ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book demonstrates that household sustainability is a complex issue that requires thoughtful discussion from multiple perspectives. It develops the interconnections between the material, socio-technical, cultural, embodied and political dimensions which make households function, with particular attention to how they function in environmentally sustainable ways. The book outlines material geographies approach for understanding household sustainability. It also discusses three particular clustered approaches to new material geographies, following a recent review by Ben Anderson and John Wylie. The book offers particular insights in tracing the re-framing of environmental politics over time away from a focus on wild nature and towards debates around eco-efficient technologies. It suggests a metaphor of creative grammar to help understand the interconnections between discourse and practice around household sustainability. The book addresses the issues of governance and citizenship.
