What is "green living"?

What is "green living"?

Ed Begley, Jr. (Environmental Activist) gives expert video advice on: What do you want the next generation of children to know about green living?; Will green living make me healthier?; How easy is it to live green? and more...

Green living, I think, is living sustainably. We get to be here right now today, sitting with this equipment, lights and camera and all of it, because people lived fairly sustainably. There have been gold rushes and extractive industries, and people lived kind of wild for a while when they thought the Wild West was endless and the resources in other parts of the globe were endless. However, mostly, over our history, people lived within their means. More often than not, people lived with some sense of environmental stewardship. Indigenous people did, many European cultures did and still do, and so I think that we really need to live green more than ever now that there are six billion of us. It's fine to flail around and have a big party when you've got room to do so, but suddenly when you're in a very crowded room and there are six billion of us, there has to be a certain amount of etiquette: "I'm sorry, I need to move over there right now, would you mind stepping aside? Thank you. I'd like to get some water. Would you hand me that?" People have got to co-operate or nothing is going to work. That's where we're at now. We have six billion people on the planet; we all have to cooperate or it's just not going to work.