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INDEX • Air • Biodiversity • BUSINESS SERVICE DIRECTORY • Culture • Earth • Eco-Tours • Eco-Lodging • Energy • Environment • Farming • Feng Shui • Food • Gardening • Green Building • Green Conferences + Events • HEALTH + WELLNESS DIRECTORY • Hemp • Lifestyle • Non-Toxic Cleaning • Organic Alcohol • Organic Products • Restaurants • Retail Stores • Services • Shelter • Solar Energy • SUSTAINABLE LIVING + GREEN DIRECTORY • Sustainability • Transportation • Travel • Water • Wind Energy

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Lifestyle

Lifestyle is a term to describe the way a person lives, which was originally coined by Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler in 1929. The current broader sense of the word dates from 1961. A set of behaviors, and the senses of self and belonging which these behaviors represent, are collectively used to define a given lifestyle. The term is defined more broadly when used in politics, marketing, and publishing.

A lifestyle is a characteristic bundle of behaviors that makes sense to both others and oneself in a given time and place, including social relations, consumption, entertainment, and dress. The behaviors and practices within lifestyles are a mixture of habits, conventional ways of doing things, and reasoned actions. A lifestyle typically also reflects an individual's attitudes, values or worldview. Therefore, a lifestyle is a means of forging a sense of self and to create cultural symbols that resonate with personal identity. Not all aspects of a lifestyle are entirely voluntaristic. Surrounding social and technical systems can constrain the lifestyle choices available to the individual and the symbols she/he is able to project to others and the self.

The lines between personal identity and the everyday doings that signal a particular lifestyle become blurred in modern society. For example, "green lifestyle" means holding beliefs and engaging in activities that consume fewer resources and produce less harmful waste (i.e. a smaller carbon footprint), and deriving a sense of self from holding these beliefs and engaging in these activities. Some commentators argue that, in modernity, the cornerstone of lifestyle construction is consumption behavior, which offers the possibility to create and further individualize the self with different products or services that signal different ways of life.

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INDEX • Associates • Business • BUSINESS SERVICE DIRECTORY • Community • Development • Economics • Insurance • Marketing • Money • Non-Profits • Opportunities • Promotion • Real Estate • Services

Communications + Connection

INDEX • Audios • Books • Communications • Computers • Film • Internet • Journalism • Libraries • Media • Networking • News Sources • Resource Centers • Services • Social Media Networks • Web Tools

Community + People

INDEX • Children • Community • Culture • Family • Festivals • Green Conferences + Events • Lifestyle • Love • Men • Parents • Relationship • Seniors • Social Media Networks • Women • Youth

Eco-Tours + Travel

INDEX • Earth • Eco-Lodging • Eco-Tours • Retreats • Spas • Travel • Wellness Centers

Education + Learning

INDEX • Audios • Conferences • Education • Films • Herstory • History • Learning • Lectures + Speakers • Neurolinguistic Programing (NLP) • Schools • Whole Systems • Wisdom • Workshops + Classes

Entertainment + Arts

INDEX • Arts • Books • Celebration • Culture • Dance • Entertainment • Events • Festivals • Film • Media • Music • Performing Arts • Poetry • Theater

Health + Wellness Service Directory

INDEX • Acupressure • Acupuncture • Anti-Aging • Aromatherapy • Astrology • Ayurveda • Bodywork • Breathwork • Cancer Therapies • Caregiving • Childbirth • Chinese Medicine • Chiropractors • Cleansing • Craniosacral Therapy • Dental • Detox • Diet • Dreamwork • Eastern Medicine • Energy Medicine • Fitness • Flower Essences • Hakomi • Healing • HEALTH + WELLNESS DIRECTORY • Health Coaching • Herbology • Holistic MDs • Homeopathy • Hospitals • Hot Springs • Hypnotherapy • Integrative Physicians • Life Coaching • Lifestyle • Massage • Medical Marihuana • Meditation • Mental Health • Midwifery • Naturopathy • NLP • Nutrition • Oxygen + Ozone Therapies • Physical Therapy • Pilates • Pranic Healing • Products • Psychics • Psychotherapy • Pranic Healing • Qi Gong • Reiki • Reflexology • Retreats • Sexuality • Shiatsu • Sleep • Spas • SPIRITUAL + METAPHYSICAL DIRECTORY • Spiritual Counseling • Supplements • SUSTAINABLE LIVING + GREEN DIRECTORY • Tai Chi • Tantra • Water Therapy + Watsu • Wellness Centers • Yoga

