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Over the last several years people have become increasingly conscious of the effects that modern day living is having on the environment and their own quality of life. And, within that consciousness we find a handful of concepts that need to be defined in order to better understand the connections between environmental health and lifestyle choices.

	Environmental Stewardship - is the moral obligation to care for the environment and the actions undertaken to provide that care. Stewardship implies the existence of an ethic of personal responsibility, an ethic of behavior based on reverence for the Earth and a sense of obligation to future generations. To effectively care for the environment, individuals must use resources wisely and efficiently, in part by placing self-imposed limits on personal consumption and altering personal expectations, habits and values. Appropriate use of natural resources within the stewardship ethic involves taking actions that respect the integrity of natural systems.
	Sustainability is an economic, social and environmental concept - it is intended to be a means of configuring civilization and human activity so that society and its members are able to meet their needs and express their greatest potential in the present, while preserving biodiversity, and natural ecosystems, and planning and acting for the ability to maintain these ideals indefinitely. Sustainability affects every level of organization, form of local neighborhood to the entire planet.
	Corporate Social Responsbility - a company's obligation to be accountable to all of its stakeholders in all its operations and activities with the aim of achieving sustainable development not only in the economical dimension but also in the social and environmental dimensions. A company's stakeholders are all those who are influenced by and can influence a company's decisions and actions, both locally or globally. Business stakeholders include (but are not limited to): employees, customers, suppliers, community organizations, subsidiaries and affiliates, joint venture partners, local neighborhoods, investors, shareholders (or a sole owner), and the environment (Mother Earth).
	Sustainable Community Development - is a process and a capacity to make decisions that consider the long-term economy, ecology and equity of all communities. The goal of sustainable community development is to build communities with the ability to remain healthy and prosperous over the long term.
	Healthy Lifestyle - a way of living based on identifiable patterns of "healthy" behavior based on an individual's choice, influenced by the individual's personal characteristics, their social interactions, and socioeconomic and environmental factors.

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