Sustainable Living Made Easy: Creating a Healthier Future for Your Family and Protecting the Planet One Step at a Time

Sustainable Living Made Easy: Creating a Healthier Future for Your Family and Protecting the Planet One Step at a Time Review

It’s hard to turn on the news or pick up a newspaper without reading stories about our planet in peril. Many years of industry and irresponsible management of Earth’s resources have led to major issues with pollution, toxic waste, and climate change.

How can we combat what’s happening to the globe? Sustainable living is the answer that many people are turning to in order to make the world a healthier place. But for many people, sustainable living seems like an unattainable lifestyle.

How this guide can and will help you:

Before you become overwhelmed you should know that you can work toward sustainability in small steps. It might help to really understand what sustainable living means. In the introductory chapter we’ll look at an overview of sustainable living and help you to see the big picture.

In future chapters we’ll look more in detail at specific aspects of sustainable living and what steps you can take to implement them into your lifestyle. Before you can decide what’s right for you, it helps to know the basics.

Sustainable living is not a set of “rules” to follow. Rather it’s a way of thinking that can help you to guide your life choices. It's a philosophy for life.

While it’s difficult for one not to have any impact on the environment, sustainable living practices can help you to make sure you don’t leave a bigger footprint than you want to leave for future generations.

Equally important is the fact that this lifestyle can and will help you to cut back on expenses, which a is bonus given the challening times we live in.

This guide provides a critical overview of sustainable living and how you and your children can benefit greatly by making small but meaningful adjustments, which ultimately leads to ...

Creating a Healthier Future for Your Family and Protecting the Planet One Step at a Time

Table of Contents - What you can expect to learn

1. Sustainable Living 101: What to Expect from Sustainability

2 .Why Choose a Sustainable Lifestyle: Improving the Planet’s Health – and Yours

3. Getting Started with a Garden: Taking the First Steps toward Growing Your Own Food

4. From Chickens to Cows: Taking Care of Livestock in Your Backyard

5. Waste Not Want Not: Producing and Conserving Energy in Your Home

6. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Sustaining the Earth by Managing Waste

7. Getting Rid of Toxic Waste: Keeping Poisons Out of the Landfill

8. Fun for the Whole Family: Getting Kids Involved with Your New Lifestyle

9. Sustainable Living Tips: Small Choices that Make a Big Impact

10. Taking the First Steps Toward a Fresh Way of Life: Making a Plan and Getting Started


A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step. In a very similar way working towards a sustainable lifestyle and protecting the planet can only be accomplished one step at a time. Practicing the principles and ideas shared in this guide, can and will make a difference not only to your pocket, but also in living a healthier and more meaningful lifestyle.

May this guide serve you, your children and planet earth well.