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Hello Robert,
I'm missing in your blog on 'def. sustainability' the
key for making sustainability doable: education!
Education for Sustainable Development is the key for reorienting education in order to manage the negative consequences of globalization. ESD realizes integrative thinking and multi-perspective views by which the interdependent economic, ecological and social dimensions are equally taken into account and balanced out to achieve responsible decisions and action competence, based on values. These decisions must take care of the well-being of present and future generations and the environment.
Dieter Gross, Berlin
sustainable@dgross-sustainable.de
http://www.desd.sustain-future.org/DESD.htm

Deiter,

I agree with you. I am teaching an open enrollment, distance learning course on local sustainability at Harvard University. The syllabus can be downloaded from the class web site at http://isites.harvard.edu/k46761 You can also gread the GreenBiz article on the course at http://www.greenbiz.com/news/2008/12/30/harvard-extension-environmental-... Last year we had two students from Germany taking the course. I will look at your web site.

Bob Pojasek
http://www.RobertPojasek.com

I consider myself a tree-hugging environmentalists; truly shaped by Silent Spring, The End of Nature, Cradle to Cradle, and George Carlin. Yes George Carlin, seriously.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q3upFx4FcA

The planet will get along just fine no matter what. It is the human relationship and long-term survival that are at stake and that is where, in my mind, the definition of sustainability should entail. So to adopt from Bob's comments above:

"To operate sustainably, an organization must act in a way that is consistent with and supports the well-being of the physical [human] environment and all of the biological [human] communities and economies of the locations where they operate."

The well-being of human survival should be about ensuring the long-term health of local ecosystems.