Feng Shui as a Powerful Sustainable Green Living System
The essence of feng shui is about living a life of balance and harmony with nature. In practice, feng shui is a total living system of thinking green and living green with our own environment.
Our physical environment fuels our well- being, pushing all the necessary elements to sustain our lives - things as simple as water to drink, air to breathe, food to eat and materials to use. A favorable environment promotes vibrant development leading to a healthy and productive life; an unfavorable environment diminishes our potential for proper growth and development.
Conservation of natural resources, including clean air and clean water, ensure the continuity of life for future generations. When we disrespect our environment by wasting or using up natural resources indiscriminately, these destructive practices threaten the sustainability of our environment. Using natural resources wisely will help to sustain our planet Earth, preserving it for future use.
Decades of uncontrollable waste have created critical global situations, such as air and water pollution and critical accumulation of a variety of material wastes. According to a 2007 World Health Organization, urban pollution directly and indirectly kills about 800,000 people worldwide every year. Deforestation continues to cause landslides worldwide, causing misery and suffering. Greenhouse effects caused by burning fossil fuel-emitting carbon dioxide cause major environmental issues with rising temperatures. There is increasing concern around the globe with the apparent climate changes and global warming caused by all these.
There is compatibility between modern green living and the ancient wisdom of feng shui. The fundamental wisdom calls for honoring our living environment with respect to our environment, natural or man made. With the growing popularity of both sustainable green building and feng shui, it would be a powerful alliance to fulfill the intention of preserving a healthy and vibrant planet Earth for future generations.
April 2008 Builder Architect Edition Issue