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In Asia, where space has often been associated with luxury and prestige, ideas such as the famous “capsule hotels” in Japan are now in vogue in heavily congested cities like Beijing and have been modified to include apartments. Hotels in New Zealand are outfitted with dual-flush toilets to conserve water and one hotel in Christchurchincludes rooms with no windows but a full compliment of light therapy technology to offset the lack of natural sunlight. Other hotels make it a practice of letting their clientele choose to have their linens cleaned with every-other day or weekly service, to minimize excessive water consumption.

Daily lifestyle choices and habits also are an important way that people throughout the world are working to minimize their carbon footprint. According to an article in theChina Daily (12/03/2009), an online group called the “Low-Carbon Tribe,” is actively promoting a lifestyle in a “relaxed and fashionable way,” where members can cut their energy usage by modifying the choices they make—such as taking the stairs instead of elevators and utilizing public transportation instead of driving to work each day.

Still others are making choices which change what and how they eat. Eating locally grown foods and organic products has become both feasible and fashionable with organizations such as Canada’s 100 Mile Diet, leading the way. Communal villages, such as the Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage in the United States, are taking it one step farther by combining the concepts of an inclusive sustainable lifestyle within a small, rural community.