Why One Planet Living?

Our vision is a world where people around the world can live a happy and healthy life within the nature of the earth, leaving space for wildlife and the wilderness. Our goal is to

Make it easier for people to understand their environmental impacts and enable them to do something

On a global scale, we are consuming natural renewable resources that pollute the earth at a level 40% higher than we can withstand the earth. Speed ​​varies from country to country. The Ecological Footprint shows that if anyone in the world consumes as much natural resources as ordinary people in Western Europe, three planets are needed to support us. If everyone consumes as much as an ordinary North American, we need five planets. In China and South Africa, the overall average is a planet, but this hides the big differences between the rich and poor in these countries.

The emission of greenhouse gases, or carbon dioxide, is the most important, accounting for about 50% of the global ecological footprint. In order to avoid catastrophic climate change, the annual global greenhouse gas emissions in the world peak in 2020 and must be reduced by at least 50% from 1990 levels by 2050.

One Planet Living uses Ecological Footprint and Carbon Footprint as indicators of environmental sustainability index. Then we will use "per-person" fair share worldwide "as a guide to find solutions. For example, for greenhouse gas emissions, we plan to reduce the per capita sustainable level to 4 tons per capita by 2020 and 1 ton per person by 2050. Likewise, in the Ecological Footprint, we assume that the per capita goal of the world is 2 hectares per hectare. By 2020

Our experience with our partners is that by using One Planet Living we can help organizations and their stakeholders cooperate in a common cause in order to get better results.

It helps cost reduction. For example, our partner's home center retailer B & Q has saved over £ 66 million since 2007, through energy savings, reduction of transport emissions and landfill reduction. It also helps them to train their employees and create a new product like a completely green bedding tray.

For example, in the One Brighton and Grow community, developers can reduce overall construction costs, create an ideal lifestyle, and improve sales and revenue. It also makes it easier for people to use walking and cycling to improve people's health.

With its simple story and easy-to-absorb information, you can support participation such as the adoption of One Planet Living by municipalities, 2000 athletes visiting one of our planet centers during 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games I will.

Like partners in Tanzania's Singita Serengeti and France's Villages Nature, it will help to support sustainable tourism.

This brings us a second fact that we are part of a living planet. Please be aware that we do not say "We live on the planet". To live on a planet means that the planet is a place to live; we live on the planet in the same way as we live in, and the address will change soon. It's not. First, in the development of our understanding of the origin and evolution of biology, we are very similar to the evolution of our health needs and conditions range (even if thoroughly modern transformation) , We perceived that our body itself is not isolated Isolated but caught in the world around us together with the level of microbiology, chemistry and hormones; and about the season, about the rotation of the earth, we eat It depends entirely on food, the water we drink, the air net we breathe in life

Humans live in a network of thin, complex and evolving life on Earth. This is a life system to share with all other species on the planet. The faster you do your best to defend the life system on the planet, the better our long-term future and other forms of life that share the earth will be better. We are confronted with our greatest intellectual performance paradox - our consciousness is found to be at least 13.7 billion years, the universe lives in the 20 million galaxies we have ever expanded And it will cost 100 billion light years. This is the universe. We are not absolutely important, but they are very smart and can do wonderful things (Apollo moon walks and disease treatment, etc).