T02:10:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T02:10:20","slug":"reaching-triple-bottom-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/2017\/11\/22\/reaching-triple-bottom-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Reaching Triple Bottom Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eco Villages support an interesting solution to climate change, a massive scale down of our current lifestyle. \u00a0Eco Villages take us back to our roots in the land and create smaller scale societies where environmental efficacy is paramount. \u00a0As Professor Litfin delved into her studies of eco villages I was struck by the still vast differences in the villages consumption around the world. \u00a0While an admirable lifestyle compared to the way most Americans live, the community in Ithaca was still using many times the amount of resources that any person in global south consumes, living in an eco village or not. \u00a0With only consumption as a focus, why do we not see the developing world as the heroine of the climate crisis story?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"font-size: 1rem\" src=\"http:\/\/ingienous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ecological-footprint-1.png\" width=\"473\" height=\"197\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pondering this question forced me to redefine my ideas about sustainability, and triple bottom line aided me in doing so. \u00a0Triple bottom line sustainability is the idea that change must come to create sustainability in three sectors, ecology, economy, and equity. \u00a0This global fight is for sustainability, and not having access to food or clean water is in no way sustainable. Resources exist for a reason, consumption in many areas of the world is a survival tool. \u00a0In America these words only have negative connotations because we have so greatly over consumed resources. \u00a0The push for global sustainability will mean many societies increasing their resources use, there is no way to avoid that, nor should we. \u00a0Sustainable means ability to sustain life. \u00a0For Americans we have to focus on not deteriorating our earth to the point it is unlivable, but that focus for developing countries is on having basic human needs met.<\/p>\n<p>If an eco village is a society that is focused on creating a self sufficient, sustainable way of life, that can mean either decreasing or increasing consumption depending on where the starting point is. \u00a0So much credit is due to communities, like the ones we discussed in Senegal, who are focused on increasing their consumption to amounts that allow for healthy lifestyles while simultaneously creating environmentally friendly consumption habits.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/newsofnigeria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/solar-energy-in-africa.jpg\" width=\"505\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eco Villages support an interesting solution to climate change, a massive scale down of our current lifestyle. \u00a0Eco Villages take us back to our roots in the land and create smaller scale societies where environmental efficacy is paramount. \u00a0As Professor Litfin delved into her studies of eco villages I was struck by the still vast differences in the villages consumption&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/2017\/11\/22\/reaching-triple-bottom-line\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,56,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal-entries","category-week-7","category-week-7-contemplative-practices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":752,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions\/752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}