Michael K Ward's blog

Applying Sustainability

So, how do we make people care about issues of sustainability? And not just part of the spectrum, but all of it. Consistently, we have people who single out an element of what it means to be sustainable, show little regard for anything else, and consider themselves sustainable. For example, we have the people in the corporate world who are focused on energy efficiency in order to decrease carbon footprint and still sustain if not augment profits. We have extreme environmentalists who are focused on, solely, the environment. And we have social dissidents who dislike many elements of society's current direction in general and thus fight for some kind of change. But sustainability means to bridge all these elements, coalesce them into some semblance of harmonious work.

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