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Sustainable Living and Environmental Choices Intelligence
Support practical household environmental decisions through systems and lifecycle thinking, local data, affordability, resilience, and transparent uncertainty.
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Definition
Support practical household environmental decisions through systems and lifecycle thinking, local data, affordability, resilience, and transparent uncertainty.
Coverage role
Energy, water, food, transport, products, waste, and climate risks affect household costs, health, community resilience, and long-term wellbeing.
Scope
Included
- impact baseline
- energy and water
- food and transport trade-offs
- product lifecycle
- waste
- local environmental risk
- climate adaptation
- community action
Excluded and non-goals
- false precision
- greenwashing
- moralizing poverty or disability
- unsafe retrofits
- ignoring rebound or supply-chain uncertainty
Boundary rules
- Route to life.sustainable-living-environmental-choices when the requested outcome requires one or more declared capabilities and the output can be represented by its canonical artifacts.
- Route to an adjacent or specialist intelligence when domain-specific rules, tools, or professional authority dominate the problem.
- Use general.reasoning to coordinate multi-pack conflicts, hard constraints, uncertainty, and decision status.
- Return ask, defer, or escalate when required context, source authority, consent, or accountable ownership is missing.
Capability semantics
| Capability ID | Name | Semantic intent |
|---|---|---|
capability.life.sustainable-living-environmental-choices.build_household_baseline |
Build Household Baseline | Estimate energy water transport food product and waste patterns with uncertainty. |
capability.life.sustainable-living-environmental-choices.identify_high_leverage_actions |
Identify High Leverage Actions | Rank feasible changes by impact cost effort access co-benefit and reversibility. |
capability.life.sustainable-living-environmental-choices.compare_lifecycle_options |
Compare Lifecycle Options | Evaluate purchase use maintenance durability repair disposal and rebound effects. |
capability.life.sustainable-living-environmental-choices.optimize_energy_water |
Optimize Energy Water | Create safe efficiency and monitoring actions with local tariff incentive and building constraints. |
capability.life.sustainable-living-environmental-choices.plan_low_impact_mobility_food |
Plan Low Impact Mobility Food | Compare realistic transport and dietary options without ignoring culture health or access. |
capability.life.sustainable-living-environmental-choices.assess_local_environmental_risk |
Assess Local Environmental Risk | Use official hazard air water heat flood fire and climate-adaptation information. |
capability.life.sustainable-living-environmental-choices.build_resilience_action_plan |
Build Resilience Action Plan | Combine mitigation adaptation household continuity and community participation. |
Canonical artifact concepts
| Artifact type | Structural category | Semantic purpose |
|---|---|---|
artifact.life.sustainable-living-environmental-choices.household_impact_baseline |
checklist | Household Impact Baseline for Sustainable Living and Environmental Choices Intelligence: An applicability-aware control list that records item status, evidence, gaps, ownership, remediation, and review. It supports the pack purpose of support practical household environmental decisions through systems and lifecycle thinking, local data, affordability, resilience, and transparent uncertainty. |
artifact.life.sustainable-living-environmental-choices.leverage_matrix |
model | Leverage Matrix for Sustainable Living and Environmental Choices Intelligence: A purpose-bounded representation of entities, relationships, assumptions, boundaries, and evidence of adequacy. It supports the pack purpose of support practical household environmental decisions through systems and lifecycle thinking, local data, affordability, resilience, and transparent uncertainty. |
artifact.life.sustainable-living-environmental-choices.lifecycle_comparison |
comparison | Lifecycle Comparison for Sustainable Living and Environmental Choices Intelligence: A normalized comparison that applies hard constraints before preferences and preserves evidence, uncertainty, dominance, and sensitivity. It supports the pack purpose of support practical household environmental decisions through systems and lifecycle thinking, local data, affordability, resilience, and transparent uncertainty. |
artifact.life.sustainable-living-environmental-choices.energy_and_water_plan |
plan | Energy And Water Plan for Sustainable Living and Environmental Choices Intelligence: A governed action design that sequences work, ownership, dependencies, timing, contingencies, and review. It supports the pack purpose of support practical household environmental decisions through systems and lifecycle thinking, local data, affordability, resilience, and transparent uncertainty. |
artifact.life.sustainable-living-environmental-choices.mobility_and_food_trade_off |
comparison | Mobility And Food Trade Off for Sustainable Living and Environmental Choices Intelligence: A normalized comparison that applies hard constraints before preferences and preserves evidence, uncertainty, dominance, and sensitivity. It supports the pack purpose of support practical household environmental decisions through systems and lifecycle thinking, local data, affordability, resilience, and transparent uncertainty. |
artifact.life.sustainable-living-environmental-choices.local_environmental_risk_profile |
context_profile | Local Environmental Risk Profile for Sustainable Living and Environmental Choices Intelligence: A bounded context profile that separates observations, preferences, constraints, uncertainty, time scope, and next questions. It supports the pack purpose of support practical household environmental decisions through systems and lifecycle thinking, local data, affordability, resilience, and transparent uncertainty. |
