You may already reduce, reuse and recycle, but there’s so much more to living a sustainable lifestyle. Here, Prof. Lonnie A. Gamble takes you from the concepts of sustainability to their practical applications from a thriving community orchard to his own greenhouse. Discover concrete practices you can integrate into your everyday life — whether you live on a farm or in a city apartment — to save money, live healthier, and make a positive impact on the world.
Class Sessions
Making Your Lifestyle Footprint Regenerative
30:10
Meet your instructor, Lonnie Gamble, and start class by considering what it means to live sustainably. Discover how your choices of home, food, transportation and energy promote a sustainable lifestyle.
Sustainable Energy Options
27:34
In addition to learning about the financial benefits of solar energy, find out how to harness it in efficient ways and use it wisely in your home.
Sustainable Building Choices
31:43
See how architects design green buildings that are regenerative by using natural daylight, nontoxic materials and superior levels of air quality and thermal comfort, all for about the same cost as conventional buildings.
Cultivating Sustainable Landscapes
31:50
Explore the benefits of sustainable landscapes, from the surprising abundance of edible plants and household materials that can be produced to the valuable services they can perform.
Fresh Food From Your Own Garden
27:30
Learn simple methods for growing fruit, vegetables, and herbs, even if you live in a city apartment, as well as revolutionary gardening philosophies and gastronomic movements, including Slow Food.
Winter Gardening
28:36
Discover the advantages of and methods for planting during the second spring. Lonnie shares tips on building a simple, inexpensive structure that creates a microclimate, making it possible to harvest fresh food all winter long.
Sustainable Water Use
30:17
Take a look at how sustainable water systems can provide water for drinking, washing, irrigation and more. Learn smart ways to get equal or better services using less and examine ecological approaches to handling storm water.
Transportation Alternatives & the Ecocity
34:31
Turn your attention to how settlement patterns and their existing infrastructures affect sustainability by defining how people can travel within and between locations.
Sustainable Products for the Home
28:30
Find out how to live a greener lifestyle and establish a regenerative ecological footprint as a consumer, whether you're shopping for groceries or replacing your carpeting. Learn why organics cost more, how to make safe and effective cleaning products and more.
Green Economics: Living Well
30:23
Take an in-depth look at the core concepts necessary for an economy that serves the material needs of its community, while respecting the hierarchy of sustainability.
Inner Dimensions of Sustainability
29:17
Lonnie examines the inner dimensions of sustainability: spirituality, holistic health, and well-being. Learn what faith-based organizations have to say about sustainability, investigate meditation, and delve deeper into the Slow Food movement.
Shifting to a Sustainable Worldview
33:34
Finally, integrate everything you've learned by looking at permaculture and its ethics. Consider the customs of the Tlingit, a self-sustaining community indigenous to the Pacific Northwest, and biomimicry, an emerging discipline that uses nature as a model for technological design.
Your Instructor
Lonnie A. Gamble
Lonnie A. Gamble is an award-winning assistant professor of Sustainable Living and co-director of the Sustainable Living Program at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa. Prof. Gamble holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University, where he's been teaching since 2003. He's also founded half a dozen companies in the areas of renewable energy, telecommunications, sustainable building and development and sustainable agriculture, in addition to a consulting practice in the design of high-performance buildings and renewable energy systems.
Bonus Material
Fundamentals of Sustainable Living - Course Guidebook
Bonus Materials available for download after purchase.
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