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Living sustainably means intentionally incorporating into your daily life practices that tend to sustain the earth's resources. There are many different possibilities... so many, that you can easily feel overwhelmed. Many people want to live more sustainably, but don't quite know what to do or where to start.
One key guideline is to start slowly and build gradually. If you try to turn your lifestyle upside down overnight, you're likely to feel overwhelmed and give up. Some of these changes can be very small (but effective), and are really a matter of changing old habits. Others may take more commitment of time and resources.
The Audubon Lifestyles website and our programs have been created as a way to assist individuals, businesses, neighborhoods, and communities seeking to take steps towards living sustainably.
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Become an Audubon Lifestyles Platinum Member, and work towards ISC Charter Membership!
ISC Charter Membership is only $250 but goes a long way to helping us to continue our mission to assist people and business seeking sustainable solutions for life that are reliable, practical, and efficient.
 Membership benefits include: interacting with other members on forums, sharing news link items, joining interest groups, sharing gallery items, surfing for native plants, receiving Audubon Lifestyles SustainAbility newsletter, and the knowledge that you are contributing to helping us to continue in our mission!
Please help to support our efforts and join today!
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Incentive Offered to Encourage Membership in the Audubon Lifestyles Sustainable Golf Facility Program
 Audubon Lifestyles is delighted to have gained the support of the
American Society of Golf Course Architects, for the Audubon Lifestyles
Sustainable Golf Facilities Program (SGFP).
Erik Larsen, President of
the ASGCA wrote in
a letter of support, among other things; “The ASGCA’s 185 members look forward to seeing
how the Sustainable Golf Facilities Program develops. The program
certainly falls in line with the work of ASGCA members and the ASGCA
pledges to communicate your results to our members, so they may continue
this dialogue with their clients.”
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Ron Dodson receives the Donald Ross Award
 Ron Dodson, Sustainability Advisor for Audubon Lifestyles, and president of the International Sustainability Council was chosen to receive the Donald Ross Award at the Donald Ross Banquet during the 63nd ASGCA Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington.
Dodson serves on numerous environmentally-focused committees. He is a prolific writer, and a frequent presenter to state and federal agencies on the topics of water quality, ecological studies, restoration planning, and community planning.
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SustainAbility Newsletter
 SustainAbility is a free quarterly newsletter co-produced by the International Sustainability Council and Audubon Lifestyles. Living a sustainable lifestyle requires each one of us to conduct our lives in such a way to encompass an awareness of Earth and its processes.
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The Double Oaks Neighborhood in Charlotte Nortch Carolina is Recycling a Neighbborhood
 The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Housing Partnership (CMHP) is literally and
figuratively recycling the Double Oaks Community Neighborhood, a 45 acre
re-development project that is part of the Statesville Avenue Corridor
region of the City of Charlotte, North Carolina.
One result of the partnership between Audubon Lifestyles and the CMHP
which is founded in the Principles of Sustainability, was the decision
to undertake the organization’s first ever Construction Materials
Recycling Program, and to reuse that recycled material directly back
into the redevelopment of the Double Oaks Neighborhood.
Orlando Badillo, the Housing Development Officer at the CMHP stated it
best when he said “It is personally satisfying to know that these
previous structures where reused back into the redevelopment process,
and didn’t simply end up as waste in a landfill somewhere. At the end of
the day there is an enormous feeling of accomplishment when you see the
final product, and it makes it all worth it!”
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