What Is Sustainability?

There are times when you hear a word so much that you think you know the meaning of the word. If you had asked me before I saw this video, I would have said that sustainability is when you replace what you have taken and therefore have not destroyed the environment for your own limited benefit.

I’m not wrong but there might be more to the word than a gloss-over understanding. I am still learning about this topic and what it means to me.

This video, Sustainability Through Animation, does a good job of explaining what sustainability is and the four steps we as human beings can start to do right now to pull back from the edge.

If you are in the loop then maybe this video is too simplistic. But for the rest of us that want to part of the solution and don’t have time to attend conferences of sustainability we need clear, accessible information.

Other Care2 Posts on Sustainability

Is Global Sustainability Even Possible?Local Food: Where Sustainability Meets Self-Reliance Sunflowers May Heal Fukushima’s Radioactive Soil

Read more: sustainability, sustainable future

Photo & Video credit: Igloo Animations for RealEyes Success Through Sustainability. Photo by periwinklekog

Disclaimer: The views expressed above are solely those of the author and may not reflect those of
Care2, Inc., its employees or advertisers.

Debbie L.

7:54PM PDT on Jul 24, 2011

Wow, this video was a very good explanation of sustainability. Thanks!

July 24
send a green star

L Eleanor F.

2:10PM PDT on Jul 17, 2011

This should be shown to every child and adult in the household. It is a beautifully done video with a clear message relevant to all our lives. Each person can do something to aid in reducing this enormous challenge. Action is all that counts now, so act friends.

July 17
send a green star

Berny p.

6:41AM PDT on Jul 14, 2011

Education...education...education....and I dont mean for children....adults need this more!

July 14
send a green star

Grace A.

4:52AM PDT on Jul 14, 2011

I am not opposed to the big oil firms making a living for their stockholders--I just wish they would do it raising algae for bio-diesel and making bio-diesel from the algae instead of making such a mess scraping the bottom of the petroleum barrel.

Olga L.

4:55PM PDT on Jul 13, 2011

Thanks for the video. I will share it with friends.

July 13
send a green star

Alicia N.

3:05PM PDT on Jul 13, 2011

thanks for the video

Renato G.

11:41PM PDT on Jul 12, 2011

As always a nice video ... Tks for sending .....

July 12
send a green star

Diana T.

11:16PM PDT on Jul 12, 2011

AKA Agenda 21=bicyclists forcing everyone out of house&home&car,reduced to eating Pb&J sandwiches&barely surviving in rabbit hutch-style 'condos',aka dinky apts. in mega-cities of 50-60million ppl;poverty,squalor,filth,disease,pollution,crime-the U.S.becoming just another 3rd world toilet bowl-

Marilyn L.

8:33PM PDT on Jul 12, 2011

Good video. Thanks

Christina D.

6:52PM PDT on Jul 12, 2011

please keep spreading the message. Ignorance is not an option...