User:Sleepyjelly20/Micro-sustainability

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- A person recycling a glass bottle into a bin that only accepts glass.

The emphasis of micro-sustainability is on an individual's actions, rather than organizational or institutional practices at the systemic level.

Micro-sustainability centers on individual efforts, behavior modification, education and creating attitudinal changes, which result in an environmentally conscious individual.[1]

Examples of micro-sustainability include recycling, power saving by turning off unused lights, programming thermostats for efficient use of energy, reducing water usage, changing commuting habits to use less fossil fuels or modifying buying habits to reduce consumption and waste.[2][3]

These small local level actions have immediate community benefits if undertaken on a widespread scale and if imitated, they can have a cumulative broad impact.[1]

Examples of micro-sustainability include recycling, power saving by turning off unused lights, programming thermostats for efficient use of energy, reducing water usage, changing commuting habits to use less fossil fuels or modifying buying habits to reduce consumption and waste. [4]

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Individual Actions:[edit]

Sustainable living is a lifestyle that attempts to conserve natural resources. [5] Within an individual household, this can include reducing the water footprint and domestic energy consumption of the building.[6]

Water Footprint:[edit]

Like the common concept of the carbon footprint, people can also have a water footprint. Water footprint helps with determining how much fresh water is used and polluted by a given person.[7] [8]With a typical American single-family home using 70 US gallons (260 L) per person per day indoors, household appliances such as toilets, showers, dishwashers, and washing machines can be upgraded to reduce water usage.

^also link the water footprint Wikipedia article to this:

Wikipedia contributors. (2022, September 12). Water footprint. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 18:13, April 4, 2023, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Water_footprint&oldid=1109965227

Urban Communities[edit]

Urban communities do not necessarily mean a larger population than rural communities, but that they are more densely populated and more influenced by the effects of urbanization.[9]

Fashion Industry[edit]

Fast fashion has become increasingly popular, as it allows consumers to keep up with and then discard these trends at a low cost.[10]

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Macro-sustainability:[edit]

They discuss global issues including climate change, and reliance upon fossil fuel hydrocarbon based energy sources. Global organizations like the United Nations have included sustainable development goals (SDGs) to set a standard of 17 goals for countries around the world to take action on climate change and other related issues.[11]

Governments confront these larger issues through regulation of natural resources, improved practices, providing subsidies and directly investing in new technologies and renewable energy sources.[12]

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Macro-sustainability is a large systematic addressing of sustainability in most cases by the United Nations, governments, multi-national corporations or smaller companies.[13]

Consumer Preferences:[edit]

As individuals become more aware of environmental problems that exist, their consumption decisions can promote green designs and ultimately affect the types of products on the market.[14]

References[edit]

The Global Water Footprint, averages of how much water is used around the world
  1. ^ a b Hobson, Kersty (2001-01-01), Cohen, Maurie J.; Murphy, Joseph (eds.), "Chapter 11 - Sustainable Lifestyles: Rethinking Barriers and Behaviour Change", Exploring Sustainable Consumption, Oxford: Pergamon, pp. 191–209, ISBN 978-0-08-043920-4, retrieved 2023-04-19
  2. ^ Klug, Katharina; Niemand, Thomas (2021-05-15). "The lifestyle of sustainability: Testing a behavioral measure of precycling". Journal of Cleaner Production. 297: 126699. doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.126699. ISSN 0959-6526.
  3. ^ Barr, Stewart; Gilg, Andrew (2006-11-01). "Sustainable lifestyles: Framing environmental action in and around the home". Geoforum. 37 (6): 906–920. doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2006.05.002. ISSN 0016-7185.
  4. ^ Klug, Katharina; Niemand, Thomas (2021-05-15). "The lifestyle of sustainability: Testing a behavioral measure of precycling". Journal of Cleaner Production. 297: 126699. doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.126699. ISSN 0959-6526.
  5. ^ Hagbert, Pernilla; Bradley, Karin (2017-09-01). "Transitions on the home front: A story of sustainable living beyond eco-efficiency". Energy Research & Social Science. Narratives and Storytelling in Energy and Climate Change Research. 31: 240–248. doi:10.1016/j.erss.2017.05.002. ISSN 2214-6296.
  6. ^ Waitt, Gordon; Caputi, Peter; Gibson, Chris; Farbotko, Carol; Head, Lesley; Gill, Nick; Stanes, Elyse (2012-03-01). "Sustainable Household Capability: which households are doing the work of environmental sustainability?". Australian Geographer. 43 (1): 51–74. doi:10.1080/00049182.2012.649519. ISSN 0004-9182.
  7. ^ Hogeboom, Rick J. (2020-03-20). "The Water Footprint Concept and Water's Grand Environmental Challenges". One Earth. 2 (3): 218–222. doi:10.1016/j.oneear.2020.02.010. ISSN 2590-3322.
  8. ^ Zhou, Kaile; Yang, Shanlin (2016-04-01). "Understanding household energy consumption behavior: The contribution of energy big data analytics". Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 56: 810–819. doi:10.1016/j.rser.2015.12.001. ISSN 1364-0321.
  9. ^ Ritchie, Hannah; Roser, Max (2018-06-13). "Urbanization". Our World in Data.
  10. ^ Zamani, Bahareh; Sandin, Gustav; Peters, Greg M. (2017-09-20). "Life cycle assessment of clothing libraries: can collaborative consumption reduce the environmental impact of fast fashion?". Journal of Cleaner Production. 162: 1368–1375. doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.06.128. ISSN 0959-6526.
  11. ^ "THE 17 GOALS | Sustainable Development". sdgs.un.org. Retrieved 2023-04-04.
  12. ^ Ba, Yuhao; Galik, Christopher S. (2023-03-01). "Historical industrial transitions influence local sustainability planning, capability, and performance". Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. 46: 100690. doi:10.1016/j.eist.2022.100690. ISSN 2210-4224.
  13. ^ Zainudin, Norzalina; Lau, Jasmine Leby; Munusami, Chandramalar (2020), Leal Filho, Walter; Azul, Anabela Marisa; Brandli, Luciana; Lange Salvia, Amanda (eds.), "Micro-Macro Measurements of Sustainability", Affordable and Clean Energy, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 1–14, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-71057-0_91-1, ISBN 978-3-319-71057-0, retrieved 2023-04-04
  14. ^ Gilg, Andrew; Barr, Stewart; Ford, Nicholas (2005-08-01). "Green consumption or sustainable lifestyles? Identifying the sustainable consumer". Futures. 37 (6): 481–504. doi:10.1016/j.futures.2004.10.016. ISSN 0016-3287.
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