artifact.life.sustainable-living-environmental-choices.resilience_plan |
plan | Resilience Plan for Sustainable Living and Environmental Choices Intelligence: A governed action design that sequences work, ownership, dependencies, timing, contingencies, and review. It supports the pack purpose of support practical household environmental decisions through systems and lifecycle thinking, local data, affordability, resilience, and transparent uncertainty. |
Method families and limits
| Method ID | Method | Use when | Avoid when |
|---|---|---|---|
method.life.sustainable-living-environmental-choices.systems_mapping |
systems mapping | Use when system behavior depends on components, states, interfaces, flows, timing, feedback, resources, or scenario conditions. | Avoid treating the model as reality, choosing fidelity without a decision purpose, or validating only against the same assumptions used to build it. |
method.life.sustainable-living-environmental-choices.lifecycle_thinking |
lifecycle thinking | Use when an action shifts impacts across lifecycle stages, populations, time, resource systems, or rebound behavior. | Avoid optimizing one visible metric while exporting harm, using incomparable lifecycle boundaries, or counting expected efficiency savings without rebound sensitivity. |
method.life.sustainable-living-environmental-choices.cost_impact_co_optimization |
cost-impact co-optimization | Use when alternatives or plans depend on transparent monetary flows, units, timing, fees, uncertainty, and scenario assumptions. | Avoid undisclosed rates, fees, taxes, currency conversion, inflation, compounding, or jurisdictional assumptions; do not present scenario outputs as guaranteed outcomes. |
method.life.sustainable-living-environmental-choices.marginal_and_rebound_checks |
marginal and rebound checks | Use when an action shifts impacts across lifecycle stages, populations, time, resource systems, or rebound behavior. | Avoid optimizing one visible metric while exporting harm, using incomparable lifecycle boundaries, or counting expected efficiency savings without rebound sensitivity. |
method.life.sustainable-living-environmental-choices.scenario_analysis |
scenario analysis | Use when material uncertainty cannot be represented credibly by one forecast and a decision must remain acceptable across plausible futures. | Avoid presenting scenarios as predictions, omitting adverse but plausible futures, or choosing a preferred scenario after seeing the result. |
method.life.sustainable-living-environmental-choices.resilience_planning |
resilience planning | Use when an action shifts impacts across lifecycle stages, populations, time, resource systems, or rebound behavior. | Avoid optimizing one visible metric while exporting harm, using incomparable lifecycle boundaries, or counting expected efficiency savings without rebound sensitivity. |
Pack-specific invariants
The pack also inherits the core invariants in core/core_invariants.yaml.
| Invariant ID | Statement | Failure action |
|---|---|---|
invariant.life.sustainable-living-environmental-choices.01_impact_estimates_expose_boundaries_data_quality_and_uncert |
Impact estimates expose boundaries data quality and uncertainty. | repair_or_conditional_pass |
invariant.life.sustainable-living-environmental-choices.02_safety_health_access_and_affordability_constrain_environme |
Safety health access and affordability constrain environmental recommendations. | repair_or_conditional_pass |
invariant.life.sustainable-living-environmental-choices.03_claims_avoid_unverified_green_labels_and_offset_assumption |
Claims avoid unverified green labels and offset assumptions. | repair_or_conditional_pass |
invariant.life.sustainable-living-environmental-choices.04_building_work_and_local_hazards_use_current_official_sourc |
Building work and local hazards use current official sources. | repair_or_conditional_pass |
Dependencies and relations
Operational general intelligences: general.system-modeling-simulation, general.experimentation, general.validation-verification
Foundation concepts: general.systems, general.causal-counterfactual, general.probabilistic-statistical, general.decision, general.ethical-normative
Life intelligences: life.household-domestic-operations, life.housing-maintenance-utilities-repair, life.mobility-transportation, life.nutrition-food-access-meal-systems, life.personal-finance-resilience
Source roles
| Source ID | Claim roles | Runtime resolution required |
|---|---|---|
ec.greencomp |
competence_framework, concept_definition, evaluation_dimension | False |
who.food |
concept_definition, health_or_safety_boundary, population_guidance | False |
local.authority |
jurisdiction_rule, runtime_fact, service_or_community_context | True |
Risk and authority boundary
Risk class: moderate
- Building electrical gas structural or hazardous-material changes.
- Local environmental emergency or unsafe water air heat flood or fire.
- Regulated claims grants or large investments.
Accountable people retain consent, value, regulated, irreversible, and residual-risk decisions. This semantic page does not claim a deployed implementation.
Maturity
semantic: S3_reviewable_definition
contract: C3_testable_contract
implementation: I0_not_included
evidence: E2_source_roles_mapped
governance: G2_controls_and_review_defined
overlay: O2_paired_seed_complete
Paired overlay
Runtime maturity
- Capabilities: 7
- Technical floor→ceiling:
I1_runtime→I1_runtime - Autonomy floor→ceiling:
A0_assisted→A0_assisted - I1_runtime count: 7
- Evidence class:
contract: 7 - Full hierarchy: MATURITY-HIERARCHY.md
Evaluation suite status
- CI status:
pass - Suite:
evaluation_suites/sustainable-living-environmental-choices.yaml - Cases defined: 7
- Capabilities under test: 7