Personal Definition of Sustainability - Kevin Daly

Sustainability is the state in which economic growth does not irreparably damage the environment or global social conditions in the present or future.

 Kevin Daly – Genetics

Personal Definition of Sustainably - Ailis O'Carroll

Sustainability is the ability and duty we humans, one species of 10 million global species, have to balance a decent lifestyle with the maintenance of our planet’s finite resources, realising that when these resources are gone so too will the 10 million species.

Ailis O'Carroll – Immunology

Personal definition of sustainability - Anne O'Donovan

Sustainability is an ideal which consists of the sum of each generation’s altruism for the next. The altruistic favour in this case would be the lifestyle change necessary to live within a means which would allow the next generation to survive at the same standard of living.

Anne O'Donovan - Microbiology

Personal definition of sustainability - Joy Kennedy

Sustainability is the human obligation to accept, respect and take responsibility for our planet’s needs and the future generation’s wellbeing by taking action to improve and then maintain the way in which we use our natural resources.

Joy Kennedy – Physiology

personal definition of sustainability- Katie Smith

Sustainability means personally getting involved in maintaining all the natural resources, which we take for granted, for the people that will live here after us. It also means leaving a good example behind us, so that those people will continue to get involved in the maintenance of these vital resources.

Katie Smith  Human Genetics

New definitions of Sustainability - Bredeen Rooney

Each year on the Living Sustainably course students are asked to write their own persoanl definition of sustainability.  Over the coming weeks some of these will be posted on our blog:

Today definition is by  Bredeen Rooney

“Sustainability” is a moral obligation regarding our planet. Our generation needs to alter the current pace of development and use of resources so that it is sustainable enough to guarantee future generations have the same opportunities that we do, and also for the sake of our shared planet.

Living Sustainably Course 2013: Defining Sustainability

This year’s Living Sustainably course (BCBOT) started on Monday and each year students are asked to write a personal definition of sustainability in no more than 50 words.  Last year’s students wrote some amazing definitions, many of which were posted.  To mark their achievement and to give our new students some inspiration you can download the complete list from last year here.

Watch out for new definitions which will be posted over the coming weeks.

Nick Gray