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Wellbeing Benefits

Our "affluent" society takes a disproportionate share of the world's resources to support an unsustainable lifestyle while the remaining 80% of the world's people and most of its natural systems suffer. Many are swimming against this tide and together seeking to craft a sustainable, wise and fair world.

Environmental Benefit

People are at the heart of the current environmental crisis. The groups people form are the most powerful force for change available to us. Climate change, the corrosion of natural services and the diminishment of nature all have their source in human activity. Addressing these unsustainable lifestyles and working together to repair our planet is the key challenge .

It is all too easy to feel that the world's problems are so big that you cannot make a difference.It's crucial that we have a sense of working together on this most important challenge - to live sustainably. We need to nurture and deepen our relationships with others and fire up our compassion toward those in need - the young and future generations of living creatures on this planet. Through these relationships, we will learn together, act together and kick environmental goals together. The sense of common purpose and achievement we will gain will provide essential fuel for the journey. So how can we nuture our compassion and engagement so as to contribute?

Help Protect our Waterways

Our waterways are in trouble after ten years of drought and some unsustainable water use practices. Help restore our rivers, lakes and estuaries.

Join an Local Environmental Group

Community groups are helping to rehabilitate weed-choked native vegetation, enabling it to regenerate, and thus restoring native biodiversity. Find your local group and lend a hand.

Promote Sustainable Living

Help spread the word about those actions we can all be taking to reduce our impact on the environment.
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