What actions could you (in theory) undertake that would improve the 'sustainability' of your lifestyle? What might be preventing you from doing these?

Sustainable devpelopment… A pattern of resouce consumption that aims to meet the needs of human wihlst also protecting the environment, so that these needs can not only be used now, but in generations to come.

Being diabetic, I know how important it is for me to have a sustainable lifesytle, the main thing that I could do to achieve this is eat healthy! Swapping fast food lunches for salads or cooked food is harder than it sounds:
1. Fast food is really tasty!
2. I am to lazy to cook for myself every dinner.
3. I don’t like rabbit food.

One thing that we can all do to make our lifestyle more sustainable is recycle. Most people already do this with great success. In my halls there are three bins; one for cards boards and paper, one for plastics and metal and the other for general waste. These are all well and good being there, its whether ‘we’ are using them to the full potential. This is basically down to laziness, I know I have thrown something into the waste bin which should probly have been recycled. When recycling is done well, it can protect the environment greatly. Less used products are being dumped in land fill, and less new products are having to be made from scratch.

Another thing that can affect how sustainable a lifestyle can be is energy efficiency. The less electricity we use, the less needs to be created, this then means less greenhouse gasses are being let off into the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels. It is simple things that can be done to be more energy efficient, like turning off lights when you leave a room, and rather than leaving things on stand by, turn them off by the plug.