Sustainability - Overview

We are in the environmental age in which our actions - local and international - impact the health of the environment. From building homes, to driving cars to growing food, the activity of human civilization is rapidly stripping the earth of resources.

Sustainability is the notion that society should develop while taking the environment into account.

Christopher Flavin, president of Worldwatch Institute reports that many analysts now argue that a higher quality of life - not pursuit of more stuff - should be the watchword of our development in this new century.

In the following pages, learn more about sustainability and how you can live sustainably.