What Is a Sustainable Future?

By a strict definition, human activity is only environmentally sustainable when it can be performed or maintained indefinitely without depleting natural resources or degrading the natural environment.

Attempting to achieve a sustainable future is having the lowest possible negative impact on the Earth’s environment. For university operations this means consumption of minimal resources, using renewal resources, lowering our carbon footprint and recycling the waste streams as much as possible. Since our campus operations, like our own personal lifestyles, consume natural resources, we should remember, "Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents. It was loaned to you by your children." (Kenyan Proverb).