Low-Impact Living Initiative (LILI) is a not-for-profit organisation, founded in 2001. We are based at Redfield Community (founded 1978) in Buckinghamshire. We help people to understand the damage that human impact is causing to our planet, to change aspects of their lives to lower their own impact, and at the same time save money and improve their quality of life.

why we do it

The world is an incredibly beautiful place. It is also a complex and diverse place; billions of years of evolution have resulted in a perfect balance between its atmospheric and hydrological systems, its plants, animals and its soil. In just a few thousand years, the impact of human activity is threatening its beauty, its diversity, and ultimately its ability to provide for us. At the beginning of the 21st century, the public is more aware than ever before of the damage that we are inflicting upon our planet, from climate change, soil erosion and habitat destruction to pollution of our air and water, damage to the ozone layer and the exponential increase in the rate of extinctions of species. Each of these has serious implications for human health and global ecology, and in combination, unless things change, they could even threaten the continued survival of the human race itself. We need to change.

What you can do

solar hot water: Aylesbury Vale District Council's environment officer helping to construct solar hot water panels at Redfield