Learn how easy Sustainability truly is. It’s meaning and how it works for us now and in the future. In its simplest form, it means meeting the present’s needs without compromising future generations’ ability to meet their own needs. We will also discuss the three pillars of Sustainability. Awesomenez aims to help the transition from harmful non reusable products and services to equal or better clean reusable products and services.

Sustainability is a word you have heard or seen before. You must have seen a product labeled as “Sustainable.” Scroll social media posts that mentioned it.

We often associate it with recycling and solar energy, and the preservation of the environment. These are some ideas on Sustainability. Unfortunately, few understand its whole purpose. While Sustainable innovations, products, education, and participation impacts our lives and our planet’s resources for today. Sustainability will be accepted when it is seamless in our lives. Like the typewriter move to the computer and analog phone move to the cell phone, so must nonreusable resources move to clean reusable resources so all generations can benefit from them.

Sustainability is the ability for something to maintain itself. Man has been on the planet for around 300 thousand years. Life had been on Earth for approximately 3.5 billion years.

Life has lived for billions of years on the planet. The relationship between all living things and elements has allowed this perfect balance because living things met their own needs and ensured the next generations’ resources.

Georg Ludwig Hartig, a German forestry researcher, used the word “sustainability” first 1804. He defines it as utilizing the forests to the full potential. Furthermore, allowing future generations to enjoy its yields.

While the contemporary definition expands from Hartig’s, the cornerstones he laid have endured. In 1987, the Brundtland Commission of the United Nations (U.N.) defined Sustainability as fulfilling the present’s needs without compromising future generations’ ability to meet their own needs.

It now involves using resources while preserving the environment and maintaining them for the future. Furthermore, the word “resources” now includes human resources as well as socio-economic factors.

The challenge that Sustainability must address today is the relationship between societal growth and environmental degradation. Is it possible for economies and societies to grow and develop without over-exploiting and destroying the environment?

True Sustainability depends on developing the three pillars of Sustainability: Social equity, Environmental preservation, and Economic profitability. (S.E.E)

Social Equity is the ability of a social system, such as a country, to function at a defined social well-being level. Social Equity involves fair employment practices and reducing global poverty, and eliminating the exploitation of disadvantaged communities.

Environmental preservation can maintain renewable resource rates, reduce pollution creation, and replace non-renewable resources.

Economic profitability is the ability to support a defined level of economic production while managing resources to be economically profitable.

Sustainability is looking for innovations that combine environmental, social, and economic interests. Where communities, companies, and governments are not exclusive but inclusive. The awareness of Sustainability is growing today. But we have a long way to understand the three pillars of Sustainability.

We are living in a critical time. Where our natural resources and ecosystems are finite and human, and demands keep rising. The Earth has limited resources to meet the unlimited needs and wants of 7.8 billion humans. We need to start thinking of Sustainability as part of everyday activities.