Resource Centers

INDEX • USA • ARKANSAS (Hot Springs / Little Rock) • ARIZONA (Phoenix / Sedona / Tucson) • CALIFORNIA (Arcata / Chico / Costa Mesa / East Bay / Encinitas / Grass Valley / Los Angeles / Marin County / Middletown / Mt. Shasta / Nevada City / Ojai / Redding / San Diego / San Francisco / Santa Barbara / Santa Cruz / Santa Monica / Sebastopol / Sonoma County) • CASCADIAN (Pacific Northwest) • COLORADO (Boulder / Crestone / Denver / Steamboat Springs) • GOLD COUNTRY (Grass Valley / Nevada City / Penn Valley / Truckee) • HAWAIIAN ISLANDS (Niʻihau / Kauaʻi / Oʻahu / Molokaʻi / Lānaʻi / Kahoʻolawe / Maui / Hawai'i) • IDAHO (Sandpoint) • ILLINOIS (Chicago / Oak Park / Urbana) • INDIANA (Bloomington / Indianapolis / Muncie) • MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor / Birmingham / Detroit / East Lansing / Flint / Kalamazoo / Lansing / Lapeer / Grand Rapids / Traverse City) • MONTANA (Missoula) • NEW MEXICO (Albuquerque / Las Cruces / Santa Fe) • Nevada (Carson City / Las Vegas / Reno) • OHIO (Columbus / Yellow Springs) • OREGON (Ashland / Astoria / Bend / Corvallis / Eugene / Grants Pass / Klamath Falls / Medford / Portland / Roseburg / Salem) • TEXAS (Austin / Dallas / Ft Worth / Houston) • UTAH (Park City / Salt Lake City) • WASHINGTON (Bellingham / Olympia / Port Townsend / Seattle / Spokane / Whitbey Island) • WYOMING (Jackson / Laramie) • CANADA • British Columbia (Saltsprings & Gulf Islands / Vancouver) •

Science + Technology

INDEX • Air • Astronomy • Communications • Earth • Energy • Environment • Health • Oxygen • Science • Space • Technology • Water • Whole Systems

Sovereignty

INDEX • Activism • Economic Justice • Empowerment • Freedom • Governance • Indigenous • Law • Political • Security • Social Justice • Sovereignty

Spiritual + Metaphysical Directory

INDEX • Astrology • Awakening • Breathwork • Consciousness • Dreamwork • Empowerment • Enlightenment • Entheogens • First Peoples • Healing • HEALTH + WELLNESS DIRECTORY • Indigenous • Internet • Life Coaching • Love • Meditation • Metaphysics • Mindfulness • Religion • Shamanism • Sleep • Source • Spiritual + Psychic Counseling • SPIRITUAL + METAPHYSICAL DIRECTORY • SUSTAINABLE LIVING + GREEN DIRECTORY • Tantra • Transformation • Vision Quest • Wisdom • Yoga

Sustainable Living + Green Directory

INDEX • Air • Biodiversity • BUSINESS SERVICE DIRECTORY • Culture • Earth • Eco-Tours • Eco-Lodging • Energy • Environment • Farming • Feng Shui • Food • Gardening • Green Building • Green Conferences + Events • HEALTH + WELLNESS DIRECTORY • Hemp • Lifestyle • Non-Toxic Cleaning • Organic Alcohol • Organic Products • Restaurants • Retail Stores • Services • Shelter • Solar Energy • SUSTAINABLE LIVING + GREEN DIRECTORY • Sustainability • Transportation • Travel • Water • Wind Energy

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