We’re a Member of the February #WeCanSaveTheWorld Sustainability Challenge

Be Strong Families has joined the February #WeCanSavetheWorld Sustainability Challenge! This event is sponsored by Minneapolis-based Inclusivi-tee. For the entirety of February 2021, there will be a sharing of tips to have a more sustainable lifestyle. Special guests will join Inclusivi-tee at 6:00 pm CST every day on Facebook, and each guest will give tips for creating a sustainability plan while also issuing a challenge for the day. Participants can join the Facebook group to watch live streams and take part in challenges each day!

Be Strong Families gave a presentation about Family Sustainability Plans on February 4. Our challenge during the presentation was to create a family plan that makes your house more sustainable.

Sustainability is co-creating a healthy, just, equitable, thriving, kind and peaceful world that works for everyone, fulfilling their fundamental needs. Sustainability is being ecologically sound, economically viable, socially just and humane, embodying our highest values in terms of how we treat people, animals and the planet. Overall, the goal is for sustainability at the personal, organizational, planetary levels.

When we talk about sustainability, think of the Domains of Vitality. We’ll focus on three domains of vitality that overlap and integrate in terms of our sustainability challenge:

1. Social

Social is about the relationships between members of the family. To have strong, sustainable financial and environmental domains, the social domain must act as a foundation. Examples of this domain include shared values and goals for sustainability and family rituals and bonding.

2. Financial

Families need to be economically sustainable. A family is in part an economic unit, so creating a budget, prioritizing self-sufficiency, and smart consumerism are all examples of financial vitality.

3. Environmental

The environmental domain of vitality relates to both sustainability (how can your family contribute to the sustainability of the planet?) and also affects the social and financial vitalities. For example, a family is being sustainable by reducing waste in not getting takeout with plastic packaging, but are also saving money by cooking together while also bonding as a family through cooking meals.

If you want to hear more about sustainability and the February Sustainability Challenge, check out Be Strong Families’ January 26, 2021 webinar with Dr. Lori Myren-Manbeck, the founder of Inclusivi-tee and author of You Can Save the World...In Fact, You’re the Only One Who Can. Lori’s experience writing her book was the prompt for this event, as she says,

“The #WeCanSavetheWorld Sustainability Challenge was born out of the incredible experience I had while writing my new book "You Can Save the World." Although the book really focuses on the environment, the challenge highlights all areas of sustainability, environmental, economic, and social. Our goal is to encourage everyone to see all their decisions through a lens of sustainability. If we can all do that, we really can save the world and create a future where everyone thrives.” (source)

We are thrilled to have participated in this essential, dynamic #WeCanSavetheWorld Sustainability Challenge, and we encourage the Be Strong Families community to show their support and join the rest of the challenges in this month-long event!