Humanity faces twin problems of adaptation—natural environmental challenges of climate change and global humanitarian challenges of ensuring well-being for all—that pose a dilemma for sustainable development. One way forward is to develop cultures of sustainability that highlight and reward the ideas and practices that will help us transition to a sustainable lifestyle. Although institutional responses are necessary and multidisciplinary approaches are required, individual citizens can also participate in cultural dynamics—the process of cultural formation, maintenance, and transformation—to craft cultures of sustainability, and psychological science can point to potential mechanisms for effecting this cultural change. Informed by the niche-construction perspective, I suggest that the critical ingredients of cultures of sustainability include (a) conceptions of human–nature connectedness, (b) conceptions of human–artifact relation, (c) interpersonal conversations about sustainability norms within social networks, and (d) visions of an achievable utopia for a sustainable future. Further research and action are called for.

人类面临着双重适应问题，即气候变化的自然环境挑战和确保所有人福祉的全球人道主义挑战，这给可持续发展带来了难题。前进的方法之一是发展可持续发展的文化，以突出并奖励那些有助于我们过渡到可持续生活方式的思想和实践。尽管必须采取制度上的回应，并需要采取多学科的方法，但公民个人也可以参与文化动力（文化形成，维持和转化的过程）以构建可持续发展的文化，而心理科学可以指出实现这种文化变革的潜在机制。从利基建设的角度，我建议，可持续发展文化的关键要素包括：（a）人与自然之间的联系的概念；（b）人与物之间的关系的概念；（c）关于社交网络内的可持续性规范的人际对话；以及（d）关于可持续发展的愿景。实现可持续发展的乌托邦。需要进一步的研究和采取行动。