OxCAN Connect - Inspiring us towards low-consumption lifestyles

Ben manages SHARE Oxford, a community group dedicated to  reducing unnecessary consumption and waste in the city. This includes a  Library of Things and Repair Café, as well as helping groups and  charities source stuff they need from the community rather than buying  new.

Ben’s excited to be  seeing the potential for this sort of project to reduce “grudging  consumption” - it’s a win-win if you don’t need to buy a carpet cleaner  you don’t really want to have to store and look after to clean your  carpets once a year. It’s also clear that this is just the start of the  reduction in consumption that countries like the UK need to reach a  sustainable level.

Ben  would be interested to hear where you find inspiration about  low-consumption lifestyles which are not just worthy, but genuinely  better, a route to more joy. Who inspires you? What would you find  hardest to give up in reducing your consumption? How important do you  see this in our route to net zero?

We look forward to hearing your ideas and will pull a blog post together after the session, hoping our ideas can inspire others.