{"id":3064,"date":"2008-06-03T11:45:01","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T17:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/2008\/06\/03\/to-live-relevantly-my-story-of-defining-sustainability\/"},"modified":"2008-06-03T11:45:01","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T17:45:01","slug":"to-live-relevantly-my-story-of-defining-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/to-live-relevantly-my-story-of-defining-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"To Live Relevantly: My Story of Defining Sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"
I am a 21-year old white female film student who just graduated from college in Pittsburgh, PA. This is my sustainability.<\/p>\n Sustainability is trying to figure out whether the ecosystem that brought me into existence can sustain my existence indefinitely. This statement is entirely reflective of how<\/em> I live my life. The issue relates principally to how much unsupported waste I generate by being alive. Therefore, the biggest elements of sustainability today are: reusing materials, limiting consumption and growing a knowledge base.<\/p>\n Sustainability is open-ended. It is creative. And when it is happening right now, it is called radical.<\/p>\n I am not qualified to tell the story of how applied technology will redeem us from environmental disaster. I seriously doubt many of the other mainstream perspectives about how to achieve sustainability. I do not support the popular ideology that we should “wait” for change, that “someone else” in government or science will figure it out for us.<\/p>\n The question about whether we should<\/em> switch to sustainable lifestyles has already been answered. We have caused irreversible damage to our ecosystem, and we only perpetuate it daily.<\/p>\n<\/code>I will author a life that causes as little harm as possible, and provides as much usefulness to humanity as I can. This involves using my skills (as a filmmaker), but it also involves using my unskilled self: I must be willing to learn how to implement many practices from different sources, and be willing to take risks with my body and emotions.<\/strong><\/p>\n
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