Sustainability - BahaiTeachings.org https://bahaiteachings.org/tag/sustainability/ Personal perspectives inspired by Baha'i teachings Tue, 10 Sep 2024 08:09:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 A World-Embracing Vision for a Sustainable Future https://bahaiteachings.org/a-world-embracing-vision-for-a-sustainable-future/ https://bahaiteachings.org/a-world-embracing-vision-for-a-sustainable-future/#respond Sat, 07 Sep 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=85227 The world map made of trees and lakesIf you could pick the future you’d like to see for humanity, what would it look like — and what will it take for all humanity to make our hope...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/a-world-embracing-vision-for-a-sustainable-future/feed/ 0 4 Benefits of Going Vegan for the World — and You https://bahaiteachings.org/benefits-of-going-vegan-for-the-world-and-you/ https://bahaiteachings.org/benefits-of-going-vegan-for-the-world-and-you/#comments Fri, 18 Nov 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=50807 If we can feed ourselves without hurting vulnerable populations, participating in the brutal sacrifice of another life, and also improve our health and help sustain the environment, then why don’t...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/benefits-of-going-vegan-for-the-world-and-you/feed/ 22 Our Water Crisis and What to Do About It https://bahaiteachings.org/our-water-crisis-and-what-to-do-about-it/ https://bahaiteachings.org/our-water-crisis-and-what-to-do-about-it/#comments Sun, 08 Nov 2020 16:00:41 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=51723 The Baha’i teachings say “… without water no worldly creature can live – mineral, vegetable, animal and man, one and all, depend upon water for their very being.” Nothing survives...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/our-water-crisis-and-what-to-do-about-it/feed/ 3 Communities Collaborate to Build Educational Facility with Environmentally Sustainable Technologies https://bahaiteachings.org/communities-collaborate-to-build-educational-facility-with-environmentally-sustainable-technologies/ https://bahaiteachings.org/communities-collaborate-to-build-educational-facility-with-environmentally-sustainable-technologies/#comments Sun, 22 Mar 2020 14:42:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=53065 Volunteers from the village of Namawanga, Kenya and the surrounding area joined together in recent months to undertake the construction of an 800-square-meter educational facility for their village.   The...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/communities-collaborate-to-build-educational-facility-with-environmentally-sustainable-technologies/feed/ 1 Getting Our Heads Above the Consumerism Waves https://bahaiteachings.org/getting-our-heads-above-the-consumerism-waves/ https://bahaiteachings.org/getting-our-heads-above-the-consumerism-waves/#comments Mon, 23 Dec 2019 16:00:19 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=51571 Wanting, buying, having and then discarding things – has that become the way of the world we now live in?  Just as fast as goods leave the factories, other goods...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/getting-our-heads-above-the-consumerism-waves/feed/ 1 An Activist’s First Step: Stop Passively Consuming Material Goods https://bahaiteachings.org/activists-first-step-stop-passively-consuming-material-goods/ https://bahaiteachings.org/activists-first-step-stop-passively-consuming-material-goods/#respond Mon, 30 Sep 2019 13:00:46 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=50337 In the first “valley” you’ll travel through on your way to a meaningful, hopeful life engaging with the world, you’ll encounter a fire-breathing dragon: materialism. This first valley will seem...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/activists-first-step-stop-passively-consuming-material-goods/feed/ 0 Cows, Burgers, and the Fires in the Amazon https://bahaiteachings.org/cows-burgers-and-the-fires-in-the-amazon/ https://bahaiteachings.org/cows-burgers-and-the-fires-in-the-amazon/#comments Wed, 04 Sep 2019 13:00:35 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=49962 The other day I ate a burger at a fast-food restaurant. That might sound completely mundane and unremarkable – but I haven’t eaten one in 40 years. Allow me to...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/smallholder-farm-revolution/feed/ 3 Smallholder Farmers and the Organic Principle of Interdependence https://bahaiteachings.org/smallholder-farmers-and-the-organic-principle-of-interdependence/ https://bahaiteachings.org/smallholder-farmers-and-the-organic-principle-of-interdependence/#comments Tue, 06 Aug 2019 15:00:47 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=49563 Having realized that a third of humanity depends on and are engaged in smallholder farming, a question formed in my mind: if we are one human family cohabiting one planet,...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/smallholder-farmers-and-the-organic-principle-of-interdependence/feed/ 2 The Dance of the Trees: How to Conserve a Forest https://bahaiteachings.org/dance-trees-how-conserve-forest/ https://bahaiteachings.org/dance-trees-how-conserve-forest/#respond Fri, 23 Nov 2018 14:00:02 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=45344 From his early childhood in England, Richard St. Barbe Baker was attracted to gardening, botany, and forestry. He would run among his family’s trees, saluting them as if they were...

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