Consider using compact fluorescent bulbs in lamps and other lighting fixtures. Using fluorescent bulbs in hard-wired lighting fixtures, typically kitchens and bathrooms, can also save energy.

 


 
Welcome to the Audubon Lifestyles


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.

 

 

Join us as an Audubon Lifestyles Platinum Member!

 

ISC/Audubon Lifestyles Membership was created to help foster sustainability alplatmember-b.pngby working with, and providing educational resources to individuals, businesses, organizations, universities, government entities, municipalities, communities, neighborhoods, and virtually anyone seeking assistance in balancing the triple bottom line of people, profit, and planet. Our ability to reach our organization’s mission and vision depends on your participation.

 

Please help to support our efforts and join today!

 

Showcase your business, organization, or municipality on the Audubon Network

Audubon Network for Sustainability The Audubon Network is a web based directory of local, national or international Audubon societies, organizations, sanctuaries, centers. It also includes businesses and others who have received accreditation by participating in an Audubon themed environmental or sustainability education program.  

Joining Audubon Lifestyles at the Gold or Platinum level provides multiple opportunities to be listed on the Audubon Network.

 

View the Audubon Network

     

The Sustainable Landscapes Program

  

The Audubon Lifestyles Landscape Program provides direction, technical assistance, public attentSustainable Landscapeion, and national recognition for landscapes that incorporate conservation techniques for home yards, municipal landscape areas, community common areas, parks, sportfields, golf courses and virtually any landscape where the managment incorporates practices that preserve limited and costly natural resources, reduce waste generation, and help prevent air, water, and soil pollution.
 

The Program also provides an opportunity for landscapers and landscape companies to have their managed properties individually recognized.
 

 

SustainAbility Newsletter

SustainAbilitySustainAbility 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.

 

By minimizing our "ecological footprints" and the extent to which we create an environmental impact by living sustainably our hope is that we will preserve the earth for future generations. 

 

Subscribe to the SustainAbility Newsletter

 

 

 

The Alexander Multifamily Home and Daycare Center Certified by Audubon Lifestyles
 

We are proud to report that our partner, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Housing Partnership (CMHP) has successfully achieved Certification in the Audubon Lifestlyes Multifamily Home Program.

 Multifamily Home

As part of the Sustainable Development Program efforts at the Double Oaks Neighborhood, the CMHP has recently also achieved Certification for The Alexander and the associated Daycare Center as a Certified Audubon Multifamily Home.

 

The Alexander and the associated Daycare Center is a 96 unit multifamily apartment community fronting Statesville Avenue in Charlotte, North Carolina in the Double Oaks Neighborhood.  The development is part of a new master plan layout that incorporates a new daycare facility, and the creation of a new connecting road called Moretz Avenue. The development has forty eight two-bedroom apartments with approximately 931 gross square feet, and 48 three-bedroom apartment with 1,159 gross square feet. 

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