What is Sustainability

The term sustainability has roots in early movements for environmental resource preservation. It has broadened with increasing awareness that conventional means of interacting with the environment and use of natural resources have consequences that threaten our quality of life and the well-being of future generations and the ecosystem services- those natural systems which clean the air and the water, provide food sources and pollination. Sustainability describes a new way of living, learning, working, playing and doing business that embodies a spirit of environmental stewardship. Can we become a sustainable community in Livingston County? I believe we can.