Sustainability - Enough for All For Ever
The key to sustainability is that it requires that all four systems (biodiversity, climate, culture, and food) be sustained simultaneously in order for overall integrity
to be sustained; and that requires a different kind of scholarship that systematically focuses on interactions in a comprehensive and purposeful way.
The sustainable learning community is an educational reform project, an intentional effort to assess critically the complex web of relations that constitute our
learning community and, where our interpretation of sustainability leads us to alter those relations, in and across our curriculum, operations, research, and
engagement (the CORE), to do so.
Let’s not ask the question “what is Sustainability?” Let’s ask the question What Sustains Us?
Taken from The Sustainable Learning Community by John Aber, Tom Kelly, & Bruce Mallory
Chapter 1 – Sustainability as an Organizing Principle for Higher Education
Earth Ethics Institute www.earthethicsinstitute.org Colleen Ahern-Hettich [email protected]