Sustainable happiness: How happiness studies can contribute to a more sustainable future.

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Meditating for the Planet: Effects of a Mindfulness-Based Intervention on Sustainable Consumption Behaviors (2020, background): “This state of nonmaterialistic well-being has also been coined “sustainable happiness” (O’Brien, 2008), as it reduces the negative environmental and social consequences caused by conventional consumption goods and services.”
Sustainable Well-Being: A Potential Synergy between Sustainability and Well-Being Research (2011, background): “Currently, “sustainable happiness” is conceptualized as being within an individual (Lyubomirsky, Sheldon, & Schkade, 2005) or as in the “pursuit of happiness”; aligned with environmental friendly behaviors (O’Brien, 2008).”
Happiness and Feeling Connected (2014, background): “For example, O’Brien (2008) describes “sustainable happiness” pursuits as those contributing to human well-being as well as environmental sustainability (e.g., walking and cycling are healthy for people and the planet).”
Explaining the Paradox: How Pro-Environmental Behaviour can both Thwart and Foster Well-Being (2013, background): “Unfortunately, behaving in a pro-environmental way is often perceived as difficult, aggravating, and potentially threatening one‘s quality of life [7–11], thus as something one would not do out of self-interest: ―While frugality may be accepted as a necessary feature of the future it is usually port”