Responsible Living


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Focusing on the challenges of the transition to responsible, sustainable lifestyles, this book examines developments over the last decade in relation to: - the creation of awareness of consumer citizenship, civic involvement and environmental stewardship - research, projects and publications on education for responsible living - the creation and implementation of relevant teaching methods and materials - policies on education for sustainable consumption and lifestyles - global processes for education on sustainable development The articles deal with topics related to policy support, institutional approaches, educators, young people, and local communities. They draw attention to successful initiatives and reflect upon what still needs to be done. The book also looks at the roles that central actors such as PERL (The Partnership for Education and research about Responsible Living) play in this process.




Responsible Living


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Does genetic engineering have the potential to be as dangerous a nuclear holocaust? Will playing games online lead to brain shrinkage? These and other environmental and moral dilemmas of the modern world are discussed in a collection of essays which use Buddhist texts and academic resources to analyze problems in today’s world. Topics include pollution, animal cruelty, genetically modified foods, and our addictions to digital and social media. Dr. Epstein describes how outer environmental and social problems mirror humanity’s inner struggle with selfishness, greed, and desire. By connecting Buddhist concepts such as compassion, causation, and moral precepts to these issues, this collection of essays provides guidance to for ethical conduct in today’s world.




Enabling Responsible Living


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The book focuses on responsible living as the individual’s contribution to sustainable development. We believe that sustainable development can only be achieved if individual freedom and responsibilities are balanced on a high level while taking social, ecological and economic needs into account. A crucial element to achieve this is to integrate different perspectives of stakeholders and co-create a joined approach through partnerships. While partnerships develop new opportunities for the stakeholders involved they also require a readiness for mutual understanding, respect and courage to co-create.




Being the Cause: A User Guide to Responsible Living


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""This is the best self-improvement book on the market!"" is the summation for all of the five star ratings on Amazon. Although countless self-help books have been written, none have been able to translate psychological theory into practical, day-to-day application as well as this one does. By integrating Eastern and Western philosophy with science and religion, ?Being the Cause? provides a concise, easy-to-read guide for living. Dr. Durst promotes the concept that we are 100% responsible for everything in our experience and for our reactions to life's events. Assuming the ""Cause"" position (""I am responsible for my life and experiences"") rather than an ""Effect"" position, (They are are doing it to me"") is a break through moment for people. This focus provides not only increased knowledge, but also the impetus to change. In so doing, it directs us to greater insight, satisfaction and fulfillment.




Criminal Conduct and Substance Abuse Treatment for Adolescents


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Adolescents are a particularly vulnerable patient population in the justice system. Mental health providers can get specific tools for improving evaluation and treatment of at-risk youth with this comprehensive and developmentally appropriate treatment program. Using an adolescent-focused format, this protocol identifies psychological, biological and social factors that contribute to the onset of adolescent deviance.




Living in Information


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Websites and apps are places where critical parts of our lives happen. We shop, bank, learn, gossip, and select our leaders there. But many of these places weren’t intended to support these activities. Instead, they're designed to capture your attention and sell it to the highest bidder. Living in Information draws upon architecture as a way to design information environments that serve our humanity.




The New Normal


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In Simple Prosperity, Dave Wann showed readers how to have an abundant, sustainable life. In The New Normal, he challenges us to do some heavy lifting and transform our non-sustainable culture by transforming ourselves. For Wann, our current "old normal" lifestyle - buying water in disposable bottles, allowing the government to ignore global warming - will not preserve the planet. To nurture our world, he challenges us to rethink our lives, stand up for a healthy planet and move towards a "new normal" lifestyle in an agenda that includes: - Initiating local business alliances that actively lobby for local buying. - Creating an investment strategy that values the balance of nature. - Supporting the design, manufacture, and use of products made with natural chemicals. - Publicly advocating a more efficient use of water by placing a higher cultural value on wetlands, streams, rivers, and lakes. The New Normal is Dave Wann's way forward, a blueprint for a better life that preserves our world.







Enabling Responsible Living


Book Description

The book focuses on responsible living as the individual’s contribution to sustainable development. We believe that sustainable development can only be achieved if individual freedom and responsibilities are balanced on a high level while taking social, ecological and economic needs into account. A crucial element to achieve this is to integrate different perspectives of stakeholders and co-create a joined approach through partnerships. While partnerships develop new opportunities for the stakeholders involved they also require a readiness for mutual understanding, respect and courage to co-create.




Responsible Living: Live to Fulfill Your Potential


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It is obvious that we are living in a world that is being challenged than ever! Our co-existence has never been challenged like this and these challenges don't arise from somewhere else, they are products of what we (you and I) don't do at all or do better.Our intentional negligence towards what we can do better has manifest to challenges that are haunting and hurting us. We have exchanged rights with wrongs, we have digressed from the path of honour and we have allowed selfishness to override selflessness.Who are the people responsible for these challenges we are facing? Those responsible are those who have never seen anything within themselves. They have never taken their time to soul search and identify the gift God thrust in them to make them live successfully and fulfillingly. And because they don't do that, they don't envision any hope for their lives and they resort to damaging and pillaging the unity of the world. They are not ready to be responsible for their actions. They prefer to be blaming other people for their predicaments and allows that to becloud them from raising their intents to be responsible for actions that are shaping them.This is the problem the writers of this book have identified and attempted to address. At this point, we want to advise that we shouldn't ask our life what it can offer to us; but to ask what we can offer our life. Your life is like a frame that can't change itself, but can only be changed by you. In that frame, what appears in it can't be determined by it but by only what you do with it. That is why this book categorises our living into three major phases: Yourself, people around you and the society at large. It comprises of nine chapters, which chapters one to three are devoted to making yourself better so that you can make your life admirable.Chapters three and four are about how we manage our relationship with other people and what we can do when we are dealing with people around us. These have to be emphasized because it may be easier for you to forgive yourself than to forgive other people who disappoints you. We all know that dealing with people is inevitable, while also tolerating their characters without being affected is also considerable.From chapter six to nine, this book chronicles how someone can navigate from discovering him/herself and relate with people around him/her harmoniously to build a virile society by contributing his/her share to the progress and advancement of humanity.This book is meant for everyone (you inclusive) because in it, you would uncover what God has deposited in you and how you can thrive in the world of your own by living a flourishing life filled with purpose and fulfillment. As you will be flipping through the pages of this book, I want you to belief that the book is not meant for anybody else but you. It is meant for you because you have prioritized your life and you are also a source of inspiration to other people around you, which you must live up to.Be responsible for your life and you shall see yourself soaring in Responsible Living...