The change of a lifestyle may be interpreted in various ways depending on the overall purpose and motive for that change. With change comes a process and writer Janet A. Lorenzen explores the rationale behind a person’s decision to change their lifestyle and go green based on their values, background and motive. Lorenzen’s article is composed by, “focusing on the commonalities among groups: the resources used to build a green lifestyle, how that lifestyle is established, and how it is subjectively understood” (95). The modification of a lifestyle is not a simple task to accomplish for it must be taken close to consideration because the people who embark on this journey are trying to be a key piece into solving the environmental problems that
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While people may strive to take better decisions, it does not mean they are trying to change their lifestyle completely rather just doing things in order to appease their own desires in regards to the help they want to provide. Lorenzen continues to argue that, “Green practices are more likely to multiply if the individual defines those practices as meaningfully part of a larger project or lifestyle” (103). This is because the value a person places on an action is what ultimately causes them to follow or do what they believe is necessary and worthwhile to them because of this new meaning they have embedded within it. A true lifestyle is reached, according to Lorenzen, “When new practices are adopted they are incorporated into routines (automatic cognition) until or unless called into question by new knowledge, leading to further deliberation and revision” (106).
Lorenzen continues by explaining, Green lifestyle change is a gradual, deliberate process that is a response to environmental harms… People define lifestyles as both holistic and in never-ending change. Overarching ideas are holistic, but changing practices is a gradual, deliberate, and infinite process…” …show more content…
Lorenzen introduces the term bricolage to explain how, “Individuals respond, in part, by changing their lifestyles—drawing on old goods and practices, deliberating over new goods and practices, and bringing them together with overarching narratives based on environmental themes” (96). Society has come to the point where every action must be justifiable and all change must be accounted for and Lorenzen accounts for that by saying, “Here the emphasis is not on consumer practices or environmental discourses per se, but how people draw on them pragmatically to construct and account for green lifestyles” (96). Here it is all in the practicality and importance that the new lifestyle will have on society. According to Lorenzen, “Lifestyles assist in organizing self-identity and self-expression,” and this is true to this day as people are worth what they have and are judged upon what they do and people believe that goods are what make them and give their lives a meaning and a worth (97). Lorenzen argues that because of this, consumption will be close to impossible to decrease unless the meaning consumer goods have acquired is lessened dramatically
While people may strive to take better decisions, it does not mean they are trying to change their lifestyle completely rather just doing things in order to appease their own desires in regards to the help they want to provide. Lorenzen continues to argue that, “Green practices are more likely to multiply if the individual defines those practices as meaningfully part of a larger project or lifestyle” (103). This is because the value a person places on an action is what ultimately causes them to follow or do what they believe is necessary and worthwhile to them because of this new meaning they have embedded within it. A true lifestyle is reached, according to Lorenzen, “When new practices are adopted they are incorporated into routines (automatic cognition) until or unless called into question by new knowledge, leading to further deliberation and revision” (106).
Lorenzen continues by explaining, Green lifestyle change is a gradual, deliberate process that is a response to environmental harms… People define lifestyles as both holistic and in never-ending change. Overarching ideas are holistic, but changing practices is a gradual, deliberate, and infinite process…” …show more content…
Lorenzen introduces the term bricolage to explain how, “Individuals respond, in part, by changing their lifestyles—drawing on old goods and practices, deliberating over new goods and practices, and bringing them together with overarching narratives based on environmental themes” (96). Society has come to the point where every action must be justifiable and all change must be accounted for and Lorenzen accounts for that by saying, “Here the emphasis is not on consumer practices or environmental discourses per se, but how people draw on them pragmatically to construct and account for green lifestyles” (96). Here it is all in the practicality and importance that the new lifestyle will have on society. According to Lorenzen, “Lifestyles assist in organizing self-identity and self-expression,” and this is true to this day as people are worth what they have and are judged upon what they do and people believe that goods are what make them and give their lives a meaning and a worth (97). Lorenzen argues that because of this, consumption will be close to impossible to decrease unless the meaning consumer goods have acquired is lessened dramatically