Intentional living

Intentional living is any lifestyle based on an individual or group's conscious attempts to live according to their values and beliefs. These can include lifestyles based on religious or ethical values, as well as coaching, personal transformation, and leadership training.

Characteristics

Intentional living requires one to be aware of one's fundamental beliefs and to be willing to make an effort to have their behavior reflect these beliefs in a form of integrity in relation to his or her conscience and environment. In some cases, such changes are drastic enough that like-minded individuals group together in intentional communities.

Some examples of intentional living include cohousing, ethical living, frugal living, moral community, simple living, sustainable living as well as many religious lifestyles.

While not necessarily representing distinct or actual lifestyles, many themes and areas of human interest, activity, and study exist that contribute to intentional living. Examples include appropriate technology, conservation, ecology, environmentalism, humanism, humanitarianism, and socially responsible investing.

Simple living

Practices	Barter DIY ethic Downshifting Dry toilet Forest gardening Freeganism Frugality Gift economy Intentional community Local currency Low-impact development Minimalism No frills Off-the-grid Permaculture Self-sufficiency Subsistence agriculture Sustainable living Sustainable sanitation Veganism Vegetarianism War tax resistance WWOOF

Religious and spiritual	Asceticism Aparigraha Cynicism Detachment Jesus movement Mendicant Mindfulness Monasticism New Monasticism Plain dress Plain people Quakers Rastafari movement Temperance Testimony of simplicity Tolstoyan movement

Secular movements	Back-to-the-land Car-free Compassionate living Environmental Hippie Slow Small house Transition town Open Source Ecology

Notable writers	Wendell Berry Ernest Callenbach Duane Elgin Mahatma Gandhi Richard Gregg Tom Hodgkinson Harlan Hubbard Satish Kumar Helen Nearing Scott Nearing Peace Pilgrim Vicki Robin Nick Rosen Dugald Semple E. F. Schumacher Henry David Thoreau Leo Tolstoy

Modern-day adherents	Mark Boyle Jim Merkel Suelo Thomas

Media	"Anekdote zur Senkung der Arbeitsmoral" Escape from Affluenza The Good Life The Moon and the Sledgehammer Mother Earth News The Power of Half Small Is Beautiful Walden

Related topics	Agrarianism Anarcho-primitivism Anti-consumerism Appropriate technology Bohemianism Deep ecology Degrowth Ecological footprint Food miles Green anarchism The good life Global warming Intentional living Itinerant Low-technology Nonviolence Peak oil Sustainability Work–life balance

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Intentional living

Characteristics

See also