Sustainability or sustainable, are words heard almost every day. While taking the course, Sustainability 1000, I continued to believe that the term sustainability means a variety of things to numerous people. I have learned, that it is in defining sustainability as a society and having a unanimous understanding of the meaning, that we will be able to change how people see the world. This lecture series reinforced my belief that sustainability is the connections from past and present to future generations, and how what we do impacts life on earth. It is the ability and capacity for something to be maintained for the present generation, without risking the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. This paper will attempt to explain
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I now believe that a lot of people are truly trying to learn about protecting the planet and invoking social justice in their every day lives. This has been illustrated to me by the amount of people outside of the class that attend the ESS lectures, and the excitement that our lectures have for their specific role in environmental health as well as their enthusiasm for other people’s contributions. In attempting to save natural resources and create a better world for all we must let go of the mentality that the world revolves around us as individuals, and focus on us as beings, like every other organism in the world, we are simply a small part of a greater ecosystem. This includes global resources, which we as a community deem irreplaceable, and in those cases must be preserved at all …show more content…
Some examples are, agroecosystems, a practice founded in Holland and brought to North America by Herman Mentink (personal communication, October 1, 2015), and biomimicry (N. Hill, personal communication, September 22, 2015), which is why we first had biodiversity in agriculture. Individuals have played a major role in developing our current environmental and social circumstances, and it will be individuals that will educate the masses of our pending future and preserving the earth. With each individual, groups and communities will be made, and along with future generations will create solutions and acclimatize to living within the earth’s
I now believe that a lot of people are truly trying to learn about protecting the planet and invoking social justice in their every day lives. This has been illustrated to me by the amount of people outside of the class that attend the ESS lectures, and the excitement that our lectures have for their specific role in environmental health as well as their enthusiasm for other people’s contributions. In attempting to save natural resources and create a better world for all we must let go of the mentality that the world revolves around us as individuals, and focus on us as beings, like every other organism in the world, we are simply a small part of a greater ecosystem. This includes global resources, which we as a community deem irreplaceable, and in those cases must be preserved at all …show more content…
Some examples are, agroecosystems, a practice founded in Holland and brought to North America by Herman Mentink (personal communication, October 1, 2015), and biomimicry (N. Hill, personal communication, September 22, 2015), which is why we first had biodiversity in agriculture. Individuals have played a major role in developing our current environmental and social circumstances, and it will be individuals that will educate the masses of our pending future and preserving the earth. With each individual, groups and communities will be made, and along with future generations will create solutions and acclimatize to living within the earth’s