Living a Sustainable Lifestyle for Our Children's Children

About the Book

Global population growth is putting our children and grandchildren at risk. Living a Sustainable Lifestyle for Our Children's Children shows how sustainable development is a process of living that cuts across many of the major concerns facing society today and establishes how we can move beyond these present risks. It presents an easy to understand description of sustainability, where humans find the means to coexist in a manner that maintains biodiversity, wildlands, and decent environments while also achieving economic prosperity and equality, present and future. The book challenges people to transform their awareness of human-nature interactions into a deeper commitment to both protecting and wisely using our global natural resources. Going beyond science, technology, and politics, this book discusses how we live and why we live the way we do, while addressing the basics of life: how to know what is in our water, air, food, and land. The good news is, a shift to sustainable development is occurring. Ordinary people living ordinary lives, looking at how they live, how that in turn affects nature, and how fundamental nature is to our existence, is the beginning. And, this book poses tough questions, not for another debate, but to initiate reader awareness, understanding, and motion. We hope to advance understanding of what people can do differently to alter the surging tide of material inequity and declining resources by offering numerous alternatives for the individual considering their ability to make a difference.

About the Author

Warren Flint obtained a Ph.D. in Ecology from the University of California, Davis in 1975. He has 25 years of university research and teaching experience in environmental science, marine biology, and ecology. Over the last decade Dr. Flint has become a sustainable development specialist, working and writing on the topic to more clearly understand and articulate a sound philosophy to guide healthy economic growth while also protecting/rehabilitating environmental systems and enhancing social equity and well-being. He now serves as principal for Five E's Unlimited, a firm that provides international leadership in developing research, management, policy, and education strategies to solve problems of environmental degradation, economic decline, and community disintegration as defined by governments, corporations, academic institutions, communities, and non- governmental organizations. He is internationally recognized for initiating and directing interdisciplinary research targeting ecological and natural resource issues and has authored 3 books and more than 60 peer-review journal articles on diverse environmental science subjects. Dr. Flint also regularly gets involved in community capacity building by advancing sustainable development practices in community revitalization, guiding environmental fact- finding, facilitating conflict resolution, promoting consensus-building in participatory decision-making processes, and assisting in community-based natural resource and comprehensive watershed planning.

Willow Lisa Houser holds a Master's Degree in addictions rehabilitation from Wright State University (1991). She runs her own business, Addiction Research Center. In 1993 she directed an outreach program entitled "Saturday's Child" that won the Best Prevention Program Award two years in a row from the Governor of Ohio (USA). She has worked consistently in the field of addictions and through public speaking, Willow is able to communicate with hard-to-reach populations, simplifying information and teaching people how to accommodate new information and behaviors into daily life. Ms. Houser has held a great interest in contemporary and cutting-edge environmental concerns for the past 7 years. She supports many environmental causes as well as adheres to harmless living to whatever degree is feasible. In 2000 she founded Beyond Creation, a non-profit organization to advocate awareness of renewable energy sources, dominantly wind energy, and promote sustainable community development by expanding environmental education activities with children. Beyond Creation advocates pro- environmental issues with the use of a solar-powered playhouse she and her children built, which is equipped with Enviroscapes that demonstrate various effects waste has on nature as well as different sustainable-based solutions. Her other publications include An Era of Addiction: The Evolution of Dependency which discusses Cultural Addiction.