Embracing a greener, more sustainable lifestyle can mean an improvement to your health, your bank account, and ultimately, improving your overall quality of life and the life of your community.

MINDpeaceTaking on a more sustainable lifestyle brings the assurance that you are doing what is right for your own health and well being, which transcends to your community and the planet. Research shows that there is a link between personal and planetary well being. In fact, a recent study from the Imperial College of London found that the green lifestyle improves health and happiness through connectedness to nature, involvement in local communities, and non-materialist values. Think about it, simplifying your life means more freedoms. More free time, more financial freedoms, and more social engagements. Going green can be an integral part of your future,

much like your degree plan at OU. They are both assets for the future that take dedication, but with great rewards.The bottom line is that every single thing we do each day, has an impact on the planet - good or bad. As individuals and consumers, there is potent power to influence the laws of supply and demand, ecology and economy, and give-and-take that shape our world.Being a part of the Sooner nation puts us at a pivotal point; if we unite to make small changes the outcome will add up to be something meaningful and make a major impact on this global revolution. This generation can change the world - one action at a time.

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So, in the US we have more stuff than ever before, but polls show that our national happiness is actually declining. Our national happiness peaked sometime in the 1950’s, the same time as consumption and mass marketing exploded.

Food for Thought:

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