One Planet Living

One Planet Living is our vision of a world where we can live happily within the Earth’s resources, and a straightforward framework to achieve this.

One Planet Living: making it easier to live happily and sustainably

Imagine a world where everyone, everywhere lives happy, healthy lives within the limits of the planet, leaving space for wildlife and wilderness. We call this One Planet Living, and we believe it’s achievable.

But globally we are living as if we have more than one planet. In fact, ecological footprinting shows that if everyone in the world consumed as much as the average person in western Europe, we’d need three planets to support us.

Our One Planet Living® framework

Using our learning from the BedZED eco-village, Bioregional created the One Planet Living sustainability framework – comprising ten simple principles and detailed goals and guidance – and developed it together with WWF.

Backed by science and many years of hands-on experience, it’s a highly flexible framework that is helping organisations around the world to achieve their vision of a brighter, better future.

Using our One Planet Living framework

Who can use One Planet Living?

Anyone can use our One Planet Living framework - it's helped a range of different audiences achieve their sustainability ambitions, including:

developers and housebuilders 

businesses

tourist resorts and destinations

schools and community groups.

If you are an individual, check out our actions for achieving One Planet Living.

Use One Planet Living in your city

If you are a local authority or community group that wants to use One Planet Living to create a better, more sustainable future for your local area check out how we can help.

Use One Planet Living to act on the climate emergency

How does it work?

The One Planet Living framework is designed to support you to create a 'One Planet Action Plan' that acts as a route map towards a more sustainable future for your organisation. It comprises:

ten simple principles that cover all aspects of social, environmental and economic sustainability.

Detailed goals and guidance documents – these provide advice and ideas on the goals, actions, targets and indicators you could set for your ‘One Planet Action Plan' - this is your plan to achieve One Planet Living.

We can give you support, tools and training to create a One Planet Action Plan, and we will endorse the best plans.