What Is Sustainability?

Sustainability is a way of thinking and living. It involves making conscious decisions about how your actions (how and what you consume) impact the environment, your community, people around you and across the world.

"Sustainable Business" is a non-traditional strategy that strives to maximize effectiveness. Sustainable business practices restore environmental quality and build social equity, while increasing long-term profitability.

What Sustainability encompass:

• Sustainability is an attempt to merge ecology and economy into one system.
• Sustainability means living a life of dignity in harmony with nature.
• Sustainability means renewing resources at a rate equal to or greater than the rate at which they are consumed.
• Sustainability means living within the resources of the planet without damaging the environment now or in the future.
• Sustainability means creating an economic system that provides for quality of life while renewing the environment and its resources.