One Planet Living

If everyone on the planet consumed the same natural resources as the average person in western Europe, we would need THREE planets to support us.

One Planet Living is a vision of a world where we can live happily within our one Earth’s resources, and a simple framework designed to achieve just that.

The One Planet Living framework

Designed by Bioregional and developed with the WWF, the One PLanet Living framework is made up of ten principles, aimed at helping organisations around the world to achieve their vision of a brighter, better future.

The University of York is 100% in support of this and is a member of One Planet York.

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Sustainability at York
sustainability@york.ac.uk
@UoYsustain
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We created One Planet Week to advocate a more sustainable way of life to staff and students - reducing our impact on the planet. Each year a One Planet Living principle is chosen as a theme for the week, which events, competitions, and campaigns are centred around.

One planet week runs every year during week 6 of spring term. In support of Climate Action, the theme for 2020 is Zero Carbon. Check out the One Planet Week page for activities, events and workshops to come along to and get involved with. There's even free food!

One Planet Week

The One Planet Living Principles

	Health and Happiness Encouraging active, sociable, meaningful lives to promote good health and wellbeing
	Equity and Local Economy Creating bioregional economies that support equity and diverse local employment and international fair trade
	Culture and Community Encouraging the involvement of people in respecting and reviving their community and creating a new culture of sustainability
	Land Use and Wildlife Protecting and restoring biodiversity and creating new natural habitats through good land use and integration into the built environment
	Sustainable Water Using water efficiently in buildings, farming and manufacturing. Designing to avoid local issues such as flooding, drought and water course pollution
	Local and Sustainable Food Supporting sustainable and humane farming, promoting access to healthy, local, seasonal and organic diets and reducing food waste
	Sustainable Materials Using sustainable and healthy products, eg those with low embodied energy, sourced locally, made from renewable or waste resources
	Sustainable Transport Reducing the need to travel and encouraging low and zero carbon modes of transport to reduce emissions
	Zero Waste Reducing waste, reusing where possible and ultimately sending zero waste to landfill
	Zero Carbon Making buildings energy efficient and delivering all energy with renewable technologies