The work is already happening. Here’s where to find it.
Sustainable Living started with Willow’s vision to create a “meeting place” where people in Portugal who are working towards a more conscious and sustainable future could find each other easily. She kept coming across good initiatives all over the country, most of them growing quietly and on their own. To bring them all together, to create more coherence among the sustainable movement in Portugal, seemed the right thing to do. She also wanted to give these beautiful initiatives a voice: an outlet that is both individual and shared. Showing what’s already happening, all in one place, makes a bigger impact than any project can alone. About six months ago she and Marcel started building the platform, which became www.sustainableliving.pt.
It covers most, if not all, the sustainable themes that are important to build a greener Portugal. The thread running through all of it is connection. The platform makes it easier for people and projects to find one another, so that good work doesn’t go unnoticed or stand on its own. Our purpose is manifold: to connect the people doing the work, to spark collaboration between them, and to show others that another way is possible.
We are there for people who are searching for another way of life, seeking inspiration, wanting to start their own project or join an existing one. We also love to introduce people who don’t yet know much about the sustainable options, and are open to learning, for their own living spaces. On our platform you can find the people and organisations who provide information and support with natural building techniques and materials, greywater systems, permaculture and syntropic gardening, for houses, pools and gardens large and small.
In our opinion, to strengthen the heartbeat of sustainable living in this country, and to make real change happen, it is essential to bridge the different groups of people who live here. We would like to help empower people to be part of this movement, even in the smallest of ways. We make sure that everything on the site is hand-curated and available in English and Portuguese. New entries go up every week.
We are grateful that The Portugal News offered to work together, and to have a full page on sustainability in their newspaper after understanding our initiative. It shows they back what we’re doing: bringing real examples of sustainable living to a wide and varied audience. We will run this section every week, in print and online.
We can’t wait to bring you these stories: people making a difference, helping their own corner of the planet regenerate. For our own good, and for the generations who come after us.