Living Lightly Worldwide
Living Lightly Worldwide is a place-based learning ecosystem exploring how we live, learn, and design with care — for land, communities, and ourselves.
Living Lightly Worldwide challenges how we think, see and act — cultivating the courage and capacity to design responsibly within living systems.
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How We Work
Learning as an Ecosystem
Living Lightly Worldwide is not a single course or programme.
It is an interconnected ecosystem of books, courses, community, mentorship, and real places — designed to be entered at different points and explored over time.
Learning Grounded in Place
Our learning is rooted in lived places — from Adrian’s Croft in Scotland to Campoverde in Spain, and partner projects elsewhere around the world.
These living laboratories inform everything we teach.
Learning in Relationship
Learning happens through reflection, dialogue, and shared experience — not just information transfer.
Community and mentorship sit at the heart of our work.
Learning That Meets Real Lives
Resources range from gentle self-paced books and games, to year-long mentorship pathways.
There is no expectation to keep up, complete everything, or follow a single route.
Different Ways In
Our Values
This work is informed by permaculture thinking, social permaculture, place-based education, and years of lived practice.
It draws on many teachers, traditions, and communities, while remaining rooted in real contexts and relationships rather than abstract models.
The Living Lightly Ethic
We design for regeneration.
We prioritise relationship.
We share what sustains the whole.
Earth Care
Designing with the land, not against it — restoring vitality where we can.
People Care
Building learning environments rooted in dignity, reflection, and mutual respect.
Fair Share
Valuing resources — time, energy, money, knowledge — and circulating them responsibly.
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