Click to visit a great 3P resource L. Hunter Lovins, one of the most famous sustainability proponents in the United States, was recently interviewed by the Sustainability Industries Journal. SIJ caught up with her to find out what she had been doing since leaving the Rocky Mountain Institute in 2002. It sounds to me like she has been pretty busy, what with founding and managing Natural Capitlism Solutions.

In the interview, she introduces a concept which is slightly different from what we are used to, and one which I have had trouble articulating in the past. She talks about the integrated bottom line as a solution to the problems with triple bottom line reporting. If you have ever tried to account for your organizations social and environmental responsibility, you have probably noticed that doing the right thing often seems to reduce your profits. The integrated bottom line is a reporting concept that solves this conceptual dilemma.

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.

The new
buzz word, sustainable.  It’s being used in many conversations
regarding our environment, business models, and more.  But what
about leadership? 

Is
sustainability this year's buzzword or a realistic approach to our
future? You be the judge at a panel discussion sponsored by the Fayetteville Natural Heritage Association on February 24. At the Blair Public Library, you will be challenged by the opinions shared and debated by:

google_power_screenshot: Excerpt of Google results

I was browsing through the access logs for this website. The software we use lets us automatically track things like who has visited the most, what website they used to get to us, and which pages were visited most often. This lets us do things like see what search terms on Google people are using to find us.

The Omni Open Mic for Peace has a new home. For this special Open Mic hosts Kelly Mulhollan and Donna Stjerna invite you to bring a new musical composition or poem that you have written to honor and celebrate nature and sustainability.

For more information, please contact Kelly and Donna at 479-582-2291 or at stillonthehill (at) sbcglobal (dot) net.

This presentation aims to address one of our most asked questions: how can I apply what you are telling me in my regular life?

Our workplaces are often the most obvious areas in our life where there is room for improvement in resource efficiency. Staples, fax spam, and always-on fluorescent lighting crowd our awareness of the changes we need to make. At the same time, a corporate commitment to stimulating change has great potential to affect many people. We can only do so much with our friends and families.

There seems to be a lot of confusion surrounding the concepts of sustainability, sustainable development, and how to be sustainable. Oftentimes, simple definitions are overlooked in favor of something more verbose or academic, and we feel that is a mistake. These terms are easy to define, and this is our attempt.

Sustainability is a design characteristic

Is this sustainable? = Will we ever have to stop doing this?

New class on environmental issues

(Peak Oil, Peak Soil, Peak Water, and Peak Food)

Feb 10, 17, and 24, 6-8pm each night. Cost is $8.00

Open to Everyone RSVP if coming please.

Instructor: Calvin F. Bey, CFBey1936@cox.net

New class on environmental issues

(Peak Oil, Peak Soil, Peak Water, and Peak Food)

Feb 10, 17, and 24, 6-8pm each night. Cost is $8.00

Open to Everyone RSVP if coming please.