What is sustainability?

 

How does your community encourage sustainable living?

 

What does your current place do in order to manage resources in a sustainable manner?

 

What do you do as an individual?

 

Why does it matter if someone's car leaks oil in Minnesota? Why should I care?

 

How can my awareness, invovlement, and responsibility yield anything? I'm just one person....

 

These and many more questions will be explored and researched throughout the course. We will focus on interconnectivity between environments, places, communities, and individual people. We will find out what sustainability practices are in place or needed in your place, our campus, and the various locations your peers call "their place." In an effort to determine your "place" in this world, we will discuss and write about mutual influences and impacts we have on our surroundings and that our surroundings have on us.

 

"All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web os life, he is merely a strand in it. Whategver he does to the web, he does to himself"

- Chief Seattle