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What is the challenge?
The Sustainable Living Challenge engages young people, teachers and their schools in exploring different approaches to living, with view to making them sustainable.
The learning process that is fostered by the Sustainable Living Challenge involves reflecting on how humans interact with and impact on natural systems, and through our decision making continue to generate these effects. Increasingly, we are understanding that our approach to living requires a better understanding of relationships and connections - or what is called interdependence and interconnectedness.
This approach to living acknowledges that environmental problems are actually human problems. The environmental problems we face today are the result of the way humans have made decisions about how human systems and technologies interact with natural systems. These problems are outcomes or effects of approaches and interactions that do not fully consider the relationships and connections between the human world and the natural world (e.g. between a car and a forest).
What is your sustainable living challenge?
The challenge therefore is to explore how we interact with natural systems and develop approaches that are considerate of relationships and connections. It requires understanding the true cause or drivers of environmental problems when developing solutions and actions. These solutions will involve re-designing human systems so that natural systems are not adversely impacted through our interaction.
The Sustainable Living Challenge recognises that we all have sustainability challenges facing us each day - maybe as an individual, as a group or as a whole school. We encourage you to ask the question 'what is our sustainable living challenge' and then take steps towards researching, designing and taking action to address it.
