Ethical living. I had difficulty in deciding how to proceed with this page. My first thought was to focus the content on alternative lifestyles, since that is how I have been living for quite a number of years. But this is what many people aspire to and now the buzz word is sustainable living. My concern in each of these activities and conversations is that the changes that have resulted, including a heightened awareness, still are insufficient to slow down or prevent further environmental, planetary damage – the ‘engines’ of consumption and exaggerated sense of personal entitlement, just keep on becoming more powerful. The flow of ‘wealth,’ material wealth, continues to flow in one direction, as it has for decades now, toward those who least ‘need’ it – the top consumers, the already rich. Unfortunately the pace of this flow is increasing both locally and globally; in emerging economies, all of which seem be replicating the capitalist system, this flow reaches levels approaching the grotesque, while the poor remain poor.