One Planet Living is the challenge of our times. Globally, we are consuming resources and polluting 30% more than the planet can sustain. Our increasing consumption means we leave less and less space for other species to flourish, and we are losing biodiversity at an alarming rate.

Different countries are consuming and polluting at different rates. If everyone in the world lived as Americans do, we’d need 5 planets to support us. And if everyone lived the way Europeans do, we’d need 3 planets. Large segments of the populations of major countries such as India, China and Brazil consume natural resources at similarly high rates.

BioRegional’s work has shown that One Planet Living is possible now – for example, our research shows that some of the residents of our BedZED community London are already living at the ‘one planet’ level.

One Planet Living is a global initiative based on 10 principles of sustainability developed by BioRegional and WWF. www.oneplanetliving.org