Bringing about a genuinely sustainable post-growth society requires transformations in the domains of civil society, the state and business. In the domain of civil society, consumption needs to reduce, and humans need to adopt alternative lifestyles, such as voluntary simplicity and zero-waste. In this article, as a researcher of post-growth and a long-term practitioner of voluntary simplicity and zero-waste, I rely on an autoethnographic study to bring to the surface lived nuances and challenges associated with this mode of living. Such challenges are associated with, for example, a lack of opportunities and stability, changes in relationships, employment, health, anxiety and stress. Far from saying that sustainable lifestyles are impossible, I make gentle suggestions to create better spaces for sustainable lifestyles, while avoiding placing hope solely in individual actions. I conclude that advocating voluntary simplicity and zero-waste must be approached with care, empathy and honesty.

Iana Nesterova

Environmental Values

Environmental Values is an international peer-reviewed journal that brings together contributions from philosophy, economics, politics, sociology, geography, anthropology, ecology and other disciplines, which relate to the present and future environment of human beings and other species. In doing so we aim to clarify the relationship between practical policy issues and more fundamental underlying principles or assumptions.

Environmental Values is an international peer-reviewed journal that brings together contributions from various disciplines, including philosophy, economics, politics, sociology, geography, anthropology, and ecology, related to the current and future environment of human beings and other species. Our aim is to clarify the relationship between practical policy issues and the more fundamental underlying principles or assumptions.

《Environmental Values》是一本国际同行评审期刊，汇集了来自哲学、经济学、政治学、社会学、地理学、人类学、生态学等多个学科的贡献，涉及人类及其他物种的当前和未来环境。我们的目标是澄清实际政策问题与更基本的原则或假设之间的关系。

Category	Quartile
哲学	2
哲学, 伦理学	2
哲学, 环境研究	3

Lived nuances and challenges of a voluntarily simple life: An autoethnography

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