Sustainable living subreddits
We found 31 active sustainable living subreddits: communities with at least one new post a day on average in September 2026, ranked by members. The largest is r/BuyItForLife with 4.03M members. It is also the busiest, with 1,082 posts last month. In 1 of the 27 we could measure, a brand-new account's post usually stays up: they remove 17% or fewer of posts from accounts under a week old.
Data for 31 communitiesDownload CSV
- r/BuyItForLife4.03M members
- r/OffGrid+37% members in 12 months
- r/Vermiculture7% of new-account posts removed
- r/mushroom_hunting100% of posts get a reply
All active sustainable living subreddits, by members
| # | Subreddit | Members | Posts / month | Member growth, 12 mo | Median author age | Women | Posts with a reply | New-account posts removed | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | r/BuyItForLife↗For practical, durable and quality made products that are made to last. **Reminder:** Please use the search function before making a request. The Mission Statement: http://www.reddit.com/r/BuyI | 4.03M | 1,082 | +21% | 34 | 31% | 91% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 2 | r/homestead↗Ponds, barns, livestock, gardens, food preservation, fishing, hunting, tractors, pigs, chickens, cattle, worms, 4H, permaculture, organic, grazing, canning, aquaculture, trees, woodland, farmers, a | 3.55M | 686 | +3% | 34 | 38% | 75% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 3 | r/minimalism↗For those who appreciate simplicity in any form. | 2.61M | 138 | +4% | 31 | 53% | 83% | Min. age/karma | No |
| 4 | r/Anticonsumption↗Consumerism Kills | 1.68M | 557 | +12% | 34 | 40% | 93% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 5 | r/simpleliving↗Breaking free of the work/spend/borrow cycle in order to live more fully, sustainably, and cooperatively. | 1.61M | 379 | +10% | 33 | 56% | 72% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 6 | r/ZeroWaste↗We are responsible citizens who try to minimize our overall environmental impact. | 1.22M | 307 | +4% | 30 | 64% | 66% | 92% | Yes |
| 7 | r/sustainability↗Sustainability is the ability of system to endure. While most people associate the term with the environment, true longevity requires social and economical sustainability as well as ecological sustain | 913K | 332 | +3% | 31 | 47% | 45% | 100% | Yes |
| 8 | r/declutter↗We're all about decluttering tips & tricks! That's it! No cleaning, organizing, selling, surveys, or self-promo. | 757K | 134 | +10% | 35 | 82% | 95% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 9 | r/preppers↗Learning and sharing information to aid in emergency preparedness as it relates to both natural and man-made disasters. Discussion for those preparing to weather day-to-day disasters as well as catast | 630K | 376 | +12% | 35 | 27% | 74% | Min. age/karma | No |
| 10 | r/Permaculture↗A community for like-minded individuals to discuss permaculture and sustainable living. Permaculture (Permanent Culture) is an ecological design system coined in Australia by David Holmgren and Bill M | 377K | 144 | +11% | 34 | 39% | 73% | 30% | Yes |
| 11 | r/upcycling↗Upcycling is reusing waste or unwanted materials without destroying them in order to create something new. | 290K | 270 | – | 34 | 75% | 78% | 44% | Yes |
| 12 | r/OffGrid↗A place to share all of your off-grid technologies, experiences, and advice. | 256K | 183 | +37% | 38 | 24% | 77% | 94% | Yes |
| 13 | r/OffGridCabins↗Looking to combine a lot of the ideas of r/tinyhouses but for a larger size home. Content can be pictures of cabins, topics on how to build or maintain one, lake houses, mountain cabins, or any home t | 232K | 67 | +16% | 38 | 24% | 66% | 17% | Yes |
| 14 | r/Homesteading↗Welcome! Join us for friendly discussions: gardens, herbs, orchards, to chickens, goats, llamas, alpacas, sheep, cows, bees, aquaponics, to cooking, fermenting, brewing, canning, to hunting, foraging, | 228K | 164 | +19% | 35 | 40% | 39% | 100% | Yes |
| 15 | r/solarpunk↗Solarpunk is a genre and aesthetic that envisions collective futures that are vibrant with life, as well as all the actions, policies, and technologies that make them real. We are interested in scienc | 209K | 314 | +23% | 31 | 27% | 100% | 34% | Yes |
| 16 | r/prepping↗This subreddit is for discussions about prepping, with the primary focuses being on: Food & Water: (disinfecting, storage, growing, harvesting, hunting, etc) Survival Strategies: (long and/or short | 178K | 228 | +34% | 37 | 18% | 81% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 17 | r/SelfSufficiency↗Self-sufficiency is anything that helps you reduce the critical dependencies in life through self-empowerment. UPVOTE first-hand experience, DOWNVOTE anything that does not encourage discussion. Se | 158K | 46 | +9% | 34 | 37% | 100% | 26% | Yes |
