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Sustainability
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Ok so I have a bit of an obsession withe all things Sustainable.

Next week i start a 3 day workshop on Sustainaiblity and i'm so excited to do so :)

Sustainability means meeting the needs of the future without compromising the ability for future generations to meet their own needs. During the Global Communities for Sustainability project last year I learnt so much and became so motivated to change how i live, how my family run our home and helped put in place changes in my very diverse community.

It is important to me that we do not let down our future generations by squandering resources and living in the throw away society we are getting very attached to.
By participating in Earth Hour on the 29th of March 2008 i could see that giving up just a little bit was not the most outrageous thing i could ever do and was certainly not unachieveable for everyone else, Earth Hour was one hour when lights and electronic devices were switched off and for that entire hour energy was conserved like no other time.

We are entering into a dangerous position for our environment because of the amount of waste we produce. It is becoming more cost effective to buy something new instead of fixing the old one, which leaves the old broken products to be put into landfill (rarely ever recycled). We are slowly poluting our ground water, building moulds on top of moulds of garbage that we can't just cover with grass and forget about. Its time for us to make some big decisions as to what we are going to do to fix this?

The answer is to think, think again and then rethink it all over again - do you need to through that milk bottle into the trash? is there any need to put a piece of plastic over the leftovers instead of using a reusable comtainer? We throw away so much for the pure fact it is easier to do so than to recycle or reuse. Its unnecessary and it needs to stop before our children and our children's children suffer dramatically from our careless actions.

Living sustainabily doesn't mean becoming a hippy and recycling your own toilet paper, it means reducing your comsumption of non renewable prodcut, recycling the majority of what you consume and rethinking what you do in daily life to make the least impact on the environment and societ as possible.

Thats in for me, hopefully it makes some impact :)

Megan.

March 29, 2008 | 10:01 PM Comments  0 comments

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