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What is Sustainability?
What is Sustainability?
Date: 4/7/2009 6:00:14 PM ( 15 y ) ... viewed 1639 times
3:56 PM
April 7, 09
What is Sustainability?
from ANTHONY ZOLEZZI
Sustainability Expert:
Back in 1987, the World Commission on Environment and Development described sustainable development as being the kind that “meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."
This definition alone lends itself to wide interpretation, which can open the door to significant debate and spell potential for the entire sustainability movement. So what I would like to suggest is for you to start with a very simple definition of the sort we learned as kids: Put back what you take. What that means in practical terms is simply that whenever we take a resource for our immediate use, we should always endeavor to either recycle it or replace it. This balance, in my opinion, should be the key component of a sustainability movement that’s in harmony with nature (which, when left undisturbed, is always 100% in balance and therefore able to constantly renew itself).
So you may ask: are you doing your part to “put back” an equal amount of the finite resources, such as energy, that you consume at home or at work? To answer that, you must first be able to answer the question of exactly how one goes about replacing such resources.
From a realistic perspective, we must start with the premise that because of the volume of goods and services that our society (and, increasingly, others) now requires to operate, it is very difficult for any industry to be 100% in balance where resources are concerned. But there are measures that can go a long way toward restoring a degree of balance that I believe can and will make all the difference in providing us with sustainable development. While it may be very difficult for companies to be 100% energy or carbon neutral, for instance, they can institute certain procedures that will move them substantially toward that goal. This idea of achieving balance by degrees, is, I believe, of critical importance in bringing about overall sustainability --- setting doable objectives that will bring your operation ever closer to parity in restoring the resources it uses.
http://anthonyzolezzi.com/achieve.htm
ANTHONY ZOLEZZI Sustainability Expert:
http://www.curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1366598
BEYOND CHOKING ON OUR WASTE:
http://www.curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1382848
FROM BEYOND CHOKING ON OUR WASTE
PLANT YOUR DREAM BLOG:
ANTHONY ZOLEZZI, Sustainability Expert, explains The GREENOPS ECOSTATION to MARK RETZLOFF,
Chairman of the board of Aurora Organic Dairy, at the NATURAL PRODUCT EXPO WEST. Mark Retzloff is Chair - Elect & Board Treasurer of the ORGANIC CENTER.
March 25, 09
8:01 PM
Taking a look at
ANTHONY ZOLEZZI, Sustainability Expert,
talking about the launching of the GREEPOPS
Recycling Program
this Earth Day 2009.
HERE IS THE VIDEO:
http://greenopolis.com/video/greenops-program-announced
KEEP The BEET Media Star
and I had a good took at the
GREENOPS ECOSTATIONS
when we visited the
NATURAL PRODUCT EXPO WEST
in early March 2009.
Here is a link to a couple Plant Your Dream Blogs
I wrote about this:
Web Galleries and Plant Your Dream Blogs
from The Natural Product Expo West '09
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1373706
http://www.curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1209704
For more views of ANTHONY's ANGELS,
AKA the GREEN OPS AMBASSADORS
from the new City of GREENOPOLIS
please visit
THE GREEN OPS LAUNCH WEB GALLERY
BLOG. You will find a link there to the
Web Gallery:
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1370591
RELATED LINKS:
ANTHONY ZOLEZZI,
SUSTAINABILITY EXPERT:
http://www.curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1366598
WHAT IS A SUSTAINABILITY EXPERT?
http://www.career-opportunities.net/articles/view/what_is_a_sustainability_ex...
The GREENOPOLIS SITE:
http://greenopolis.com/in-the-news/greenopolis-com-offers-green-social-networ...
KEEP the BEET Media Star told me to send
out Kudus to the WASTE MANAGEMENT Company
for jumping on this bandwagon that within coming
months will be enlisting the support from some
of the nation's top corporations who want
to join the GREAT EARTH CLEAN UP
that will end no less in restoring the
ENCHANTED GARDEN, a name for our renewed Earth.
KEEP the BEET Media Star, one of the Plant World's
Top "Seers" told me that she thinks WALMART
would be another good candidate for involvement
with GREEN OPS.
See this article here about WALMART's LEE SCOTT
and his SUSTAINABILITY PLANS.
http://www.supplyexcellence.com/blog/2006/08/07/wal-marts-next-move-poster-ch...
WASTE MANAGEMENT (WM) is one of the first sponsors
of the GREENOPOLIS Social Networking Site.
LIV GREENE,
site of the GREENOPOLIS BLOGGER:
http://greenopolis.com/myopolis/members/liv-greene
Credit Leslie Goldman,
Your Enchanted Gardener
for all photo uses.
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