| 18 | r/DeTrashed↗r/DeTrashed - Saving the only planet we'll ever have! | 154K | 189 | +5% | 30 | 43% | 71% | 57% | Yes |
| 19 | r/PlasticFreeLiving↗A community dedicated to reducing plastic in our everyday lives. | 141K | 232 | +45% | 34 | 59% | 81% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 20 | r/SustainableFashion↗This is a subreddit for those who love both fashion and the planet. The fashion industry is one of the most environmentally destructive industries out there, but it doesn't have to be. | 102K | 260 | +38% | 32 | 85% | 58% | 34% | Yes |
| 21 | r/OffGridLiving↗Off Grid Living serves as a gathering place and resource for individuals who share an interest in disconnecting from the grid, whether by choice or necessity. | 92K | 77 | +53% | 40 | 30% | 58% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 22 | r/mushroom_hunting↗This subreddit it dedicated to hunting mushrooms! Post anything related to hunts or finds! | 77K | 294 | +15% | 31 | 34% | 100% | 18% | Yes |
| 23 | r/Vermiculture↗new-account friendlyThe place for worm discussion of all sorts. Whether you're raising worms for composting, bait, or God knows why else, this is the place for discussion. Common topics covered are setting up new worm b | 73K | 120 | +21% | 34 | 41% | 91% | 7% | Yes |
| 24 | r/AUfrugal↗Australian specific ways of SAVING money | 52K | 96 | +102% | 38 | 49% | 92% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 25 | r/recycling↗A home for the 'green' Redditor. Discuss tips on recycling common household materials, post interesting links. | 46K | 164 | +23% | 35 | 35% | 45% | 98% | Yes |
| 26 | r/Sustainable↗Sustainable energy, food, water, air, living. Things/actions that help the planet and us live together without turning it into a perpetual disaster or dead planet. News, research, discussion, photos | 42K | 219 | +42% | 36 | 32% | 34% | 55% | Yes |
| 27 | r/EcoFriendly↗This is a place for people to discuss products, methods, and solutions that you can use to become more eco-friendly. | 28K | 84 | +25% | 33 | 72% | 44% | 80% | Yes |
| 28 | r/UKPreppers↗Preppers In The UK | 27K | 254 | +143% | 39 | 26% | 87% | – | Yes |
| 29 | r/EuroPreppers↗This subreddit is a place for discussing prepping, survival and related topics focusing on the European geographic area. Join our official Telegram channel https://t.me/europreppers | 22K | 43 | +66% | 38 | 22% | – | – | Yes |
| 30 | r/Nomad↗Survival Nomads | 18K | 77 | +60% | 34 | 36% | 38% | 24% | Yes |
Show all 31 subreddits
| # | Subreddit | Members | Posts / month | Member growth, 12 mo | Median author age | Women | Posts with a reply | New-account posts removed | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | r/INFPIdeas↗A space for kind and caring INFPs and other idealists to share ideas, how to's, and success stories for making the world greener, healthier, and kinder. | 5.7K | 418 | – | 45 | 19% | 21% | – | Yes |
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How this list is built
Subreddits are grouped into topics by what their posts are about; this list holds the sustainable living group. We include subreddits that are safe for work and had at least 30 new posts in September 2026, about one a day.
Members is Reddit's subscriber count; growth compares it with a year earlier. Posts with a reply is the share of posts that got at least one comment over the last three months. Median author age and women are estimated from what authors say about themselves, and shown only when enough of them did. New-account posts removed is the share of posts from accounts younger than 7 days that were removed; communities at or below 17% are marked new-account friendly. Min. age/karma means the subreddit asks for a minimum account age or karma before you can post.
The list is rebuilt every month from public Reddit posts and comments. Data and CSV are free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 with a link to this page.
Sustainable living subreddits: common questions
What is the biggest sustainable living subreddit?
r/BuyItForLife, with 4.03M members in September 2026. Next are r/homestead (3.55M) and r/minimalism (2.61M).
Which sustainable living subreddits are the most active?
By posts in September 2026: r/BuyItForLife (1,082 posts), r/homestead (686 posts) and r/Anticonsumption (557 posts).
Which sustainable living subreddits can a new account post in?
r/Vermiculture (7% of new-account posts removed). They ask for no minimum karma or account age, and most posts from accounts under a week old stay up.
How often is this list updated?
Every month, when we rebuild our subreddit data. This version uses data for September 2026. Member counts come from Reddit; activity, removals and who writes come from public Reddit posts and comments.
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